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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    That's an interesting point. What would you recommend? Follow street sign structure?

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    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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    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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    Actually, many deployments are going into factories, fulfillment centers, and meat processing plants specifically to help keep workers safe.