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What would also be very interesting is a graph of relationships and movements. Let's see just how incestuous the boards really are, and what's going on with serial CEOs who move from one business to the next.

Northdata [1] does basically this, but mostly ingests European data currently. Perhaps they will expand to ingest US data as well at some point. Not affiliated with them in any way. I just use them to look into company structures every now and again.

[1] https://www.northdata.com/


I worked on a knowledge graph map using Wikidata to get relationship between people and organizations, but data was limited to family, basic stuff. Being from Europe, there isn't an open data analogue of SEC. Now I will download this data, it is open so no license at all, and try to show these kind of relationships. It has the potential of being very investigative, especially for USA residents.

Is it that Europe doesn't have any open data analogues of the SEC, or is it that each European country has its own open data analog?

Each european countries has various orgs, types of license. It is easier to start from SEC to integrate that data into my site, also you have to test a bit what users care about.

Wondering aloud -- this is clearly PII, but it's public information. The site would be subject to GDPR, and other rules from the EU, and folks may want to have their data hidden or removed. What would be the exposure for sourcing EU data?

You're looking for https://theyrule.net/

Interesting idea...tracking which execs move together or which board members overlap across companies. Maybe in next turn

> incestuous

Is it that? Or would it be similar to when you have a lot of responsibility (like leading a company) you tend to bring along people you know you can trust and can help you succeed?


Sure, with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, why not?


this is so hilarious.

You’re an every day hero. Thank you!


Thanks mate. If he can assault my ears, I can assault his nose, right. Or threaten to ;)


Can you follow through on that? I don’t really know how I would assault someone’s nose on command. Would appreciate some tips.


I had to abandon Apple MacOS container because it has so many issues with networking and DNS. I'm looking forward to try it again if they can get it fixed.

https://github.com/apple/container/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20sta...


The other one that drives me nuts is “sensitive electronics” in generator discussions.


Do conventional synchronous generators not cause the problems they purportedly do? I've got an inverter generator simply for fuel usage.

I've certainly had my fair share of square wave UPSs and devices that don't work on them.


This could be because of a floating neutral.

There are certainly cases where harmonic distortion is a problem for a device. It’s just that everyone is left guessing, and there’s an overblown fear of devices being harmed.


You don't think RF noise comes out of the generator?


Sure. It’s just rarely what lay people associate with “sensitive”. Most customers are worried about small electronics with switching mode power supplies that wouldn’t have a problem with just about any power source.

I wouldn’t run some AC motors, old AC clock, ham radio, or many other things on some generators.

The line is open to interoperation and never defined by the manufacturer. It’s blanket liability avoidance that confuses customers.


Setup automatic forwards. If I was to do this, I’d forward all the emails from my kids activities to its email.


I would guess the FSD numbers get help from drivers taking over during difficult situations and use weighted towards highway miles?


not to mention turning off FSD milliseconds before impact


There's no evidence for that. And there's no sense for Tesla doing it.

Politics is really a mind killer. Just think for a second. Who can be fooled by this "turning off FSD milliseconds before impact"?


It's the nature of high fashion brands. a $2000 item may cost $200 to create. The high margin is based on exclusitivity. They would rather destroy it than sell it at $300.


> They would rather destroy it than sell it at $300.

This is exactly it. The actual landed cost is 1/10th of the sales price, and most of the rest of the margin pads the marketing and exclusivity machine. If for instance LV starts selling their $200-landed Neverfull bags at $500 or even $1,000, all the infrastructure sustaining the image becomes unsustainable.


Related note: aren't Louis Vuitton bags being made so crap nowadays that even their own anti-counterfeiting staff can't tell what's real and what's not? I remember hearing of someone who made wallets out of discarded LV bags and got harassed for it by the company.

My personal opinion is that the business model of selling status items - specifically those which only have status because of an artificially limited supply they control - is inherently predatory and should be restricted. Not because I'm the morality police and want to stop people from buying a bag that says "I spent $2000 on a bag", but because there is nothing that stops the company from cost-reducing that to oblivion. If you are going to sell a $2,000 bag, it should be marketed on quality, not a cult.


Clothing items tend to have quality roof that past that, it doesn't matter and it's not 2000$ for handbag.

Clothing has been used as wealth/class indicator for thousands of years, trying to change that will be extremely difficult lift.


Agents are excellent for reverse engineering. I was also recently working on a BLE reverse engineering exercise and followed a similar path. I ran into lots of headaches with BLE on my Mac and tabled it.

Author or others who know, did you perform this on Linux? I imagine it lacks the tooling challenges I had with BLE on MacOS.


It was on a MBP, didn’t run into any issues


What sort of tools did it use? I suppose the path mine took may have been a dead end. The Tuya app (I was also using decompiled APK) downloads the BLE definitions on-demand and weren't embedded in the app. It wanted me to capture traffic on a device with the app. I punted but plan to resume with an emulator setup or real device connected with adb.


There’s a checkbox in the app that implies that. I haven’t had a reason or way to test it yet.

I can confirm altitude restrictions can be turned off.


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