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What's the point of having an account if you'll just ban it for criticizing HN holy cows likd nuclear energy.

> people who couldn't answer such questions as who their senators are would see their vote go straight in the trash

Your proposal would send to the trash the votes of 90% of black people. How progressive...

> Only 16 percent of Latinos and 10 percent of African-Americans were able to correctly identify one senator from his or her home state

> 77 percent of Americans between 18 and 34 could not name one senator in his or her home state

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/poll-millennials-stat...

Maybe we should just remove voting altogether and just have 20 PhDs from Harvard/Standford/Yale and MIT decide who should run the country to avoid the unwashed masses decide such an important aspect of our life.

Good catch correcting me that 47% is not half.

Are you saying that the votes of uneducated people should be worth less than those of college educated people?

I've read that on his subreddit you get banned if you mention that he got his PhD from Drexel.

The first half is like:

Lex: vaccines are good

Rogan: maybe, but they are for weak unhealthy people. I'm healthy and fit. Also, long term side-effects

Lex: but we don't know the long-term side effects of covid either

Rogan: yeah. I'll just take it like a man. Also, why nobody speaks about vitamins, exercise, why they only speak about vaccines

You would be surprised, but reading a transcript is much faster than listening, even on speedup (1.25x, 1.5x, )

You can also quickly scan ahead, or reread a sentence. Navigating audio is harder.

In UK, where NHS is publicly owned, it was actually policy to have 90% occupancy of ICU beds. If it was less than that, the "extra" beds would be removed.

Even professional video production (movies, ...) shoot the raw material in lossy formats, albeit, with minimal compression.

Not even they can afford lossless capture. Because while storage capacities do increase, so does the used video size, bit depth and framerate, and number of takes.

As Taleb likes to say, an efficient system is the opposite of a robust system, kind of by definition.

We are now witnessing the effects of our modern hyper-efficient just-in-time global manufacturing system.

For something like Instagram, where most images (and videos) are viewed only once, size is very important.

And way more images are viewed on Instagram than on mobile websites.

From a linked article:

> It would be great if web browsers would accept in an <img> tag all the video codecs they can play in a <video> tag, the only difference being that in an <img> tag, the video is autoplayed, muted, and looped. That way, new and masterful video codecs like VP9 and AV1 would automatically work for animations, and we can finally get rid of the ancient GIF format.

Of course, the typical rebuttal on HN will be "I hate autoplay, nothing should autoplay without an explicit click", which is why we'll be stuck with GIF for another 10 years.