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Is this really better than just keeping them? Then he has to use some type of plugin to accept those cookies every time he visits the same sites? Otherwise that js-enabled browser sounds just as inconvenient as his js-disabled browser he uses as his default.
Administration of 5 people instead of 4, is that really a pro from an employers perspective?
Isn't that a valid argument still (despite his Swiss semi-counter-example)? Many jobs are complicated these days and require education + experience, making it very hard for women who want to work and become economically independent to have kids early in life; when they are most fertile.
I also think his Swiss example is somewhat misleading, since he argues that Switzerland has few women working (56%), and also a low birthrates (1.4). So at least 44% of the women have time to have babies, then Swiss birthrates should be high. But a friend of mine is from Switzerland, and his wife stopped working after they had a child (she has a PhD in biology as well, so highly educated). Schools typically send children home for 3 hours in the middle of the day (lunch/siesta or whatever you want to call it). Somebody has to be home, and that very often ends up being the mother. And after you've been out of the working life for a long period of time, getting back can be difficult. I.e. it could be that one of the reasons the Swiss women are hesitant to have children, is that they know that it will most likely end their career; so the implication could go the other way.
Wouldn't that be every dentist's nightmare? Who gonna want that root canal or crown when they can just pull + regrow?
Hmm, not really what I expected to be honest.
A friend of a friend of mine sold his business many years ago, and after he had sailed the globe, he took a plane to New Zealand and bought a Harley Davidson motorcycle down there. The he drove it back to Norway; using 6 months to do so (some ferry rides along the way of course); but not a bad way to spend half a year on the planet.
Yes, it is a very well written summary of what has been going on with SAT solvers in the last decades. I personally think most of this (r)evolution can be attributed to miniSAT. A relatively easy to read (at least compared to other theorem provers), free software implementation of a SAT solver, with instantiations if I remember correctly. Since variables only have two possible valuations (true/false) in boolean logic, they can be instantiated and the problem can be split up, and sometimes greatly simplified in doing so. I.e. we can replace each occurrence of variable 'a' with 'true' to make a new smaller problem, and then replace each occurrence variable 'a' with 'false' to make another smaller problem. I.e. split 1 problem into 2 simpler problems, and solve them in parallel etc.
That does not take a lot of trust, after a few rounds with that compiler. At least error messages are good with the Rust compiler. I've got very limited experience with Rust, but it does seem like a language with a massive threshold for beginners.
There are other ways of seeing this. It can start the other way around for instance. I.e. if you end up on the streets; both drugs and alcohol can numb the pain of your current situation, slowly but surely giving you a drug problem on top of your homelessness problem.
I fully agree about what can easily happen if we just offered free housing to people with severe drug problems. I'm just wondering if we are using that as an excuse not to help people with something we know is an effective method.
Even people with serious drug problems must have a much better chance of kicking their habit if they can avoid living in a tent or under a bridge. How do these horrible conditions with constant fear of being robbed/raped help them kick their habit?
> Help needs to be directed on the root cause and issues and homelessness is a symptom, not a cause.
Lets assume that the root cause is child abuse, i.e. they are on drugs due to being molested, i.e. molestation is the "root cause". How are we helping that person better by allowing them to live in a place like skid row, where they say that almost 100% of the women living there have been raped (while living there)? I'm just not seeing how the tent/under-a-bridge lifestyle adds anything to our "assistance/help" here?
Reminds me of the old Fran Lebowitz bit about homelessness, where she says they insist on calling it homelessness, since that makes it sound unsolvable. You really can't buy people a home. If they called it houselessness it would be too easily solvable.
Seems like a pretty big problem if that's the case for any of those touch controls on a stove; perhaps they're even worse than I thought :-)
No, it's not induction. The BOSCH stoves with induction all have that nutty touch interface :/
How were these stove-top touch-buttons ever considered an upgrade to their predecessor? They always have no feedback, or that annoyingly high "beep" feedback. They are always slow to respond. They typically use only two or three buttons to control the actual temperature, forcing you to select location first, which is typically slow and terrible as well. Nobody in their right mind can prefer these to the good old separate knobs which we used to have; which my relatively new stove still has (they still exist luckily). I'll add a link to the one I have, for others looking for stove's without the annoying touch controls.
https://www.bosch-home.no/produktliste/komfyr-ovn-platetopp-...
