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I skimmed the paper expecting to find a comparison to HyperLogLog, but didn’t find one - am I missing something?

The 300k in the article is the size of the loan, not the cost of a typical house.

Exactly - mortars predictable trajectory against a background free of ground clutter make them easy to predict the future location of.

A drone optimally randomly dodging at treetop height is a much more difficult target.

I think the implication is that this is far fewer bits of entropy than the authors indicate. Four bits (in isolation), are not a meaningful identifer.

But by focusing the on just one - SpaceX might be on Mars, and Tesla might have a real self-driving car.

Unfortunately it’s difficult to test that hypothesis. And it’s survivor bias to pick Elon Musk.

Lifestyle choice then ?

For a state this seems somewhat inevitable, however pretty much all state entities have a duty to use as little violence as possible to get the job done. See European human rights act, Geneva convention etc.

At the end of the day - Violet Gibson wasn’t an employee or representative of any government. She was just someone with mental health issues and a revolver.

Again we come back to Thomas Mair, if your principle is that political violence is fine (again - that’s facism), then the only thing you should find objectionable about him is his politics. He was, after all, following your rules.

Personally I try to follow the “do unto others...” golden rule.

“Kill all others” seems to be the guiding principle of too many people.

So, people die of starvation in civilized countries - that doesn’t make it right - but we also don’t put up plaques celebrating it.

And that really is the problem - in the one hand we have laws (set by governments) in a civil society that says violence is wrong, political violence doubly so, but at the same time they are putting up a plaque celebrating political violence.

It’s like “violence is bad... (wink)”

So if you were going to put up a plaque to Tony Blair celebrating his involvement in the Good Friday Agreement, I wouldn’t have an issue with it. I loathe the man personally and dislike much of his politics- but you are highlighting a positive thing he did.

Celebrating someone who is literally only thought of today because they failed to murder someone on the street sends a crazy message: “Murder is wrong... (wink)”

To be clear: Violet Gibson was in no way Italian or connected in any meaningful way to Italy.

One might also observe that the violent attack in a foreign country might almost be ‘Imperialist’.

And if the attack was politically motivated (I personally think she was a few sandwiches short of a picnic), then she’s down for some political violence.

In that case she’s a bit more facist than anti-facist.

But you regard violence as legitimate and positive political tactic in some circumstances. So did Thomas Mair. I think that belief is problematic, and should not be encouraged. By making the connection between apparently acceptable-for-plaques political violence and the national-day-of-morning kind, I hope to draw attention to the fact that it’s fundamentally problematic.

Everyone believes they are the hero of their own story - including people who hold different political beliefs to our own. They are surely only following the moral code you outline when they stand up for their convictions and reach for the revolver or knife or suicide bomb vest?

The irony here is that acceptable political violence is a facist belief. Perhaps you should investigate facism further: you might find it agreeable. I hear they have the best T-shirts.

I’m going to leave you with a quote from wikipedias page on Fascism: “Fascism rejects the assertion that violence is automatically negative in nature and views imperialism, political violence and war as means that can achieve national rejuvenation”

Congratulations.