> That makes no sense. First of all most of the sanctions are not "punishment", they prohibit certain transactions and are not aimed at people
Visa and MasterCard suddenly blocked all transactions for all credit/debit cards issued in Russia, and you claim such actions "not aimed at people"? Come on.
“The New York electorate seems to be inured to corruption, they seem to believe it’s normal and expected behavior"
"According to a poll released last week by Quinnipiac University, 45 percent of New Yorkers consider corruption to be a “very serious” problem, but 48 percent of voters said it’s as bad as anywhere else"
"You'll be hard pressed to find New Yorkers who don't think government corruption is a problem in New York State,” poll analyst Mary Snow said. “Yet, it's not the defining issue in the race.”[0]
Will there be simple jobs on Mars base? Someone to sweep the floor, someone to bake a cake, etc? Will they produce enough value to justify enormous resources to keep them alive in such hostile environment?
And even people with important jobs, they would work maybe 50-60 hours a week, but consume resources 24/7.
On average, the value all humans produce in a week might not be enough to keep them all alive for a week.
And they would know that "maintaining that lie for N years" would prove useless as soon as the powerful cameras in lunar orbit would photograph the landing sites. Who would participate in such a lie knowing 100% it will be exposed, eventually...
>I've found that animated WebP can produce files around 10% the size of GIFs.
For nicely optimized GIFs like these https://iwdrm.tumblr.com/ then WebP really struggles. Try to convert some of them to WebP and you'll see the result is often bigger than the original GIF.
There is no multiple-pass. libpng only tries to guess the right combination of filters, without doing actual compression. It's not always a good guess, but at least it's fast.
Near Stonehenge they found a 4000 year olds dagger. Its handle "was decorated with 140,000 tiny gold studs, each almost as fine as a human hair and set into the wood at more than 1000 to the square centimetre."
Even 21-century craftsman would find that impressive.
> I just checked the Google homepage, and even the New Year's Eve Google Doodle currently being shown is a good ol' GIF, rather than a modern format such as WebP. And this is with me using a desktop Chrome browser that definitively supports WebP.
https://theonion.com/new-5-000-multimedia-computer-system-do...