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> The "America is too spread out" argument is total bullshit.

In support of this statement, here is a map of "mega regions": http://www.america2050.org/sync/elements/america2050map.png

Source: http://www.america2050.org/maps/

Alternative: "The Mega-Regions of North America"
http://martinprosperity.org/content/the-mega-regions-of-nort...

> All told, these dozen mega-regions span 243 metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada, more than six in ten of all U.S. metros. They have a combined population of more than 230 million people, including 215 million from the United States or 70 percent of the U.S. population. Together, they produce more than $13 trillion dollars in economic output, equivalent to three-quarters of America’s total GDP.

Vast regions of the US don't even matter for the purpose of this discussion. When you only look at those regions the problem is no different than in a lot of other countries. That is also the geographical level where public transport makes sense, it's per-region (and different regions may want to/have to solve it in very different ways since their respective situations are different), not one solution for the whole country.
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What I find funny: us "nerds" were addicted to computers long before everybody else, and now we are surprised/shocked that the general population is becoming addicted too :)
That could be deemed to be suspicious by itself and actually get you searched more thoroughly.
In Canada it's a semi-popular summer job to do tree planting for forestry companies. After the harvesters roll through and take process the mature trees you're left with a bit of a wasteland. Since the areas are highly managed there isn't a lot of natural young growth coming up to replace the harvested trees. Young people who aren't adverse to working long days and living/camping in tents for days on end walk these swaths of land with shovels on their back and bags of seedlings that they plant, and make good money doing so.

This is the scenario I see these drones as being useful for. The logistics of getting people on the ground in these remote areas can be difficult and costly.

Wouldn't have the same concerns for angry wildlife either!
Not mentioned in any of the changelogs: I implemented color blending utility functions like darken and lighten from SASS/LESS for GD Script. So now ie blending your characters color based on damage received is ~1 line of code.
>A drone loaded with germinated seeds fires pods into the ground

My reading of this implies the seed ends up underground.

A drone seems like the best answer here to get maximum accessibility and speed. Reaching 100k a day with a wheeled robot would be tricky.
I suggest its the poltical news cycle which emphasizes bad news at the expense of good. The US democratic party did not trumpet the progress of recovery from the Great Recession. Instead it focused on the inequalities that remained. True the opposition also focused on the problems of the middle class. But turned 180 degrees once in power claiming to own the economic recovery.
Next time you're considering something like this, have a look at D: It has nearly the same syntax as C but with some seriously awesome power features. You could've easily written the whole python/c mess entirely in D, generating the code to compile at compile time e.g. from a config file.
Nonsense. As if one colonial power asking another to come slaughter the population would make it any less aggressive.

The French agreed to leave and support elections with the Geneva Accords. The U.S. propped up a dictator and organized a campaign of brutal suppression and terror, then outright bombed the hell out of peasants in the south starting in 1962 under JFK to block a political settlement. That's as aggressive as it gets.
I also switched to parcel-bundler for a fresh start.
We're really talking fleet of drones vs. fleet of wheeled robots here; wheeled robots, even if slower in deployment, will be able to carry more seed pods (reducing turnaround time) and will be orders of magnitude more energy-efficient - i.e. cheaper to operate and better for the planet.

As cool as flying is, I'm all for ground solutions on this one.
Just for people who don't know, "they released" because the patents expired, not because they voluntarily gave them up.
That "rock-paper-scissors" cycle among the top preferences is the Smith set, and every sensible voting "violates" Arrows theorem by saying that sometimes it's ok to acknowledge that cycle.

One of Arrows assumptions, "Irrelevance of Independent Alternatives", is far too strong. If you relax it to "Local Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives", then Arrows theorem no longer applies. It's just not a relevant theorem.

Claiming that allowing a voting system to recognize a rock-paper-scissors cycle among the top candidates is the same as allowing dictators is obvious rubbish. But if you interpret Arrow's theorem naively, you might be tempted to make such a claim.
I'd argue still and say these outlets represent the same class, albeit with different approaches to public relations, and it shows through quite clearly.
Yes, it's called inkl - www.inkl.com

You can use it to pay 10c per article, or get unlimited access for $15/month.
There's no special deal per se, Cisco released OpenH264 for everyone, and it can be used royalty-free as long as you only use the binaries (instead of the source): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenH264
At this point, it's not about quadcopters, it's just about the name. "Drones". The new sexy name for RC planes and helicopters/multirotors.
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Incorrect assumption. www.inkl.com.
Unfortunately, the current climate is quite opposite, what with computers randomly* deciding "you don't need me for the next couple of hours, I'll try the install-revert-install-revert-install-revert with this week's update, NOW."

