Am I missing something in your math.
4 possibilities per letter is 2 bits per letter, thus 3 billion letters is 6 billion gigabit (roughly). That's around 800 MB.

Isn't the gig economy all about a free market? DoorDash is free to encourage (not force) their employees/contractors/drivers to accept lower paying deliveries in exchange for a title of dubious value. The DeclineNow group is free to encourage (not force) their fellow drivers to decline those lower paying deliveries in the hopes of driving up the pay per delivery.

In the end, the individual driver is free to choose whether they are better off accepting an offered fee for a given delivery or declining in hopes that a better paying delivery comes along. It may or may not, depending on what other drivers in the area are willing to accept and how many there are. Likewise, DoorDash is free to decide whether the current delivery times are acceptable at their current pay per delivery or whether they need to encourage faster acceptance of a delivery by offering more money for it.

In practice, both DoorDash and a moderately savy driver will be watching average delivery times and prices and choose for their own situation whether or not to make a deal for the given delivery at the given price.

Can't you not run the CI tests until a project admin approves a change? I'm not talking about a final approval, but just an initial "this is worth spending the cpu resources to test" approval. For large projects, this might be problematic, but could be filtered to require that first-time contributors require approval before the CI stuff runs automatically.

What more needs to be said?

Some of that is opportunity cost. If using a bitcoin rig offsets my heat cost to the tune of $20/month, I have an incentive to buy a bitcoin rig instead of a space heater. However, my space heater only costs me $20. That bitcoin rig costs me $3000. It takes me 150 months (more than 10 years) to recover my cost. That bitcoin rig will not be offsetting my heat costs nearly as much that far down the road.

Now, if someone were to provide me a bitcoin heater for free (or cheap) in exchange for a much lower offset (say $2/month), maybe that's a thing worth doing.

If I had to guess, it would be by proposing the USG subsidize the manufacture of chips.

I don't disagree with you. However, I'm wondering if the same can't be said of any company. At least any company that remains profitable.

You've found the required exotic matter? Do tell!

Bets on whether they are currently working on that very design?

So, I've never been to Europe, so I wasn't aware of that. In a few intersections near me that might work.

For most in my area though, that isn't a workable solution. The intersections are small enough that some larger cars can't do a 360 turn with out either jumping a curb or backing up and making it at least a 3-point turn. A large truck (think moving truck or school bus) would have no chance. Moving the curbs to expand the intersection requires moving utility lines and in some cases getting dangerously close to existing structures. For low-traffic roads it's just not worth it.

In the US, a lot of roads in residential areas were built with no signage whatsoever. The rule at an intersection with no signs is equivalent to a 4-way yield. Basically the right-of-way rules of a 4-way stop with out the requirement to stop even when nobody else is around. However, that leads to accident-prone behavior. People tend to just drive through assuming anyone from the other directions is yielding to them.

With out a clear "main" and "side" street, a lot of cities then added 4-way stop signs. They are relatively cheap and solve the problem effectively. Putting in a roundabout uses a lot more space for intersections that rarely have more than 2 cars meet. It also is a lot more costly than just adding 4 signs.

I will grant you that seeing a 4-way stop at an intersection that regularly sees a lot of traffic is a problem. So is a 4-way stop where each direction has two through lanes and a turn lane for each left and right. Many areas of the US are in fact replacing 4-way stops in high-traffic intersections with roundabouts or lights.

I've actually looked for one of these for use in my home office. Anyone have a brand or model that they have found good?

I've heard you referred to as a modern-day Tom Lehrer. What is your take on that comparison?

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