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Good sensors are not cheap, they need recalibration, the app needs to be continually maintained. Some entity probably has a stupendous contract to maintain it.

• defrost 2y ago
  From the reports I've read it would seem that the sensors remain and will likely be maintained .. it's the public display of the data via the internet that's been cut. By all means whittle the fat from a third party contract on data delivery .. the sensor maintainance part is likely tricky but not challenging and has a real cost far less than mean cost of an embassy security staffer, being the kind of thing that takes an hour or so a month at most (once setup and running). ( FWiW I maintained, coded aquisition for, wrote presentation layers, for high end professional multi channel geophysical instrumentation: gravity, magnetics, radiometrics, lidar, radar, barometrics, twin gps + base station, etc )
• vaidhy 2y ago
  It is so easy to assume the worst and corrupt outcome as if it were the most logical one.
• insane_dreamer 2y ago
  Aren't the embassies keeping the sensors? I'm quite sure embassy staff would want AQI for their own information, especially in cities where official numbers are dubious. My understanding is that it just won't be _shared_ anymore. And the _sharing_ can't cost much.
  • DidYaWipe 2y ago
    Exactly. That was my point in the first place. How much does transmitting what is probably a low volume of non-time-critical data cost on a daily basis?
    • insane_dreamer 2y ago
      Which is why this seems much more likely to be some ideological "ditch everything possibly related to "woke" climate change" (because only "woke" people care about air quality?) than an actual cost-cutting measure
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