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chrisadamsecon

@chrisadamsecon@mastodon.social

Econometrician, bread baker, colon cancer survivor, rugby dad, footy dad, umpire, Auskick coach, husband. Author: Learning Microeconometrics with R (https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Microeconometrics-Chapman-Hall-CRC/dp/0367255383)

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arstechnica, to random
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Why US hockey players often speak with “fake Canadian” accents

They don't want to sound Canadian, but like a hockey player—a "linguistic persona."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/why-us-hockey-players-often-speak-with-fake-canadian-accents/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

chrisadamsecon,
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@arstechnica My guess is that something similar happens for American's playing . They pick up specific terms and pronounce them the same way as their Australian teammates.

chrisadamsecon, to random
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Question. I want to use to render image but the image is not locally hosted. renderImage only seems to work with locally hosted images. Is there a work around?

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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10-year-old just got to function stuff and I'm having trouble explaining in general why you should care which variable is dependent vs independent? Other than that, in stats, you should know the direction of causality, does this sort of thing matter?

chrisadamsecon,
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@ZachWeinersmith Economics. A production function only makes sense in one direction. How much sheep are needed to make a jumper?

arstechnica, to random
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Super gonorrhea rate quickly triples in China, now 40x higher than US

Drug-resistant gonorrhea is a growing problem—one that doesn't heed borders.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/super-gonorrhea-rate-quickly-triples-in-china-now-40x-higher-than-us/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

chrisadamsecon,
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@arstechnica It heeds some borders.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, I'm interested in the science of happiness, but a lot of the pop introductions seem to be self-help gibberish? Anyone wanna recommend something?

chrisadamsecon,
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@ZachWeinersmith https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/forward-thinking/forward-thinking-on-bringing-the-joy-to-economics-with-betsey-stevenson-and-justin-wolfers

simonzerafa, to astrophotography

Looks like is still there, at the moment anyway 🙂🤷‍♂️

chrisadamsecon,
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@simonzerafa Looks like the saucepan is upside down in this photo.

ajsadauskas, to Trains
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There's a new RMTransit (@RM_Transit) video up about high-speed rail from Melbourne to Sydney.

It's definitely worth checking out. Reece makes the case that more overnight sleeper services and electrification are an important first step: https://youtu.be/IMUcV_nxsWY?si=8reQjPjsrwVTcecx

My two cents on the topic is that HSR from Melbourne to Sydney should implemented as a series of incremental upgrades, rather than a single megaproject.

Between the 1970s and 2010s, the Hume Highway between Melbourne and Sydney was incrementally upgraded to a freeway-standard continuous dual carriageway road: https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/operations/roads-and-waterways/environment-and-heritage/heritage/hume-highway-duplication/history

It wasn't done as single megaproject. Instead, it was done in small segments. A bypass around a town. A section of road between two town upgraded to dual carriageway. Eventually, over 40 years, the whole road was upgraded.

We should be doing the same thing with the train line from Melbourne to Sydney.

Not as a multi-billion-dollar megaproject, but as a series of discrete projects to upgrade sections of track to electrified HSR standard: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/24/start-building-now-to-fulfil-sydney-melbourne-high-speed-rail-ambition-labor-urged

That means faster train journeys from Melbourne to Sydney today, with full HSR rolled out incrementally over the longer term.

@fuck_cars

chrisadamsecon,
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@treleanor @ajsadauskas @RM_Transit @fuck_cars I did a little work on a VFT consulting project in early 90s. I love the Utopia episode: https://youtu.be/8av3knflbQo?si=t_C_yOZbRX8iB6sy.

debcha, to random
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This past weekend was the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, complete with a reenactment on Saturday night. My historian colleague Dr. Rob Martello and I wrote about how that tea came to be aboard those ships, and the little-appreciated connection with the Great Bengal Famine of 1770:

https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-80-tea-and-famine

chrisadamsecon,
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@debcha I love that dystopian futures with large corporations controlling much of life, look pretty similar to our actual past.

chrisadamsecon, to sourdough
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#sunrise on #baguettes. 100% AP - needs some practice. #sourdough #breadposting #breadbaking

chrisadamsecon, to sourdough
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Busy baking weekend. Starting with some . These are 20% stone ground, 80% AP, 15% seeds, 90% water, 50% pre-ferment poolish (100% water, 50% mother). Baked at 480F, using a plant sprayer twice, for 25 min.

georgetakei, to random

Game changer.
https://www.comicsands.com/duvet-scandinavian-sleep-method-tiktok-2665764138.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

chrisadamsecon,
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@georgetakei We made that change about 10 years ago after visiting Germany. Buying everything is a bit of a challenge. Last time we just went to a department store in Germany and shipped back to the US. There are some importers but it is not that easy. Hopefully, this increase interest will get more manufacturers making this an option in the US.

chrisadamsecon, to breakfast
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Shona Tova to all those celebrating the New Year. Break Fast begins shortly! #Breakfast #bagels #sourdough #breadbaking

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chrisadamsecon,
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@djvanness @academicchatter I think you would like the British TV show, A Very Peculiar Practice.

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