And, in your professional opinion, how much in compute, database, network, and storage costs? We mutli AZ, with some offsite backup or nah? We got a test version of this stack with some junk type-correct data? You 50x the dataset, you 50x all of that.

Look. I’m not saying its gonna bankrupt Valve of all companies. But its clear that people replying have 0 idea about how much hosting 4 9’s available, resilient, reliable, web tooling costs.

The notification would be negligible in cost, but the collation and processing of that collected data would not.

It happens when they survey China. I don’t know why China isn’t included in the regular survey runs, but if they know the parameters of their surveying, they can make more accurate analysis of it than us.

Probably. But it’d 50x the cost of the tool. And for only marginally better results.

Because thats not how good stats works. They want random samples to draw actual stats from.

Volunteering ruins the point.