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Comment Re:Mostly trash (Score 2) 46

Adam has told numerous time over on Tested that there were some issues with the production teams that both he and Jamie agreed on, but they had to go along with some of their forced gimmicks for "entertainment purposes". However, this also lead to the production teams being changed around a bit due to on-going concerns about what to focus on, and is also why each season looks different as they kept trying a lot of different things. Most infamously was the "peeing on the third rail"-episode in which Adam got electrocuted. That led to things being toned down as they didn't want to be "science Jackass" or similar.

Comment Frauds frauding frauds (Score 1) 15

This is laughably unscalable and noisy with only static models and zero useful topology or anything except that it looks halfways decent when covered with motion blur. Anything in a still falls apart after a bit because they just keep ignoring physics and insisting on having it both slow and imprecise, when you would rather have a tradeoff between speed and accuracy... I guess glossing it with photorealism helped, along with probably some insider deals.

Comment Re:Bitcoin - victim of its own success (Score 1) 124

This is simple physics. The bigger the mass the more the attraction, and this can also increase the stability unless something unnatural happens (like every government deciding on the same day to introduce some heavy taxation). It takes longer for the price to change when it grows, as the involved masses will operate less in sync due to distances, timezones, etc.

Comment Re: "Eat the rich!" (Score 0) 142

The department of education and various retardations like implicit and systemic bias being enshrined in the education system in the 90's are the two ways in which our education system was dumped in the shitter. When you refuse to suspend or expel the students who constantly disrupt class and intimidate other students and make fun of them for wanting to learn, the learning by students goes waaaayyyy down. Then of course there was, and in some districts still is the complete idiocy the composes common core math and whole word learning, which has utterly tanked reading and math ability with second order effects impacting everything else.

Comment Re: A giant step forward for mankind (Score 1, Interesting) 274

South Africa is about two steps away from total collapse due to the mismanagement of infrastructure and water resources since the ANC came to power with the population increase over the past 30 years and the reduced rain in 2016, 2019 and 2020 exposing just how bad the situation is. The 'official' estimate is they currently lose 30% of their drinkable water due to leaks and theft, which means the actual amount is almost certainly higher*.

*Poor government numbers should always be assumed to be worse than they are, and good ones better absent oddball situations. The magnitude of the amount depending on the local corruption and the significance of the effect on the government workers if they provide numbers their superiors don't like.

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