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Chris Sacca (of Twitter / Uber investing fame) spent months / years of his life working for Google trying to get San Francisco to agree to install free, city-wi

• scott_karana 11y ago
  Good for him! Glad to see people fighting the good fight.
• samstave 11y ago
  Heh - I was doing this before Chris Sacca was! Listen to what happened: We were seeking to build wifi and wanted to get the city to allow us to put the nema boxes on street lights and stop lights. I cant recall the officials name now (this was ~2002 or so) -- and they came back and stated they wanted video cameras on all stop lights. They then said that they wanted "at least 60 frames per second" and that they wouldn't allow us to put up the devices as they were already looking to pull fiber to every stoplight to support cameras.
  • pizza 11y ago
    Wow.