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by mv4 9y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. This practice is up there with "No Caller ID" calls.
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by mv4 9y ago
Exactly. We've been through this before, with "racist" computer vision algos.
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by mv4 9y ago
why can't you use DM?
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by mv4 9y ago
Feel free to connect on LI or otherwise, info in profile. I should probably blog about this! Nice search engine, btw. Small bug - comma in "Year given".
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by mv4 9y ago
will send you a note!
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by mv4 9y ago
With a service like that, it helps to have scene detection capabilities as well - so you don't end up having to look at lots of very similar looking thumbnails. So - as opposed to extracting frames at pre-set intervals, extract them wh
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by mv4 9y ago
Thank you.
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by mv4 9y ago
I am curious what their strategy is. Cloud storage by itself (just like delivery) is a commodity, and if you look at the pricing trends per GB, it's a race to the bottom (will be interesting to see which CDN decides to become "fre
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by mv4 9y ago
If you need to do video, check out https://advection.net/ We beat CloudFront pricing by 50..80% in most cases. (I am a co-founder)
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by mv4 9y ago
Exactly. The ultimate goal isn't incremental improvement of the current way for doing things, it's fundamental change.
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by mv4 9y ago
Let's chat. Contact info in profile.
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by mv4 9y ago
How's IBM in that business? IBM has a few initiatives in transportation + blockchain (Maersk, also trucking in Brazil). Anything else?
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by mv4 9y ago
I've seen a few names, but the ones I saw were essentially message boards - proceed at your own risk. With Cargofone, every driver/company passes background checks, we insure everything automatically (via partnership with a large
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by mv4 9y ago
Emailed.
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by mv4 9y ago
Uber for Freight only officially launched last month. Check their app reviews (both iPhone and Android), more than 1/3rd are one star, citing various issues. What makes you think they are doing very well?
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by mv4 9y ago
According to friends in the business: - hard to make money - people work too much and sleep too little - various abuse by trucking companies For a more methodical analysis - USA Today did a piece a month ago: https://www.usatoday
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by mv4 9y ago
Yep, we launched one: https://cargofone.com/en/ Money helps, but it isn't the only thing.
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by mv4 9y ago
How far did you get? Were you delivering shipments?
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by mv4 9y ago
I feel that for most companies playing in this space, freight brokering is just a transitional step. It can't work long-term, just like Uber can't be viable without self-driving cars. However, it's the best way to understand
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by mv4 9y ago
I do think Walmart is paying attention to this.
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by mv4 9y ago
Yes, similar systems do exist. My team made one of them: https://cargofone.com/en/ In some ways, it's more challenging than building "an Uber", once you get into different cargo and body types, document
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by mv4 9y ago
As an employer, I've never countered when given a "choice" like that. If they do make a counteroffer and you stay, you can be sure they are now looking for a replacement.