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by mharig 807 days ago
> Like all automation, having a database of your population greatly increases your efficiency

Really? For what purposes exactly?
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ben_w 805 days ago
All the things that surveys do but where surveys would be really slow, repetitive, and suffer sub-population sampling biases; and all the things that censuses do but with better temporal resolution.
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mharig 797 days ago
Sorry, saw your answer just now.

And you think that those fine granularities are really needed?

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