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A follow up to the previous discussion Welcome to Gas Town [0][1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936 [1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...


I'm in no means an expert in this, but I think it's because of the relative sizes of the economies in each state [1]. California and New York are very large in terms of GDP/GSP and will therefore move this weighted average accordingly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP


Wouldn't it make sense for the BBC to sell their service to people outside of the UK? Aren't they allowed to? Or do they already?


I don't think it makes sense to force business plans on companies.


I don't think it makes sense to force business plans on companies.

And yet we've done it multiple times in the US. We routinely encounter situations in the media industry where a new medium is hated/feared by the entrenched players who try to use refusal to license content as a way to kill the new medium before it takes off. Up until very recently, the standard solution to this, in order to not have artifically-granted monopolies on content stifle technological innovation, was for Congress to impose mandatory licensing schemes on the copyright holders.

That's how cable TV originally got off the ground, for example; over-the-air broadcast networks didn't want to license their content to cable, but Congress imposed mandatory licensing on them. Result: brand-new multi-billion-dollar industry that kept those networks alive a while longer.


BBC isn't a company in the traditional sense, it's a public service established by charter. The UK can and does "force" it to do many things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Charter


They do that already, through licensing.


To individuals, though? Licensing works great if some big company deems it profitable enough to license the show I want to watch, but isn't a full solution otherwise.


Sure, but does the additional cost of licensing to individuals make economic sense?

It almost sounds as if people want companies to be forced to make their content available at a desirable price to anyone in the planet, no matter the cost of it.

In other words, people are talking as if they have the "right" to see that content.


Rather, when dealing with post-scarcity goods, the seller has two, and only two options: Monetize the people that are getting that content, or spend money and resource playing pirate whackamole.

One of these two things makes money.

We're halfway through the 2010s, if a random web developer can paywall content and take money for access in hours, then the BBC can manage. I want to give them money. They won't let me.

Their loss. My conscience is clear when I watch Countdown through a UK proxy.


Both make money. If the second option didn't, as you disingenuously imply, they wouldn't be trying to stop the piracy.


That implies a rational business. Rationally, new content ends up on the internet, unencrypted, within minutes of air, and all the whackamole in the world doesn't change that.

All the anti-piracy methods practiced by major content providers is inherently irrational.


Not all of them. The ones that convince people that piracy is immoral may actually get some people to buy content.


That argument is asinine. Murder happens even though we outlaw it and enforce the law. That doesn't make the law ineffectual or "irrational".


...Please try to understand how "asinine" a comparison between copyright infringement and murder is.


Or maybe you should understand the point of the comparison. If it truly makes you feel better, pretend I said speeding.


What's your specs/browser? I get: http://i.imgur.com/dtKCSxL.png in Waterfox 40.1.0, and http://i.imgur.com/4bu0Hev.png in Chrome 47.0. 20x and 26x improvement over the slowest.


Internally RadioHead and VirtualWire uses a 4to6 bit en-/de-coding. Their reasoning is that if your payload is either high or low for too long, "for a good DC balance". have you experianced anything related to this? You but in 0b01 padding before each byte, maybe this is enough. Your solution is substantially lower overhead.


Thank you for your feedback. I agree with you that it has lower overhead. I also have really great results in terms of range (200 meters through walls and buildings) and data rate compared to VirtualWire!


You speak a lot about VirtualWire, this is no longer used. It was been replaced with RadioHead. There are no significant feature differences, afaik.

I'll try this out tomorrow, using say 5 Arduinos with 433 MHz radios.

What antennas do you use for the radio modules? We've used quarter-wave monopole of 17.3 cm on both the receiver and transmitter with some success.


Hi! My seuggestion is to start with the simplex mode, and then go forward testing with half-duplex (see readme). In any case I would be happy to see you testing it in a complex set up like the one you described!

For the antenna in the readme I suggest a dipole antenna, there you can find all the data. If you would add something or you experienced some problems open a issue or contact me :). Good experimentations.


Your code seems to be missing a license that actually allows @virtualSantai to test it ;)



I think so


It only affirms that you have all the rights on the code and that you are not liable if someone does something with it. What's missing is the part that actually gives other people rights to do stuff with it. Compare the MIT license, which has a middle bit doing so, between the copyright and the liability parts.

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT


You are right, I updated :) thank you for your feedback


Thank you for putting your code out there as open source!


I have selected BSD3 license!! It is embedded in readme (at the bottom) and in both PJON_ASK.cpp and .h


EDIT: thanks for looking into it and changing it!

BSD contains the magic line:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: which I don't see in your files?

To me it seems like you left all the bits that allow other people to do things out.


I got a 502 when visiting this url, I think it's just irony bmiling at me: http://i.imgur.com/q3n8PpZ.png


It seems to be mercurial server (used only be a few developers usually) is not ready to handle slashdot effect.



... and this is how I discovered the nice Waterfox browser [1]

[1] https://www.waterfoxproject.org/


Same here... heh heh heh


Not sure what's so ironic about this. That's the Mercurial server that's not responding.


Yes, the Mercurial server being mercurial isn't ironic, it's coincidental


It would be ironic if the Mercurial server were saturnine though.


I'm pretty sure it has been seen before that Google or another big tech company buys a smaller up-and-comming company/great idea, and it is never heard from again.


> I'm pretty sure it has been seen before that Google or another big tech company buys a smaller up-and-comming company/great idea, and it is never heard from again.

I'm pretty sure the opposite has also been seen [0]; what's the basis for concluding a Google acquisition would have put Tesla closer to the "never heard from again" side?

[0] Google's acquisition of Android, for instance.


Sibling: Google has made a prototype that drives on a virtual track. That's far away from manufacturing a car, let alone a self-driving one.

Relevant: http://www.asymco.com/2015/02/23/the-entrants-guide-to-the-a...


Well, Google has fairly much experience in the automobile sector with their self-driving cars.

Shit, a self-driving Tesla, now that is a car worth saving every penny for...


Tesla's upcoming autopilot feature is part of the way there. Only a matter of time.


In the context of self-driving cars, autopilot is in the category of "we're 90% done, only 90% to go!" Except much worse than that, because that implies you're about halfway there, and autopilot is maybe 10% of the way towards full self-driving.

Don't get me wrong, autopilot is super cool and really useful. The autopilot features that are currently enabled in my Model S are wonderful, and I can't wait until they're all there. But they won't be even close to full self-driving. All it will do is maintain speed intelligently based on the car in front of you, automatically stay in your lane, and switch lanes on command. It won't switch lanes on its own, it won't stop at stoplights, it won't make turns for you, or do any of the hundred other really difficult (for computers) things that are part of everyday driving.


You have a pixel grid of 17 x 106, anything you want to drawn in it can be.

To draw an arbitrary figure do this: Start with the pixel in the lowest left corner, if black put 1 as the first digit of a binary number else put 0, then continue first up then one right, the down. Convert this (1802 digit) binary number to decimal and use it as input for the function and there it is.




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