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#21

I see a lot of these points going over land, even where there aren't any big rivers. Maybe this is a plot of the containers rather than the ships?

I would wager that the data is imperfect and the points are tweened to discrete samples rather than having a high detail point-to-point path. You'll probably see traveling over land more like cutting a corner. Just a hunch.

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#22

If you click to about the middle of May and wait a few seconds, you get a ship flying across the middle of Africa. I wonder what happened there :)

Saw that too, and across Europe in December.

Found the answer in the sites FAQ:

> Why do ships sometimes appear to move across land?

> In some cases this is because there are ships navigating via canals or rivers that aren’t visible on the map. Generally, though, this effect is an artefact of animating a ship between two recorded positions with missing data between, especially when the positions are separated by a narrow strip of land. We may develop the map to remove this effect in the future.

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#23

I see a lot of these points going over land, even where there aren't any big rivers. Maybe this is a plot of the containers rather than the ships?

What you’re witnessing is a self reported dataset from an international community (read as “unconcerned with The Protestant Work Ethic”) of ship captains and owners. There are so many edge cases and oddities that the more you look the more you’ll find. The moral of the story here is that you cannot accept AIS data, or any single data source, to be God’s Truth; you must always skeptical of the data before your eyes, l…

I didn't know George Tenet was on HN.

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#24
Is there any economy/strategic game about delivering goods with cargo ships, containers, etc.? I would love to play it.

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#25

There are pirates (thieves, but I like Pirate better?) whom were renting luxury boats in the Mediterranean, and stealing them. They would fly to Europe, and dress like rich fancy boys. They would then rent the ships for vacation. They would take the transponder off the luxury vessel, and put it on a toy boat. The owner would check on his vessel, and it all looked fine. Meanwhile, the thieves would have the boat in Ru…

Not going to lie but this sounds far more entertaining than sitting at my dining room all day making computer programs.

I lol'd. Sometimes when I read these kind of stories, including phishing and hacking ones, there's this tiny inner evil in me that wants to do bad things, but then I remember consequences and that being good usually pays off.

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#26
post #24

Is there any economy/strategic game about delivering goods with cargo ships, containers, etc.? I would love to play it.

Offworld Trading Company is close to what you're looking for i think. But it's not ship-centric.

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post #24

Is there any economy/strategic game about delivering goods with cargo ships, containers, etc.? I would love to play it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/671440/Rise_of_Industry/

I found this to be a bit difficult though. I don't think there are necessarily boats of this, but it does go into basic business logistics

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#29
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not going to lie but this sounds far more entertaining than sitting at my dining room all day making computer programs.

I lol'd. Sometimes when I read these kind of stories, including phishing and hacking ones, there's this tiny inner evil in me that wants to do bad things, but then I remember consequences and that being good usually pays off.

Some very sketchy back of a napkin in my head math says that my fake email job[1] amounts to pulling off multiple boat heists every year without the intervention of the authorities (whether legitimate or—more problematic—illegitimate). I'm getting away with a lot here.

[1] https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1341031553078448131?s=20

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