Comment on Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collarsComments−jagged-chisel5moCollars for monitoring and herding. As long as they don’t require The Cloud, they’ll be quite helpful.−nabbed5moAs long as they don’t require The CloudGiven that you hear frequently (even on the front page of HN today)- people getting locked out of their cloud accounts and then facing a Kafkaesque faceless bureaucracy- physical products turning into bricks because the cloud account disappeared with the company's failureI would certainly hope that a cloud account is optional.−bigyabai5moHalter has accumulated what is likely the world’s largest dataset of cattle behavior.Something tells me you don't acquire the largest dataset of cattle behavior with opt-in cloud analytics.−shermantanktop5moGiven the trends elsewhere that seems inevitable. Or are farmers/ranchers particularly averse to those features?
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Collars for monitoring and herding. As long as they don’t require The Cloud, they’ll be quite helpful.
Given that you hear frequently (even on the front page of HN today)
- people getting locked out of their cloud accounts and then facing a Kafkaesque faceless bureaucracy
- physical products turning into bricks because the cloud account disappeared with the company's failure
I would certainly hope that a cloud account is optional.
Something tells me you don't acquire the largest dataset of cattle behavior with opt-in cloud analytics.
Given the trends elsewhere that seems inevitable. Or are farmers/ranchers particularly averse to those features?