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We use Hubspot. Here's what we use it for:

- the "live chat with support person" bubble on our web application
- single funnel for incoming/outgoing support tickets & support communications with our customers

Adopting it was an old decision.

We would love to not use hubspot; the service delivered vs. the ongoing costs seem like a bad deal now.

At some point, we'll get around to migrating to something else.

Standard time gives you a greater chance of having daylight in the morning before you have to go to work, but more likely dark when you come home in the evening.

Daylight Saving time gives you a greater chance of having daylight in the evening after you get home from work, but more likely dark when you are heading in to work.

For many people, in the dead of winter it is dark when they go to work, and dark when they come home so it makes no difference. Many others have flexible work schedules and can go in late or leave early as it suits their needs.

But most people still work the traditional factory/office shift of 8 or 9 am to 5 pm. People work when they are told, because they need the money.

So, fight it out. Morning people vs evening people. Sunset vs sunrise. Where do YOU want to experience daylight? GO!

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Funny, when I get a push notification from them all I see is

CONSUME
OBEY
NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT
DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY

Is anyone else seeing this?

But the researchers were told to get to the heart of the matter.

They don't want to give the hackers clues so they can't counter. If they tell you they'd have to kill you.

"Are your base are belong to us!"

The rest are literal ghost records

It is a database. The police could have just as easily searched the DMV records for cars registered to owners in the area and picked a patsy to frame.

This story is all about bad policing and improper supervision by prosecutors/courts (even if the cops arrested her they could not have held her that long without the approval of the court.)

Flock is bad. Their entire business model of privatized surveillance should be outlawed -but it is not the problem in this case.

The way out is through

They were intentionally studying ways to weaponize the plague. Russia has extensive bioweapon labs.
(to be ready to defend against it when someone else released their weaponized version of the pneumonic plague.... purely defensive research, of course -pinky swear!)

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That nightmare scenario actually did play out not long ago near me. A woman from out of state was falsely ID'd by an AI camera of some kind and was detained for months and it wrecked her life.

My sentiment is that the process was wrong and that the officers and other parties involved in this should all be fired, and the woman compensated.

None of that is what normally happens; that is not happening "millions of times". That's why it was newsworthy when it _did_ happen.

It's hard to believe that a Jordanian teenager learned the PeopleSoft vendor integration API well enough to exploit it.

Probably somebody whose dayjob is related.

Maybe he was just Vibesploiting, but it seems less likely.

The original comment was philosophically open ended.

I made the example in my response very specific because arguing about hypothetical generalities is usually not productive.

The difference is this: it's difficult to ascertain if someone is guilty or innocent without arresting them. YOu don't arrest people via a random statistical sampling; you arrest via a biased selector: You arrest people you have high odds of beleiving are likely to be guilty. And you arrest them because you cannot ascertain their guilt via non-destructive observation. Without arresting them, they are allowed to simply walk away while you are trying to ascertain their status.

An arrest rate of 10% of all humans would be ridiculous.

A false positive rate of 10% _among the population of people you arrest_ is acceptable.

So the applicable comparison isn't "your cell phone doesn't work 10% of the time", the applicable comparison is "when your cell phone wasn't working, the tech support team guessed correctly as to the root cause 90% of the time, but guessed incorrectly 10% of the time"

IOW, 90% success rate with a 10% FP rate amongst a problematic cohort.

>No I maintain it would be pathetic performance by LEO if they were willy nilly arresting people hoping to bag the perp.

Nobody is advocating for that.

The cops should only be arresting people they have a plausible reason to arrest. If it turns out that 10% of the time their guess was incorrect, that's acceptable. They are not performing random arrests and getting a lot hit rate. They are doing targeted arrests and getting an ultra high hit rate.