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Are they going to release maps or it is just for eyes of selected few?


Seems to be public domain, available here: https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_d...


Heaven oh mighty, I just wanted something web based to take a peak not to download 5Gb of data :D. Few resolution layers, real time like google map, there are public domain algorithms now, should not be difficult to setup and they could put something like wiki. (support me button)

Anyhow thanks!


Being public domain I guess they're leaving that up to interested parties to implement. Perhaps you'd like to have a crack!


The data probably sits on a few hundred hard drives in a data center. To make it available to the public, they would need to move the data to a client-facing server, then set up a platform to allow the public to navigate through the data. It's not an easy undertaking.


At the same time for me sadly, it is a proof that there is no after life. When lights go out, our consciousness fades away...


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What to do in case of nuclear disaster? What type of nuclear disaster? In case of full scale nuclear war? Nothing we will just die, if you do not have long term survival bunker that is it. The End.

In all calculations of global clash everyone forget one thing, it is not nuclear weapons but that there is 450 nuclear reactors with thousands kilograms of nuclear rods far more worse than nuclear weapons combined, so just imagine 450 untended Chernobyl at the same time.


So good article, I felt recently the same like a torture with all, make money, do this or that, travel more, enjoy more, do more ...


Thank you but this is not the one. The one I am looking was from some Conference, in front of audience, and it was 2D platform, developer (whom name I am looking really) was showing how he can change trajectory of game character in middle of jump. (not even sure anymore was it javascript or some other language)

I know it was something long before React/Redux had actions to go back or Quokka in VSCode.


I found it it was Bred Victor 2012 talk = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII Laszlo Pandy 205 - implementation in Elm - Reactor


> "just 1% of the population own half the land in England"

This is idea in same level as quantitative easing, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing) "Lets give rich people money so they recover economy" what happens "Rich people use that money £895 billion buy stocks, so they inflate market even more and not even penny trickles down to ordinary people, so they become even poorer.

Paying rich people that own land to sequester carbon is equally, (not sure which word to use) ... evil, diabolic as QE scam for the rich. Probability is high that they will use that money not to plant trees but to buy more land, even more increasing gap between wealthy and poor.

So, my question is when does wealthy people greed and naivety of poor ends?


Imagine if you could print new land certificates for untouched land. Oh right we do that all the time and this leads to urban sprawl because we can't seem to get the existing land owners to cooperate.

Strangely enough the situation is the same with money.


In 14/15th century after Black Plague, so many people died that it was impossible to find working force. At the time "wages" were not following inflation, so people were usually slaving for food. As many relatives died, people inherited homes and land of their cousins. Suddenly, no one wanted to be a servant anymore and work for the lords. Only way to attract working force was to triple or quadruple usual rates.

I live in UK, and current inflation of ~10-15% will quickly eat all your savings, house/flat prices almost doubled. Just in 2 years what was 200K now is 350K, what was 400K is 700K. Meaning all you worked for years will be diminished in just couple.

Wages are not following inflation since 1970, while profits of shareholders have skyrocketed.

So, when I read "No one wants to work", I read it as:

- "No, one wants to work, for the money I would like to pay them",

> What is the level of skills and amount of money you are willing to pay?

- Highest level of skill, and if possible I would like to pay nothing.


We live in very advance simulation that is optimizing in such way, so that when ever we find out it is overlord hoax - it increase historical details :D


Douglas Adams beat you to that one by a couple of decades.

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”


25 years ago there was a site Kely Net or something similar, also I think there is JLN labs that is still alive, there was lot of over-unity things, BS and scams, but I distinctively remember few of the technologies back then that now popping up as mainstream wonder ... Aluminium oxide engine, brown gas, mighty engine, ion lifter, metal latices fusion ... it is kind of odd how long we need to start exploring new tech.


OK, but what is total loss in amount of TAX dollars for keeping inmates in prisons?


A lot, both directly and indirectly. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, by far, including developing countries. Having slave labor makes it worse, arguably much worse, because there's now private interests who are incentivized to maintain that incarceration rate.


My understanding is different: We are all slave to system, so why should I pay for the criminals? Let say there is 2m inmates, that means that if we take that it takes $10000 a year that is 20 bn. So we still pay at least 10bn to keep them alive and well, and probably price is much higher.

So, there is no slavery they just paying for what they eat and spend in terms of clothing, heating, food ...

And by this I am not even calculating in the damage they have done by committing the crime in the first place.


> So we still pay at least 10bn to keep them alive and well, and probably price is much higher.

There's no question incarceration is expensive. Nobody is disputing that.

> there is no slavery they just paying for what they eat and spend in terms of clothing, heating, food ...

This is not how it works, you're proposing something entirely different.

The best way to have criminals pay back is turning them into taxpayers. Punishment for the pleasure of it is very expensive.


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