(randomly, as in "where do you want to go today? meh, nevermind.")
All the large (and many of the smaller) civil engineering firms have an environmental/ecological division and GIS, remote sensing and mathematical modelling is kind of trendy in ecology right now, so that would be a good place to start looking. Ecologists that know GIS and can code are quite rare.

The downside is that environmental concerns are largely considered a cost for civil engineering projects so much of your work will involve putting together models the 'prove' that the project under consideration will have a low environmental impact. But occasionally you will get a chance to work on a more 'positive' project as well. Either way it's probably a good place to start and to get experience with the realities of the field.
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Couldn't agree more. You can pay a flat fee per month if that suits you better - www.inkl.com
The purest capitalistic endavours are drug deals, theft and scams.

The more refined variants, which find law loopholes and apply them with leverage,are still the same approach.

Look at those jailbirds under the sky, they do not sow, but our Lord the Ford, supplies them better then those working none the less.

The shareholders of a company know this deep down as well, so one serial scam series later- the comon pension er who had to use bad software all his life, can retire knowing he ripped off some poor schmock to have this.
"has to be a minority option" is an arithmetic necessity of density: you can't have everyone owning cars in a high-density city because it's physically impossible to fit them on the roads.
Evolution of forest surface in western Europe in the last 100 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/04...

US Forests History and trends (FAO): www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/x4995e.htm

WorldBank has numbers for global trends but only with data starting in 1990 and for forest surface: https://data.worldbank.org

It shows a slight decline, but as FAO points out, forest density (trees pr sqmt) is also growing so forest surface area numbers don't tell the whole story.
We already have. It's called inkl. www.inkl.com
If only it wasn't for those pesky humans, all of this wouldn't be an issue. [blocky 8-bit lightbulb appears over robot's head]

Seriously, "let's have everyone jump on the bandwagon all at once, and we shall be redeemed by $TECHNOLOGY_DU_JOUR" is a very brave proposal.
Actually it's decrementing:
https://github.com/geonnave/primg/blob/master/index.html#L82

I guess it could change the whole image if the last pixels are "000...000", which happens when the top-left corner has an opposite color to the bottom-right one.

This image can't be "primed" correctly, for example: https://i.imgur.com/ms3sXtF.png
> I am arguing that some do.

What is the purpose of finding someone, anyone, who holds some fringe opinion to attack it as if its common? You can find any opinion about anything out there after all.

> Quoting some articles arguing that there are differences doesn't prove anything.

It proves that the opinion you attack does not seem to be the opinion of the scientific community. Unfortunately you did not include a single link to show whom or what exactly your comment is about.

I hope you don't consider it rude or an "attack" that I point out that you did not point to anyone/anywhere specifically? Because you really did not. I think your argument would benefit greatly from being more specific.

I have Facebook friends (who I keep because they are ex colleagues and mostly harmless otherwise) whose whole life (judging by their news feed) seems to be centered around finding the most stupid comments on the entire Internet and then posting them to show how stupid they are. Your comment strongly reminds me of that phenomenon. Personally, I consider it not only highly illogical but also a huge waste of time, not to mention what it probably does for your outlook on life to concentrate on the most absurd and ridiculous fringe opinions that you can find.

Also, counter to your latest claim, you make no such distinction at all. You attack the position as if it's common. The Facebook friends I mention at least include specific links that they attack. Not that that would make much sense given that we are here discussing a specific article.
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Not a bad idea. There are many instances where government policy has had the exact opposite of the stated intended effect. One example: trying to preserve the real character of an area by setting a large minimum lot size. The result: places like Apple Valley, with giant houses set in the middle of huge yards. It becomes an enclave of the rich and famous. In fact, Apple Valley is reasonably popular with well heeled actors and movie biz people because it is about 2 hours from LA/Hollywood.

If these folks can deliver on actual solutions for this problem space, more power to them.
tl;dr We were able to exploit the development of tech with patents for decades and now we won't any more.

I'm only happy about this. And I seriously doubt this conclusion: "There will simply be no incentive for a company to develop new video compression technologies".

It seems the author of this text thinks the only way to have an incentive to develop new technology is patent fees. This is outright ridiculous.

Companies like Google or Netflix obviously have an incentive to further improve media codecs, because transmitted gigabytes translates into costs for them.
Agreed. News is a lean-back experience because you don't know what you don't know.

At inkl (www.inkl.com) we rank articles based on news value by tracking and understanding heuristic choices being made across the world's top newsrooms in real time.
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> 2-5 person capacity

Musk says a Model X derived minibus has "surprisingly high" people density.[1] The standard Model X seats 7, so I'd say at least 10.

