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Mar 8, 2020 00:22

@Mowzer I don't know the answer. I know enough to know that the question is more complex than it appears, and that this answer misses most of the important stuff.

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Mar 8, 2020 00:22

Non-rent controls on the renter are much stricter in Berlin than the USA, and there are good reasons why USA lessons are not transferable. Furthermore, there are externalities in play, so a superficial analysis may miss important pieces of the puzzle.

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EnergyNumbers

Apr 12, 2019 09:03

Does Peppa Pig really count as a notable claim?

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EnergyNumbers

Jan 23, 2019 06:15

@EricDuminil we can have (and indeed, several countries already have had) economic growth with reductions in primary energy consumption. Perhaps reading blogs isn't the best way to learn about these things after all?

EnergyNumbers

Jan 23, 2019 06:15

@EricDuminil alephzero is right. And we're already decoupling economic growth and primary energy consumption. An historic correlation is not the same as an unavoidable causality.

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EnergyNumbers

Jan 17, 2019 21:59

People, look here! This is how to answer. Concise, complete, and referenced.

Economics

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EnergyNumbers

Oct 26, 2018 13:30

I'm afraid we've always had a slow stream of bad money-supply questions. They've got worse, now that we've got so many programmers coming along with weak questions about cryptocurrencies, often poorly-disguised as being about valuing currencies generally.

EnergyNumbers

May 25, 2018 11:42

No users can see who voted. Not even mods. All any users can see is how many votes a user has cast - but not which questions and which answers they've cast them on. The only people who can see who has voted on which question, are the Stack Exchange employees who have access to the internal database.

EnergyNumbers

Feb 25, 2018 15:43

@a10ciod because at some point, your money will go into his pocket. He'll start you off with some small wins, and then quickly escalate to big losses with the occasional big win to keep you in the game, until he's emptied you out

EnergyNumbers

Feb 19, 2018 16:50

@a10ciod Trading Forex is a very efficient way of losing lots of money in a very short amount of time, while looking like it's a very good opportunity to do exactly the opposite.

EnergyNumbers

Jun 28, 2017 09:20

And now, this room has been unfrozen.

EnergyNumbers

Nov 10, 2016 13:14

@ahorn Didn't China effectively manage its exchange rates that way? It didn't have declared change-rate limits, but wasn't that how it managed it in practice? I think several countries have done this in practice - even if they haven't been upfront about what they were doing. And then there's the Tobin Tax, which has a similar objective, through a completely different mechanism.

EnergyNumbers

Nov 9, 2016 16:06

@ahorn So that would seem to answer your own question.

EnergyNumbers

Nov 9, 2016 14:06

@MHall If it specifically requires economics knowledge to answer, and meets the site guidelines, then post on economics.se. If it only requires maths knowledge to answer, and meets that site's guidelines, post it on math.se

EnergyNumbers

Nov 9, 2016 14:05

@ahorn What do you consider to be the key difference(s) in definition between "saving" and "investing"?

EnergyNumbers

Oct 14, 2016 12:22

@zaq Thanks - I've made a dent in them today. Here's the current list

EnergyNumbers

Sep 19, 2016 16:23

@Anoldmaninthesea. I didn't mean you - I don't know what you understand from the report - I was referring to the "money reform" people.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 19, 2016 11:13

@Anoldmaninthesea. A good report, but regrettably one of the most misunderstood and systematically mispresented pieces of work on the subject.

EnergyNumbers

Aug 16, 2016 14:35

@Anoldmaninthesea. it's a good place to bounce around a half-formed question if you would like some help in getting it into a condition where it can be asked on the main site. Or to ask economics questions that aren't suitable for the main site.

Sustainable Living

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EnergyNumbers

Jun 15, 2018 09:47

@THelper oh, thank you

EnergyNumbers

Dec 6, 2016 15:21

@Carpetsmoker It's easier to share information that's already publicly available. They're consistent enough with SE's own data.

EnergyNumbers

Dec 6, 2016 10:20

EnergyNumbers

Dec 6, 2016 10:20

Good news everyone! We just hit our highest-ever weekly visitor figures

EnergyNumbers

Nov 28, 2016 17:25

@J.Musser How kind, thank you. Glad you're around.

EnergyNumbers

Nov 14, 2016 12:37

@THelper Aww, thanks. Here's to the next 10 10K users!

EnergyNumbers

Nov 9, 2016 17:07

@THelper well done on hitting the list of Hot Network Questions with this! A few badges are heading your way now.

