wildwood

Given that DynamoDB can reliably write in the 4-5ms range, a kinesis queue may not be necessary. Unless the point of the Kinesis layer is to keep the cost of DynamoDB provisioning low?

Also, six foot HDMI cables. Everybody needs those.

I hope that catches on.

Edit: can't believe I got the name wrong. Fixed.

If your website is already tracking ad performance on a per-ad basis (i.e., tracking all the clicks on that ad, and keeping what you pay per click below what you're getting per click), then optimizing for only the paid search traffic that's incremental, and not cannibalistic, is pretty straight-forward, conceptually.

For a given ad's keyword, instead of optimizing only for the results you get from PPC traffic, you treat your PPC bid as an input that affects sales across PPC and SEO traffic for that keyword, and optimize accordingly.

There are a few extra steps and decisions that need to be made before full implementation, but this is the basic idea. It's actually not too bad to account for.

The right side has 4 out of 6 of the vowels and 3 out of 4 of the other sonorants, which could easily be argued to be the more sonorous or pleasing sounds in a word. 7 out of the 11 right-hand letters fall into one of those categories.

By contrast, the left side is only 3/15 sonorants. Further, the left side has all the sibilants and a strong majority of the stops.

Pointing out that right-side letters correlate with agreeability is an interesting finding. Claiming that which side of the keyboard the letters are on is the _causal_ factor for agreeability strikes me as lazy.

I read through a breakdown in one of the Basic Income books, of what it would cost just to get a $10,000/year basic income. Here's just some of the changes that would be needed:

* cut military spending by a third; * get rid of ethanol subsidies; * get rid of mortgage interest tax breaks; * get rid of "married filing jointly/separately" filing status, make everyone file just for themselves

And that's just the ones that jumped out at me. Virtually all tax loopholes would have to be gotten rid of, and more. All for just the $10K/year basic income level.

So, just as a question of the political cost to implement, Basic Income seems like a laughable non-starter.

There've always been lots of people who would say that the next wave of immigrants is unneeded, and unwanted. No matter how successful they turned out to be.

Giving this amount of money to every person in Switzerland would total almost half of the country's GDP.

Even if you exclude children and get the total amount down around 30% of GDP, you're still right around the total amount of money that the Swiss government takes in in a year.

So to get this basic income with no new taxes, the Swiss government would have to abandon all its other obligations. Or, put another way, to fund this and still function at the same level, the Swiss government would have to double its tax income.

And you're probably only paying 10% in state tax if you live in California. Most other states' income tax are around 5 or 6 percent, and some are at zero.

Sorry, but this is just wrong. Anyone who first learned English as an adult can improve their accent from strong to mild over time, with effort, if they choose to. If they live in an immersive English-speaking environment, this will often happen without conscious effort, as long as they value communication.

Anyone whose strongly-accented English doesn't improve after a few years in-country doesn't value communicating well. (Either that, or they just spend all their time in a native-language enclave.) And someone who doesn't value communicating well should not be in the role of CEO.