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The challenge is how you prevent such features being abused by like stalkers

Whitelisting law enforcement so when the owner of the air tag declares it stolen nobody other than a whitelisted law enforcement org could view its location and when they did that creates an audit log?

^ exactly.

And since the user has the original key, it'd have to be voluntary surrender. After you turn your key in, you lose access.

The best part is the whole thing could be reviewable and added to a public immutable ledger, encrypted, to make the whole process, transition, and access transparent for courts later. Wouldn't it be great if more investigations happened that way?

And if you don't trust law enforcement, thats your prerogative, no need to use the feature.


What happens when law enforcement members are the stalkers?

This implies a level of trust in law enforcement. As a US citizen, hard pass.

They have access to guns, stingrays and flock cameras. They tap every email, message and phone call you make. You wouldn't even know if you are subject to warrantless surveillance as it might be illegal to tell you under the patriot act.

I'm pretty sure being able to access an Airtag that was put into stolen mode by the owner is the least of your concern. I'm not even sure what failure mode you are worried about because you didn't elaborate.

Please don't think I'm trying to be all high and mighty because I live in the UK and am surveilled even worse than you are (although at least our police are very rarely armed).


I concur, but you don't have to use that feature if you don't trust LE.

It would be nice if this could tie in to actively altering enforcement when it's turned on, maybe even require sharing with authorities for it to be enabled: the stalker would have to collaborate with police in order to stalk the victim.

I’m guessing Meta isn’t the only one doing this


Right.

> I should say that the big tech companies did not invent this technology to build AI data centers. This sort of thing — project finance, non-consolidated joint ventures, borrowing out of boxes — has a long history in a lot of capital-intensive industries.

Levine attributes a recent increase to private credit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-29/put...


You would guess right, and I have even heard that this sort thing has been standard practice for a long time, without nefarious intent.

The problem is that even standard practice, without nefarious intent, can cause massive financial collapse. If, say, the vast majority of economic growth were being focused into such vehicles, the lack of transparency could make people misanalyze the situation and result in bad valuations that collapse when it all becomes transparent.


Yeah, it's very dumb to own real estate like this directly for a c-corp


Is it dumb for tax reasons?


Yes. 21% CIT + 15-20% LTCG for the owners.

RE throws off much income.

It's also difficult to transfer the RE to another entity without realizing gains.


"ChatGPT can you give me a catchy phrase I can use to sway the public discourse against Meta that puts OpenAI in the most favorable light? Also sprinkle in some alliteration if you could"


Competitors just need to lobby sufficiently to get action


What key feature are you providing that can't be easily done by a google sheet?


Hmmm okay so I come from Excel world and when I arrange my plans in timetable view (in Excel), I need to 'merge' several cells together. However if circumstances change and I have to rearrange those events to other days or other timings, it become a pain to unmerge cells and move them around.

I think this is one of the main reason I started this web app as a 'timetable' view first and then build other features later on


This. Mass Spectrometry should portably only be used to confirm/train AI vision models. Once a large enough data set has been created for a particular pathogen, incremental diagnostic cost would be effectively 0.


Thank you for pinpoints my confusion/disconnect on what lack of improvement that I was sensing. There was an improvement on pacing, and cadence, yes, but that was not the main challenge with Victors accent. Visually I'd say victor improved by at most 5% and not 50% as indicated by the visualization. In some regards it was even harder to understand than the original due to speed and cadence without improvement in core pronunciation.


The societal brain drain damage that infinite scroll has caused is definitely not overblown. These models are about to kick this problem up to the next level, when each clip is dynamically generated to maximise resonance with you.


How do you know the models are actually managing and not simply amplifying?


My bet is that free versions of models will become sponsor aligned.


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