it isn't worth the 20 minutes of walking and 30+ minutes on a bus just to save 15 minutes in my car.
So if you take the bus, you'll spend 35 more minutes on your commute, but in exchange you'll get 20 more minutes of exercise and 15 more minutes of gadget or reading time than if you drove by car. So it all evens out.
The IRS says it costs 56.5 cents per mile to drive. If your commute is 15 minutes, that might be 10 miles or $5.65 each way. So I think you're also saving around $7 per day, close to $2,000 per year, by taking the bus. What wold you do with a $2,000 per year raise?
Or instead of walking to the bus stop, you could ride a bike there and save another 15 minutes on your commute.
Traditional libraries are not the future. The dead tree archives will here after be a curiosity.
That's partially true. Libraries as they exist today as nothing more than regional warehouses for books (and more recently DVDs and CDs and Internet access) are not the future. The future will rely more heavily on the inter-library loan system in order to allow libraries to be smaller and more local as RedBox is to Blockbuster. Books take up a lot of room, they don't all need to be stored in our communities where real estate is expensive when they can sit in warehouses wherever real estate is cheap as Amazon does with its inventory.
When one neighborhood wants a better police force but the other neighborhoods vote against raising taxes for that police force, it's tyranny of the masses. So one option for these neighborhoods is to secede--if the city lets them.
Let's all agree to vote for any candidate who offers to do whatever s/he can to abolish plurality voting. Duverger's Law says plurality voting is why we can have only two viable candidates at a time. Even an otherwise inept candidate who successfully puts into place Instant Runoff Voting or Condorcet will be a net benefit to his/her jurisdiction.
Duverger's Law says the reason we have only two viable candidates is because we're still using the antiquated plurality rule voting system. If we want more choices, we need to switch to something like Instant Runoff Voting or the Condorcet Method.
Someday not only will the bots be able to solve the logic puzzles, but they will also be capable of rational thought, and soon after that we'll be looking for ways to weed out the humans!
If the first car hadn't been stationary at a green light, the accident wouldn't have happened.
I see what you're saying. All collisions can be avoided if the car that's about to be hit would simply move out of the way. That's brilliant! Now how do we monetize this?
...it was slipped in mid-July into a $500 million supplementary funding bill meant to pay for improvements in the state's public transportation system.
Instead of saving money by making existing infrastructure more efficient, such as by changing their tolls to variable congestion tolls as a means of permanently eliminating traffic congestion... they raise taxes.
First, the example you provide isn't a co-op laying fiber, it's a city doing it. And second, the end result was the telco rolling out fiber of their own, which is just what the citizens wanted in the first place.
Remote seismic sensors can detect earthquakes (which move at a little over the speed of sound) and transmit a signal to the trains (at the speed of light) which then immediately brake to a stop before the seismic wave hits.
Those displaced workers could work on assembly lines building potted plant moving robotics. At least until those assembly lines are replaced with robots. Then those workers could work on assembly lines building robots that build potted plant building robotics. Until...
That's an example is why we need to adopt a results-oriented, value-added methodology of assessing teachers based on how much their students improve relative to their peers taught by other teachers. Value-added corrects for external factors such as student backgrounds, parent involvement, and so on. What's left is a measurement of how much value the teacher alone brought to the classroom.
If your students started the course at the 40th percentile and ended at the 50th percentile, you're probably a better teacher than the one whose students started the course at the 60th percentile and ended at the 50th percentile.
Had such a methodology been in place at West Point, the instructor's students likely would have fallen behind relative to those of other instructors of the same course, and this would have given administrators some hard data to identify the inept instructor and take corrective action.
Needless to say, having every car hitting the brakes at that point would probably be a bad idea.
They should also fit cars with proximity sensors that automatically apply the brakes when you get too close to the car in front. Then if that car brakes, whether it's because of the glitch you describe or any other reason, you'll have enough time to brake to avoid a collision.
And therefore, you can get by with 1% or less of electrical generation providing the base load, and 99% or more in renewables. Efficient pricing facilitated by smart meters is all that's required to prevent brownouts and blackouts with such a ratio, if you know how to read a demand curve.
...you can put me in the 'wary of deepening the government's role in higher education' column. So far their meddling in the marketplace...
Don't worry, eliminating market failures such as by reducing information asymmetry is the exact opposite of "meddling in the marketplace."
I forgive you, but it's sad when members of Congress wouldn't know a market failure if it slapped them upside the head. As another example, you'll have a tough time finding a Republican member of Congress who is able to define the term, "negative externality."
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So if you take the bus, you'll spend 35 more minutes on your commute, but in exchange you'll get 20 more minutes of exercise and 15 more minutes of gadget or reading time than if you drove by car. So it all evens out.
