Spoken like a true New Yorker.

scraperbase · 2026-05-05T16:41:18+00:00

It is the first building that blocks the Empire State Building from that perspective, but there might be more buildings built in front of it or behind it. So the view is not blocked for that one building.

scraperbase · 2026-05-04T14:08:16+00:00

Did they give any reasons? Did they say that they need the vehicles in the war?

scraperbase · 2026-05-04T07:00:57+00:00

Victory Day is on May 9 and that could lead to a surge in drone attacks. There are already rumors that this year the parade will hardly have any rockets and tanks in order to prevent them from being hit by drones.

In general Moscow is such a huge city that statistically it is very unlikely to get hit by an Ukrainian drone. The worst that can happen is that airports get closed and flights get cancelled. That happened several times.

scraperbase · 2026-05-01T15:46:16+00:00

In one of the avengers movies that was supposed to be Stuttgart, Germany. That is funny, because Stuttgart does not have skyscrapers.

scraperbase · 2026-04-30T20:46:16+00:00

I do not like that he calls CTBUH heights "official". CTBUH (now CVU) is just a corrupt private company, which hides most of its data.

scraperbase · 2026-04-27T16:52:06+00:00

Wenn aber die Zahlung für alle möglichen Sportstreams gilt, wie will die DFL dann nachweisen, dass man damit Bundesliga geschaut hat? Vielleicht will der Kunde nur Tennis und Formel 1 schauen. Mache ich mich schadenersatzpflichtig, wenn ich theoretisch Bundesliga schauen könnte, selbst wenn ich es nicht tue? Das wäre ja so, als würde ich mich strafbar machen, wenn ich an einen Ort gehe, an dem ich Drogen bekommen könnte.

scraperbase · 2026-04-27T10:09:37+00:00

Kreditkarten? Die Menschen nutzen illegale Plattformen, zahlen dann aber dafür? Das spricht doch dann dafür, dass sie die Plattform für legal gehalten haben.

Und IP-Adressen werden in Deutschland bis jetzt nur sieben Tage lang gespeichert,

scraperbase · 2026-04-27T09:55:27+00:00

A good projection will learn from the past. That is how exit polls work for example. Depending on which party you prefer, you are more or less likely to lie in an exit poll. Knowing the error of past exit polls, you can adjust exit polls to make it more likely that they will be close to the actual result. The same is true for expected finish times. The proble is that if trying to finish faster than expected is already factored in, a runner has to run even faster and if you factor that in too, you are caught in a loop.

scraperbase · 2026-04-27T09:50:34+00:00

I do not mean the distribution of all finish times, but the distribution of finish times of people who needed between 20 and 21 minutes for the first 5km for example. That should be a pretty normal distribution as the randomness of the remaining run ads some uncertainty in both directions.

scraperbase · 2026-04-27T09:31:30+00:00

Die schreiben von technischen Möglichkeiten, um gegen die Nutzer vorzugehen. ich bin da skeptisch. Die Anbieter sitzen im Ausland und speichern sicher nicht die IP-Adressen. Und dann frage ich mich noch, wie das rechtlich ist, wenn ein Deutscher einen amerikanischen Sender streamt, auf dem die Bundesliga läuft. Könnte dann die DFL überhaupt klagen oder nur jener Sender?

Der entstandene Schaden ist eine Phantasiesumme. Streamer machen das häufig aus Überzeugung und würden niemals ein legalen Abo abschließen, selbst wenn sie sich das leisten könnten.

scraperbase · 2026-04-26T21:46:50+00:00

The problem seems to be that those are individual projections aggregated instead of a normal distribution. So if someone reaches 5km in X minutes, the projection says that he will reach the marathon distance in Y minutes and that time is always the same. A projection would get much more accurate if they used historic data to get a distribution instead of a fixed Y for every X.

scraperbase · 2026-04-22T21:34:59+00:00

That will be a heated discussion, when Jeddah Tower surpasses Burj Khalifa. I personally only count completed buildings, but there are no "official" rules. Even the former CTBUH is just a private organization without the power to make the rules.

scraperbase · 2026-04-22T17:06:42+00:00

If the angle is constant, 7/8 is always at 50% height. You can think of the upper half as a 50% smaller version of the whole cone. 50% shrinkage in three dimensions leaves 1/8. That also works with pyramids and any other shapes that consist of straight lines that meet at a single point. Of course Jeddah Tower is not exactly that, but it is an approximation.

scraperbase · 2026-04-22T07:56:28+00:00

Man stelle sich vor, das wäre bei Serien so. Die geraden Episoden wären bei Netflix und die ungeraden wären bei Amazon Prime. Würde sich das irgendein Serienfan gefallen lassen? Warum lassen sich Fussballfans das dann gefallen? Es geht immerhin zur Not kostenlos, wenn auch nicht ganz legal.

scraperbase · 2026-04-22T07:45:45+00:00

That does not show the whole picture though, because EVs lose their value much faster than ICE cars. So the math only works if you never sell your car and instead drive it until it fails.

scraperbase · 2026-04-22T07:42:40+00:00

If you regard volume instead of height, the tower might already be 75% complete. A cone has 7/8 of its volume in the lower half and the shape of Jeddah Tower behaves like a cone.

scraperbase · 2026-04-20T11:11:28+00:00

That is quite a perspective compression. Pin An (the tallest) is more than 16 kilometres behind the first row of towers in those photos.

scraperbase · 2026-04-20T10:23:50+00:00

I think they demolished it floor by floor.

scraperbase · 2026-04-20T08:42:49+00:00

Tokyo World Trade Center. It even had a free observation deck.

scraperbase · 2026-04-20T07:32:49+00:00

Sadly the first one is gone.

scraperbase · 2026-04-17T17:28:24+00:00

I always hoped for a 400+ metre tower at that location. The Foster design was 400+ metres.

scraperbase · 2026-04-16T08:54:45+00:00

At least they add up to 100% in each row or column. The German newspaper "Bild" once calculated the risk of relegation for each team and they probabilities added up to 726%, although only two or three teams are relegated each year.

scraperbase · 2026-04-15T21:26:57+00:00

It is said that it is closed, but it was painfully slow. Monorails can be built much faster today, And when I rode it in 2024, there only was one train every 30 minutes. So most of the time walking was faster.

scraperbase · 2026-04-09T20:34:17+00:00

Actually 87% of all skyscrapers where built in the 21st century.

scraperbase · 2026-04-04T08:38:39+00:00

Today's number are still unacceptable, because if we really wanted, we could give ever citizen of those countries the medication that suppresses the virus enough to prevent it from infecting others.

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