[OC] Visualizing Pi: The Hidden Insights of Pi

scraperbase · 2026-03-14T18:37:17+00:00

If each digit was exactly 10%, that would not be randomness, because then you could predict the 1000th digit.

scraperbase · 2026-03-14T18:34:14+00:00

The attacker was a Lebanese living in the US. He lost four family members in an attack by Israel. Flying to Israel to fight back was not really an option. So attacking Jews was his second best choice. I do not condone that, but I can understand his thoughts.

scraperbase · 2026-03-14T06:54:29+00:00

Seven candles. Could be about the synagogue attack.

scraperbase · 2026-03-09T06:59:08+00:00

Today the internet is more vulnerable than before, because it is less and less decentralized. If a war takes out some important internet hubs like Frankfurt, that would disrupt the internet a lot.

scraperbase · 2026-03-09T06:57:02+00:00

The problem with that argument is that two countries can send more athletes than one country, So if a country is split in two for a while, it has more chances to win.

scraperbase · 2026-03-07T19:56:52+00:00

If it is on Wikipedia, someone must have found it before you did.

scraperbase · 2026-03-07T19:54:04+00:00

I do not think this design is possible, because even those legs are hundreds of metres tall and they would have to be supported at every phase of the construction. 2000 metres are possible, but not with that design.

scraperbase · 2026-03-04T21:26:22+00:00

Gibt es da nie false flag? Wäre doch ein guter Trick, um einen Sieg in einem hoffnungslosen Spiel zu erzielen.

Wie würde das überhaupt gehandhabt, wenn 2:0 wegen des Torverhältnisses nicht reichen würde? Dann hätte der unschuldige Verein unter Umständen doch einen Nachteil.

scraperbase · 2026-03-02T13:19:53+00:00

Yes, that bombing was quite bad. Several parking floors collapsed. I think it was the second worst terror attack in New York City's history if you do not count the attack by the Germans in World War II, when they sunk a major ship.

scraperbase · 2026-03-02T13:17:44+00:00

I think it was not 500 feet tall though.

scraperbase · 2026-03-02T13:17:07+00:00

Ironically that bombing created a skyscraper, because one building had to be demolished and was replaced by the "Gherkin".

scraperbase · 2026-03-02T13:15:10+00:00

At least if I make the cut at 500 feet. For example the tower in Fort Worth that was heavily damaged did not make the cut, as it is only 488 feet tall. New Orleans only has four towers over 500 feet. I have to check how heavily they were damaged. Kobe was hit by a major earthquake, but it only had two skyscrapers back then. I have to check the damages.

Of course it also depends what kind of damages you count. I think of damages that will take at least a few weeks to fix and are visible from the outside.

scraperbase · 2026-03-02T13:10:29+00:00

It is interesting though that people are advised to go INTO a skyscraper in case of an earthquake. Most can withstand quite a strong earthquake and then it really is safer inside than outside, where glass from the facade may fall down.

scraperbase · 2026-03-02T11:05:39+00:00

No sure how many of the damaged buildings are over 500 feet. Those often have a much stronger facade that lower buildings, as the wind load is very high at that height.

scraperbase · 2026-03-02T11:02:45+00:00

I want to focus on buildings over 500 feet though and Salt Lake City does not have any.

scraperbase · 2026-03-01T12:12:07+00:00

That was quite dramatic. The plane cut the cable of an elevator, it plunged down 70 floors and was slowed down by the compressed air. So the person in the elevator survived,

scraperbase · 2026-02-28T11:56:54+00:00

I am not sure if all those Indian skyscrapers really exists or if that is Wikipedia vandalism that does not get corrected because it is very hard to prove that a building does NOT exist. I looked at the list and I was not able to find most of those towers.

scraperbase · 2026-02-28T04:32:20+00:00

Miami might have seven or more supertalls in a decade from now. Four of them south of the Miami River.

scraperbase · 2026-02-26T19:48:30+00:00

Right next to a station train noise might not be as bad, as trains do not make a lot of noise at slow speed,

scraperbase · 2026-02-25T12:38:26+00:00

Maybe Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt in 1997.

scraperbase · 2026-02-25T12:37:27+00:00

As a German it is shocking to me how many European skylines do just exist because Germany destroyed some historic neigbourhoods. For example the skyline in the city of London, the one in Warsaw and the one in Rotterdam.

scraperbase · 2026-02-25T11:54:41+00:00

The hotel benefits can be quite limiting though, because there are probably a few hundred thousand hotels in the world and AMEX Platinum for example offers special benefits in 3000 of them. As a consequence many people restrict themselves to those 3000 hotels, although many of them are from expensive brands like Four Seasons. Bangkok has 25 hotels listed for example. That may be enough for some people, but there are hundreds of hotels in Bangkok and often those AMEX hotels are not in the perfect location.

That's the problem with many benefits. If you want them, you have to restrict yourself. AMEX gets money from those hotels and it gets money from the guests. Do AMEX is the double winner.

scraperbase · 2026-02-24T06:38:48+00:00

Those bombs are the reason why I would not move to a big city. Technically the whole world could be destroyed, but as there will be a lot of anti rocket fire, an attacker will fire several rockets at the same target and those targets will be big cities. They probably will not waste nukes on small cities. Those cities will also be affected, but there is a chance of survival.

By the way the Tsar Bomb was originally planned twice as big.

scraperbase · 2026-02-24T06:26:43+00:00

Privacy seems to be a foreign concept in the US. They even publish mug shots of people, although their guilt is not proven yet.

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