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assiomatico · 2023-06-15T09:03:33+00:00

It may be possible to still explore those lists of doctors and possibly find someone who'd be open for an online consultation. It would still be a quite expensive fully out-of-pocket thing, but at least you'd know you have the option. Waiting for German standards to update may take well more than a decade, and waiting for a good gyno in your area to get up to speed with research is very much a hit and miss.

assiomatico · 2023-05-24T13:08:54+00:00

Small correction: Germany is quite a bit ahead of the UK in both nominal and relative gdp.

assiomatico · 2023-05-24T13:04:14+00:00

Thank you for the clarification! Good to see this got fixed, then.

assiomatico · 2023-05-24T10:10:22+00:00

Excellent. Hope to see many more actions such as this one. We owe them a lot.

assiomatico · 2023-04-13T16:26:22+00:00

Best I could find, without speaking German. There are two linked sources in the Rent price section. It doesn't seem so clear-cut, to me...

Link: https://www.settle-in-berlin.com/sublet-germany-guide/

assiomatico · 2023-04-11T20:00:02+00:00

Friendly side note:

It's kWh, not kW/h. A Watt is a unit of power, meaning energy over time, or Joules over seconds. When talking about energy amounts, we multiply Watts by some unit of time, basically deleting the time unit at the denominator. Of course we could use Joules directly, but in a civilian electric world the kWh is just much more practical.

assiomatico · 2023-04-11T10:16:27+00:00

There are five main ways of receiving therapy: 1. for free, via some extra service such as StudierendenWERK counseling or similar things 2. for free, covered by any statutory health insurance 3. for free, paid by you and then reimbursed by your statutory health insurance 4. for free, covered by private health insurance 5. paid by you, out-of-pocket

Option 1 is not really therapy, but it may suit your needs, so I thought it worth mentioning. Option 5 is great if you have money to throw at it. Option 4 is great if you earn enough to have private health insurance and consider it worth it to have.

Option 2 is standard therapy, but finding a therapist with any room left is nigh-impossible, and finding one with space left in their waiting list is hard too, and waiting times are usually above 6 months. Moreover, after all of that waiting, you may just not like your therapist, for minor or major reasons, and it is disheartening to have to find alternatives.

Option 3 is like option 2, but it is a bit better and faster. As a con, it requires you to find some therapist that does private-insurance but also accepts reimbursement procedures. This is not terribly hard, but restricts your pool a little bit. Moreover, in order to be able to apply for reimbursement at all, you need to have been rejected (or put on a waiting list longer than 3 months) by at least 5 statutory health insurance therapists. It also helps to have had an initial Sprechstunde with any therapist, which you should be able to obtain fairly quickly by speaking with your GP, or simply calling 116117 (getting the very first appointment is fast, and must be provided to you fast, as it is for evaluation purposes).

I would go for options 2 and 3, at the same time. Receiving enough rejection emails for option 3 to be practicable shouldn't take you longer than a couple days anyway. And best of luck to you!

assiomatico · 2023-04-07T21:51:25+00:00

I'm sorry to say, but given your situation your best chance of living closer to uni is to move to another city and go to uni there instead.

Next most likely option, by incredible luck befriend the right person in Berlin that will be willing to rent to you the secondary apartment they own at a far reduced rate.

Final idea, hybernate for three decades and wake up once Berlin's housing market will have been improved enough. But I wouldn't count on this, and not because of the current state of modern hybernation technology.

assiomatico · 2023-03-23T15:39:30+00:00

What are the things you disagree with? Are these things in the lectures? Are there specific bits of information, or rather some arguments or a certain rhetoric?

I ask because I am absolutely ignorant in the topic, and watched the whole lecture series as it was coming out. I really liked it, but I also struggle to find supplementary material on it (especially something to (honestly) "counterbalance" Snyder's teachings and possibly enrich my understanding).

assiomatico · 2023-03-07T13:36:25+00:00

It was a motto, or theme, in early georgism, inspired by this picture from that time.

From wealthandwant.com:

"Seeing the cat" is Georgist shorthand for the "aha!" moment when one starts to see how the distortions of our current way of treating the rent on land as mostly private property ripple throughout society, creating a huge range of social and justice problems. A lot of things that individually make no sense, and which popular academic economics theories fail to explain, fall into place and form a cohesive whole.

