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Visa and MasterCard suddenly blocked all transactions for all credit/debit cards issued in Russia, and you claim such actions "not aimed at people"? Come on.

Comment · 5 years ago

“The New York electorate seems to be inured to corruption, they seem to believe it’s normal and expected behavior"

"According to a poll released last week by Quinnipiac University, 45 percent of New Yorkers consider corruption to be a “very serious” problem, but 48 percent of voters said it’s as bad as anywhere else"

"You'll be hard pressed to find New Yorkers who don't think government corruption is a problem in New York State,” poll analyst Mary Snow said. “Yet, it's not the defining issue in the race.”[0]

[0]: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/201...

Comment · 5 years ago

Will there be simple jobs on Mars base? Someone to sweep the floor, someone to bake a cake, etc? Will they produce enough value to justify enormous resources to keep them alive in such hostile environment?

And even people with important jobs, they would work maybe 50-60 hours a week, but consume resources 24/7.

On average, the value all humans produce in a week might not be enough to keep them all alive for a week.

Comment · 5 years ago

That's a big one. Probably hundreds of contributors. But what percentage of FFmpeg code they would actually run?

Comment · 6 years ago

There are dozens of 360 cameras on the market, so I think shutters synchronization is not that difficult to implement.

Comment · 6 years ago

So many algorithms insist on using "single RGB camera" approach, when it would be much more practical to use 2 cameras.

Comment · 6 years ago

And they would know that "maintaining that lie for N years" would prove useless as soon as the powerful cameras in lunar orbit would photograph the landing sites. Who would participate in such a lie knowing 100% it will be exposed, eventually...

Comment · 7 years ago

I'm talking about WebP vs GIF. Not about video.

Comment · 7 years ago

>I've found that animated WebP can produce files around 10% the size of GIFs.

For nicely optimized GIFs like these https://iwdrm.tumblr.com/ then WebP really struggles. Try to convert some of them to WebP and you'll see the result is often bigger than the original GIF.

Comment · 7 years ago

There is no multiple-pass. libpng only tries to guess the right combination of filters, without doing actual compression. It's not always a good guess, but at least it's fast.

Comment · 7 years ago

Near Stonehenge they found a 4000 year olds dagger. Its handle "was decorated with 140,000 tiny gold studs, each almost as fine as a human hair and set into the wood at more than 1000 to the square centimetre."

Even 21-century craftsman would find that impressive.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stone...