So if I understand the totality of the situation here: mans donates cameras from company he invested in, gets tax break for doing so, helps portfolio co, furthers own self-interest and propels us towards surveillance state?
I think the money is a red herring here. ALPR firms can come up with any number of different pilot/licensing/financing programs to keep deployments under purchasing thresholds for police departments.
The issue is that Las Vegas, like most major metros, doesn't appear to have ordinances preventing their police department from deploying cameras without the consent of the city council. That's fixable! There's model ordinances for this.
I’ve been noodling on this idea for a while but I think getting commercial acceptance would be hard. People have tried it with crypto albeit with lukewarm results. I think to have the network effects required to be successful in such an endeavor, it would have to come from a vendor like apple or google unfortunately.
You kind of want an mTLS for the masses with a chain of trust that makes sense.
mTLS is no good because the target service could then uniquely identify you. I think you explicitly want a three-party scheme where the target service just accepts the idp's assertion about your age in a cryptographically secure way.
I wonder if such a business model could exist where they were effectively "public" and thus, access was uniformly granted to anyone willing to pay. not sure if this would be net better for society, but an interesting thought.
I thought it was odd that there was mention of competitors but then when a feature matrix ranking them many were suddenly omitted. Then I rechecked the URL and realized this was a marketing post by milvus.
I have no skin in or say in the vector db space but do support a very large (1.4B+ vector) Vespa deployment and see 40ms p99 query times. YMMV but it seems like people sleep on Vespa for whatever reason. Again, not an endorsement but this is what we’re seeing in prod at a fortune100 co.
With a product like this that costs so much and is so deeply technical, no one is buying on emotion, so to me, omitting data is tantamount to admitting their product is inferior in some way.
Given his wealth, this just feels lazy and unimaginative. Running a secret illegal school, okay, I get that. But getting caught up on the drop off and pick up? How does he not just build a secret tunnel entrance?
What are they currently doing then? They're already supporting the "settlers" so territorial expansion is already in progress. They haven't expanded beyond that right now, but judging by their current actions, it seems to me they're already on that route, and only small parts of the world is currently trying to stop them.
Forget links, agents are gonna just go upstream to the source and buy it for you. I think it will change the game because intent will be super high and conversion will go through the roof.
Look, the car shop might not bill you at all because their A.I agent will hallucinate the purchase, so I don't see why you're so pessimistic about agents.
Did I miss anything?