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Comment #31109448
There's a lot more to it than just contracts and contractors. There's a good book that talks about improving the military's ability to respond (The Kill Chain). The general point i…
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Comment #23980448
Gold. Proud to be affiliated.
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Comment #23980430
Can confirm
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Comment #23979286
You're asking good questions about raising capital but the outcome was a rare circumstance where all cofounders, previous investors, new investors, current employees, and the exec …
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Comment #23979225
Can't count cars at the moment, unfortunately. But there's some cool tech from Flocksafety and other camera solutions.
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Comment #23979197
Lower cost systems like Google's Popular Times, are not as accurate as they seem. The next time you see a graph on google, you'll notice there's no y-axis. It's a clever way to loo…
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Comment #23977185
No rain! It's a great callout. We'll see what we can do if for no other reason than to understand risk.
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Comment #23976996
Thank you. Fwiw, our eng team has deeply benefited from all those dev tools and libraries. The stack to result in real-time, accurate count is nuts. I think one of our devs, Gus, w…
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Comment #23976974
This one's legit (cofounder here). We honestly thought it would be a side project. We originally used a raspberry pi and two TP-Links to recreate a router ( https://www.youtube.com…
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Comment #23976950
We get this question from time to time. It may be possible with some systems but it's not feasible at our resolution. You can see more of our depth data here -- https://medium.com/…
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Comment #23976929
I've lost track of the number of times we've said, "well, we count people" and thought... god this must be boring for other people.
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Comment #23976886
If it becomes super wide spread, we'd make it low to no cost to provide wait times to end users.
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Comment #23976853
dtertman! Those were awesome questions (same cofounder here). I read a thing a while back as a startup, your job is to survive long enough for the market to need you. Great talking…
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Comment #23976816
That is an exceptional name. If you still want to build it, we have a real-time API. Love supporting apps :) (Density cofounder here)
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Comment #23206276
I agree with this. It's compliance will be contextual / regional / etc. This is why the system also support real-time alerts and safe analytics. In the event a place like Walmart w…
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Comment #23206246
MAC address tracking is one approach but it's imprecise and with the proliferation of "things with antennas," you have to do a lot of reconciling on the backend to not count 1 pers…
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Comment #23206208
That's an interesting point. What would you recommend? Follow street sign structure?
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Comment #23188364
There are grocers who have required all corporate employees to work at least 3 days a week in a store bagging groceries, cleaning carts, and managing lines. Side not, essential bus…
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Comment #23188350
Good example of this is in elevators. People fill the available space like water.
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Comment #23188335
You're right. "Notify me when it's quiet" is a thing the system supports. In related news, load balancing humans is a two-sided thing.
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Comment #23188149
Actually, many deployments are going into factories, fulfillment centers, and meat processing plants specifically to help keep workers safe.