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I know Porsche GT cars are $200k–$600k toys for the rich, but the same scheme can be at play for ANY consumer goods sold at auctions, at ANY price point. Most auction sites don’t actually ensure that a sale takes place once the auction is over. All they do is facilitate the auction, take a cut, and bow out. On BaT, the auction fee is capped at $7.5k regardless of the final price, so it’s worth “selling” your $1M car on the site, then getting a friend to “buy” it at $1.5M; all it costs is $7.5k BaT fee; the “sale” is recorded for posterity even if the car never changed hands. It’s an easy way to make your assets seem more valuable.
I hope regulators look into how auction sites can be used to launder the open market values of consumer goods, maybe by making disclosures of conflicts of financial interest legally required when listing or bidding on auction items, with appropriate audits.
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Heller, Molly, and I are making ice cream sundaes in PlateUp!
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Last night we called 911 because 7 adults living in this building confirmed smelling gas.
and it turned out that the remaining 2 adults were harboring the remnants of a ripe durian in their trash.
A ladder and an engine came out. With a command vehicle! They took the durian with them when they left. Laughing.
Could you complete your work today if your usual apps were inaccessible?
Here's a wake up call to store your work in open formats, even if (actually, especially if) you are required to use closed format apps to do your daily work.
Follow principles that give you the freedom to throw your kit into another vehicle and continue driving to your destination. Don’t get locked out of a vehicle you don't own, into which you've bolted the only copies of your work.
#ptpl #apps
https://miscellaneplans.medium.com/own-your-work-not-just-the-app-b27ea4380010
SFist: Lawsuit Says Flock Allowed Out-of-State Agencies Access to SFPD Cameras 1.6 Million Times
A local law firm filed a lawsuit against Flock alleging that out-of-state agencies were given access to the SFPD’s database more than 1.6 million times, and a recent audit by the El Cerrito's police department found that several federal agencies were briefly given access to its database.
A local law firm filed a lawsuit against Flock alleging that out-of-state agencies were given access to the SFPD’s database more than 1.6 million times, and a recent audit by the El Cerrito's police department found that several federal agencies were briefly given access to its database.
"what if we first wrote a robust specification and constrained the bots to deriving code that conformed to the spec?"
I literally spent YEARS of my life deriving robust specifications for systems, and I had the benefit of the software already existing and operating in the real world, and occasionally access to previous documents that at one point people might have described as "specifications".
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