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by stdbrouw 2y ago
I am really happy for you if that has been your experience, and I fully acknowledge that the fact that the extremely neurotic style of modern parenting so many people seem to practice is incompatible with pretty much anything does not imply
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
This is mentioned in the article, but it's important to know that this is not just some Italian novelty, there has been a worldwide effort to figure out how to tax digital services provided by multinational companies in a way that make
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
In Europe it is to some extent, with the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. Shades or awnings aren't required, but for every new building or renovation the overheating potential must be calculated and gets added to the building
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
Multiple imputation simply means you impute multiple times and run the analysis on each complete (imputed) dataset so you can incorporate the uncertainty that comes from guessing at missing values into your final confidence intervals and su
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
This information is completely meaningless unless compared to other sources of energy production and other sources of pollution.
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
I'm not a physicist so I can't answer that question, though personally I trust in her expertise and really loved her book Lost in Math, but many of her most recent videos and tweets are not about physics at all but instead about n
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
Ah, I guess things are a bit different in Europe with 230V. My corded chainsaw is 2400W (10A) and my corded wood chipper is 2800W (12A). I've also heard that our extension cords are typically thinner (1.5mm2 gauge) and easier to handle
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
Corded chainsaws, hedge cutters, strimmers, wood chippers etc. are not really feasible for rural parcels or for professional gardeners, but in my opinion for a larger suburban plot they really hit the sweet spot and are often overlooked: no
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
I'd add to those the necessity to have some distance from the material to avoid the recency effect. You can have that distance either because you'll be talking about something you haven't worked on for at least a couple of we
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
"Good enough" makes it sound like barely a step up from a CSV file. I'd say its support for various encodings [1] including a great default (dictionary + run length encoding on the indices) and compression algorithms that can
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Or the other way around: as a tax with a Georgist flavor. If your land has a value of $x/m^2 when free of zoning restrictions, but your neighborhood really wants to keep it free of noise / traffic / high buildings or high den
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Yeah, when I was looking into this a couple of years ago, thermal panels were about 4 times as efficient as photovoltaic panels, but they were also 4 times as expensive. The ratio has probably shifted in favor of photovoltaics since then. I
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Going off on a tangent here, but there's an inherent tension to "make no claims without support" when support typically refers to citations. The academic literature has become so large that you find support for almost any cla
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
> A spokeswoman for the Association for Home Appliance Manufacturers says [...] data last updated in 2019 shows that the average life of an appliance has “not substantially shifted over the past two decades.” So, unless she is lying, the
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
That's one way to put it. Another would be to say that an appliance is (or should be) designed to last for approximately the amount of time it is likely to be in use, as people often upgrade old machines that haven't failed becaus
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
That's a good point and a legitimate reason to get rid of the pool, but I guess I was talking more about often-voiced worries that big artists are getting richer and indie artists are getting poorer due to Spotify's algorithm -- a
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Well, sure, but whether an artist gets the full amount or a pittance from their label is not relevant to the question of whether Spotify's pooled numbers are unfair to some artists. The ultimate payout is not something Spotify has a sa
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
This has always seemed like fear-mongering to me, because for the pooled proportion of plays to be completely different from the mean of the per-user proportion, there would need to be an extreme discrepancy in amount of songs listened to p
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
A linear relationship between any transformation of the outcome and any transformation of the predictor variables — so the function is linear but the relationship between predictors and outcome can take on almost any shape.
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
How cheaply do you think you can run a clinical trial with human patients in the absence of bureaucracy? I imagine increased insurance and recruitment costs would eat up the difference.
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Your experience also points to the limits of monitoring and subsequent behavioral change, though. I mean, yeah, it might prompt you to start your washing machine a bit earlier or a bit later to align with high production by your solar panel
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Actually, no, people don't generally copy-paste parts of each others' literature review sections.
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
I mean, I guess you could call Claudine Gay a cargo culter because she used a particular method without fully understanding its assumptions, but if you set the bar that high then almost nothing is going to pass. If you've ever been i
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Thanks for taking the time to answer, fascinating!
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
I think it makes perfect sense. Modern EPDM or fiber-reinforced bitumen roofs are very unlikely to leak before it's time to replace or renovate them after 25 years or so. They provide ample space for solar panels and for a heat pump, a
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
I dunno, I'm not a stickler for details. For example, I know that windows with many small panes ("muntins") are not cost-effective today and partially defeat the benefits of double and triple glazing, and the alternatives (fa
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Yeah, I think the building you show is a pretty good example of what Twu would like to see: one big mass, made pretty with consoles, balconies and cornices. You can do a more modern style too, though. I especially like Persian-inspired mode
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
At first glance, these look nice to me? Perhaps they look silly up close. I'm not sure what you mean by impractical though, I don't consider tall and narrow to be essential to the style, though many of the 18th and 19th century t
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
I feel we should bring back Georgian architecture [1]: on the one hand it is quite plain and so it fits well with modern sensibilities (and modern budgets that don't allow for a lot of faff, and the lack of skilled labor), but because
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Ironically, we're also losing a lot of efficiency because cities are demanding setbacks, bumps, differences in height etc. for bigger buildings to avoid ending up with drab rectangular blocks, but that leads to more heat loss due to mo

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