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by zhdc1 4y ago
Population density. Post WW2 suburban communities had small roads (road width is a major factor in, i.e., how fast people feel safe driving), sidewalks, and - in general - were designed for a higher population density because this is what p
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by zhdc1 4y ago
It’s one thing to accomodate cars, it’s another for the entire landscape to optimize against them. The average suburban family in the 1980s had a car. They also had well maintained sidewalks, civic organisations, and - in many cases - store
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by zhdc1 4y ago
It's really not all that similar. The emphasis is very much on the local government, more so than really anywhere else in the world (that I know of). There are some states where local governments matter. There are more where power is c
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by zhdc1 4y ago
There are two tables in the appendix (S1 & S2) where they break down each of the datasets and provide an overview of the associated course and grade level.
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by zhdc1 4y ago
> It is very much possible to co-sleep and then gradually transition them to their own bed A counter argument (trigger warning): https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/zls30p/cosleeping/ We co
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by zhdc1 4y ago
> It's a maxim that guerrilla wars succeed with a lot of external help and supply, if they succeed at all, Not true. Show me where in "On Guerrilla Warfare" Zedong - an expert on the American and French Revolutions - claim
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by zhdc1 4y ago
Checks my CV: 50k+ lines of R, 10k+ lines of Julia, 5k+ in Python, C, and who knows what else. Most of it for what is, essentially, data engineering work. Where do researchers with social science degrees fall on this scale? Less money, less
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by zhdc1 4y ago
Somewhat surprised that there's a separate job category for what sounds like large-scale data cleaning and aggregation work (which IMO is 90%+ of the effort involved with data science). Anyway, I'm going to go back to my 5K+ lines
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by zhdc1 4y ago
Open code and data. It's de rigueur in a lot of the more prominent social science journals for obvious reasons. I will say, however, that we need to be very clear about making a distinction between bad methods and intentional malfeasan
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by zhdc1 4y ago
I’m not that worried. Monthly subscriptions work mainly because they’re impulse buys. The mental impact of paying three-four figures a year for a subscription is different from a 3.99 app store payment. This will benefit some folks. I imagi
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by zhdc1 4y ago
The flip side is that the manufacturer loses leverage once the warranty period of over. Harder for BEVs where everything is electronically controlled. It’s a different story if there’s a physical motor and you can edit or bypass the ECU.
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by zhdc1 4y ago
In the states, dealerships make more from financing kickbacks than from the actual sale. One of the strategies I hear about online is working with the dealership to take out financing with the implicit understanding that you’ll wait to pay
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by zhdc1 4y ago
Assuming that initial assumptions about resale values and reliability hold out, leasing vs financing is essentially a wash. You’re either paying for the whole car with interest with equal payments over a period of time or you’re opting for
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by zhdc1 4y ago
It’s essentially been like that in the tuner scene for a while. The only difference is that, instead of immediately opting for a chip or retune, you now have the option to pay a monthly fee to keep your warranty.
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by zhdc1 4y ago
1. The Medallion Fund went insider-only 17+ years ago. The best explanation for their performance - assuming it's legitimate, since the fund itself isn't audited - is that they use an extreme amount of leverage to multiply "s
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by zhdc1 4y ago
GNU Thaler for central-bank regulated digital currencies.
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by zhdc1 4y ago
> They're human institutions Anything that involves a person one both ends of a transaction chain inherently has one or more 'human institution' dependencies.
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by zhdc1 4y ago
There are some legitimate use cases for decentralized ledgers and other "crypto-like" tech. As far as I'm aware, none of those involve anything that looks remotely like financial speculation.
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> If its not completely clear by now: no, these companies can't promise you 8% APY without essentially running a ponzi scheme. I'm sure even Madoff had some good years during bull runs It's almost impossible to beat the ma
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by zhdc1 4y ago
My son is expected to walk to and from school without parental support once he starts kindergarten. We don't live in the states.
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> My kindergarten teacher has a Model 3, so that's not really luxury at all. Dual incomes make this a weak metric. The Model 3 also retails for the same price as the BMW 5 series and Mercedes-Benz E class.
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by zhdc1 4y ago
Expectations are simply different once you step into the luxury segment. Tesla, pre Model 3, had real issues that went beyond panel gaps. Modern Tesla is doing much better, but they're competing against established players who differen
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> Am curious what peoples experiences from Montessori transitioning to other education systems was like and how they perceived the school worked or didn't for then? Have some children decisions and looking for outside opinions! Than
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> If the investemnt bank issuing the index fund goes bankrupt, you lose your money - see Lehman Brothers. The actual assets are held by a separate custodian.
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Courses in almost all universities are evaluated. Those evaluations actually do matter.
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by zhdc1 4y ago
The author of the original study used VIIRS, which is essentially a large CCD sensor(s) on the Soumi-NPP weather satellite. The overview for the actual data product is at: https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/missions-and-
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by zhdc1 4y ago
They do, though. Many factories, railways, transportation hubs, ports, &c operate 24x7. Particularly in countries where manufacturing is the predominant industry. You can also use nighttime light data to learn about levels and patterns
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I do a reasonable amount of empirical work with VIIRS VNP46A* data (the remote sensing platform and data product(s) used for the nighttime light data analysis). GDP estimates from nighttime light data are possible but often inaccurate. Befo
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Excellent advice!
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by zhdc1 4y ago
Second Proxmox. While our footprint is likely much smaller than many of the other folks on here, it's been a life saver for managing LXCs.

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