VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
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VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
I was surprised when I visited that there are single family houses within a mile or so of the densest parts of downtown Tokyo. They are packed close, and might qualify as a "tiny house" in other parts of the West, but they exist.
Also that the Tokyo subways (multiple systems!) are privately run.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
In theory it should be pretty obvious if someone tries to scan their ballot at the voting machine multiple times
In my precinct, the scanners don't give the ballot back to you --- it goes directly into a box that gets retained for recounts and hopefully random sampling. They also scan both sides so it doesn't need to be a specific orientation.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
Er, no, the electoral college makes this problem worse. It serves to magnify the votes of certain districts over others
Note that this is by the choice of the states. Two states divide their EC votes in ways I think are probably better, but the game theory is that for each state, first-past-the-post maximizes the utility of marginal local votes, presumably maximizing the attention (up to and including "pork") that politicians give to them, especially in swing states. I think unilateral disarmament there probably requires Congress to force them all to do it together.
OP's point was that the EC distributed vote count is robust against single points of data corruption: each can only swing state outcomes, not national. Related: I think the Interstate Popular Vote Compact would only last until some state (maybe not even a party) threatens to certify ten billion votes, and challenge the standing of other states to question its counting ability.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
Even then, nonlinear acoustics is a legitimate field of study, and you might want to verify no lower intermodulation products are appearing from thin air as it were. But IIRC that's mostly with higher amplitude sounds.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
It is wild that vinyl, tapes, and CDs were physical artifacts that still had "git branching hell" syndrome.
In many ways it was worse: in analog, you lose fidelity on the original every time you make a copy. You see this a bit wit accumulating recompression artifacts on images, but professional production pipelines manage to limit this. But on film it has historically made effects shots look "worse" than others (more copies), leading to some unintuitive choices. Kubrick in 2001 in some parts did multiple exposures of the same film to minimize compositing noise (most notably the darks washing out to shades of gray), which is why it looks good even by modern standards.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2d ago
I think you're replying to a joke in the obsequious, sycophantic style of current-gen AI.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2d ago
Copy the original's homework. It's not rocket science.
I've never done video editing, but this strikes me as the sort of human task prone to predictable classes of error. Given a decent amount of schedule/budget pressure ("this is due by the end of the week") and the number of times the same (or very similar) footage has gone by, I'd bet it'd be easy to miss in a final self-review pass. I try to avoid it, but I've managed to accidentally watch test-only code changes make it embarrassingly far into the code review process.
I can only assume TV is worse: "Watch 40 minutes of this episode on high alert for a single missed shot. Yeah, you know the entire script by this point because you've watched every second multiple times over, but you have to focus." is exactly the sort of task I'd expect myself to fail at. And I assume even worse depending on how you broke up the whole series and might be reviewing larger chunks.
I think a large team would help, but I doubt the remaster tasks are given to a large group, and probably not to the most capable editors either. How many person-hours is remastering a single 40 minute episode?
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
4d ago
I feel like the best, if imperfect, comparison is to look at how the art community reacted to the development of photography (ironically here including film). Maybe it did decimate the ranks of realist oil planters (sad, actually), but I'd hardly say the art world hasn't survived.
That said, photography led to a lot of less-photoreal art styles that I won't claim to be a huge fan of (see "modern art"). I do see a human-rendered painting of, say, a landscape to be more interesting than a large photo print, but I do see lots of photos on walls too.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
5d ago
IIRC the population of Manhattan specifically is down substantially over the last century, even if NYC has grown slightly as a whole. It's hard to compare like-to-like.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
6d ago
Semi-seriously, it would be funny (and not really wrong, at some level) for people to start suggesting we adopt Japanese or Korean schooling methods because they show better outcomes as the mirror to everyone suggesting European-style healthcare systems for the same reasons. And part of that is that, as I understand, their systems are structured more like you're suggesting.
Although there are plenty of other concerns (fertility, for example) in adopting that wholesale.
I think mass transit stans, despite sharing some sympathies that we could actually build better public transit, really tend to miss that (paved) roads are a really configurable system. Roads are switched packet networks to the broad/multicast media of rail and such. I can drive point-to-point at a time of my choosing (or stream a TV episode) rather than wait for sufficient demand to justify a bus and professional driver (or watch new episodes Wednesdays at 7:00 Eastern! But I'm busy then!). And this is from someone that generally hates driving. The same network delivers all but the heaviest freight to nearly anywhere and is relatively cheap to build and maintain (rail is much more specific about grade requirements, for example).
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