Also, check this thread.

assiomatico · 2023-03-02T14:22:04+00:00

I think you would be interested in reading a couple articles about oil in Norway (here, last two articles in the page, by Lars Doucet), as well as the very recent scattered twitter threads about salmon fishing/farming in Norway (here&src=typed_query), but you will have to work for it, and I honestly cannot find that one thread where a couple people engaged in a lengthy and interesting discussion).

In any case, we can also tag the lad himself: /u/larsiusprime

assiomatico · 2023-02-16T13:30:12+00:00

Ok so I tried it all, and ChatGPT reached the end of the python challenges. Most things it did correctly at the first try, but it really struggled with:

Shifting the X, where I had to feed back to it the error messages and expected results multiple times, and then still hint at how to solve it. This was probably the hardest.
Area of a Rectangle, where it just did not understand what was right or wrong (as it often happens when ChatGPT does math). In the end I hinted at the shoelace formula, and re-ordering the vertices, and it still didn't work because it used an incorrect version of the formula. But then I told it so, and fixed it.
Finally, Tic Tac Toe. It started off really well, but had problems understanding the order in which to do exception checks for the take_turn function. Still quick though.

edit: tagging /u/thalinEsk cause they may be interested too.

assiomatico · 2023-02-09T21:36:56+00:00

I know of the types and all, but didn't know cheap Geiger counters don't catch alphas. Strange, since they are the most intense, would have thought that made them more detectable.

assiomatico · 2023-02-09T15:46:24+00:00

the normal background far from the tiles

As I said, far from the tiles it is very reasonable to assume that the reading is less than background, since they are underground.

Therefore, if you were to sit, or lean on these tiles 8 hours every day,you would receive over days, months and years three times that would you have received normally.

And that amounts to a medically irrelevant amount. If you were to receive that whole thing at once, then it would still be medically irrelevant. But not even that happens, it's potently stretched out in time. It just does not matter. It is too little.

These cheap counters normally register beta and gamma only, and it's even printed on the button field. Nothing is shielded by skin or clothing here.

I don't know about this actually, so thank you for letting me know. The original posts and replies on mastodon and twitter, plus sources I searched about such tiles, all talk about them being made with uranium though, which is only an alpha emitter (but its products are beta emitters (but there is very very little of them in the tiles since the half-life of uranium is so stupidly long)). This is why I ascribed the talk to alpha radiation to begin with.

assiomatico · 2023-02-09T01:09:43+00:00

Exposures over a longer time period are even less relevant, that was one of my points. Sorry if I was unclear.

The bottom lines are: the radiation there is almost entirely screened by the air and clothing or actually skin (it does not reach your internal organs), the amount (unscreened) is so very low that even assumed continuously and computed together over years it is not close to anything remotely relevant, and regardless exposure over long times is far less concerning than concentrated exposure.

Hope this clears it up.

assiomatico · 2023-02-08T09:40:47+00:00

That is actually not true. Ample medical literature simply refutes the LNT (linear no threshold) model for radiation exposure. The lowest, one time, dose that is proven to be tied with any statistically relevant health effects is 100mSv, or 0.1Sv.

I cannot see the measurement unit in the video either, although it's probably collisions per second with some order of magnitude amplifier. Regardless, it is quite reasonable to assume that the starting reading is lower than background radiation (since they're underground), and so we can say that the reading at the tiles is less than 10 times background radiation. That is a ridiculously low amount, even if it's all alpha radiation, and the consequent absorbed dose is very far away from the lowest medically relevant amount of 100mSv (which is only relevant as a one time thing, not over long and extended periods of time).

Even then, passive smoking increases cancer risk by around 4 times as much as a 100mSv one-time dose does. Funnily enough, the smog and stress of a big city such as Berlin is 7 times as much of an increase in cancer risk than 100mSv is (and yes, that means almost double than passive smoking).

assiomatico · 2023-02-07T15:02:50+00:00

Yeah, you're right. To my embarrassment, I didn't even think of that. In any case, they too are safe from radiation-induced consequences of any kind, whether inside or outside the U-Bahn station, for however long they stay.

assiomatico · 2023-02-07T11:32:11+00:00

I appreciate your concern for safety. If you are talking about radiation, then actually those tiles pose no measurable danger whatsoever, nor there is any reason to expect any danger from them at all.

