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Most Useful Use Cases

1.) Fan Coordination for Niche Interests: For obscure games or media (e.g., "XONOTIC"), high-RDV days can prompt spontaneous group sessions every few weeks, months, or even years, without needing calendars or servers.

2.) Media Reconsumption and Group Watches: Assign RDVs to movies, books, or videos (e.g., "SHREK_2001") for synchronized rewatches. RDVT adds timing for live streams or premieres, useful for content creators scheduling events at pseudorandom but shared times.

3.) Remembrance and Appreciation Days: Create special days for artists, events, or personal milestones (e.g., "YEAR_2000" or "HARRY_POTTER_SMOKES_WEED_Cdfkq2Nmb3c"). This could extend to historical events or personal tasks, providing a lightweight alternative to traditional calendars.

4.) Personal Reminder Systems: Integrate into apps or browser extensions to notify users about bookmarks or to-do items probabilistically, reducing notification fatigue. For instance, a threshold of RDV ≥ 2 ensures infrequent but timely prompts.

5.) Live Events and Scheduling: With RDVT, coordinate real-time activities like video calls or streams at exact UTC times on reminder days. This is especially useful for global teams or communities avoiding time zone conflicts.


Yet another reminder to download your favorite videos before YouTube goes down again or they get deleted or privated, or whatever.


$15B is a mind-blowing amount. I came here just to make sure it wasn't an M to B typo.



My first day on Seven39 just concluded and I'm def coming back.


You should perhaps rename it (because of the change I'm proposing) and make the time window either fully random each day or it should slide a bit each day so the whole Earth has equal ability to participate.


This is actually mindblowing!


Timezones are just so, so, so nasty. Why couldn't we just somehow make out shit function on UTC or something?


UTC is awful with its arbitrary, unpredictable leap seconds which basically no one cares about unless doing astronomy or navigation. Let’s just switch to TAI and be done with it!

Until we colonize Mars obviously… actually even the Moon has different G field so a different flow of time.


IMO humanity should just do ASCII and call it a day. I'm not talking about viability of this, just my wishes.


Don't know the resolution they're working with, but they should defo prioritize the MH370 potential crash area.


It says in the article

> Seabed 2030 is a long-term mapping project attempting to fully chart the seafloor and reveal all features 100 meters or larger by 2030.

There is an area of interest, "Area 3: Indian Ocean: Ninetyeast Ridge" around 30S 87E, which specifically mentions MH370:

https://seabed2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AtlanticIn...

Though that is quite a bit (~830 km / ~1250 km from the center of the square around 30S 87E) off to the (north)west of the most recent search proposal from mh370search.com:

https://www.mh370search.com/2024/03/16/mh370-a-new-hope/

edit: Got the distance wrong. Corrected.


Why?


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