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Did I miss it, or are there no virtual reality startups on this list? I'm a wee bit surprised: VR is nascent and there aren't enough devices out there to build sustainable businesses shipping content, but I would have expected at least 1 or 2.
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The government can’t do that either, they’s the point (except for a handful of rare exceptions). The police can’t even film protests to identify protestors.
You're saying the German government has no video cameras on any traffic intersections / public areas period?
For traffic situations there are specialized systems that open a physical filter in front of a camera lens only if someone is detected to be speeding, and the camera is then limited to that lane, for that short moment.
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Are you kidding me? Who chides someone for being bitter when they haven't walked in their shoes? I am not understanding? I am not raising a mob or expressing an entitlement. I am sharing how I feel. Chide away. We are not built delicate.
I'm not sure if you're misunderstanding the parent comment's intent, or choosing to focus on the personal aspect (chiding). They're suggesting a strategy for you to get into either YC or an automated farming startup.
And yes, I am focusing on the 'chiding' comment because it's condescending and not helpful.
You wouldn't believe how much condescension and lack of respect a non technical/non SV person has to endure to be heard. From people who haven't a clue what they are doing...it seems that an inclusive incestous valley club wants to give opportunities to their in group. I get it. I see how their minds work.
But I am telling you that they will fail. We are facing a shortage of labour and land.
Why did the green revolution fail? Why can't farmers in Punjab grow wheat anymore? Why is there disappearing water tables? And poisoned watersheds? Why are cotton farmers killing them selves? Why is the US producing more soy and corn not for human consumption and import our food? Why is Monsanto contributing to shrinking genetic diversity in our seeds? Why are we losing top soil? Why is our food production so dependent on fossil fuels? Why are farmers hiring Eastern European hackers to bypass John Deere's expensive DMCA restrictions to tractors they paid for and don't actually really own.
Because 'scientists' are condescending towards 'peasant farmers' and don't listen to their 'ideas'. We are not uneducated hillibillies that need techies kindness and be rescued by Silicon Valley.
Engineers have no business coming up with ideas for farmers just as farmers have no business coming up with new ways to cure cancer.
I wish people would stop saying that 'it's just an idea'. An idea is the most valuable seed. This is like kids playing in the sandbox and not wanting to share.
There will be a price for this. We are already paying it. Farmers are not children who need to be rescued. We need help from other areas od expertise we don't possess.
Flock seems like it could help solve some crimes, but at a huge cost - privacy. You can't opt out, unless you live nearby and register with the company. "Residents of monitored neighbourhoods can opt-out of being tracked - but visitors, or people passing through, cannot." http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41008141 Do people like law enforcement collecting license plates and keeping them in databases indefinitely? Ho…
Police are only able to solve 13% of cases due to lack of evidence. We are simply trying to provide the police with the evidence they need to do their job.
We believe this type of technology is inevitable (look at our highways and major city roads already). We believe the data should be owned by the community and not the government.
We care deeply about privacy which is why we (a) sell to neighborhoods and not the government, (b) only focus on cars/license plates and (c) allow residents to opt-out if they want to.
Flock seems like it could help solve some crimes, but at a huge cost - privacy. You can't opt out, unless you live nearby and register with the company. "Residents of monitored neighbourhoods can opt-out of being tracked - but visitors, or people passing through, cannot." http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41008141 Do people like law enforcement collecting license plates and keeping them in databases indefinitely? Ho…
Alot of cities have camera's at intersections which could potentially do the same thing before a stolen car reached my neighborhood. The police dept. in my city is asking now people to register there webcams with police so they can ask for video I guess when crimes occur, but I can see scenarios where that could wrong. Even with home webcams, criminals have no issues just walking and stealing UPS boxes right off the…
Re: Pricing -- hard to put a price on something that can actually solve crime. In addition, most of our customers/prospects see more benefit to the technology than just solving crime (i.e., speeders).
Flock seems like it could help solve some crimes, but at a huge cost - privacy. You can't opt out, unless you live nearby and register with the company. "Residents of monitored neighbourhoods can opt-out of being tracked - but visitors, or people passing through, cannot." http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41008141 Do people like law enforcement collecting license plates and keeping them in databases indefinitely? Ho…
Isn't driving a public activity? Supposedly they're selling to HOAs; not sure how public/private those streets are. But I imagine you have a huge degree of control over that.
Totemic is interesting to me, since one of my close relatives spent five hours on the floor of their house after falling, as she could never remember to carry her cellphone (hard habit to acquire at 90 years old...). And of course, she could have lost consciousness, which would render the cellphone useless. That said, I wonder how can they have a single device for the whole house, and how it works for harder floors,…
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/resea...
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/resea...
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You can't opt out while being in public. That's unreasonable.
"That's unreasonable" isn't an argument. What's reasonable is decided by society. New technologies may change what's possible, and make something that was ok before the means to achieve something entirely new. If, for example, these gadgets, or existing security cameras started to pool their data, run (accurate) face-detection on it, and start publicising everyones' location history online, I'm pretty sure most peopl…
our goal isn't to build a big-brother system. we believe that if you are on a public road there isn't a perceived expectation of privacy.
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Depends on where you live. In Germany any CCTV recording of a public place is automatically illegal. There’s a handful of exceptions (for example, for the parliament), but generally, this holds true. Opt-in is what’s legally required, and should be the default.
How can all the people passing before the camera to opt in?
Our neighborhoods are not large public roads, they are typically 100-400 home communities. You would never have to enter the community.