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Comment Re:20% with no false positives? (Score 1) 62

If the algorithm can detect 20% with perfection then that must constitute extremely low hanging fruit. That type of vandalism is just annoyance. It is so obvious that the end user readily recognizes it as such and can skip over it or revert the edit.

You have to consider that the people doing the vast majority of vandalism reversions aren't the end users, it's registered wikipedians who maintain articles as a hobby. Automatically reverting 20% of the vandalism means contributors have that much more time to spend verifying uncited claims in other articles.

Comment Re:What they send to the Feds doesn't matter (Score 1) 624

"The money is collected from taxes and sent out of the state, that sounds like a problem to me." That's the entire fucking point of government, to reapportion wealth to the benefit the collective. If taxes were distributed directly back to who paid them there would be no point in taxing people at all.

Comment Re:14k buys a lot of film. (Score 1) 347

Why not just shoot a $4 roll of film, and scan it on a $200 flatbed scanner at a mere 2400DPI for a fat 30 megapixel image...

Because film doesn't have infinite resolution. You can only fit so many of those silver halide crystals on a bit of film, and that limits how much "data" can be stored in the frame. 35 millimeter film at normal ISOs (aka that $4 roll you mentioned) can't really be printed larger than 8"x10" unless you have an artistic attraction to extreme graininess.

Comment Re:Not "90% of the Universe" (Score 1) 279

The Visible Universe probably constitutes a very small (perhaps even infinitesimally small) fraction of the actual physical Universe. The rest will, according to Relativity, always be hidden.

Or it may be that the visible universe is smaller than the actual universe. This paper estimates the minimum possible diameter of the universe to be 24 gigaparsecs, which is four gigaparsecs less than the diameter of the observable universe. It's not likely, but if it were true it would mean we could look a billion lightyears in one direction and see a region of space, or we could look 77 billion lightyears in the opposite direction and see how that same region looked 76 billion years earlier, by seeing light the looped around the long way around the universe.

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