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> says Lindred Greer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

I wonder how many successful businesses this guy founded, created a culture of success, and handed it off to other people to see the company continue to grow.

I am guessing the number is pretty darn close to "0".

Because that is the only sort of "wisdom" I care about in this context; Success in making businesses.

Every business is different. Size matters. Bureaucracies don't scale.

Thinking that some self-reported information from a Dutch insurance firm is going to provide guidance to a auto manufacturer, Waffle House, or flooring manufacturer is like believing that all you need to do to make a sqlite database scale is by increasing the cpu count for your server linearly with database sizes.

Works fast with 1 core and 100MB database? Then it'll work exactly the same with a 32 core server and 3200MB database.

> Funny article in that it doesn't discuss lifecycle costs. A side-by-side comparison of the cost of grids powered by nuclear power plant relative to those powered by wind/solar/storage is what I'd expect to see from a 'paper of record' like the NYTimes.

If you eliminate gas and coal powered plants then the costs of nuclear plant lifecycle is incidental compared to economic losses that a country would encounter if they relied on solar and wind.

The dirty secret about "clean energy" is that it isn't actually very clean. When you eliminate big coal plants and try to use solar or wind, what you are actually doing is moving your dependence from coal to natural gas.

Those wind farms and solar farms require significant investment in numerous smaller style natural gas plants in order to function correctly.

So, right now, when people think they are moving away from fossil fuels they are really just moving to natural gas that is supplanted by solar and wind when conditions are ideal for them to work properly.

If you want to eliminate your dependence on natural gas, then, the only feasible option is nuclear.

The solution to Chernobyl style accidents is to not build Chernobyl style nuclear reactors. The design was bad to begin with and it really didn't have any sort of containment or bunker or anything like that to speak of.

This is why they go on and about the "sarcophagus" required to keep it contained. They had to build a proper containment unit after the fact. You want that stuff built BEFORE you have a nuclear reactor. Not wait until after one blows up.

I, very literally, would love to have a nuclear reactor in my backyard if it's off the correct design. A design that depends on physics to be safe, not human operators.

Which is entirely possible. You can build a nuclear reactor in such a way that if the worst possible case happened it would meltdown and dump it's guts into a container. Then just sit there until it cooled to the point were it could be processed correctly.

What makes the Bible unique in this context is that there are huge amount of resources that all reference the same basic structure.

One of the things that makes KJV version useful for scholars is that since it's been the "standard" for hundreds of years a great deal of other work references its structure. People use it because of this. It's less to do with it being a fabulously accurate translation or whatever. It's just newer bibles don't have this wealth of history and documentation that references it and much of them are pretty expensive to license, while KJV is public domain.

For example "Strong's Exhaustive Concordance". If you get a version of KJV with "Strong's Numbers" you can cross reference words and phrases in their original languages (greek/hewbrew/etc). This way students can understand some of the original meanings that go into difficult or disputed passages.

Also there is a large number of commentaries of all sorts of different types that reference specific passages.

Besides that KJV is just mostly valued in Protestant Christian dialects of Christianity. Other Christian religions such as various versions of Eastern Orthodox have different numbers of books or will arrange things in different orders. There have been different attempts to past scholars to arrange things in more chronological order, too.

This makes the Bible fairly unique when it comes to literature. Each verse of text can have dozens of different "back links" and "references".

so if somebody searches for the subject "Homosexuality" it will get hits in various commentaries. Those commentaries all directly reference verses in the Bible.

So you could show the version found and why it was selected. That way a reader would be shown "These authors think this verse is has to do with homosexuality" and they could click through and find out the justification for this, different translations, what those translations are likely based on, what other Christian sects feel this verse means, and so on and so forth.

I don't know if it would be useful for you, but there is a "Sword Project" that collects and cross references different Bibles and bible resources as well as tools.

https://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp

This is true.

Apple still is more sophisticated in the desktop scripting department. Applescript support in most applications and the ability to tie that into actions is seriously powerful stuff.

