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There are also climate strikes December 6 in the US. See https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/winter-climatestri... for details.

Do you want to do something about this? I suggest joining the Sunrise Movement. Go to https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ to join.

Lithium ion batteries have limited lifecycles so they aren't sustainable. We need to be building massive pumped hydro.

I'm an experience full-stack software engineer, specializing in data engineering and data science. I'd like to work on something that helps address climate change or other major problems.

Location: San Francisco Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Python, C, C++, Ruby, Solidity, Erlang, Docker, Javascript, React, Rails, AWS, Docker, R Résumé/CV: For the last 8 months or so, I've been focusing on organizing and getting politicians to stop taking money from the oil industry and talk about climate change. Among other things, I helped get Kamala Harris to sign a pledge not to take money from the fossil fuel industry.

Prior to that, I created a website for generating clothing patterns using generative adversarial networks. I had some success trading cryptocurrency. I coded a Ethereum DAPP, but I never launched due to regulatory issues. I had tried applying image recognition to grading coins and it kinda worked, but I found out the coin grading system is kinda rigged.

I've also worked at major web companies applying natural language processing, doing internationalization, client/server architectures, and web development. You can see more at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gershon-bialer-3ba7174/.

Email: gershon.bialer@gmail.com

If you just put up the wires for part of the route, can't the bus charge up while it is under the wires for the rest of the route?

I think there is an inherent in optimizing for retention time. Ideally, the recommendation should help find stuff which improve people's health, make them happier, or more informed about the world. However, it doesn't seem like YouTube has metrics on those things. Furthermore, things like that probably can't be determined very quickly on new content.

The land tax along with the house. Perhaps, you believe the land should be taxed more highly and the house should be taxed less. When permitting is tough, the fact that you got the permits to build the house should increase the value of the land. While the structure may be taxed, it also can generate revenue. If land value is a high percentage of the value, property tax should have similar incentives.

There is already land tax, but with proposition 13 people lock in low tax rates. So, if you've owned a home for a long time, you are gonna pay a lot lower taxes than someone, who recently bought a condo on land with the same value.

If it raises the price of oil, it incentivizes people to shift their demand to renewable energy technologies or to invest more in energy efficiency.

It's the right decision. If we keep extracting every last drop of oil, the effects of climate change are going to irreversible (see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-...). If less oil is extracted, the price will go up, and that will hasten the transition to renewables.

I can imagine the Egyptians like cat pictures like people today. However, the statutes don't look like the most beautiful of cats. Have the aesthetics of cat pictures changed over time?

As launching satellites into space becomes cheaper, I'd imagine we will get increasing issues of satellite collisions and interference. Do we need a regulatory framework to address this?

I understand space is becoming increasingly militarized. I wonder what a war will of shooting at satellites will look like. What would happen if all the satellites were taken out?

I find it kind of ironic to see the WSJ essentially publish an ad for Facebook disguised as an article. Still, it is probably true to some extent.

Is Facebook just a fancy machine for auctioning off the electorate to the highest bidder? Should we think of as the means of modern slavery?

It'd be helpful if kids actually got a greater chance to see things like where their food came from or the factories where the things they use get made. Our modern economy cuts off and hides much of the world and gives them a filtered, fake sense of reality. When you consider the kids are stuck in a fake reality, it seems obvious it should cause mental issues.

Many of these schools have run deceptive marketing campaigns to convince students to get useless degrees. Meanwhile, many colleges have hired endless useless administrators, while most classes get taught by underpaid adjuncts. They should get rid of the loan guarantee and instead subsidize the cost of education or just give young people money.

The whole student loans system just seems designed to enslave students to debt. It is just a cruel way for elites to control people.

1) Reach out to people studying Petroleum Engineering and convince them to study something else. This can be done through thing like websites, social media and handing out flyers. 2) Convince universities to end their Petroleum Engineering programs. This can involve petitions of students, faculty, alumni, and donors 3) Influence career counselors and make resources to help people study how to do things which are good for the world.

I think we need to convince people to stop studying petroleum engineering and prepare for a different economy instead. If you'd like to work with me on this, please email me.

I've felt similarly. I'd be interested in discussing solutions with anyone, who is interested. Please email me (email in profile) if you want to discuss this stuff.

Not quite true. Algorithms like vgg-16 typically involve subtracting out the mean at the beginning for better performance. For example, look at https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/torchvision/models.html. Red has mean .486 and blue has mean .406. While this could be calculated from the dataset, it does seem like a lot of the frameworks like to hardcode it.

They have a nice theory that the spacecraft won't melt when it gets close to the sun, but do they really know for sure? NASA doesn't succeed on every mission. It is possible something will go wrong, and the probe will melt.

I think that can work to an extent, but who decides what code gets pushed to production? You can decentralize responsibility for tasks, but ultimately you need some method of resolving competing pull requests. If someone can take control of that process, they can bully everyone else. This can then result in harassment and discrimination.

I think self-organizing lead to more secretive hierarchical structures. People's positions are inherently insecure, and there is more pressure to organize cliques for people to secure their positions and then shut out everyone, who isn't part of the clique. I think it inherently ends up reward, whoever is best at political maneuvering.

I've seen various people organize their own hierarchy where certain people take control of the ability to push the code or access to the founder. This control is premised upon getting everyone to maintain the party line, and shunning anyone who deviates from the party line.

I think Steemit has some traction as a Reddit-like blockchain company. Wikileaks has been funded with Bitcoin donations.

There are probably simpler methods, but if the United States really wanted to, they could probably buy/seize enough computers to pull a 51% attack.

What is a medical device? Are we talking about things like thermometers, wheelchairs, and surgical knives. Is this saying you need a double-blind study for every new design of wheelchair?

It is probably possible to design systems to avoid access, but they will get more complex. Engineering has to debug bugs. For example, suppose there is bug where the rate calculations aren't working for certain types of routes. The engineers will want to look up those routes to understand what is causing it. If you are designing an algorithm to detect to fraud, you are going to want to look at cases of fraud to understand how to design the algorithm. Further, if you want to do usability testing you are going to need to test with. You might want to check the different types of names used in the system to make sure they display properly. You may also want to sample the list of customers to user-test with live data or survey customers.

I worked on a grocery store inventory system a while back, and it was very hard to get it rolled out. Produce can go bad, and get thrown out, so it is very hard to accurately predict how much you will need. Further, your predictions depend upon how quickly it goes bad, which may not be easy to predict. Further, your predictions and orders depend upon people entering accurate data into the system. It is clear the employees are resisting putting accurate data into the system. Further, when you design the system you need to determine a probability of running out. The naive answers seems to be about 0%, but from an analytics standpoint a higher number may seem preferable.

That's oversimplistic. It is also depends on the quality of the city. Companies want to locate their best people in cities that are safe, have good airports, good schools, and reliable transportation where people want to live. This requires investment by the city, which must be paid for somehow.

It seems useful as way to keep records in poor or very corrupt countries without stable institutions. For example, if you don't have a very stable government, it seems like it is a good solution for keeping property records or storing voting records. It also seems like an alternative for creating universal financial records without requiring the same level of regulation. Fundamentally, the technology is disrupting the way government functions. However, if we live in countries with stable, existing governmental institutions it may be hard to fully understand the disruptive potential.

He merely makes the point that you need a central bank. You can have a democratically-controlled crypto-currency central bank. For example, http://makerdao.com/ does that.