Their are documented cases of Flock cameras that can see into private residences. What if one of those cameras recorded an underage person? Would Flock be responsible for collecting and distributing CSAM?

Of course not. CSAM rules apply only the plebs, not the rich and well connected.

We saw this with Twitter's child porn maker. When it was called out, did Elon turn it off? No he saw it was popular so he paywalled it. He got away with that, but he's only well connected in the US not in France so he didn't get away with it in France.

The wording I use is "I have a great UDP joke I could tell you... but I don't know if you'll get it".

These centralized services do and did solve problems. I'm old enough to remember renting a quarter rack, racking my own server and other infrastructure, and managing all that. That option hasn't gone away, but there are layers of abstraction at work that many people probably haven't and don't want to be exposed to.

Aaand even if we ignore the "benefit" of Cloudflare and AWS outages being blamed on them, rather than you, what does uptime look like for artisanaly hosted services on a quarter rack vs your average services on AWS and Cloudflare?

Visualizers? I miss my Winamp.

So to visualize this I'm thinking of a rectangle 2.5 feet long, 8 inches wide, and a half-inch thick times 4. That is what comes off my tires every 5 years so that I have to replace them. Every set of tires sold is to replace that.

The numbers don't seem to add up. If an average set of tires lasts (roughly) 50,000km to 100,000km, and the average tire weights around 10kg, and you have 4 tires, then the (totally unrealistic) maximum loss per km is 4 * 10 * 1000 / 75,000 gms/km. This is 0.5g/km (and it assumed that there was no tire left). While these numbers are rough, I don't see any way to get to 5.8gm/km as quoted in the article. The brake pads aren't going to contribute all the rest (they aren't that heavy to start with).

What about the road surface? Maybe you can erode 1cm of surface over 10 years with 2,000 vehicles per hour (average down to 20,000 per day. Volume eroded (per km) in cc is 400 (width) * 1 * 100,000 (length) = 4e7 cc. Density is around 2.5 gm/cc. Mass eroded is 1e8 gms. Cars is 20,000 * 10 * 365 = 73e6. Amount eroded by each car is around 1.3gm/km.

Maybe someone could check my assumptions (and my math), but I still don't believe the numbers in the linked article.

To look at it the other direction, 5.8 g/km times 75,000 km means they have to somehow produce 435 kg of pollution per set of tires.

Without some more explanation (are they building some kind of model to extrapolate to the entire supply chain?) that seems more than a little implausible. It seems most likely from the context that they are measuring shedding of brand new tires and trying to pass that off as a representative value.

I guess the idea is that it’s a contributor to the acute dose in the car’s immediate vicinity, but without that context it seems like another misleading detail.

As quoted by another poster:

> Using a popular family hatchback running on brand new, correctly inflated tyres, we found that the car emitted 5.8 grams per kilometer of particles.

Could it be that tire wear drops off? Initially it's shedding a lot, I dunno, due to surface layer being porous or something, and then the wear drops off to the normal rate?

It's a bit confusing to me. You changed the body part in the middle.

Does procrastination often lead to depression?

It's hard for me to say as it's a box that I am inside of.

However, it is near impossible to even muster a desire or motive to stop procrastinating when there seems to be no value in anything I'm doing except distraction from the anguish of dragging myself through Life.

Likely it's a feedback loop, the start of which I am not clear on.

And who you are. DO's tutorials are so laser-focused on the correct user persona, it's quite impressive how well they understand me.

You are conflating economic development and social development. Go check out some youtube channels from westerners living in Japan and you'll see that the economic development has had a cost. I don't really know how to define it because it's their society and I can't put my American values on it, but the salaryman thing has a cost. This birthrate issue is probably it. Will Japan eventually collapse because of it?

The article states that the sand in a desert is to "smooth" to properly bind in concrete. So yes, the demand is for sand with characteristics that work in concrete. The article also states that Cambodia has banned exporting sand and also that Singapore recorded record exports from Cambodia. I suspect that large scale corruption is in play.

Rick Beato's series "What makes this song so great" is fun if you want to see/hear theory applied to rock songs. And learn about rock music song construction or rather destruction since he plays the isolated tracks of the instruments and vocals. It isn't theory instruction its theory discussion and straight fandom.