I asked this (in a less accusatory tone) of an NSO employee once and he said something about how the big tech companies also spy on people and do unethical things.

There are already cheap, domestic robots for cleaning dishes, cleaning the floor, cleaning clothes, making coffee, heating and cooling food, turning screws, drilling holes and so on. All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent (and sometimes a greater than 99 percent) savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually. You still have to move the objects they operate on around within your house but that's mostly the only part of the task you have to do.

As someone who played the roomba game quite a bit - you transfer the problem of vacuuming to the problem of very frequent robot cleaning. I've saved more time switching to a high powered central vac than I ever did with constantly cleaning the robot because I had the audacity to own a fluffy dog.

Also people claiming cleaning isn't "creative" or "fun". Steam has a whole genre of games simulating cleaning stuff because the act of cleaning is extremely fun and creative to a lot of people: https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_De... being a great example

Actually I do NOT want my robot to do my laundry for me! And because I'm garbage at painting and comparatively better at laundry, I DO want it to paint for me.

> Also people claiming cleaning isn't "creative" or "fun". Steam has a whole genre of games simulating cleaning stuff because the act of cleaning is extremely fun and creative to a lot of people: https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_De... being a great example

Someone making a game about an activity doesn't mean that the activity is fun or desirable in real life at all.

I mean yes there are people that find comfort in cleaning but they are not the target audience of cleaning simulators at all.

$500 robots (ie Mova) are very impressive nowadays. You can even integrate plumbing into them so you really not doing much.

Washer dryer combos are good too. Folding laundry is biggest pain of my life so far. Also unloading dishwasher, but fix is easy here - get double one.

I think the 10 percent is more work than you give it credit for.

Unfortunately many things aren't dishwasher safe, some things don't fit in the dishwasher, and often certain types of food are not properly washed off in the dishwasher.

> All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually.

Lol, nope.

Dishwashers solve at best some 50% of the hassle that are the easy to wash table dishes, while being completely unable to clean oven ones. Floor cleaners solve a 5 minutes task in a couple-of-days-long house upkeep. Coffee makers... don't really automate anything, why did you list them here? And there's no automation available for heating and cooling food. And the part about drilling and turning screws also isn't automation at all.

The only thing on your list that is close to solved is clothes cleaning. And there's the entire ironing thing that is incredibly resistant to solving. But yeah, that puts it way beyond 90% solved.

>All photographs or videos you have seen have been placed there for you to see them

The source of most of the videos from both sides is random social media users.

Even the videos and info from the IDF I would regard as credible, since they released similar videos and info from the Lebanon operation last year that was consistently corroborated by evidence from social media (there was no internet blackout in Lebanon so every IDF strike on an urban area had multiple videos from different perspectives).

Social media users placed by iran's full missile defense systems? Social media users at the bottom of 100m of granite? Social media users amongst the iranian barracks?

I called the war for Russia ~2 years ago, just as the "counter offensive" by Ukraine was starting. Go back, if you wish, to that time in the news and find exactly what english-speaking western median, and social media, was saying.

What is the picture you get, of Ukraine and its counteroffensive, delivered to you from these sources?

It's always a little stunning just how easy it is for publics to be manipulated. Oh what a world.

You called the war for Russia? Did they win ?

Anyway why don’t we see videos from Iran of Israeli jets being shot down ? Why is there no footage of Irans airforce engaging Israel ? Why didn’t the B-2 spirits get attacked ? You can say it’s all lies and propaganda , but it’s not because there is no evidence to the contrary being presented.

The network Assaf got from founding and selling a big cybersecurity company and then being a VP-equivalent at Microsoft for 5 years (immediately before found Wiz) is more relevant than what he had from being an IC in the army 15 before that.

The purpose is to injure enemy combatants

The price of the share stays the same but there are fewer shares, so the market cap would go down.

But EPS rises so equilibrium would suggest the price of the share would almost certainly rise to match the old EPS.

The earnings per share certainly increases. But this is (at least theoretically) offset by the fact that the firm's assets have decreased. For example, if the buyback was paid for with cash, then prior to the buyback, the shares represented a claim of ownership not just on future earnings, but also on that cash reserve.

That said, this is all under a theoretical model (as in Miller-Modigliani theorem). In practice/empirically, there is reason to plausibly believe that e.g. the decision to announce a buyback has a signalling effect and so can increase share prices.

Is there a heuristic for how much of the value of a share is assigned to asset value vs forward looking earnings? Many of the ‘hot’ stocks like Nvidia seem almost all forward looking.

For public companies you don't need a heuristic, as the balance sheet is included in quarterly earnings reports.

Well it certainly makes a market for the lucky duckies who are the counterparties for the buyback. They benefit.

