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He can only buy it if someone's willing to sell it. ISPs won't sell information this granularly - not directly.

It's reasonably easy to establish pricing differences relative to land value costs to account for increased rent in the area. It's almost the same way the GSA determines Per Diem rates. https://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/100120

Either way you're going to be reducing rent (ie, gaining market efficiency) until you're not doing that anymore. There are testable ways to evaluate the market's ability to handle cost reductions and operate effectively. Even better that California can rely on the US and Canadian market overall to compare itself.

With any Pigouvian tax[1] you encounter the problem of progressivity. The answer is to make sure that the tax revenues are directed towards making it easier for low income people to have better transit options. Whether that means improved transit systems or income based toll exceptions, it's relatively easy to offset the detrimental impacts that tolling may put in place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax

Relevant publication: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7397214/?reload=true Can aquatic flightless birds allocate Automotive Safety requirements?

TL;DR: Penguins Search Optimisation Algorithm (PeSOA). PeSOA mimics the collaborative hunting strategy of penguins, using the metaphor of oxygen reserves as a search intensification operator. This allows the penguins to preserve energy, consuming it only in areas of the search space that are rich in good solutions. The performance of the approach is evaluated by applying it to a benchmark hybrid braking system case study, demonstrating performance that is an improvement to those reported in the literature.

Can someone translate this for me? Why do penguins change how software development works?

"They forage in groups and have been observed to synchronise their dives to get fish," said Prof Papadopoulos. "They also have the ability to communicate using vocalisations and possibly convey information about food resources."

"This solution has generic elements which can be abstracted and be used to solve other problems," he said, "such as determining the integrity of software components needed to reach the high safety requirements of a modern car."

By mimicking penguin behaviour in a testing system which seeks the safest ways to arrange code instead of shoals of fish, it becomes possible to slowly zero in on the best way for that software to be structured.

... What?

Yeah, absolutely. More of a "Home Economics" tint to it, but something I feel most people are missing in life.

I feel the math should be used to prove the philosophical points. It's rare that the math actually improves understanding without a novel hypothesis behind it.

I'd be an economics teacher. I'd love to teach High School and/or College economics. Since this is my own fantasy land, I'd be able to set my own curriculum.

  1. Why do we work? (Jobs, Businesses, and the individual economy)
  2. What is wealth, and how do I get it? (Saving, investment, real estate)
  3. Is it supposed to be like this? (Capitalism, Government, modern political economy)
  4. Systems Design (If you want to change the system, how should it work? How do we measure things that aren't money? Love, time, attention?)

I wish I'd had an education like this earlier in life.

Exactly.

It's a pity that charity is the best way (currently) to find solutions to these issues. Market mechanisms could create an incentive if only we put an appropriate price on carbon. Then industries would be falling over themselves to develop clean energy.

True, but looked at holistically it'd be better to have the revenue go to the government, and reduce a tax that punishes behaviors we want - such as employment being punished by the income tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax

Cap and Trade and a Carbon Tax are equivalent in outcome. Cap and trade would impose fees on everyone regardless of how much it costs them to lower emissions also. The problem with Cap and Trade is that it targets the large scale emitters rather than the item desired to be limited.

Imagine that you had five major producers putting out 30% of airborne carbon, and 50,000 minor producers putting out 70%. The cost of administering a cap and trade system to the minor producers would be incredibly expensive - the legislation would instead focus on gouging the five major producers. Also imagine that the 50,000 minor producers could very easily cut their production of carbon in half.

The price should be set to the amount of damage the externality causes. Current estimates of the social cost of carbon is ~$220 per ton. http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc...

Cap and trade punishes large players - taxes are fair because they impose the same fees on everyone.

Cap and Trade being the least expensive way possible is also a terrible loss for good tax reform. If we implement a responsible carbon tax, the offset income can be used to reduce associated corporation taxes, sales taxes, or even income taxes.

An optimal tax system taxes things and behaviors we don't want, and subsidises things and behaviors we do want. Let's get rid of an income tax, and replace it with a environmental tax. More money in your pocket, and cleaner air.

