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what3words Is terrible and search and rescue teams are actively against people using it.

Care to elaborate why? I'm just curious since I didn't know (1) there was actually any kind of serious usage, or (2) there was pushback from rescue team...

W3W is very aggressive about protecting their IP, they don't want it to be a standard anyone can use like lat/long.

They advertise it as being useful for search/rescue as you can provide a precise location over an unclear voice channel. They conveniently ignore that speaking numbers is clearer than speaking random words.

I'm sure there's more I'm unaware of.


One reason is that there are a lot of similar words in the dictionary. It is easy to mishear the wrong location especially when they are close together. Some of the words are long and complicated. Another is that they are random which means can't navigate from the codes.

They are missing feature of some codes that can have variable length for variable precision.


> what3words Is terrible

Yes

> search and rescue teams are actively against people using it.

Sadly no

https://media.neas.nhs.uk/news/3-words-can-save-lives


seems like they’re quite against it going by what i found on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/searchandrescue/comments/1d63v94/wh...

Notepad++?

It’s been a while since I used it, but it’s one of the few things I miss on osx


No just that factory farming animals maybe shouldn’t be allowed. I have no problem with eating free range animals that live outside and are humanly treated and slaughtered even if the price goes up. I do have a problem with animal abuse which factory farming is.


Also it could do with some regulation banning people who win to much shouldn’t be allowed


Seems like an easy solution is just to ban them from banning winners.

Regulate them


There is no reason why they have to provide a fair market to all users. The purpose of the product is entertainment, not financial risk.

There are providers who specialise in providing action to sharps which then sets the prices that retail-facing customers use. If you want to make money, just bet with them. But limiting users is a way to provide a sustainable product. Again, it is an entertainment product, it is not a financial investment.

Also, the quoted text is wrong...gambling companies do not employ lots of mathematicians, I am not sure why people think this...I am not even 100% sure why people think mathematicians are useful, most of the stats used are very basic. But retail providers don't, the prices you see for the biggest lines are provided by third parties, when you make a bet retail providers have no idea what price is being offered to you at that time. The only exception is parlays which are often priced in-house, these lines are very beatable but, again, retail providers limit because the purpose of the product is entertainment. Providers that do business with syndicates do not have lines on parlays because they are so beatable. The protection comes from all users being limited in the amount they can bet on parlays.

A side note is that even in financial markets which are completely open, market makers avoid informed flow. If there was no uninformed flow, there would be no market makers. There has to be an ecosystem. Retail providers exist to buy advertising to win retail users every weekend, to do that they have to run their business in a certain way. There can't be a situation where they just lose money non-stop to fund someone else's business.


It’s like the difference between someone who can search the internet or codebase well bs someone who can’t

Using search engines is a skill


There are different kinds - the one I make is primarily oil raw egg lemon


Well it is paywalled

Tabasco is an interesting twist I’m going to have to try


Yep.

Also raw eggs not mayo, and garlic in the oil for a while before making it.


Rather the laws exist so they have to work hard to lie then the current free for all allowing outright deception and lying


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