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So, is there any coincidence that this is where Walmart HQ is located (some proxy battle)? Why has no other police department in the country attempted this?
by gm-conspiracy 10y ago
So, is there any coincidence that this is where Walmart HQ is located (some proxy battle)?
Why has no other police department in the country attempted this?
- maxerickson 10y agoThe intersection of hard to prove murders and Alexa is going to be tiny.
- gm-conspiracy 10y agoI would guess tiny is > 1. This took place what, two year ago? 5 murders per 100,000 people (US average). 318 million people in the US, so 15,900 murder per year. Amazon has sold over 5 million echos in the last 2 years. So, Amazon would have to sell over 159 billion Echos, before a second murder overlap in the US? If we assume all are US based, that would be about 1.5% of the population has Echos?
- maxerickson 10y agoI think it is an important factor that many murders are quite straightforward, so it isn't just the overall rate, it's the rate where the Alexa evidence is important enough to pursue. I also wonder how many people own more than 1 echo (probably only hundreds of thousands so not all that important to estimating the number of homes being listened to. I guess Amazon could tell us how many users they have though).