The IRS says it costs 56.5 cents per mile to drive. If your commute is 15 minutes, that might be 10 miles or $5.65 each way. So I think you're also saving around $7 per day, close to $2,000 per year, by taking the bus. What wold you do with a $2,000 per year raise?
Or instead of walking to the bus stop, you could ride a bike there and save another 15 minutes on your commute.
That's partially true. Libraries as they exist today as nothing more than regional warehouses for books (and more recently DVDs and CDs and Internet access) are not the future. The future will rely more heavily on the inter-library loan system in order to allow libraries to be smaller and more local as RedBox is to Blockbuster. Books take up a lot of room, they don't all need to be stored in our communities where real estate is expensive when they can sit in warehouses wherever real estate is cheap as Amazon does with its inventory.
Libraries need not be just for books, either. They can be seed banks, they can loan hand tools, baking pans, fishing poles, telescopes, knitting needles, microscopes, oscilloscopes, musical instruments, and even puppies. Why not also reserve a couple of parking spaces for carsharing?
So there are plenty of ways libraries can continue to be relevant and cost-effective if we'll just open our minds to new uses for them.
Duverger's Law explains says that the reason is because we're still using the antiquated plurality voting system.
When one neighborhood wants a better police force but the other neighborhoods vote against raising taxes for that police force, it's tyranny of the masses. So one option for these neighborhoods is to secede--if the city lets them.
Let's all agree to vote for any candidate who offers to do whatever s/he can to abolish plurality voting. Duverger's Law says plurality voting is why we can have only two viable candidates at a time. Even an otherwise inept candidate who successfully puts into place Instant Runoff Voting or Condorcet will be a net benefit to his/her jurisdiction.
...security would quickly improve.
Duverger's Law says the reason we have only two viable candidates is because we're still using the antiquated plurality rule voting system. If we want more choices, we need to switch to something like Instant Runoff Voting or the Condorcet Method.
They should have built a "classic environment" to run the old e-mail client in the new OS until a native version of the e-mail client was available.
Does that include odometers? They track how far you drive.
Someday not only will the bots be able to solve the logic puzzles, but they will also be capable of rational thought, and soon after that we'll be looking for ways to weed out the humans!
I see what you're saying. All collisions can be avoided if the car that's about to be hit would simply move out of the way. That's brilliant! Now how do we monetize this?
Any lawyer who aids a patent troll ought to be disbarred.
I wish critical thinking were taught in schools, with a special emphasis on finding logical fallacies in things politicians say.
I wish more people understood why we have so few choices in elections.
And I wish the Union of Concerned Scientists had a political party arm so I could vote for them.
Instead of saving money by making existing infrastructure more efficient, such as by changing their tolls to variable congestion tolls as a means of permanently eliminating traffic congestion... they raise taxes.
First, the example you provide isn't a co-op laying fiber, it's a city doing it. And second, the end result was the telco rolling out fiber of their own, which is just what the citizens wanted in the first place.
You can create an ISP cooperative and bring fiber to your neighborhood.
At this point, higher contrast ratios, wider gamut color spaces, and higher frame rates would improve image quality more than increased resolutions.
Remote seismic sensors can detect earthquakes (which move at a little over the speed of sound) and transmit a signal to the trains (at the speed of light) which then immediately brake to a stop before the seismic wave hits.
Those displaced workers could work on assembly lines building potted plant moving robotics. At least until those assembly lines are replaced with robots. Then those workers could work on assembly lines building robots that build potted plant building robotics. Until...
Or maybe they'll look like Terry Gilliam's cutout animations.
That's an example is why we need to adopt a results-oriented, value-added methodology of assessing teachers based on how much their students improve relative to their peers taught by other teachers. Value-added corrects for external factors such as student backgrounds, parent involvement, and so on. What's left is a measurement of how much value the teacher alone brought to the classroom.
If your students started the course at the 40th percentile and ended at the 50th percentile, you're probably a better teacher than the one whose students started the course at the 60th percentile and ended at the 50th percentile.
Had such a methodology been in place at West Point, the instructor's students likely would have fallen behind relative to those of other instructors of the same course, and this would have given administrators some hard data to identify the inept instructor and take corrective action.
They should also fit cars with proximity sensors that automatically apply the brakes when you get too close to the car in front. Then if that car brakes, whether it's because of the glitch you describe or any other reason, you'll have enough time to brake to avoid a collision.
And therefore, you can get by with 1% or less of electrical generation providing the base load, and 99% or more in renewables. Efficient pricing facilitated by smart meters is all that's required to prevent brownouts and blackouts with such a ratio, if you know how to read a demand curve.
Except for the land under the nuclear reactor, of course.
Don't worry, eliminating market failures such as by reducing information asymmetry is the exact opposite of "meddling in the marketplace."
I forgive you, but it's sad when members of Congress wouldn't know a market failure if it slapped them upside the head. As another example, you'll have a tough time finding a Republican member of Congress who is able to define the term, "negative externality."