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Cool, so does this mean Apple will let contractors park in the front lot or Google contractors actually get perks???


Usually those contractors are working for another company that Apple or Google hires.


She does not want this made public. This post is in no one's interest other than whoever tried to get her arrested. The situation was resolved. This post is an attempt to use an archive of a past incident to harass and get her further into trouble. Please flag this shit.


The streisand effect says that the harder you try to hide something, the more people see it.


It is between her and her country which from all indications she loves, respects, and tries to do exactly what they ask of her while positively promoting their companies and technology.


The use of #theworldiswatching by her friends kinda undermines that point.


It is between her and her country which from all indications she loves

That's an interesting claim to make considering absolutely nobody is claiming otherwise (except perhaps the police).


This post is an attempt to use an archive of a past incident to harass and get her further into trouble.

As the person who submitted this: no, it's not. Refusing to discuss police (Chinese or otherwise) overstepping their bounds simply furthers their ability to overstep their bounds. Should we not talk about Tienanmen Square or Meng Hongwei? Pinochet? Trump's new concentration camps (after ICE vowed to not build more)? How about when Raul Castro's police pull random people off the street and disappear them? Should we not share those videos?


> Should we not share those videos?

When the incident is ongoing, the person affected is free again and clearly does not want a public debate? Yes, you should respect that, refrain from doing so and weigh in when it is discussed after the fact. I believe you when you say that harassment isn't your goal but a HN discussion will neither solve any of the underlying issues, nor is there even a remote chance of being helpful to the actual victim.

As the deleted tweet shows she clearly has a network in place to let you know when actions like this might be helpful. Days after, that's pretty doubtful.


I don't speak for her and neither should you. No one should want someone else to take individual risks to defend your or anyone else's opinions that you claim they represent.


I don't speak for her and neither should you.

Oddly enough, I'm not.


Its OK... Chinese Vampires hop, so we can totally escape them. No big apocalypse.


Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.


And what would a substantive comment look like for this article? There is nothing anyone can say other than pure speculation and concerns of caution.


The standard's not that high; you just need to avoid, say, the bottom quarter of the barrel. A bunch of comments in this thread are fine.


Honestly the toys they made are good, however they are all app/cloud connected. I hope the tracks keep working...


Makes me wonder how much of the logic was in the cars themselves. I'm guessing not much. Might be a fun weekend project to try to hack though


The car's on-board processor has enough logic to follow the track lines hidden under the track surface. The BTLE connection to the car is used to control speed, change lanes, and trigger lights. It also is used to 'drive' the car in some cases if needed.


Be like motivational speaker Matt Foley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8

In all seriousness, it is cool as long as you have another place that is home. Traveling for a living gets too much after awhile.


Norway has public tax records. This is one of the potential flaws of an otherwise, kinda cool openness. You can't be rich and have a 'normal' life. You have money in Norway, you have to have walls, staff, etc. just to have a bit of safety.


This seems completely out of touch with the reality in Norway.

In this case police suspect that he was targeted due to a public news story about him making a lot of money on something or other a while back.

The public tax record don’t really play much into this. There are plenty of other sources of information about who is wealthy or not. Usually for burglary, you’re target based on the area you live in.

And all in all Norway is extremely safe.


Public tax records might have flaws, but they certainly aren't where the blame for this problem would lie.


We know that Trump or X billionaire is rich enough to pay ~ $11 Million in ransom, even though no one has seen his taxes. Now is their wife worth that much...? :) They'd have to act as if they care either way


It is stupid to blame Obama or Trump even for the current state of Obamacare.

The parties involved right now are resulting in a much worse than medicare solution as it is similar to the three wolves one sheep version of democracy (which is the whole premise of libertarian concerns about democratic socialism). It is an attempt to obfuscate the otherwise obvious corruption and theft that is healthcare. Here the wolves are the AMA(doctors), insurers, pharma, and the politicians claiming to want to solve healthcare. The AMA and insurers have insane billing policies based on assuming inept doctors and corrupt patients.

Most insurance today is just passing on the discounted (actual) price on to the insured co-pay or deductible. They cover very little normal costs of medicine nor do they provide any actual services for their premium.

The main reason we don't have universal medicaid/medicare is similar to why the IRS doesn't do electronic filing themselves. Billions of dollars of middleman and tens of thousands of otherwise worthless jobs are on the line.

We need a private/public system. It will initially look costly and it will suck (differently) for doctors and hospitals. However, in five to ten years the costs will stabilize and insurance and other services will be more honest as they will have real competition.

Also, he should try to just fly back to the UK for non-emergency issues. Most foreign friends I have just keep insurance in their home countries as it costs usually 100-200 a year. A $1k flight back to see your family is cheaper than any surgery in the US.


Finally we can 'zoom and enhance' anything! It will be great for tv shows and movies.

Better productivity? Man my eyes die a bit each time I zoom in on EDAs. I can't imagine editing docs this way...


This isn't that. This is like google maps indoors for walking around malls and is no where near accurate for anything else.

For inventory you could use decawave, but it would be pricey.


That's what they claim on their website, but you are right, I think Indoor Positioning System would be a better description of what Anyplace offers. <2m accuracy is good enough for me though, just wondering if there are any alternatives. And thanks for the Decawave suggestion, good to be aware of it but it is waaay too pricey as you mentioned


That is like saying all kids should play basketball because they could get into the NBA. There are always lucky rich people. A ton of Microsoft and Amazon VPs have local MBA degrees. Does that mean that my Seattle City MBA will make me $1 million a year?


That's not the really same thing I was talking about high paid and high status jobs that almost universally recruit liberal arts grads "like them" from certain universities.

The cult of the MBA is a separate thing.


Sorry, that was my point by approaching the 'truth' from both directions.

They were already in the class or network of people. They knew they were going to be 'doing that work' because they were already recruited into that world long before university. It has nothing to do with their degree other than a passing qualification that they were expected to receive and in many cases the school just hands them no matter what their grades really were.

The degree is a technicality to their position and I am saying that the example you gave while interesting is not normal for anyone planning to work for a living.

I worked peripherally to publishing and am quite familiar with the situation. We had $1 million plus commission sales people 'of the right sort'. Did they know what the tech they sold did or have any real sales skills? Did it matter?


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