This isn’t even necessarily true for dividend yield let alone for EPS.

I saw a comment (not in the linked thread) that notes that the system prompt probably includes something along the lines of "You are a helpful AI assistant...", which does feel like a bit of a giveaway in the sense that there are many documents on the internet that discuss testing AI assistants and therefore a document who's topic is an AI assistant is likely to contain discussion of testing the assistant (and if the document is written from a first person perspective, of the assistant, then it's likely to contain text from the perspective of the assistant discussing it's own testing).

The secret challenge exists and it is the phone number / email address / VC account of CFO. If CFO wants to order EMPLOYEE to send money, then EMPLOYEE should only do the action after making an outgoing call to CFO.

100% agree. "Hang Up, Look Up, Call Back" should be made into a jingle and absolutely hammered into the culture of, at this point, literally everyone (given all the scams that occur targeted both toward consumers and employees): https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/when-in-doubt-hang-up-lo...

The scammers make up some “plausible” reason that the CEO can’t talk on the phone.

Where it hurts is it can be a PITA to get hold of the CFO from the mere employee side, especially as the CFO was UK based.

Basically, it was a well thought and well executed scam that perfectly fit the employee's situation.

The CFO was on the call. You just say "cool I'm sending a 4 digit code to your mobile phone, read it back to me".

The CFO already separately sent him a message before the call, and I wonder if they'd get access to the CFO's number in a central directory (leaving aside the fact that you're asking to message them while they're live "in front" of you).

I fthe CFO gave a number on the call, it wouldn't also be much of a check.

I think the real improvement would be to have the CFO file a ticket, but obviously that company was used to play it loose and fast.

With $25 million on the line, I'd argue that the company could afford an airline ticket to fly to the UK and back to verify in person.

They might be able to afford ticket price, but not the time it takes to fly to the UK. Some things are time-sensitive.

It would detect number spoofing. Spoofing is easy, hacking phones is hard(er).

> it can be a PITA to get hold of the CFO from the mere employee side

I'm guessing that someone who can authorize a $25M transaction is fairly high up in the corporate hierarchy, not that many levels away from the CFO.

For a finance worker I actually wonder how much it means to transfer $25M.

I have no idea, but I suppose moving funds from one subsidiary to another for instance wouldn't be for a few thousands only, and he's seeing money fly around day in day out. Would it feel the same as an infra engineer rebalancing a few millions of access from a cluster to another ?

I don't know enough about this, but would it be possible for the scammers to hijack the SIM swapping?

That is, the scammer manages to get ahold of the SIM card / phone number of the CFO, and be on the receiving end if/when a worker calls the CFO up.

Weakest link would probably be to compromise some telecom worker, so that this can be orchestrated.

Make a twist and call my wife, not me.

This will work, until some determined actor sim swaps the CFO in advance.

This is a weird objection because if the expensive insulin did not exist (effective price = $inf) it would not apply.

My concern is that I need to live a fairly normal life, and I need to work. If I can not eat lunch at a normal time at work, and if I have to get up every 2 or 3 hours all night long to deal with my diabetes, then I can not work a normal job.

This is not a weird objection. The companies distributing the "expensive insulin" also distribute the affordable insulin, and created the cost disparity. Something strikingly apparent to anyone interacting with insurance companies for any chronic condition.

The reality is that before we had these medications, more people just died. Yeah sure in some sense it does not apply, but that's missing the point.

This law was passed specifically to allow Aryeh Dery to ignore the terms of his plea agreement and serve as a minister. It's not related to the Jewish-Arab demographic balance (which, within the 67 borders, is about 85-15).

That's technically true but also myopic. This was an explicit step to weaken the judiciary, strengthen the hard right and also indicted PM. This move is not explicitly anti-arab but it greatly empowers anti-arab leaders at the expense of democratic fairness. And rather severely at that. This was a canary. The next bill be worse and the one after worse again because they know they can't be stopped.

As the current government is making abundantly clear, 67 borders are irrelevant. There are roughly the same number of Jewish and Arab people within the territory Israel controls.

In the past the Israeli justice has been reasonably independent of the government, as can be seen from this long list where Aryeh Dery figures prominently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_public_officia...

Even if the law passed now might have only the tactical goal of promoting Aryeh Dery once more, it certainly will allow the government to do unsanctioned in the future other things that could be much more harmful.

This law is intended to prevent the judiciary from finding settlements unreasonable. Aryeh Dery is the cover story.

Exactly. The right wingers plan to annex the territories without giving the Palestinians citizenship. It was literally in their election platform!

OP was being disingenuous at best, as if the country could be brought to a standstill over a minor legislative change to allow one guy into Parliament