WAT?

Phone numbers are not private. We used to print and distribute large books of them to anyone who wanted one.

TL:DR
I don't need or really want my phone number to be a secret, actually I'd like anyone who has a legitimate reason to contact me to be able to discover it easily. What I really need is for some kind of proof of relationship so I can decide and more specifically have a *reliable* automatic system deny or accept calls based on my preferences.

Long version:

Its just an identifier, it should not be considered any more a secret than your name. Now coupled with other datum that might turn them into private information. Ie if you number appears in a customer database that leaks from some organization, now we have information that you associated with them, which may or may not be private.

Now I know there is a history of private and unlisted numbers. However that a combination of a cash grab for telcos, they used to charge for that, and a shabby solution to the problem of SPAM, before that was really understood. Basically the phone system after having been upgraded to automatic switching/dialing vs operators making connections, there was no way to throttle the rate of calls or reject unwanted callers. Rather then fix it telcos naively allowed some secrecy around the identifiers. They also in most cases made the really terrible mistake of using the phone number as natural key for their accounts/contracts complicating all future fixes.

TBH throwing numbers in unstructured data used in ChatGPT prompts probably isn't a big deal. There are bazillian places they could buy if from pre-correlated with all kinds of other information anyway. Privacy and security need to be take seriously a lot more seriously than most of society currently is, but lets not get distracted trying to keep information that everyone and their brother already has like phone numbers secrets that should not be secrets in the first place.

there is always opportunity for more hierarchy

portable water guys -> service water guys -> drain and grey water guys -> sewage/waste water guys.

If only this could be solved with like a solenoid...

Well what should states do as far as secondary ed?

I think we can all agree that ensuring all graduates can in fact read well, posses some number sense in the form of statistics, be able to do common algebra, and perhaps basic differential calculus, and know some things about the natural sciences.

Most states are failing pretty hard at that and our education-industrial-complex finds all manor of excuses ranging from more-inflation-adjusted-spending-per-pupil than at any point in history just isn't enough, to algebra is racist..

However, I still think secondary ed should be attempting to graduate students more than pure liberal arts backgrounds, they should send people out the door with some immediately employable skills, right?

And would that be 'wrong' if they did? If someone starts using a cane, because they realize they don't have the reflex and balance they once did something anyone objects to?

That is the trouble here as is often the case. This could be a really useful tool. Just having immediate basic intelligence in a lot of settings would be valuable.

Imagine your a middle-manager at multinational. You've traveled from your office in Toronto to headquarters in Atlanta. Would it not be super helpful have this thing tied to the company directory, and be able to look down the hall and immediately recognize that is James Robins the high-ed cost accounting team lead, you need to speak to about your project. It would great if you could have a hallway conversation before the big meeting and get on the same page.

So being able to attach something like this to personal contacts or contacts you have some single degree of separation with like, they are my fellow employee at ACME, might be neat but obviously yeah a lot of people if allowed to will go super creeper and wire the glasses into every public records database they can. Companies like Meta will store the match information and the geo-location for every inference their backend makes, and in the best case use it for more weird ad targeting engagement driving society twisting dark pattern nonsense, next best case sell it to all kinds of bad actors, most likely case get hacked repeated lose the data so we have no idea who has it or how recent it is.

it all depends on how it is structured.

It can be a way of managing project risk. You create a new company to build a thing, with the existing organization as stake holder, and planned primary or only customer. If the project succeeds the parent company acquires the rest of the equity in the child and by extension becomes responsible for the debts, if it does not work out the child company declares bankruptcy and the bond holders are left bag holding.

A lot of people find this objectionable but honestly as long as its all disclosed, it is just basically VC money for a startup, even if the start up is effectively a puppet controlled by an established organization. The creditors should be getting a coupon rate and discount on the face that reflects their opinion of the risk or they should not be buying debts.
   

LOL

None of that changes the parents point of view. The issues is that journalists have been wildly irresponsible for a long time, and the scientist doing the interviews let them get away with it because the probably thought it meant more grant money in the next round.

For decades we went round and round on things like eggs and coffee and every last one of those articles that ran in the Sunday paper would have had a line like "scientists now believe two or three cups of coffee a day will keep your heat healthy" or and very often just a few weeks later "scientists now believe even small amounts of caffeine lead to increased risk of heat attack." It filled pages, held readers and sold ad space.

Then we get the lobbyists involved who are paid to advocate for their industry like the media would latch onto any study that seems to suggest their product had social value of some kind. They next thing you know we have a USDA food primid that turned a nation pre-diabetic. Sent them to their doctors who they did/do still trust only for them to say "yeah I know what the poster says but maybe lets try not eating a whole loaf of bread every day m'kay" - This is the lived experience of the typical American born between maybe about 1960 and 1990. Then around 1996 or so they started going on-line but did not fully understand anyone could post whatever garbage they wanted on geocities and angelfire. Suddenly they could find someone to validate every fringe notion they'd ever heard and nobody had the authority to talk them out of it any longer.

