Are you suggesting the govt should change who they did business with because one of their other businesses didn't politically support a certain candidate for President?

I think he is suggesting that government might do so.

Or to put a finer point on it: Suggesting that some President would abuse the powers of the office, using the government as a tool to harm others out of corrupt personal revenge.

The prisoner's dilemma here is that each group that surrenders to the potential threat makes it more likely the bad situation will actually come to pass.

They are basically implying that the government should support businesses that fall in line with the government.

Which is a strange thing to support though, but it often happens anyway.

I don’t think they’re suggesting that Trump should, but that there’s a good chance that he would.

It's not a matter of if Trump would. He absolutely will. Donald Trump has an ego the size of the universe, and if someone slights him in any way, he will be out for blood.

So this might be true for things like increased patrols for drug crimes as an example, but this doesn't apply to shootings. Shootings get reported no matter where they are. When someone shoots a gun in a wealthy part of town, it's not going unreported... Shot spotter simply allows for an instant report instead of having to wait for a phone call. Wealthy areas aren't getting away with more shootings just because of less patrols.

As per the article, they're also using the microphones to record private conversations.

> Conversations recorded by ShotSpotter sensors have twice been introduced as evidence in criminal trials. In one case the court allowed it, in another the court did not.

Even in cases where they're not used at trial, they're still used to generate suspicion. I don't know if you've ever had cops on your ass, but it's super stressful, and can impact your job (because they start harassing you at work and you get fired). Depending on how much of a dick the cop is, he may just arrest you for shit and giggles, and now you have an arrest record that fucks up all sorts of things in your life (he's got qualified immunity so what does he care).

This basically amounts to pervasive harassment of a community, and the more surveillance there is, the worse it gets, the less the locals will trust or cooperate with police, the more "us vs them" it gets between citizens and police, the more heavy-handed police response becomes, the less likely people are to solve their differences using the police, the more chaotic a community becomes. This is what oppression looks like.

unpopular opinion, but this just fosters my opinion that TS people just don't understand JS at all. I wish TS would just die (another currently unpopular opinion). If you want runtime type safety, go use a different language and stop trying to ruin JS, it's already the messed up crazy cousin and it doesn't need to be in-bread anymore, it's perfect the way it is!

Only writer I know who discusses pure JS patterns that embrace those its dynamism is Raganwald Braithwaite[0]. For example, most people I know would call this hacky code[1], when this is just design patterns in idiomatic, non-Java/C#-constrained JavaScript. The truth, most devs desire intellisense and/or theorycrafting that comes with static types and compilers.

[0]https://raganwald.com/

[1]https://raganwald.com/2014/04/10/mixins-forwarding-delegatio...

Why does anyone think the role of creating new jobs in the wake of losing jobs to due to AI should fall on the shoulders of the government, and why do people believe they could be successful at it?

> Governments will have to find a solution for knowledge sector workers whose jobs are automated away thanks to the advent of artificial intelligence, a leading expert in the field warned.

This is a horrible way to solve this possible future problem.

Did you forget about the great depression? Public works were a key factor in getting out of it.

Why is that a horrible way, and what do you propose?