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by seoaeu 5y ago
Depends on the scale. It might cost on the order of several MBs to store a km^2 at a moderate level of detail. For a small area that's relatively light, but becomes prohibitively large if you multiply by the hundreds of millions of squ
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A couple billion dollars divided by the number of houses in LA... actually wouldn't add that much value to the housing prices. After all, the total assessed value of real estate in the county is about $1.7 trillion.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> That's how trust works. It only takes 1 miss to lose it. No, that’s only how things work when you are looking for a pretense to ignore expert advice.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That seems silly given that the cost of the phone call is surely orders of magnitude less than the insurance payout. What kind of business is going to forgo a four or five figure check like that?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
You mean the same policy that resulted in a whole bunch of people living in flood zones? And which we can't get them to leave because it would be politically unpopular to raise their insurance premiums to reflect their actual risk? Tha
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Top 50 covers a lot more than you'd think! The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro is actually the 16th largest, and there's plenty more midwest cities included as well. But you are of course right that $600/month is widel
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Stocks pay out their dividends in fiat currency, not additional shares.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> if I am talking with developers/sysadmin there are some things that I would expect to be interesting The cool thing about technology is that there is progress. We can do more, we can do it faster, easier, better, etc. Twiddling wi
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The only way to properly replicate a CS paper is to re-implement the code from scratch. Simply running someone's code again is most likely just going to give you the same buggy output they got (or just as likely a bunch of unrelated co
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by seoaeu 5y ago
There's a concept of environmental justice, where those most responsible for climate change should have to take the most drastic actions to respond to it. And then there's those who advocate for (or at least strongly insinuate tha
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Improving people's mobility isn't "worse". Giving someone a better transportation option that is also very environmentally friendly is a good thing
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Shared e-bikes and e-scooters are some of the most environmentally friendly transportation options in existence; they cause something like orders of magnitude lower emissions than personal automobiles. Framing them as "worse for the en
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Seems like the amount was decided by the court. Presumably they would have just levied a larger fine if it was a business that might plausibly just ignore the order and keep infringing on the license
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by seoaeu 5y ago
"We're designing telecom infrastructure" is an explanation. I really don't see why my comment is being interpreted as calling for every garage lab to be shut down. Are people disputing that military technology can be m
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by seoaeu 5y ago
It really shouldn't be very hard to tell whether a garage lab is a terror cell trying to shoot down passenger airlines, or a bunch of ornithologists trying to do better wildlife tracking. Honestly, I'm somewhat puzzled that people
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The issue with PGP was that encrypted communications were classified as a munition, not the concept of export controls. There is no civilian use for an air-to-air missile guidance system. There are plenty of private individuals with legitim
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I mean, if you're developing a missile guidance system or something that you do not intend to be used by your country's military, then I'd hope you have a very good explanation of who you do intend to use said technology. A
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by seoaeu 5y ago
You’re just providing additional evidence that Bitcoin is widely more volatile than USD. A +45% swing this year could easily mean a -45% swing next year…
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I did read your comment. You don’t have any explanation of how the top level scan can maintain the color index array for QOI_OP_INDEX chunks without doing any decoding.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
No it can't. The encoder doesn't insert any "cut-off points". In fact, nearly every chunk encodes the current pixel value in terms of one of the previous pixel values, so without knowing those it is impossible for a seco
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> Criticizing QOI for not being able to be well parallelized inside the decode function, that seems more like a demand for a premature optimization to me What? Faster encoding and decoding is one of the primary reasons for the format.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> In my experience, it's pretty rare How could you possibly know this? Basically the entire blockchain ecosystem is set up to prevent distinguishing whether wash trading is prevalent or not. Edit: And even if you can establish tha
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Quite likely, answering that question was one of the top reasons why Uganda did this in the first place!
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Countries conducting espionage is a well established and has been done for centuries. At the same time, the CIA doesn't get court orders when they want to listen in on FSB agents, nor vice versa. I don't see why Uganda should be h
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A web browser that doesn’t support links isn’t much of a web browser
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Against delta, the early research showed 2 doses + boosters to be more effective than the original 2 dose series ever were. For instance, [0] shows them being 20x more effective compared to the control group with two vaccine doses (which
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The "high level diplomats from each country meet each other" part of the UN budget is a tiny fraction of their overall spending.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> But it has one fundamental problem, which the entire community refuses to address: the steep entry. Do you have any evidence for this? From what I’ve seen, the Rust community has invested considerably in creating learning resources and
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> Why make your users do it for you, for free, no less. I think you answered your own question.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I think it is the opposite in Rust. You have to specifically write `.clone()` which makes people feel like they're doing something wrong, when actually it is just a fast and harmless function call

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