I'm assuming similar volume-stretching tricks as the Model 3, (pushing the dash forward, glass roof for headroom) in a microbus package.

> All forms of transit exist on the tradeoff surface between these possibilities. As population density goes up, it's easier to find lots of trips that are close enough in the five dimensional space of origin, destination, time.

I think the real value of "big data" (something Jarrett dismisses as "big detail" in the article) is that we can plot every trip in that 5D space, deriving a "typical" density curve for any given day of the week. With that, the fleet management software can optimally allocate vehicles.

Clustering nearby points (trips) in this 5D space should optimally combine trips to minimize detours to individual houses (by grouping in the origin/origin and destination/destination 4-planes), combine trips across town (by grouping in the origin/destination 4-plane), and dynamically adjust the wait time to combine trips to/from low traffic locations (by grouping in the time/origin and time/destination 3-planes). Really it should trade off between all of these factors.

The challenge, of course, is that you don't know everyone's route ahead of time. Good prediction is important.

Essentially you're dynamically adjusting the bus schedule and route in response to spatial and temporal demand patterns. And with 10 passengers and no aisle[2], the maximum passenger density is similar to a bus (the "geometry" problem) So it seems like this can be more efficient than even a fixed bus schedule.

It seems like a decently large (100k+) multi-agent whole city transit simulation could settle the matter one way or the other. Who's plugging autonomous taxi routing into these?

This[3][4] looks promising. Accounts for induced demand. More publications on his website.[5]

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/759153112993017856

[2] "Traffic congestion would improve due to increased passenger areal density by eliminating the center aisle and putting seats where there are currently entryways, and matching acceleration and braking to other vehicles, thus avoiding the inertial impedance to smooth traffic flow of traditional heavy buses." https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux

[3] https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/baug/i...

[4] https://github.com/sebhoerl

[5] http://www.ivt.ethz.ch/en/people/person-detail.html?persid=2...
> ...it was set up to own The Guardian for purely philanthropic reasons.

You're right, of course, but the Scott Trust is not philanthropic in itself. It only exists to keep the Guardian and Observer going as they are. As such when finances become tight there are undoubtedly tensions between the overall philanthropic aims of the Scott family and the brute need for the trust to survive so the papers survive.

The intentions of the Trust were explicitly carried over to limited company in its constitution. Whether that's sufficient to protect it, well we'll see.
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I bought two of Cal Newports books - I like his thoughts on mastering skills and digital life. He is spot on that children should be severely limited in the amount of time they can use digital devices.

I worry about digital addiction myself: yesterday, after a long day at work (coding and running some ML jobs), I had dinner and a Blu-ray movie-dinner with my wife, then spent almost two hours studying for an online class I am taking. That gave me over ten hours in front of a computer.

One thing that I try to do on my iPhone is to spend more time reading digital books or listening to audio books than surfing social media.
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> Note that until recently, there was almost no open source development of media codecs.

Vorbis was released in 2002. That's 16 years ago. That's hardly 'until recently'.
Something related, still ACX.
[Fusion had issues under Woz](http://www.businessinsider.com/fusion-io-reports-loss-cfo-le...)

Woz's [Wheels of Zeus (Woz!)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheels_of_Zeus) didn't do well either.

Neither of these less-than-glowing experiences redeem him from walking away from Apple before it's prime. Many share-holders kick themselves for doubting Apple in this era. Woz should be no different. Except he says unusual things to the media that exacerbates the more ignorant type of nerd you come across now and then.
Just reducing the load of roaming cattle in natural areas and reintroduce predators if needed in natural parks, will do much more for much less money.

Birds plant trees much better than drones and wolves are critical to allow the saplings to survive their first five years. We could feed an army of planting tree drones and cover each inch of mountain with seedlings just to give an expensive yummy snack to sheeps and goats.
Finance is a huge part of the problem, especially insofar as it currently constrains what kind of housing can be built. Last I checked, co-housing projects in the US were typically self financed because there were no loan products available for them. So what is a mixed income development offering affordable housing and high quality of life in most countries becomes housing for mostly rich people desiring a certain lifestyle in the US because it can't get financing here.

Best of luck.
My feeling ist that the downside basically boils down to: Lots of work, and having to find volunteers implementing that.
Thanks for the pointers.

How would I book a tour with advanced manufacturing facilities? Which ones you would recommend to start with?
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What's the reason he insists on using double precision math? (If not using fixed point)
I would argue that it’s just USA centric view of impact of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the damages where on par with “traditional” fire bombing.
So their role in ending the war is hugely overestimated for propaganda reasons.
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I'll take RSA for $500, Alex.
tech treasure? Seriously? Nostalgia aside, it was slow and expensive to use. Internet had no penetration in France at the time so a crappy solution that does things worse and made France late to pick up Internet afterwards hardly qualifies as a treasure in my book.
With Dell it's turn on all the locks (caps, num etc.) and press ALT+F IIRC not sure about every other laptop.
Also FLAC and Musepack, which I think are even older. Plus for video, Theora's initial release was in 2004.
Name at least one reason to “fight for communism”?
How do you mean with "better result"?

