[SpaceManNabs]

the hard part isn't the stats. it is all the information that people buy and setting up those ingest pipelines! If i had a satellite telling me when a certain big company has a lot of cars in the lot parked after hours, I could make a zillion bucks too!

[hackernewds]

buying up and setting up those ingest pipelines seems easy? it's trivial to do #cars detection automatically.

in fact, this sort of alternate data is pretty commonplace in firms I've worked at.

[SpaceManNabs]

you are right; it can be easy sometimes, especially if you have the expertise. i should have said that it is a bit expensive though.