Gnome wins in the ability to use javascript to customize window handling, but it isn't really able to script application actions like you can in OS X.

It is improving though. If you can use keyboard to navigate the functions you want in applications you can automate it with software like keymapper.

https://github.com/houmain/keymapper

There are other similar software available. Probably a half a dozen serious projects in total.

Keymapper is software that intercepts input from your keyboard and allows you to 'remap' it. It operates on the libinput level of things, so it works regardless of environment or if you are in the console. It does require elevated privileges, though.

This, when combined with Gnome-shell extension and user keymapperd daemon can provide application-specific contexts for keyboard combos. The extension monitors for switching applications and gives keymapper the ability to be context-aware.

This is how I "solved" the copy past nightmare for myself in Linux. This way no matter if I am in a browser, terminal, or Emacs I have consistent copy-paste keys. (super-c, super-v). Makes things easier.

This isn't even remotely on the same level as applescript, but at least it is something. You have to understand low-level Linux keyboard stuff, which is still a mess. Versus being able to simply record yourself using applescript.

Gnome certainly is a very relaxing environment once you get used to it. Much less frantic or distraction filled compared to Windows or OS X. I like it.

Yep. It's impossible to give a definitive answer one way or another.

If you want to live in that place for years and years and years then it's kinda dumb not to buy the house.

But if you want to get out of that area once you get your career more established or something like that then just rent.

You can go ahead and stuff your down payment into some bond ETFs or something like that if you don't want to get a house right away. I use Vanguard "inflation protected" ETFs, personally. You won't make a whole lot of money, but if Fed bonds take a huge shit your money isn't going to be worth much anyways. So it's one of the safest place to put it and still have it easily accessible.

> Can you explain this a bit more. What is your definition of short term and by investments im assuming equities. Generally for a less than 5 years the advice is not to invest downpayment money in risk assets.

A down payment is different then closing costs. The money you put down on the house goes into the house. So effectively you retain the value of the downpayment in the equity of your house. So it is not "lost".

The closing costs are the costs of actually getting the loan. That is money you spend in order to get the loan. That money doesn't go anywhere except into taxes, bank fees, real state fees, titling, etc etc. So that is money that simply 'evaporates'.

You can use that money for purposes other then buying a mortgage.

When deciding to rent vs buy the argument for buying a home is that you get equity in the home, were as with renting that money is gone for ever.

So say you spend 10,000 on closing costs and make payments of 3000 dollars a month. Out of that payment the vast majority goes to taxes, insurance, and interest payments. You may only end up with 300 dollars in actually equity.

Versus

You spend 3000 dollars a month on rent, make zero equity, and get to keep your 10000 dollars.

So if you live in a house for just 3 years then sell it... You might get 10,800 in actual equity in your house.

So over the course of 3 years you only actually earned 800 dollars.

Is that 800 dollars more or less then what you could of gotten if you invested that 10 grand into something?

Most people assume that buying a house is a no-brainer because over the years the value of the house rises. So even if you don't put much money into the equity you can still earn a sizable profit selling it.

But that is only true if there is no bubble and people can afford to buy your house in the future.

Really whether or not to buy a house ends up being a math problem. Were do you want to be and what are the chances of making money by renting vs buying.

If you are planning on living somewhere for 10 or 20 years then closing costs end up incidental and you win by buying pretty much no matter what.

> 'economic rents' are not the colloquial 'rent' we pay for housing we don't own. economic rents are UNproductive, meaning simply income produced by ownership itself, rather than in the productive delivery of service (in this case, housing). LVT only seeks to tax away that unproductive part (economic rents). the productive part would include the costs of mortgage(s), insurance, utilities, upkeep, and a small profit (aka risk premium).

Except the LVT premise is bullshit.

Lets say I have a house I rent out for 1800 dollars a month. About 500 dollars of that will go to taxes (income, property, etc).

Out of the rest I take 600 dollars and am in the process of fixing up two more houses that I bought from a tax sale that were made unlivable through crackhead squatters.

