I'm in no means an expert in this, but I think it's because of the relative sizes of the economies in each state [1]. California and New York are very large in terms of GDP/GSP and will therefore move this weighted average accordingly.
Internally RadioHead and VirtualWire uses a 4to6 bit en-/de-coding. Their reasoning is that if your payload is either high or low for too long, "for a good DC balance". have you experianced anything related to this? You but in 0b01 padding before each byte, maybe this is enough. Your solution is substantially lower overhead.
I'm pretty sure it has been seen before that Google or another big tech company buys a smaller up-and-comming company/great idea, and it is never heard from again.
You have a pixel grid of 17 x 106, anything you want to drawn in it can be.
To draw an arbitrary figure do this: Start with the pixel in the lowest left corner, if black put 1 as the first digit of a binary number else put 0, then continue first up then one right, the down. Convert this (1802 digit) binary number to decimal and use it as input for the function and there it is.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936 [1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...