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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…

> 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/st…

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 bu…

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 …

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 …

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 …

> 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 down…

> '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 i…

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 so…

> 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 th…

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…

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 goa…

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…

> 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 sa…

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 mu…

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