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The organization and its agents bear no consequence for mistakes in the allocation. It has no means to compare value or incentive to do so. The system evolves according to the "iron law of bureaucracy" as a perfect rent-seeking apparatus.
It's nice to imagine everyone having enough, or maybe that everyone is "equal." But you can't save anyone from their choices.
That's not nice. It's prison.
If you know how to optimize human life for a given group of agreeable people, go for it. For the rest of us, no means no.
Inflation is a tax on saving which encourages malinvestment "bubbles" that fail catastrophically.
Monetary policy addresses them by creating ever more money to encourage ever more synthetic growth. Once debt service threatens to consume the sovereign budget, monetary tightening ceases to be politically viable.
Not for nothing, we appear to be living in the Keynesian "long run."
The smart home space has always been a shit show, from the radios up. It's a separate bag of rats from launching a research OS on real hardware.
The timer is 3 days[1], which observers (Forbes, WaPo) agree is surprisingly unreasonable for this use case. We can infer it was never a serious design consideration.
On Android, decent Bluetooth is a gamble, but scanning will theoretically find one[2].
[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/20/moren-fine-prin... [2] https://lifehacker.com/try-using-a-bluetooth-scanner-app-to-...
The only difference I can see here is Apple's halo effect.
Possible action items:
- I will happily submit my Android location data to Apple to find out if I'm being tracked by an AirTag. Where's the API? (I realize this compromises the "theft prevention" use case. That's an unfortunate collision of interests. Maybe sell a Pro version, comparable to LoJack. If I understood correctly, "3 days since home" is too much window anyway.) - Let me use an iPhone with Find My disabled to receive stalker alerts, without participating in the mesh (read: sending the tag's location). Can someone confirm whether this is already how it works?
As I see it, these are table stakes. The optics are not my problem: you're selling a $30 private investigator with no legal oversight.
Doubt me? Volunteer at a women's shelter.
Practically: upspinfs fusermounts a cloud storage bucket. (TCO: $0.01/GB/mo.) Transparent public-key crypto. Sharing is built into the protocol. Sane defaults.
Building notes on top feels almost too straightforward to monetize. (For that matter: 1password, any number of small-scale B2C things, ...)