Flock messed up courting local police departments, made it feel too real to people.

there is no way they can't, tho.

330M people in the country, you can run that entirely though a remote FBI office.

and the people using the data are gonna be the local cops; FBI ain't flying out to chase a couple of basic-ass assault charges or thefts.

email snooping, hand full of highway cameras at known bottlenecks, border crossings -- these are abstractions to most people. the flock cameras in their neighborhood are not, and cannot be absractions.

They will feel like they’re doing great as long as they’re getting paid and the cameras are up in more places than they’re not.

I mean he’s basically quoting what Wolfram (a man famed for his humility) said on a panel just after these dropped.

Also famed for being an intellectual juggernaut. A random poster on YC not so much.

The downside is it was translated in the 1600s with the tools, knowledge and manuscripts available to them at the time. We just have a lot more now.