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One aspect you miss in your analogy is that when you include the time dimension, the probability of a collision is proportional to swept volume (and thus speed), rather than static…

Having transaction data hidden from governments isn't the essential feature of decentralization in the original promise of cryptocurrencies. The essential feature is preventing a s…

I agree, this is a perfect example of a homunculus fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument .

I'm surprised that the scaling story of k8s/(+etcd?) is still so far behind mesos/zk. There have been mesos clusters at over 10k Nodes for several years now. I have never personall…

Also, the area within by that large radius is going to be much bigger than from non-nuclear threats, so the number of people who could have reduced injuries via preparation might b…

Those are just called "market makers". As a market maker you might be exposed to the risk of always ending up on the wrong side of the market over a longer time. For example if BTC…

I think that is some kind of rowing/swimming/boating course. It shows up in the running layer because a few people mislabel their activity types. It shows up much stronger in the w…

Update done!

I think there are two parts: 1) Internal representation for building/serving: For vector, the data would have to be aggregated in some way otherwise it would be way too slow (for e…

level 16 is as far as it goes.

It is serving 512px tiles by default, which only go one level lower. At 256px, the level 16 requests are valid: https://heatmap-external-b.strava.com/tiles/ride/blue/16/337...

I worked the routing backend if anyone has questions. You can read more here: http://engineering.strava.com/routemaster/