daviroo

Can I ask where you choose to live right now that isn’t a socialist society or on the way to one? Genuine question because I am thinking of emigrating after this pandemic is over and that would definitely make my shortlist.

If everyone gets the vaccine then does the distinction matter? Genuine question not rhetorical.

I once thought it would be difficult for big tech company recruiting processes to tell the difference between:

a) A really good problem solver

b) Someone who has ran through all the example interview problems on leetcode or something similar

Then I thought that this might be similar to the Turing test. Once you’re that good at faking it that you can convince someone else - maybe the difference doesn’t matter at that point.

There’s no doubt that the cameras and drop in features are an invasion of his privacy. Unfortunately his dementia is advanced enough that we couldn’t ask him if this was ok before we put it in. His son has power of attorney over him (allows him to make legal decisions on his behalf) and as I am the only person who has access to these features and the intent is to help protect/care for him, we felt it was a fair trade off.

You can limit the people who can “drop in” on the device, so I guess you could let most friends and family use the call feature and save the drop in feature for certain trusted family members to use in an emergency.

I’m using an echo show for this use case. My granddad has dementia and lives at home on his own. I set up some blink cameras in his house to watch for falls and setup an echo show so family could speak with him during lockdown. The big advantage I found about the echo show is the “drop in” feature which allows starting a video call with no interaction from his side.