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Comment Re:8k digital right now so where is 150 megapixels (Score 1) 36

Firstly film doesn't directly translate to megapixels. The grain and quality vary greatly with lighting and exposure.

It does, but that doesn't mean you can't make general comparisons in similar lighting conditions for a given film stock. For example, I was comfortable that my color film was broadly matched with 12MP FF, and my 35mm slide usage in good light was broadly matched when we got to 20+MP with the EOS 1DS III. YMMV.

Comment Re:Personal Responsibility Be Damned (Score 3, Informative) 282

Nothing overrides the responsibility of the driver to judge the conditions on the ground at the time. Google maps is not going to know about that accident damaged car, or a brick accidentally left in the road either. If you are travelling on a single lane road, at night, in the rain, and you cannot see the road - maybe you should, you know, stop or go appropriately slowly.

Comment Re:Pandering (Score 3, Insightful) 192

I'm sooooo f*cking tired of this line. When it comes to disincentivising bad habits, there are two main ways to do it: ban it, or tax it.

And I'm so tired of this line. You can also incentivise the good, rather than just leaving one choice and f*cking people for choosing it. If you were going as 4 adults today from London to Bristol by train - it will be 476 quid. We'll take the car.

Comment Re:Convergence (Score 1) 91

For example, the Apple TV could just be macOS running in a kiosk mode, with access to all the desktop Mac apps and iPad apps

They literally had this, you could buy a Mac Mini that came with a remove, running what became the AppleTV software and being a computer too. But they do not want it running on a relatively open stack, they want it all running on a walled garden, make you buy multiple devices, and upgrade them on Apple's schedule. I want a general purpose computer that I control.

Comment Re:Are there *any* freedoms at all? (Score 1) 152

That's literally the primary purpose of government: To ensure a free and open marketplace.

They should reguate, for sure. But it's a huge stretch to say that it's the primary purpose of government. Governments predate your notions of markets, and governments do not act like it's their primary purpose. Power is the purpose.

Comment Re:selection bias [Re:Still lacking data...] (Score 1) 93

> we don't have any reason to think that what we see here is representative to within orders of magnitude. Yes we do. Your point being seemingly that we would cannot make any kind of judgment on the relative probabilities of our local system being unique (based on non-universality of physics?) and not.

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