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by afar 11y ago
Yeah. Currently we piggy-back on a locations wifi. Relatively low upstream data (37kb / 90secs). We've considered things like Helium. Eventually centralizing the network will be good but for now, wifi's cheap and available.
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by afar 11y ago
Foot traffic should be inexpensive, accurate, and available in real-time. It should be dead simple to integrate with other applications, and it should never invade people's privacy. imo.
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by afar 11y ago
Why is getting a warrant not enough? Seems the level of access and cooperation is as much or greater than a key or backdoor. Isn't it relatively speedy to get a warrant? In some cases just hours?
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by afar 11y ago
Fascinating. Wondering what their tax rates look like...
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Can anyone estimate the total number of doors in the world? How?
4 points by afar 11y ago|5 comments
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by afar 11y ago
Like "reverse surge pricing"... free coffee until the place gets busy.
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by afar 11y ago
It's hard to create a simple mark these days without bumping up against other branding. Couple people mentioned Mercedes as well.
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by afar 11y ago
This little guy - http://i.imgur.com/zLUMAG8.jpg?1 Thanks!
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by afar 11y ago
And Android followed suit. The policy change pretty much bifurcated the industry. Half died or sold themselves off - http://fortune.com/2014/10/29/after-a-blow-from-apple-nomi-s... The other half doubled down
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by afar 11y ago
Yeah. Well, I guess it could be bad if I knew that it was always quiet and therefore "a drag" (sorry, that was a weird word to use). But I suspect any bar or club that's reasonably solvent, especially in populous cities, has
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by afar 11y ago
re: Minority Re..port... I've always been bad at reading. Do you know another example of a minority game? And is it a paradox or just a method of thinking about game strategy? Parking - I agree. That one company has a unit that senses
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by afar 11y ago
Can you give me an example of how quiet could be bad?
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by afar 11y ago
Rig up... We can normalize multi-entrance places. Actually Blue Bottle is a multi-entrance place.
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by afar 11y ago
Local business voicemails are the worst :)
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by afar 11y ago
Re: Minority report. Yeah, I think there's a space in the future where utility and privacy don't have to be traded for one another. There's another cool company doing parking called Parkifi I think. Someone else mentioned El
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by afar 11y ago
Yes. Actually, that's our model. We designed the hardware to be cheap enough to be free (situation dependent) and then we monetize the resulting data.
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by afar 11y ago
We're happy with the change too. Simplified things. Any sensor trying to mass measure foot traffic across a city needs to be accurate, real time, anonymous, and cheap.
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by afar 12y ago
gentrification: to renovate and improve (especially a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste. classist?
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by afar 12y ago
Dropbox and Airbnb employees rented a park in the Mission. Video of the argument picked up steam when it was used to illustrate gentrification in San Francisco.
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by afar 12y ago
I thought his comments about available capital (specifically) to social communication companies was interesting. There was so much homogeneity in tech in '99/'01. So many companies doing very similar things. I guess I'm
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Electronic defense against drones(popsci.com)
1 points by afar 12y ago|0 comments
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Everest shuts down(everest.com)
3 points by afar 12y ago|0 comments
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by afar 12y ago
I wonder what pg thinks of this?
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by afar 12y ago
>the handful of tech CEO's you know only from reputation. This is an important point. Jobs, Gates, Ellison, Travis K. are each notorious. We love stories about these guys because they're entertaining and sometimes shocking (I a
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by afar 12y ago
Funny, I've always had relative success with Nair.. Heard they're reworking the whole DM system.
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Twitter's CFO Screwed Up Another Tweet Meant to be Private Message(businessinsider.com)
12 points by afar 12y ago|2 comments
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by afar 12y ago
I like the .coffee domain. Nice get. Although, with 190+ points, "I'll buy you coffee" might get a bit expensive.