I never said hotlists.

HOAs have access to all the license plates for their system and can search for a specific plate in the system. They can absolutely track any license plate (while not automatically) at any time

This is direct form their neighborhood/HOA portion of their site.

“Easy Search When you’re faced with package theft, illegal dumping, or property damage, you don’t have time to sift through hours of camera footage for evidence. Minimize time spent manually sifting through footage for niche vehicle features. Flock Safety’s search is as easy to use as your favorite online retailer with dynamic filters that optimizes ease-of-use and produces faster results.”

Its not even really a short term boost for the stock. Layoffs are seen as a massive red flag for the stock and news of them is usually followed by a drop in stock price.

That could be counteracted by funneling money to shareholders (dividends or buybacks), but since layoffs are expensive, you don't actually have more money to funnel to shareholders. You have to pay a ton of severance, and you will need the liquidity in a few months when you rehire anyway.

What about that looks natural to you?

That's just price discovery. But long term their goal is to make and sell more widgets at the higher markup.

Generally companies are expected to grow every single year. Whats your growth plan? How does firing employees help?

I think a lot of people buy the checkmark so that people confuse them for being someone actually notable. When that's no longer the case, interest in Twitter Blue is going to plummet.

I don't think that's a great way to compare countries. Half the time the US has negative migration with Mexico. Meaning more people are leaving US for Mexico than vice versa. Does that make Mexico better than the US?

That is true, but politicians need cover. So, they can hold hearings and pontificate and pass a law that is unenforceable. Then they will brag about it during their re-election campaigns.

Oh god I hope not. That's not very much in that labor market.

Isn't capitalism great! /s

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/11/apple-hides-job-titles-of-ex-employees-reclassifies-them-all-as-associates

Still true as of late 2022 iirc anecdotally. Company tried to verify a friend’s employment history and everything about their senior software engineer was changed to associate with a level similar to the sales associate at the Apple Store.

If I meet someone outside my circle in the office, I have to put on all the technical filters or else the conversation isn’t going to last very long. Can’t really innovate, but there is a value in those people knowing that I exist.

I’m actually in a pretty ideal scenario right now. I work in the office a few days of the week, and yeah, there’s usually office socializing that cuts into my productivity, but all the people that need to ask me for stuff are mostly remote so I still get the benefit of asynchronous communication instead of getting pulled out of ‘the zone’ all day long.

ONLY the police can create hotlists for vehicles involved in crimes and they are can be alerted that the car was in one place at a specific time but usually the target is moving

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They only capture vehicles driving on public roadways.

Seeing as almost all crimes involve the use of a vehicle, this is fantastic technology tool for real time and criminal investigations. While I understand the privacy concern I am unaware of any incidents where this became an issue. It also has been instrumental in numerous missing person cases and recovered 10s of thousand of stolen cars throughout the US.

The whole talk of banning them make absolutely no sense. The US has no reasonable mechanism to block their website and people can side load applications onto their phones and other devices. It's completely unenforceable. That's ignoring that it probably steps on quite a few laws and the constitution along the way.

I hear billions of excuses.

To be fair though, those “dinosaurs” have done some pretty impressive things. Their techniques must mean something. We will always work for ‘the man’. It’s a tough pill to swallow but if we don’t like it we can leave.

Zuckerberg is probably dumber

I just free myself from the burdens of the flesh and do spirit teleportation, duh.

Of the 73.7 million Americans under the age of 18, 20 million are under the age of five. It seems likely that very few of them are TikTok users. My point is that at least 75 million Americans, roughly the number who voted for Trump, were identified as TikTok users and, therefore, potentially voters. Given the state of our politics, I believe they made their point to those elected officials, who will grumble about it and move on.

Yes, social media has shown limited regard, at best, for user privacy. "The user is the product" has been their mantra. TikTok is no different. Like all 'too big to fail' social media companies, TikTok is making its point, "We are too big to ban."

Yup. I interviewed at Apple about 10 years ago (or so - the donut was still under construction). Was all excited to visit Infinite Loop ... only to spend my day in some nondescript, beige, Initech-like building in Sunnyvale. Which is where I'd have been had gotten the gig.

Which I didn't. Wasn't all that mad about it TBH. REALLY didn't wanna move up there.

Musk is the dumbest billionaire on earth.

Employers can dictate if you need to show up to work or not I don’t know how this is a workers rights issue.

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