For a non-linear system, machine learning can perform much better and solve more complex tasks. Like walking for a humanoid robot. A linearzied PID solution can not beat that.

For linear systems:

Depends of what you mean with better I guess. My understanding is that you can place some of the poles of a system with a PID pretty much where you want. So for a simple linear system: no.

There exist also other controllers where a LQR can be used in linear systems to get a perfect theoritical controller based upon to minimize the cost of control outputs. (yes, several outputs).

However maybe a ML can be used to choose and tune the controllers better than humans?

EDIT:
Also, the discretication is not always perfect (backward or forward euler is common estimates). So maybe ML can help in that too?
I think that's what the law should be. Identify why something failed as opposed to trying to figure out who to punish.
AZERTY really is a terrible layout though, I can't find anything it's good at, not even typing french. You can't write É, È or À on a standard AZERTY keyboard for instance. If you're programming you're going to have the alt-gr key pressed half the time but admittedly that's mainly because programming languages are qwerty-centric.

But hey, you can type 'µ' with a single unmodified keystroke!
I remember traveling through France and seeing these enormous billboards. It was not simply that the word CUM was emblazoned upon them but the imagery was quite "sexy". So yes it was quite surprising to see contrasting it to my rural Irish background...
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Any plans for supporting Indian users?
Stop this rethoric.

When something is "free", it's always means free (of charge) for the recipient, and it's always enabled by something else.

It's a matter of choice (hence the taxes, hence the politics), of governance, of sight.

Now, if you believe free healthcare and education for everyone does not benefit the society as a whole, then say so (and flesh out the historical facts that support your view).
Self replicating trees?? This technology needs to be put under regulatory control before we are all turned into trees.
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I'm pretty sure we are now just a couple of marketing cycles away from a version of this being re-packaged and sold to police departments around the world as a tool for identifying suspects in a cloud database of DNA sequences belonging to People of Interest.

(You don't need a complete sequence for that, just enough unique markers to ID somebody.)

Goodbye "papers, please", hello "cheek swab, please".
> Incorrect assumption. www.inkl.com.

I'm not sure I follow.

Are you assuming that parent's desired 15 resources are included in inkl.com, or do you think that I'm claiming that they're not?
Laws passed by Congress and signed by the President can overrule the Court. And if the Court finds that the law is unconstitutional, Congress and the States can amend the Constitution. But who has time for all that?
From the other virology: a virus that outright kills its host doesn't get very far. A virus that keeps the host limping along, creating copies of the virus in the process, is far more likely to spread...which is, IIRC, precisely what happened in the early 2000s. (And indeed, what would be the incentive for disabling Windows hosts? "W1nd0z3 suxx0rz" would barely count as one, given the lack of general-public alternatives at the time - the afflicted would pay a tech grunt to repave with the same Windows again, been there, done the repaving.)
I was being a bit snarky, but this is common practice. They could easily claim "100k" seeds, but full well knowing that only 10k will actually grow. But saying "we can grow 10k trees" just doesn't sound as impressive. It seems to be marketing numbers.
What you are describing is called "system identification". If you have a simple mathematical model, it is possible (and in the case of your fermentation chamber, it should be) to measure a couple of step responses and estimate the parameters to design a control system.

Finding good Kp, Ki, Kd gains by just sampling the [Kp, Ki, Kd]- space at random and trying it out on the real system is often not recommended. Firstly, because the state space is relatively large. Secondly, many systems can fail catastrophically if they become unstable, causing potential harm to man and machine. The second objection does not apply to a wine fermentation chamber, as far as I can see.
I find it frustrating that we're still having this conversation. I feel like it was common knowledge five years ago that DevOps was a cultural shift, and definitely not a toolset, not a team, not a position title. But I still see the anti-pattern all over the place.

How do we change this? And how do we prevent it from happening to similar movements in future? How do you get people to look at where the finger is pointing, and not the finger itself?

It reminds me of the first line of the Tao Te Ching: "The Tao that can be named is not the real Tao."
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I generally agree, it would seem easier to find a way to be able to "drop" a pod that could anchor itself, or not need to be burried... Something with barbs to hold it to the ground?

Well, I don't need to solve their problem for them, lol. I hope this works in some way, it's sounds neat in theory.