The 2nd Monitor

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EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 09:59

And as they're a high-rep user, I take their word for it.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 09:58

@Vogel612 then no, I don't understand. It seems only fair to warn folk that I need an answer to X, so it's no use to me or them if they answer Y. And I tried to express that, to which @Peilonrayz satid that Code Review therefore wasn't the appropriate place.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 09:54

@Vogel612 Haha, no, given it's got quite an overlap with stackoverflow, I think scold is probably the right word. Or "bitch" or "whine".

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 09:53

@Vogel612 But it's not fine to spur them into scolding people. That would be irresponsible of me. If they're that way inclined, they just need a bit of help and guidance.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 09:50

@Vogel612 No, that's ok. I'll leave it. I don't want to bounce people into making tools of themselves. That's what reddit is for.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 09:43

@Peilonrayz No, I'd just ignore it: I'm just trying to save people the effort of writing stuff that would be ignored.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 09:32

@Zeta Maybe. The array is a parameter in the fortran code. I'm now experimenting with reading in the data at runtime as unformatted data, to see what the hit on runtime actually is.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 06:47

I think I'm going to have to write a program that auto-generates part of the code. That's because there's a huge array initialisation, I don't have permission to release the actual data , and using fake numbers will be as useful to my question as using real numbers.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 06:46

@Zeta Thanks, yeah, I'm just trying to produce an MCVE - but it's going to be large.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 06:45

@Zeta is there somewhere sensible and well-trafficked to post chat about Code Review where it won't get swamped by bot clutter?

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 05:57

Advice? Suitable for Code Review? I guess I should include details of my compiler & compilation options, with the code.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 05:56

Things that are out of scope: does it look pretty; is it how a computer science purist would like it done; could a stranger maintain it; is it "fortrany" enough.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 05:56

Main objective: bring down memory use during compilation, or at least stop it rising too much when the large array at the centre of it, grows. However, program runtime must not get much longer than a few milliseconds. And ideally compile time should not get longer than a few seconds, but I could tolerate it getting to minutes if absolutely needed.

EnergyNumbers

Sep 4, 2017 05:56

I've got some code that I'd like reviewing, but my objective for the review is maybe borderline for this site.

The Ivory Tower

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EnergyNumbers

Jan 3, 2017 07:55

@ff524 Congrats! Now the real work starts!

What on Earth?

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EnergyNumbers

Dec 12, 2016 20:33

Q: Climate change hoax

I see many scientific articles and newspapers out there saying that the climate change is happening. Yet, there are people who believe climate change is a hoax and a lie. But I haven't seen any 'scientific' articles that support that climate change is a hoax. What are some reasons that some peop...

EnergyNumbers

Dec 12, 2016 20:33

If you've got over 3000 rep, please consider casting a delete vote on this:

EnergyNumbers

Oct 7, 2016 11:50

(as the answer is pretty much the same for components as for consumer items)

EnergyNumbers

Oct 7, 2016 11:49

Q: What is the most efficient way to deal with electronic wastes?

What is the most efficient way to deal with electronic wastes like old computers, tvs,etc. More specifically, there are some old CD's and DVD's with me. I don't want to just dump them in soil. What should I do with old CD's,DVD's and ancient floppy disks?

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EnergyNumbers

Oct 7, 2016 11:49

@NickAlexeev I would have said we'd take it on Sustainability.SE, but it would be a dupe:

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EnergyNumbers

Nov 26, 2016 23:30

Have you ever had to work for a living? If so, why didn't you do it for free?

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EnergyNumbers

Sep 14, 2016 09:15

@Dungarth the Nature article you linked to says in several places that there were more, and worse, errors in wikipedia than in Encyclopaedia Britannica - 162:123 in one case, 19:8 in the Mendeleev article. And any attentive educated reader should have spotted by now that unlike Britannica, wikipedia articles occasionally contain outright nonsense. Which, given that anyone can write in wikipedia, really should not be surprising.

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EnergyNumbers

Jul 9, 2016 05:18

@fredsbend no, that's not what "empircally" means. "Empirically" just means it's derived from observation. Fry doesn't make any claim of representativeness. That's something that's superimposed by some readers.

EnergyNumbers

Jul 9, 2016 05:18

@fredsbend and I'm not sure what you mean in your question by "someone of his calibre". You know what the Dictionary of National Celebrity said about him, right?