Senior Backend Engineer (Scala) at SeamlessDocs - full time, onsite in SoHo, New York, NY

SeamlessDocs specializes in digitizing and automating business and government forms and PDFs. The platform is like Google Docs for PDFs. It allows anyone to easily convert any PDF into a fillable, mobile friendly cloud version that can be completed and eSigned from any device. Then it builds a database in real time of the info collected and has workflow and process automation tools.

Due to its government focus, SeamlessDocs has been able to continue to differentiate itself as THE standard in government forms as well as through its government sales funnel expertise. This allows them to avoid repetitive admin tasks and data entry; cutting costs and increasing efficiency.

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• Experience working with a production environment with zero or very minimal downtime

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Feel free to reach out to me at felix@seamlessdocs.com

It's so they can quickly switch between the most recently used maps application like Waze or Google Maps for drivers.

SeamlessDocs seamlessdocs.com/jobs Soho/Tribeca NYC, NY

Positions: Senior Front End Javascript Engineer (React, especially).

SeamlessDocs is working to change the way citizens interact with their government. We came out of Code for America, and are supported by the GovTech Fund. We have started with the worst part of government -- forms, and we're making incredible inroads. Government Clerks can upload their PDFs, mark them up, provide signable, public place for citizens to submit building permits, soccer signup forms, or even teacher evaluations.

We're still a small team, you would be coming in as a senior front-end engineer to manage and grow the team using the best practices you choose.

Qualifications: Read this: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/10-interview-questions-e... If you can answer that, we should talk.

jobs@seamlessdocs.com felix@seamlessdocs.com (that's me)

I love that if you're logged in, it'll say

You can now write data in a very special place: /keybase/public/fsargent

Very cool.

This is the breakthrough: In the case of the spinal cord injury data, Ayasdi’s TDA-driven approach mostly confirmed what researchers already knew: The drugs didn’t work. But the discovery of high blood pressure’s detrimental effects on long-term recovery has immediate implications for human patients, namely whether the use of hypertension drugs immediately after their injuries and before surgery could improve outcomes,

It's mostly related to real estate prices. In uncertain economies investment goes into stable markets -- land and buildings. Prices increase, rents increase, people need more money to pay for their housing. Everything else gets cheaper, but housing keeps getting more expensive.

If you want to decouple these things, look into Land Value Taxes and a Citizen's Dividend.

Yeah! My thoughts exactly - and if they did representative scaling into the visual light spectrum based on the range you decided.

Anyone got an API for this?

More like "Do they know that it's MY dick?"

Excellent post. I was curious about how to do this properly but always got scared off by the fear of having to actually write my own crypto code. It's a pity it's not maintained better by Google. Maybe the EFF will get behind it...

Scarcity of habitable planets is absolutely solvable with technology - space ships, stations etc. Sufficiently advanced technology may also allow people to switch to more efficient bodies, or upload their consciousness to computers, or simply different forms designed for 'uninhabitable' worlds, or space itself.

This isn't learning by any means - this is just similarity. Machines don't understand what the words mean, nor the nuance of how to use them via this method.

Save yourself the trouble and just don't use them!

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Does this work if you already have HSV-1 (but not HSV-2)? When can I get it?

Can I make it at home?

Left button/Screen is active conversations. Right side check box blue thing is the Archive.

Swipe right on a conversation, and it goes into the right hand side. No idea why it's that way. Very odd. Why even have the option if it's going to be a first level function.

I have done exactly this, and it's been fine. I regularly ride centuries around the Bay Area on a sugar free diet.

Your body definitely needs time to adapt to a fat based diet, but it can satisfy all your energy needs.

I've also done centuries with sugary 'energy' foods. I frequently found myself having to pull over or dangerously balance in order to keep my blood sugar high by dosing myself every 45 minutes. Your stomach churns, your teeth feel awful, being constantly in service to your legs. Burning the fat is a much more comfortable proposition.

Vagrant 1.4 is now available by Brew Cask

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/pull/2027

$ brew update

$ brew cask install vagrant

Hi, I'm the Technical Product Manager for autoscale/otter. Next week we're doing a limited release to customers who replied to this survey: https://www.rackspace.com/blog/autoscale-survey-tell-us-what...

We're really excited to have people start using the Rackspace autoscale API, and already have environments setup in DCs around the world. At the same time, we are testing the heck out of it to make sure it'll be able to handle Superbowl size scale events.

If you have any questions, contact me felix.sargent@rackspace.com