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That's what I said I think.. the law is about making it exist and the standard for being allowed to make it is dictated by the REB - so that's a moving target, you can't say specifically what would be allowed today will be allowed 5 years from now.
> New York City is .. a place where elites leverage ethnic conflict to garner votes
This is sort of an hilarious assertion at this moment in time.. I mean, elites didn't pick Eric Adams to be mayor of NYC.. they think he is a buffoon!
That is not categorically true, PHIPA requires research ethics board to review research disclosures to determine if consent is required. So what is "too much" information that might violate privacy under Ontario law is a moving target, as our ability to violate privacy with less and less information progresses the standard should be more and more restrictive.
Research use of course does not mean that the data needs to be public, as in my example, and raw data is often not made public. In your example it was, if that same database were created today I am confident the ethics board enlisted to review the disclosure would disallow it.
Is it? New York City grew from 60,000-ish to 3 million from 1800 to 1900 - did a person from Europe that move to New York city in 1816 or 1876 immigrate or settle? They were not getting 40 acre land grants!
Why would a Guatemalan immigrant + a sixth generation Appalachian add less value to American society than only a single sixth generation Appalachian?
> Where does this thought process come from?
Immigration is a source of economic growth at a certain threshold. China doesn't need net immigration because they have too much labour relative to their economic potential, India likewise. The Japanese on the other hand are indeed considering changing their position on immigration because of a labour imbalance.. in 1995 Japan's per capita GDP was nearly double Canada's.. now Canada is crushing Japan - which has become a nation of retirees. Now perhaps there is a magic formula to generate levels of productivity that can offset the fertility issues that come with prosperity but no nation has managed to find it. The fact of the matter is that all modern research seems to indicate that poorer nations waste labour, rich ones lack it - so net immigration works out to be a win-win in general. (The specifics of skilled immigration is more complicated, there are of course some market inefficiencies in all things.) Japan has invested a lot of public resources into figuring out how to age & grow and they've aged and not grown, if you have a solution to offer them that has worked elsewhere I know they would be excited to hear it.
It would be very surprising to find a large number of Guatemalans saying “what we need to improve this country is a bunch of non-Guatemalans” where non-Guatemalans implied "cheaper labour" because they have lots of cheap labour doing absolutely nothing productive.
It is a violation because of the lack of consent, but it is also a violation because now you have to live with the fact that maybe some other information can link you to that picture in the future. There is no such thing as perfect privacy if any link can be created in the future, and the fear of the creation of that link going forward is itself a problem for the subject.
This is a silly thing to include on the list since it doesn't seem to be true?
But regardless of that if you are launching a new service business and you've got $5MM is sales and you need to hit $8MM in your second full year of operation to become profitable, I'll call that almost profitable!
So as far as I can tell they lost 318K, but they don't need to grow gross revenue by very much to close the profitability gap.
2040 is only 17 years away! Houses from the 1970's and 1980's are selling for top dollar today in suburbs all over North America, if the expected life spans of those structures were only 17 years they'd be worthless.
Where I am from the late 60's and early 70's homes are the worst quality ones on the markets, really a terrible time for home building. The issues are all foundations, plumbing, and wiring.
It certainly could be the case that something like spray foam degrades over very long periods of time.. but you'd have to figure the savings from the enhanced insulation value over that period would more that pay for its replacement.
If "older growth wood is more stable and more likely to resist moisture" it still stands that any wood can perform well in the absence of excess moisture.
I certainly agree that my 120+ year old house made of fir would last much longer with a leaky roof than a house from the 1960's or 1990's with a leaky roof.. but all of those houses would be unfit for occupancy while they deteriorate.
75 years ago is 1957 by my reckoning, you have some example of 75 year old houses deteriorating because of the quality of wood in the absence of moisture penetration?
There is no point in having a structure that is uninhabitable due to moisture penetration that still stands except for the purposes of salvaging it.. which I guess has some value..
My personal opinion is that building built to code today will stand for 100+ years no problem, buildings built in the 70's, 80's and 90's to code in many places will also do so if moisture (Rh) mitigations are reasonably executed (lots of mould & vapour barrier issues in that era). Older houses don't face the moisture issues because they are not as well sealed and as with all structures - keep a good roof on them and they are fine.
Framing wood quality doesn't matter, how fast that wood rots is a question of every other material used in the construction of the envelope.
https://www.ahp.id/brighter-days-ahead-as-indonesias-ministr...
Reading the details is seems like it is still pretty true that there are regulations that don't allow households to sell power back to the grind. There are not regulations forbidding the practice but even with these reforms the practice seems regulated in a way to make it difficult and give the power generation and distribution companies total control:
"Like the previous regime, the New Regulation limits the capacity of the rooftop solar system installed by the customer of such system within the business area of a state-owned entity holding an IUPTLU to 100% of their connected power. However, rooftop solar customers whose systems are connected to other IUPTLU holders besides a state-owned entity may be subject to a different limitation as determined by the relevant IUPTLU holders. These holders must declare their respective limitation on an annual basis.."
My reading of this is that it is now possible for a IUPTLU to allow someone to offset more than 100% of their electricity usage but it is not required for any of them to provide that option, just register the terms with the regulator.
It was probably a risk hedge from them.. he would have wanted a lot more for the full enchilada and they didn't know how it would perform in the future. And now his work is not hard to reproduce so it wasn't a bad call. Every political data team I have heard reporting on essentially concedes that whatever they do ends up more-or-less matching 538.. so it is hard to extract surplus value but also easy to hit that mark roughly.
I follow the NHL and there are a lot of models, they disagree in certain details but they largely agree and the "winner" at the end of any given season isn't winning by much.. even private data isn't a big boost.
Isn't this what the Skype guys pulled off with Microsoft too?
> But is it good for people to know who is more likely to win an election? Are these predictions beneficial to society or democracy?
Two points:
1. The model DO NOT tell you who will win the upcoming election.
2. It is absolutely beneficial to society and democracy, having a poll-free & rigorous-analysis-free democratic society means an environment where even the most apolitical citizen can be bamboozled into thinking that an election was "stolen" simply based on their close associates and news sources. Polling and aggregation, when executed with a modicum of accountability, prevents a devolution into a Soviet-style culture of paranoia particularly among the elites. It has tremendous value, that value will be backfilled by rumour and innuendo and that is very bad for society.
Requiring new builds to have even more electrical capacity and more robust incoming infrastructure is a win-win-win situation and hopefully that is what code & consumers demand.
Likewise for a heat pump, right?
Does this "power out for days after a winter storm" thing actually happen very often? I am from Manitoba and my worst-ever experience was 10-11 hours when it was very, very cold out in 35+ years.
One of the things you may be missing is that the article is about "efficiency" as opposed to total impact.
"researchers found that 83% of insect visits to bramble flowers were made during the day. While the moths made fewer visits during the shorter summer nights, notching up only 15% of the visits, they were able to pollinate the flowers more quickly."
Moths are doing great work, but they don't have much time to do the work in and they are not doing the bulk of the work. Also it seems that the night pollinators actually may largely work different flowers than the day pollinators so one can't necessarily pick up the load left by the absence of the other.
Anyhoo.. anyone that wants advice about making friends locally my only offering is go volunteer at a local community organization, help run the local community hall or skating rink, you'll meet interesting people with pro-social views. If you find people like that to be around what you find is that being their friends is pretty easy.