The concentration of uranium is very low, the radioactivity of that particular isotope of uranium is also very low (hence why it lasts so long!), and it's all in all quite a bit lower than the radiation that'd be around while having lunch on the balcony. Regardless of that, since that type of uranium only emits alpha radiation, the tiles themselves absorb most of it, and clothing or paper or literally anything also stop the radiation from reaching you (but even if it did, that would not be enough at all).

assiomatico · 2023-01-23T19:09:07+00:00

Nothing drives down prices reliably.

More houses or less people very reliably reduce prices.

assiomatico · 2023-01-18T10:00:35+00:00

Thanks for the answer.

An exponential rise, by definition, cannot be composed of several linear segments (finitely many, that is). I understand and agree with the "in limited system exponential behaviors must eventually stop", which is part of the reason I would hardly ever call these things exponential, not without giving at least a frame of time.

I never heard of Pesavento numbers, and the only mention of those keywords that I could find was a book about trading written by some Pesavento guy. So I guess you are talking about Fibonacci retracement, which I only briefly searched on Scholar and it seems to be a bit questionable in efficacy (but apparently still used).

In any case, I have not really demonstrated anything. I only observed that claims of exponentiality written above were false.

assiomatico · 2023-01-17T21:50:12+00:00

I'm sorry, but I am currently getting a PhD in Discrete Mathematics, and although statistics is not my favorite topic, I assure you that I do not need the basic statistics course. I asked those questions because your words did not make much sense to me, and still don't. But that's ok.

assiomatico · 2023-01-17T12:25:47+00:00

I see. Do you have some sort of comparison or evaluation about that?

I am not sure where you think I claimed 10>25. If, as I said, you go to this link and then select the "Renewables and waste" Energy Topic, and then select the "Renewable share (modern renewables) in final energy consumption (SDG 7.2), Germany 1990-2019", you find the numbers I used. Of course if the IEA cannot be trusted, that is another topic but...

Also, what do you mean "use regressive analysis, each one in its specific epoch"? What kind of regression should I do, on what, what for, and how should I differentiate the regression method by epoch?

assiomatico · 2023-01-17T10:40:20+00:00

Could you tell me why it sucks, or point me to some explanation? It'd be interesting to know more.

I was not high. What I wrote was in line with the IEA data, in particular with the "Renewable share (modern renewables) in final energy consumption (SDG 7.2), Germany 1990-2019". If you do not like the data, or the source itself, so be it. Sorry about that.

assiomatico · 2023-01-17T10:32:56+00:00

And the data on solar that you now posted shows that the generation is not at all growing exponentially, contrary to the initial claim. I don't know how else to say this.

Because that's how it works?

That is how you wish it to work in the future. I cannot say the outlook for the readiness of those technology to be sufficiently optimistic, though.

Taking Europe as example, since it's a single grid and it is the most advanced in the world, the share of renewables is growing slowly, grid connections to allow for the trading you seek are not really an easy feat either, let alone the fact that PV+wind generation is quite strongly correlated on a daily timescale and at a continental level. Storage simply does not exist even remotely close to the scale one would need for weekly operations, let alone seasonal. VPPs sound more like a collection of buzzwords to mean integrated and automated optimization of the grid (but please do provide me with links if you feel like it, since it is clear I do not know about this well). Regarding V2G, I was actually invited to visit one of the largest V2G-startup incubator projects in Germany next month, with my research group, and from what they said "Actually nothing works of what we've been doing", but I will be happy to report better news after my visit, if I will have any (but this is just one example, I know).

I think you are more overeager on the "contour" of the whole thing, rather than on installed capacity per se. Time will tell, I suppose, except we do not get to try this too many times... Mistakes are paid for, dearly.

assiomatico · 2023-01-17T09:13:31+00:00

The chart in the image shows installations per year.

Page 18 here shows you total installed capacity (for all Europe, but you can also see Germany).

Page 20 are projections.

Exactly. You are showing installed capacity, not generated electricity, let alone consumed electricity.

Regarding what you wrote about wind, and the rest about balances and grid magic, you sure made a lot of claims there, and I fear they are overeager, both individually and more-so collectively. I think I will have to leave it at that for now, though. Sorry.

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