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A good speeding camera will only take imagery when the radar/lidar detects a speeding incident, which makes it different from an ALPR that takes pictures constantly and can be used to track folks who aren't actively breaking the law for the sake of tracking them. That being said, there is a bit of a "trust me, bro" aspect to that part of the system design, so I do get the distrust

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They Laughed at Car-Free Housing. Now They’re Trying to Copy It.

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Well, yes but that is also true for a number of car-dependent food deserts in the US. Culdesac has transit access to other neighborhoods, so losing internal grocery distribution would be akin to one of those communities losing their only grocery store and having to travel 30+ minutes by car to the next one. For example, culdesac is a 16 minute streetcar ride from a trader joe's near ASU/downtown Tempe. There are towns of comparable population to culdesac that also have 1-2 grocery stores and would require driving longer than that to reach the next one if that retailer went out of business

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French spies drop AI giant Palantir over US overreliance fears

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Trusting trillion dollar companies because they are within your jurisdiction is how the US became the US. A trillion dollar company cannot be legally controlled because it will buy out any controls you attempt to place on it. The only solution is to break the company up into entities of a size that is capable of existing within the law without becoming the law