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The local law enforcement will likely not have the time to chase individual small cases either...

Even if they do, “crime scene” camera footage is less useful than the victims expect. Cameras discourage thieves of opportunity but not someone who has their mind set on taking your stuff. A simple cap or mask, some sunglasses, a few strips of reflective tape, a WiFi deauther, cheap and accessible stuff like this make the practical usefulness of most home camera systems limited at best to the owner understanding what and how it happened.

That’s why police looks to piece together from a larger surveillance network. Maybe you can’t see the face on the home camera but in another camera down the road, or a license plate on the getaway car down the street, or an accomplice without disguise. They want everyone to have cameras and then they can abuse the system.

Friends showed me high quality close up footage of someone stealing their bike. Absolutely useless, all you saw was an average guy that you wouldn’t recognize if you walked past on the street.


Careful what you wish for, local cops have already abused cameras and license plate readers to arrest people just for driving by the location and looking similar to doorbell video, over package theft...

https://youtu.be/37fp2n6p19Q


In Poland some moron in surveillance center visually profiled a random guy as one wanted person (by jacket color), then police took the guy to the police station and beat him to death.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Igor_Stachowiak


Wow. What an infuriating case, again and again. Only 2 years in prison for the perps because the court decided that "excited delirium" killed the guy and not being beaten and tased 4 times.

And some of the protestors that protested this got 4+ years. Clearly police property has more rights than a human being.

The guys who beat Rodney King faced zero justice, American prison guards pretty regularly do horrific things and face little repercussion, and the guys who executed Pretti were working the next day, until that led to backlash and now they are being systemically protected.

In some states in the US, it is not illegal for a cop to have sex with someone they have arrested. Ain't that just dandy.

The Polish situation could be an upgrade.



Yes, let's look to the founder of Palantir for life advice. Great plan.

He'd be fairly good for business advice though

Sure, monopolies are great for the C-suite, but they turn out to be really bad for the end users and customers, the real losers when there is no competition.

Get in loser, we're going for a monopoly! It's all fun and games until you're locked in and enshitification sets in. I would sooner go without than get fooled again.


Please read the article before responding.

Please say something intelligent about a link when you drop it. No one can tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

I did watch the video of him and I can confirm (so no one else wastes their time) he does not address why monopolies are great for everyone other than the CEO. But he does go into depth about why women should not wear Hillary Clinton style pantsuits when pitching ideas to him. Noted.

I am not sure if the video is the same as the article, but there is no way I am going to pay a penny to hear what Theil has to say. Honestly, after I heard him rambling about the anti-christ crap he spews I would pay for him to stop talking.


If you don’t have a response to an article or don’t like the author, just move on.

The rude thing would be to respond based on the title, when the article is actually about something else.


So what did you think the article is about? The polite thing would be to discuss it. That's what HN is here for!

I guess I’ll assume you’re asking in good faith.

The article is not about how monopolies are good for society.

It’s about how businesses over emphasize small differences which make them indistinguishable from their competition.

It’s better to be in your own category rather than a slightly different permutation.

Capturing the value you produce from a business is actually very difficult. Think about how many Facebook users are a net less for the business. Good business plans also plan for capturing value.


The paywalled, appeal to authority article?

So, you didn't read it either?

> appeal to authority

Very true, reading the article before commenting is definitely not for "free thinkers".


That's not what i quite meant, but yeah. Competition is good for consumers.

HN is a site aimed at future C-suiters and those who willingly make them rich. It's on target.

There are a lot of _free_ models on opencode.


Yup, I was expecting pgtune being mentioned in the article.

And maybe something like HammerDB to check performances.


Nice tool. Do you know maybe similar tool for MySQL ?

A lot of people run the claude with --dangerously-skip-permissions

This is what i was going to suggest too.


The text is Turkish - use auto translation from twitter to read: https://x.com/ersinkoc/status/2015394695015240122


Prompt injection is quite dangerous here...


You probably implemented gastown.


Some people reported 429 - otherwise known as HN hug of death.

You probably need to adjust how caching is handled with this.


Yup the adjustment was giving cloudflare 5 bucks :)


Hah! I thought caching stuff was free. Is it because of the workers? I assumed this was all static assets.

I too have been giving cloudflare 5$ for a while now :D


yeah I had to put it behind a worker to deal with the subdomain and various other subtle caching issues. All in all cloudflare is incredible, and Claude makes it actually quite easy to deal with all the ins and outs


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