I know everyone wants point the finger for our loss of faith in institutions etc at one specific thing but really I don't think it is actually explained by any one thing besides maybe an explosion of communications technology coupled with an open-society let things move a bit faster than humans can really deal with.

which is probably reasonable for a hyper-scaler deployment a company like Meta would consider. Most of the hardware is pretty reliable. Everything running on it will be highly fault tolerant. If anything goes wrong nobody local does any actual fix, they pull replacement unit out of stock, swap it, and it boots from SAN and rejoins the hive..

The failed unit is either shipped to some central recovery facility or maybe directly the recycler.

This is what state and local pols NEED to understand about these data center projects, once the construction phase is over they don't mean that many jobs even in the context of a rural county. So they need to be really really careful about any tax abatement schemes etc. You are not going to see a bunch of new housing demand, new economic activity, payroll taxes etc. Just existing residents angry about noise, and their wells drying up.

COLLECT THE PROPERTY TAXES or deny the permits.

Indeed this is highly suspect because it is absolutely the wrong layer to do this at. We are very close if not there already to being able to do TTS -> translate -> STT with in the power and compute envelopes on a handset.

Doing it there would make it super easy for the user to turn the feature on and off on the fly. Doing it there would make, privacy and legality concerns around recording and multi-party disclosure a lot simpler. There are a lot of other experiential and legal reasons it seems way better to do this at the edge.

Which makes me wonder if this isn't a case of 'lets invent a feature to justify doing something we have already been doing that largely would not be seen as acceptable'

Of course it is all for show, just like saying you're going to build underwater data centers powered by SMRs is for show.

If you are president of the United States or CEO of a trillion dollar company the expectation is that you have "big ideas". If you go around making practical proposals based on hardware or infrastructure that either exists today or that we know how to create without exhotic materials and entirely new regulatory frameworks, people will start saying things like "i could have come up with that"

These don't exist to solve problems, they don't even exist to have what most of us would consider 'good ideas' or anything resembling a 'real plan.' They exist to define the ultimate ambitions, inspire if we are lucky, and importantly sanctify the actual actions of the people under them as being consistent with the overall objectives for the believers or put another way make their actions 'acceptable'.

I think the idea that people are going to replace real client server software with this stuff is off base. What it is actually great for is automating shorter lived process.

Hey can we just collect this data and maybe separate it in to useful fields like in a sharepoint list or something and when the developers get a real ERP module completed we can import the data. Better yet lets figure out what the process looks like with this stuff then create proper software to support after we know what the real world requirements actually are vs, the ones we imagined in the kick-off meeting.

I think there is huge value in some of this low-code stuff for spinning up new activities. There is a lot of value in having agents use AI to extract datums from unstructured sources like e-mails etc, until people can ultimately create proper forms and workflows. Even if the process does break some times and get things wrong occasional it still scales better than having person who works the front desk, or tasking some junior inside sales associate to try to pull stuff out of the info@ mailbox and update a spreadsheet.

People just need to get into the right mindset and understand where this stuff fits in, rather than trying to cram it into ever already well automated, well understood process under some weird article of faith that AI and LowC are going to automatically make it better. Similarity refusing to recognize these are useful tools and not just Microsoft Access all over again is also foolish.

Do think that has something to do with not having an opposition party doing everything they can to manufacture drama about it?

Remember ICE was created by the Home Land Security act which was a NEOCON invention post 9/11. Most of the GOP leadership who supported that were still holding legislative office, still influential party members. It would have been inconvenient to attack Obama on immigration (enforcement anyway, as opposed to things like DACA), to say the least. Not that they would have wanted to because he, like Clinton beforehand at least made a pretense of enforcing immigration law, with the usual enforcement carve outs for agriculture and domestic workers big business and the monied political contributor class usually like.

useful idiot agitators so none of the no drama, even as kids were being put into cages.
 

it is entirely traceable and at least in the US and UK and it consider theft if you knowingly keep a deposit paid to you in error. My 'guess' would that courts would consider that applies to crypto currency ledgers as well.

Now when this crypto stuff was new I suspect prosecutors would have said 'wtf is a bitcoin, I am to busy for this computer nerd nonsense' and let you skate, but we not there anymore.

Sure maybe this no financial institution that can undo your transaction but property law broadly exists outside of banking and finance, and the notion that if someone over pays you a few million dollars worth of bitcoin and your going to say 'sorry Charlie, mine now' is just plain stupid. Some guy in a black robe is going to say return the money and I am going to jail you for contempt if you don't until you do' at least if you are ripping off any of the sorts of people governments tend to protect. If you are ripping off the other sorts of people with millions worth of bitcoin to over pay you in the first place well better look over your shoulder...

Nearly all those cases were dismissed without allowing any real fact finding to proceed. You are right they were dismissed on technicalities, standing issues, courts considering the issues moot because the elections were already certified.

What the entire thing proved is the democrats are actually pretty good at cheating and have spent decades carefully engineering the law and election procedures to make accountability nearly impossible.

Housing prices over the past year do.

The economic impacts of ICE operations in MPLS and other target locations also proving it. Places are closing up because they don't have workers, they don't have workers because they illegals won't turn up for shifts. They don't have legal residents for those positions because they don't pay enough. Legal residents are then pushed strait into the arms of the mega corps where they are also underpaid but at least they can show their employed and collect welfare that way.