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Due to the impending lemm.ee shutdown I have migrated to notabot@piefed.soc

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Black and white printers can't do that, but as I mentioned in another comnent, if you do have a color printer, add lots of yellow dots before you print it out.

If you've got a printer that does that, add lots of yellow dots to your document before printing it.

It's an interesting observation. We observe the world in landscape because our eyes are positioned to give us a goid balance between binocular vision and seeing predators in our peripheral vision, but most of our interactions are portrait, I suspect due to our upright posture. Most of the instances you mentioned are with things that either are, or are evolutiobs if things that were, designed around the fact we are talker than we are wide.

It would be interesting to observe whether animals with a different posture interact differently.

Great! Had I Just Known Little More, Now Only Peaceful Questions.

A valid point, trackers often give you a certain amount of upload credit for free, and there are often other ways to earn those credits too, so all users' ratios would be above 1.0, but that should have read "A closed group of users can all have a seed ratio of 1.0" if we're looking at just the data transfer itself.

A closed group of users can all have a seed ratio above 1.0, but it's a bit of a contrived set up. For simplicity, in the following examples we assume that each file is the same size, but this also works for other combinations.

Consider the smallest group, two users. If user A seeds a file and user B downloads it, whilst B seeds a different file, which A downloads, both users will have a ratio of 1.0 as they've up and down loaded the same amount.

For three users, A seeds a file, B and C then download a different half each, which they then share with each other. A has a total (upload, download) of (1,0), whilst B and C have (0.5,1). If you repeat this with B seeding and A and C downloading, then C seeding to A and B, you get each peer uploading 2 files worth of data, and downloading 2 files worth, for a ratio of 1.0 each.

You can keep adding peers and keep the ratios balanced, so it is possible for all the users on a private tracker to have a 1.0 ratio, but it's very unlikely to work out like that in real life, which is why you have other ways to boost your ratio.

No, you cannot meaningfully delete your posts or comments, but that's not because of any issue with lemmy, but because you posted them publically. They will be archived and indexed in other services.

It is always best to remember that all your activity here is public, and will be linked to your username. Given that, you may wish to minimise any personally identifying information you post, and use several accounts to split up your activities by topic.

The longer I stare at this, the wronger it gets. It's like a magic eye picture made of nonsense.

Yes, and it's horrifying for a whole range of reasons!

No, I don't have anything of that sort. Feel free to ask here if you'd like, but I'm just using the information I can find on the web.

Oh, I know. The trouble is my brain keeps trying to flip to match the peas, then back for the rest of the image. It's just subtly wrong enough that it isn't absurd until you focus on it.

That image is genuinely making my brain feel like it's twisting around in my skull to make it make sense, and it's not working.

I'm only going to do this very roughly, only for the transport and using US prices (as they're easier to find), because the total cost of mining, transporting and dumping that much material is astronomical compared to the $70m budget. Even the transport cost alone are an order of magnitude higher.

Soil has a density of between 1,200 and 1,700 kilograms or 2,645 and 3,747 pounds per cubic metre.

I couldn't easily find bulk rates for trunking soil, but bulk trucking rates for grain seem to be in the right area from what I can see. A truckload of up to 80,000lb costs somewhat over $6 per mile.

Given the weight limit per truck, and taking a middling estimate of soil density of 3000lb/m^{3 (rock would be heavier and so increase the cost), we can transport around 80000/3000=26m}3 per truck, at a cost of at least 615=$90, or $3.46 per m^3. Our budget for the whole operation was 75,000,000/(3,500,000100)=$0.20 per m^3.

From those figures we can see that simply trucking the spoil fron the operation would be more than 15 times the cost of paying the landowners. That ignores all of the other costs. Local rates may be sonewhat cheaper, but probably not enough to make a serious difference, and you'd need to ship over 10 million truckloads of dirt, which would put massive strain on local infrastructure too.

If I read your measurements correctly, you're talking about digging up over 350 million cubic metres of soil and rock, transporting them 15km and dumping them safely. Comparing that to the cost of paying the land owners gives you a budget of approximately $0.20 per cubic metre. Ignoring the digging costs, you'd have to check what your local rates for trucking bulk soil would be over that distance, but I suspect they're more than that on their own.

Then you have the rather signicicant issue of what to do with the literal mountain of soil and rock you need to dispose of. Just dumping it is going to cause pretty serious changes to the local environment, not least of which would be a new mountain.

https://archive.ph/Lou5o

Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean.
Causing a commotion.
'Cos they are so awesome!

With thanks to Weebl's Stuff

Why, yes, my pop culture references are right up to date, thanks for noticing.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

• Robert Frost

Archived version for future reference: https://archive.ph/NayZN

They're not blocking you sueing them, they're blocking you sueing the directors on behalf of the company. So you, as a shareholder, can't then raise a lawsuit saying, for instance, that a director has done something that harms the company, and thus the shareholders.

Add on the climb of bitcoin and thats pretty much it.