Did you ever need to adjust some time series for the count of #EU members in a given year? I did. It turned out to be quite tedious, because I wanted to allow for the fact that not all enlargements happened at the first of January (so the membership count of that year is actually a fraction), and take lap years into account. Brexit included.
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I’ve never read ANYTHING on substack that I felt was worth my time. I had subscribed as a friend was writing there, but even her worked was crappy.
Any #EU#law historians around? Since when can member states not party to a direct action proceeding before the #CJEU submit observations? The oldest example I could find by a crude text search dates from 1986 [1]. That's 32 years after the first direct action was lodged that included a member state [2]. Were member states simply not allowed to submit observations before?
Does this happen to anyone else? You start writing your darn paper by putting down some paragraphs for the introduction, and suddenly your introduction has sprawled into half of the entire paper, just with a horrible structure and a gazillion blank spots.
Don't see it that way. This is just the beginning and the response time is short. The EU has shown the willingness to enforce their laws in the past. This is a very real warning.
@mastodonmigration Maybe. There have been some record fines against Big Tech in the context of competition law. For DSA infringements, I don't know. We don't really have precedent, I think.
I just discovered Nick Huntington-Klein's "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (published 2022), and I think I have to add another unread statistics textbook to my collection. https://theeffectbook.net/index.html
(The tone is non-technical/conversational, it starts with DAGs, and the code examples are in R, Python and Stata. Neat.)
It seems the #PoliticalScience bubble is moving from Ex-#Twitter (and partly already from Mastodon) to #BlueSky. Sadly. I had hoped we would leave the platforms for good. Do you confirm my impression? If so, what might be the reason -- frictions, culture, network effects, or all of the above? @polsci
No quote posts - makes impossible to really engage with others’ content.
The holier-than-thou attitude of the rEaL bELiVeRs of the fediverse who just annoy the heck out of anyone who just came here to post share and discuss.
What's the appeal of epub compared to pdf? Is it for people who hate nice typesetting so much they would read their favorite novel in a terminal with a monotype font if they could?
@Jakra I agree, I guess. I have an e-paper reading device that mimics an actual book page quite closely. In this use-case, PDF just looks much better; it's like a properly typeset book. But of course, the device has to adapt to the content for this to work (and not vice versa), and I'm fortunate enough not to have to rely on accessibility features