So that leaves me about 700 dollars more. Out of that I need to save probably about 300 dollars a month to cover costs associated with owning homes. Such as the need to replace roofs or water heaters or hire arborist to take down dying trees before they destroy my neighbor's property, etc.

Then that leaves me with 400 dollars that I reinvest in other companies. So it goes to doing thing like buying bonds, etc.

The only thing that is "unproductive" here is the money being paid to the federal governemnt to go murder brown people half way around the world.

The entire intellectual basis of this "Georgian" stuff is completely bogus. The theories about monopolies are wrong. The theories about how to solve the tragedy of the commons is wrong as well. The economic efficiency theories are wrong, etc etc etc.

Glad we live in a era were accusations and rumors are not used as political weapons against individuals.

> You are conflating different things here.

No I am not.

Race is a political grift. It has been a political grift since the beginning. It's a way for some individuals to exploit social divides for personal profit. It's a political gamesmanship.

It was a grift when "white" was first legally defined during the colonial era. It is a grift now.

The greater wedge they can drive between people the greater the potential for personal profit and political power. If you want to eliminate racism in the USA then the worst possible way you can do it is by trying to force some idiotic and unrealistic notion of "equity" on the american people in the name of racial injustice.

> Ignoring that slavery touched the entirety of the continent, I'm going to guess that means your German ancestors ended up in the Midwest. Probably on Native American lands.

By that logic there isn't a square inch anywhere on the planet that wasn't "touched by slavery".

Which renders the whole notion pretty much irrelevant and diminishes the role of slavery in USA history.

I am in the USA.

My ancestors escaped from Prussia and immigrated from Sweden in the late 19th century, well after Slavery and the Slave trade was over and lived in hovels dug into the side of hills in the wind-swept and tree-free plains of the mid-west. In a area on the North American continent that was never touched by slavery.

They became farmers and worked the land. My father didn't even have central plumbing for a great deal of his childhood. Had to piss in buckets when it became too cold and too dangerous to go to the outhouse in the winter.

Yet I have plenty of people all over the planet that I should be ashamed to have European heritage living in the USA and that it's my fault there are a lot of poor black people. And that I owe them money and should "check my privilege" because of it.

Asahi Linux will never work as well as a normal Linux machine within any sort of reasonable time frame. Even with Intel CPUs the Linux experience on Macs is kinda shit.

If your goal is to have a Linux workstation then buying a Mac is pretty dumb.

They have a mini PC "Star Labs Byte".

Basically a laptop sans keyboard, display, and internal battery.

Docker doesn't allow for LSP servers in my text editor. Asdf "just works".

I regularly use asdf-vm to manage kubectl, python, nodejs, and a bunch of other stuff.

"Setting up a Python environment" takes about 10 minutes and it's dead nuts reliable.

It is a very effective package manager.

> There is an interesting effect with AC distribution that leads to the statement "the amount of power produced must balance that consumed" that you sometimes hear.

You have the same problem with DC. It nothing to do with 'AC' per say. It's a issue of large scale power plants.

> On first thought this is a ridiculous statement: voltage is a measure of potential energy after all. If load is reduced, the voltage just hangs there and less power will be consumed.

Voltage is a measurement of the difference of two electrical potentials. "Potential Energy" is something else entirely.

Voltage is not a measurement of energy.

Voltage works in a similar way that pressure does. Imagine you have two pressure cylinders and one of them is 200 PSI and the other is 220 PSI. If you were using a voltage-style measurement between the two cylinders you'd say that the there is 20 PSI different or 'potential' between them.

That gives you zero information as far as the actual energy potential. A 16 ounce canister at 100 PSI is going to have a lot less energy potential then a 500 gallon tank at 100 PSI, for example.

This is why you can go and get a static electrical shock that involves thousands of volts and your skin doesn't burst into flames.

> But with AC distribution what you have is essentially a large rotating machine.

No with AC, or DC, what you is LITERALLY a large rotating machine. A rotating machine larger then most houses running of of hydro electric, coal, or nuclear power take time to have their energy output adjusted.

