If you make 400K after taxes and don't spend any of it, you'd have 4M after 10 years...

It seems like even with taxes... at some point people are sitting on a multi-million dollar property that typical far exceeds the taxes they spent.

Seems like pharmacists, who are constantly in contact with sick people, should be the first to not work if they're sick.

From the article... "the press release came with a caveat: the game will still be produced in 1080p HDR and get upscaled to 4K for delivery"

I read through the article and I am feeling lost as to why they couldn't actually retool their production pipeline for 4K native. 40 cameras sure does sound like a lot, but I am watching guys on youtube shoot 4x the pixels and manage their workflows around the massive volumes of data (apparently) without issues.

Is it the broadcast equipment itself blocking the production pipeline from an upgrade? I would be very interested to hear from a broadcast industry pro where the actual technical constraint is (bandwidth, storage, compute, hardware, etc.). I feel like financing this wouldn't be a problem for the NFL+Fox.

The short answer: The live broadcast switching/transport industry has been slower to adapt to 4K HDR than other industries, primarily because there is no live broadcast (ie. cable, satellite, over-the-air) support for 4K or HDR.

YouTubers can do 4K because modern desktops (and some laptops) have h.265 decoding/encoding acceleration, and they're typically only dealing with 2 content streams on a single timeline. An NFL broadcast is a living nightmare compared to that.

I don't see the article mentioning the Apple street view car I saw driving around my neighborhood in St Louis. I guess that's a different initiative....? Seems like a pretty big deal for them to try and have their own version of Google's street view.

I thought that was to get past the email scam filters (that look for certain words).

Wow...the company listed above (corrections Corp of America) has spent over half a million on lobbying... https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002194...

That seems like a very small amount- does that reflect donations to legislators and the salary of their lobbyist? Doesn't seem like it would go far...

While I don't know the answer to your question, I have always had a similar reaction to seeing actual numbers involved in lobbying. It usually went like this: someone would seem outraged at how much money a representative had received from "the oil and gas industry". Then I'd look at the numbers and think to myself, "There's no way that amount of money could buy what people are claiming that it bought."

I only recently discovered this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox which I found very interesting.

Outstanding link! Thank you for sharing!

That brings up something else that needs a complete overhaul - the lobbying rules, or lack thereof.

I've been using WinSplit Revolution for years and love it. It's not extensible, but lets you do things like toggle between 1/3, 1/2, and 2/3 of the space, which I use a lot.

I really like the questions about programming languages. What's their favorite, just favorite language, features, etc. If the candidate says they've only ever used one, or they don't have any features they dis/like, that's a flag. If they point out a feature, you can use it to dive into a deeper discussion about something they say they know about.

All or most of those are available at http://dotfiles.github.io

Any specific one you recommend? I've reviewed a few but didn't manage to find one that met my criteria.