Mvandenbergh

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by Mvandenbergh 5y ago
Understanding the nuances of ownership and who is responsible for what is quite an important skill for corporate lawyers.
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100%. The reality is that most managers have done little to no thinking about (nor have they ever been formally trained on) actual management. So when taken out of the environment in which they "learned" to manage, largely through
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That is definitely true but I would suggest that it is a societal choice about basic values that makes it so. I'm not saying I personally disagree with that choice but we should see it as one rather than just the obvious. Schools could
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Sure but then isn't the outcome that the kid clearly struggles in the class and then drops back down? There's nothing wrong with that either.
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ASHPs are still well above 100% at the kind of temperatures reached in Texas during this period.
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IT's the only US market that doesn't have one. No European country has a capacity market except for the UK (and that one was preposterously held up in court for a period of time).
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The issue is will the cavity system allow water to penetrate to the inner leaf which is bad and will cause internal dampness. Cavities can be carefully partially filled with some type of insulation which allows the water soaking through the
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>Bearing in mind how much profit a lot of home builders make, increasing the regulations is likely to add at least £20K to a basic house, significantly more if you include mechanical ventilation, triple-glazed windows and heat pumps (per
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Effectively it isn't allowed since the whole building has to meet a minimum efficiency standard which would be impossible to meet with U=2 windows throughout. My double glazed windows have a U value of 1.2 and typical for triple is 0.8
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I work on energy systems modelling and how domestic thermal performance interfaces with that - the UK has not just "one of the oldest in Europe" it actually has the oldest in the world. Many European countries had a lot more post
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Moving insulation outside the frame also helps reduce the effect of thermal bridging although with timber that's not so important as it is with steel.
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One of the advantages of China's large and diverse reactor programme is that when they are building FOAK designs and something comes up that holds up the work (as it did on both their AP1000 and their EPR builds), they put their nuclea
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Yes, their website says they have a thermal store.
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They started building it before detailed design was done which is always the case with construction projects but they really misjudged how early they could start. As a result, whenever they had to stop to review an element of the constructi
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Yeah. It would have to be a business where the assets of the operating business were themselves somehow subject to the blockchain logic but I can't see how that would work.
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So it seems. That does mean that there is a non-scam explanation from where genuine returns come from but doesn't solve the bigger problem since the consequences of a major disruption to the traded assets could cause massive losses. Is
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The flipside of that is that the effective capital markets we have depend on a level of trust which could easily be eroded. There were weeks this year where I saw advertisements all over London for DeFi products and cryptocurrency trading p
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Maybe I'm missing something, but there's something that I don't get about DeFi. My understanding of the idea is this: 1) Using distributed code, the operation of which is assured by code on a blockchain based system like Ethe
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Would be quite funny if the scammers were hard-core Bogleheads dumping everything into ultra-low-fee index funds.
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I work on energy systems modelling and while there is, of course, an element of existing players wanting to find a way for their assets to survive, the reality is that every single decision maker who is actually involved in this knows the s
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This is nonsense. This guy is an automotive journalist and if he or his editors had used "Hydrogen personal cars are a cult," he would have had a point and I would have agreed with him. Literally everything he has said is specific
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The US is actually quite far in the "monist" side of the spectrum when it comes to ratified treaties but it has such a divided and dysfunctional political culture coupled with an executive which has wide latitude in foreign affair
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The entire US military and intelligence apparatus? If you want to know names, just look at the most senior people in the intelligence world. Good luck.
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The elected governments of the US and UK and the laws they've passed?
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This was inevitable to anyone who read the original ruling. What I said 11 months ago: " actually don't think this is such great news for him. Extradition was specifically blocked on the grounds of a particular regime he might be
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>For example: USA war against Afghanistan. The US successfully invoked NATO article 5 after 9/11 requiring all NATO members to assist militarily.
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This is not the case. The protection from vaccination is both higher and more consistent than natural infection with Covid-19. The very best immunity observed is in people who have been naturally infected and subsequently vaccinated (I don&
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Sure, I agree with you that even in a low cost, rural part of Italy (or the US) nobody is living like a tv rich guy on 25k-35k (probably what it would be safe to count on if you're young when you stop working). You're not flying p
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Electricity to hydrogen followed by conversion to liquid and cryogenic transport is about 65% lossy. That doesn't mean you would never do it given cheap enough input electricity but it's not the easy answer.
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Parental leave temporarily moves labour output from the measurable "economy" to the non-measured domestic economy (and displaces a small amount of what would otherwise be wage-labour childcare by non-parents). Children raised in t

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