My problem with long road trips in an EV are not just the time added. Especially if you drive across Europe and rely on the supercharger network, you will notice that they are very often located in the middle of nowhere; next to a gas station or McDonald's. Not cool places to hang out for 45 minutes. There was one supercharger on my way to Spain (I think it was outside Bremen?) that was located next to a shopping mall, or "factory outlets" for Puma/Adidas etc. At that location 45 minutes flies by like nothing, it's actually to little time. But at some random gas-station, hotel or McDonald's in the middle of nowhere, 45 minutes feels way to much…
EV's won't be better for you any time soon; unless the solid state batteries with a higher energy density become the norm. For long road trips, ICE vehicles are more convenient. That being said; I've drive an electric car (Model S) twice from Norway to Spain (3700 km ~ 2300 miles), so it's definitely doable, but it does add time compared to a doing the same trip with a regular ICE car. At highway speeds you can probably add 1 hour per every 2-3 hours of driving.
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The ones we got for our house was ordered with noise reduction, but I think that basically just meant that they did not have that little valve at the top of the windows (ventil in Norwegain perhaps also in Sweedish?).
My situation is somewhat special since I have a very old house (built around 1850) made from a timber frame construction (timmerkoja in Sweedish I guess?). So the walls were extremely poorly insulated, basically just some wool (or something similar, not 100% sure what it was) between the beams as they were put on top of each other during the build. Regular boards where added on both sides of the timber frame, but no additional insulation until we renovated the house.
The 50 year old punctured double glaze windows - that came with the house were not doing too much in terms of insulation either.
Any insulated wall will probably be better than windows, but at least here in Norway, there are a bunch of old poorly insulated houses, with double glazed windows as most everyone got these things installed when they came out:
Husmorvinduet (housewife windows) was popular since they were so simple to clean; and electricity was cheap until quite recently I guess. But any wall with actual insulation will probably beat windows for insulation; although newer windows are not as terrible as the once were.
> so I wanted references for companies that actually sell things in Scandinavia
I guess they are manufactured elsewhere; but I think the ones we ordered was delivered from Røros-vindu, but I could not find any info about actual R/U-value for the windows on their website. Just some info about what types of gas they contain and so on.
It's the walls must be X, windows must be Y:
https://dibk.no/regelverk/byggteknisk-forskrift-tek17/14/14-...
That varies greatly I think. There are a lot of old houses here; built to a very different standard than a modern house. Double glazed windows has been the norm for a long time though, through the invention of the easy to clean husmorvinduet or h-vinduet:
Husmor translates to housewife, vindu to window (housewife window). Easy to clean, since they can flip around, i.e. you can wash the outside from the inside. So for most older homes, I guess it's a mix.
For new buildings; what you say holds true I think.
Speaking for myself here, my house was built around 1850-1861 (no one really knows when it was made exactly). Timber construction covered with boards on both sides; but with minimal insulation (until we started renovating the house).
There are stricter rules for building new homes now, then what they had in the 1850's of course :-). A new house built now should follow the TEK17 standard made into law in 2017 (prior versions are the TEK10 standard from 2010, TEK07 from 2007, TEK97 from 1997 etc.). They regulate everything, from how much area you should have outside to how big a shed you can set up I think. Eco friendliness is an important category though; and these are the minimum requirements that came up with a google search (in Norwegian) for your question:
https://dibk.no/regelverk/byggteknisk-forskrift-tek17/14/14-...
Unfortunately in Norwegian as well, but they do state how much a wall/roof etc is allowed to leak; i.e. U value. As you can see (with Goole translate at least), walls should have better insulation than windows at minimum at least.
I don't notice a difference now that I have two double glazed windows on top of each other (kobla vindu - I don't know the English word for it), I'll include a picture here:
https://spesialvinduer.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Skaara_...
New windows here in Norway are often triple or quadruple glazed, and they have a pretty good R-value; so they are not that much worse than average walls at least.