They don't work like car motors were you press a button to go "zoom" and another to go "woah".

The generators that can quickly adjust are small ones. Generally natural gas turbines. They are a lot like jet engines. In fact many of them used to be the same type of engines used in jet planes.

And they are much more expensive to operate and less efficient overall, but they are the ones people are moving to because they can keep up with the extremely poor quality electrical output (read: highly unpredictable) you get from solar and wind.

> Even with DC only, you would be in the same situation. A power plant wants to make money, so it will want to push power into the grid, which for DC means pushing the voltage up.

You somehow seem to have "laws of physics' confused with "making a profit".

Of course you are not wrong with the power plants operators wanting to get paid to work for a living and there are plenty of shady things they do that you should be irritated about, but you are barking up the wrong tree here.

For example: the massive scam that is government-subsidized grid-tied residential solar. How that the plant operators have colluded with the regulators to ensure that they have remote control over your inverter's output. Which means that with the hundreds of thousands of solar panel installations that people are proud of and think they can make money from 'selling back to the power plant' are actually operating at a only a tiny fraction potential output.

Which means that home owners that do pay tens of thousands of dollars for these setups are getting burned WHILE accomplishing nothing to help the environment.

And when the grid goes down so will those grid-tied installations. For "safety" reasons, despite the fact that ICE-based generators have had reliable failsafes for generations that automatically prevent any electrical feedback into downed power lines.

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The fact of the matter why DC is better then AC for power transmission has to do with inductance.

Every time the wire is subject to electrical current it generates a magnetic field. The higher the current the more powerful the magnetic field. By winding a cable around a iron core you can concentrate that field and make a powerful electro-magnet. The effect is still present in the miles of electrical cable used for power distribution. It's just spread out over a massive area.

With AC that magnetic field needs to be torn down to zero, reversed, and then torn down to zero again 60 times a second. Sure much of that energy is returned to the wire on each field collapse, but it is still something you have to deal with and fight with. It shows up as significant inductance.

With DC you don't have to do that.

You are entitled to prefer to use whatever you want to use, but you are only the dictator of reality in your own mind.

Also Docks are terrible UI. They are annoying, take up too much space, and you can never really find a good place to move them so they are out of the way.

The Apple Dock was something designed to look cool and fresh in order to sell a bunch of G3 and G4 iMacs back in the day, but it's a step backwards from even Windows 95's taskbar.

Gnome devs staying away from that is one of the more laudable decisions they made in terms of design.

Governments have structured financial markets heavily to favor large publicly traded corporations through allowing them access to massive amounts of borderline free credit.

The goal is growth and consolidation. They want every major industry to be completely dominated by a small handful of big players. This makes it much easier to regulate and implement policy.

It would be impossible for them to have nearly the same amount of control over a economy if the economy was dominated by hundreds or thousands of small and medium players. By having 3 or 4 major public corporations they are much more easier to manipulate and keep tabs on. They can 'invite them to the table' to advise and help draft policy and regulations that are mutually beneficial. Also it makes it much easier to convince the public that such regulation is done for the public's benefit.

This model of American State Corporatism was developed in the late 19th, early 20th century and has since been exported across the world.

It is a pattern that is repeated over and over again. Whether it's automobile manufacturing, steel manufacturing, railway transportation, television broadcasting, ISPs, or Social Media.. once the government set it's sites on regulating it you will see markets devolve into 3-5 major corporate players that pretty much control everybody else. All of this heavily encouraged through regulation of capital markets and central banking systems.

The classic pre-internet example is the development of AT&T monopoly. FCC used it's ability to regulate peering agreements to heavily favor the markets towards re-establishing the AT&T monopoly. A monopoly that they essentially lost when the early Bell patents ran out.

They were then able to use that monopoly, through regulatory forces, to gain control over the communication infrastructure during the cold war, which was a national security priority. That is how we ended up with things like Room 641A. (which was in 2003-later era, but is something they did through out the entire cold war)

History repeated itself with the Prism revelations.