It has been established already that crows remember human faces for years, that they mourn, and that they attack people they associate with the death of their mates (while being quite friendly with other people they know well).

Things like this are actually done for very valid reasons, but these easter eggs are a really neat way to do it.

The reason? making an accurate map from a territory is (or used to be) difficult and takes time. Introducing fictional stuff in a map is a way to:

- figure out which of your cartographer competitors are copying you

- bring the case to court (factual data isn't protected by copyright, fictional data is).

Even Google Maps add a few fictional elements, but they're much more boring, like adding ghost streets in rural areas.

Yes, usually boring. OpenStreetMap collected some examples https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs#Ex...

There is a ghost road I reported on Google and was ignored. It wasn't just any road, an impossible road.

It is a straight line from the base of a mountain right to the top, all while gaining thousands of feet in elevation. I haven't checked it out in person, but I'm familiar with the area, and I'd place a large wager that it doesn't.

Anyone who copies this road will have a map that screams "I copied Google!"

I wonder if Google Maps tags the fictitious streets in its metadata somehow, so that it doesn't actually send cars down those roads.

If they are only short dead end streets they won't be at risk sending cars through

That's a real phenomenon -- they're typically called Trap Streets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trap-streets-with-no-n... -- but that's a bit different from these easter eggs.

You put a drawing of a marmot in a mountainside or turn a stream into a naked lady to have a chuckle and get one over your boss, not to enforce copyright :)

There's a "Map Men" episode on this: https://youtu.be/DeiATy-FfjI

Tangental:

This is why Golf Courses and Land Art Designs are uncopyrightable but media created in the process of their development are

* ADHD doesn't mean you can hop from X to Y to Z superfast/efficiently while remembering anything meaningful.

* Hyperfocus isn't a spell you can cast at whatever task at hand. It happens only when you're really into a given topic... And ADHD tends to push you to procrastinate on things you like a lot: you end-up in hyper-procrastination mode.

Above points can be used to your advantage with great benefit, but it's not automatic. Some people with ADHD compensate intuitively and do impressive stuff, others need medication just to get out of bed. Both of these extremes can be the same person at different times.

You can learn how to hack your stubborn brain and take advantage of the waves of motivation.

Stimulates are a instant gratification solution, but man take those all the time and you will be pretty damn irritable and mentally tired after awhile.

It's natural for "ADHD" people to work in waves. Long sprints and rest in between. I know it's popular to advocate drugging yourself, but people reach for that too quickly.

Society is the problem, not them.

     but man take those all the time and you will be pretty 
     damn irritable and mentally tired after awhile.

No argument there.

     It's natural for "ADHD" people to work in waves. Long 
     sprints and rest in between. I know it's popular to 
     advocate drugging yourself, but people reach for that too quickly.

This is easy to say, but there are a variety of reasons why not everybody (and in fact, most people) can't precisely tailor their lives to meet the whims of the ADHD brain. Even entrepreneurship has lots of "boring" stuff that you have to simply plow through to get to the interesting stuff.

>It's natural for "ADHD" people to work in waves. Long sprints and rest in between. I know it's popular to advocate drugging yourself, but people reach for that too quickly.

>Society is the problem, not them.

I wish it was that easy. It's not. ADHD is an extremely broad spectrum. There are some habits which CAN bring me into hyperfocus, but they don't work all the time.

What do you mean by people reach to fast for stimulants? Coffee and energy drinks basically have the same effect as methylphenidate on me, they just don't last as long.

Before my diagnosis I was always flabbergasted that people were so astonished as I told them that coffee and energy drinks bring me down. Now I know the reason why. But in the end reducing my coffee and energy consumption, but taking meds in a controled way works a lot better for me. But I also know people where meds don't work at all (in a beneficial way). There is really no way to sum up "ADHD people". It's just way to nuanced.

Edit: I am literally sitting in the office right now, hyperfocusing on the weird typing frequency of my neighbour and just can't put on my headphones and start coding. I would even try to hear that with my noise cancelling headphones on. Gotta get up now, take a short walk and hopefully when i come back i can start.

Like I said to someone else, I never said it was simple.

It can be beneficial. Depends on how you handle your brain.

And yes I was mainly talking about harder stimulants, they do have side effects, like irritability.

Nope, you can't with ADHD. My interest will be there on random subject, not the one I would select.

And stimulant kind of help. They're not magic... you have to use therapy, exercise, meditation, organisation to cope. Fun. That's maybe why people can be irritable under medication (and which kind... people react differently to very similar molecules so...)

I did not intent to advocate for any solution (drug-based of otherwise), just tried to say that ADHD covers a wide spectrum of situations.

Some won't be able to "hack" their brain for motivation (which, btw, comes from doing something in the first place), some will. Some will react well do medication (compounds, amounts…), some others won't. There is also CBT.

> You can learn how to hack your stubborn brain

You may be able to. This is not universally true.

I'm sorry, where did I say everyone would be capable of learning how?

It's something you can learn how to do, but just like many things you can learn, not everyone will.

When you wrote "you can" which implies that everyone can, but not everyone will. I'm saying that not everyone is able to do that step.

"Berlin clubs are closing soon!" has been, for a long time, a staple of journalists desperate to get some views. They just play on readers' emotions.

For a while the pretext was "neighbors are complaining about noise", but that got yanked by new regulations (i.e. making clubs "places of high culture" so they can't be attacked easily).

Now it's about declining revenue, yet clubs are still full. What will be next?

So basically you're advocating for a keto diet for everyone and every time? That's silly. Carbs are not intrinsically bad.

Also, all sugars are carbs but all carbs aren't sugar. Don't take shortcuts.

> Carbs are not intrinsically bad

No, but most people shouldn’t be consuming it as a ritual.

You are definitely not French :-) Food preparation and lunch is a ritual for us.

But, I will also add that in the primary school we had to learn how to balance a diet over a full week. Because you cannot balance on a single day...

It was designed by committee, but as long as the original author was involved he had a veto right and he used it very often, which alleviated the "committee" effect.

Baguettes "tradition" can only contain 3 ingredients (flour, water, yeast) so their quality matter, yes, but the preparation is what makes it all: how it's mixed, how long it rests, at what temperature, how the flour/water ratio changes through the process, etc. that dictate what the end result will be. It can take 10 years for a baker to master the process.

I completely agree, even more so with 1. Do not skip or shorten 1. Force yourself NOT to code during 1.

Laws around cryptocurrencies vary widely between countries. In a good chunk of them, while not considered to be "money", bitcoins are viewed as "digital assets" (that you maybe have to report for taxes) and as such theft laws fully apply (but of course the thief still has to be found and not be on the other side of the world...)

Or about movies! Although, to be fair, a similar mindset creeps in that field too: it ceases to be art, or moving stories, or mind-changing ideas from movie makers. Now it's all about content, and how much it is consumed.

I don't have data or facts to share, but I have a strong gut feeling that people who consider art (in a very broad meaning, including entertainment, games, music, etc) to be a commodity are not only missing out, they make the world a worst place to live in.