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@BretVDB would it kill you to post a source? a book, a page, a year a link? my god

Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses: “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. … I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”

@anup_malani but mugs only cost like 30cents to make its a bad deal

Give half a classroom a coffee mug. The other half gets nothing. Let them trade mug for cash. Since mugs were assigned randomly, about half the holders will value money more than the mug — so Coase predicts roughly 50% should trade. Almost nobody does.

@floor_per_area @DanBiancoNYC @greetinghimeros thank you floor_per!

@brazen__head @DanBiancoNYC @greetinghimeros FAR stands for floor-area-ratio, defined in the zoning code. You can think of it as “how many floors am I allowed to build” which is a key driver of how profitable a parcel is if you want to build something new there.

When you stop and look up at Fulton st mall you realize every building is bricked in and boarded up past street level

@DanBiancoNYC @greetinghimeros what is FAR--what does it stand for, what do the numbers mean?

@greetinghimeros Those properties are zoned for FAR of 10. Those buildings are FAR of 3. Someone is assembling those properties to redevelop.

@smithtjosh @JEBistline thanks a ton!!

@brazen__head @JEBistline LBNL link here eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/… Your question about ISOs has some answers in these resources: emp.lbl.gov/interconnectio…

New LBNL data: Connecting a clean energy project to the grid now costs an average of $194/kW in non-ISO territories, and that's only for projects that actually finished the process. Active and withdrawn projects pay far more.

@DowningAm ah okay, thanks a lot, guess i have to go back and reread chick

@brazen__head EDF pioneered the use of marginal pricing of electricity and the use of test discount rates. But they came to the view that they had no option other than nuclear and so using a discount rate would be illogical.

All state owned using no discount rate. Martin Chick's book on French, British and US energy policy is really marvellous

@JosephPolitano cass is one of the worst guys on computer but you cant just claim any restrictions on who owns&builds housing&for what purposes are elitist&doing nymby. the market is screwed&restricting institutional owners is legitimate, the opposition's just 'i love big landlord theyre so nice

Again, the fundamental underlying ideology of people like Oren who are trying to pass this build-to-rent ban is that renters are animals, "elephants" who need to be banned from the neighborhoods where "kids" live. I've never seen it put in starker terms than this.

@xiaowang1984 @duncancampbell No, I mean tx Capex by firms that literally build zero new transmission and add 0 transformers in a year. When you look at form 1, those firms do the bulk of Tx Capex and I don't know where it goes. Maybe its all hardening, but that is why the original graph looks the way it does

@brazen__head @duncancampbell What do you mean by the cost of not building transmission. Opportunity cost?

wow

@xiaowang1984 @duncancampbell yes agreed fully, am just saying the costs of not building transmission seem to be rising at a rate at which they are rivalling what it would cost to build over 5k miles of tx a year instead of the ~1k we're currently doing

@brazen__head @duncancampbell It is defensible to centralize the transmission planning to get economies of scale and greater efficiency from that sure. But it still means you need to charge the projects if you're doing it for them x.com/i/status/20328…

@xiaowang1984 @duncancampbell Yes, I get that there was not impetus for substantial new build for 20+ yrs load growth has been flat, but I don't fully understand the reasons for this graph. Form 1 in theory breaks out replacements, so its not just that miles are not growing b/c old infra is replaced by new

Yah that was in an era of low load growth where reliability and maintenance spending dominated because without load growth there isn't the motivation to build large transmission unless you're explicitly trying to subsidize renewable ppas. Now with load growth the scale of projects needed would be bigger

@xiaowang1984 @duncancampbell the problem isnt the cost of building, its the cost of not building. The small number of utilities that build lots of Tx have reasonable $/Mile capex costs. The issue is that the utilities that build 5-25 miles of tx a year have the same capex as those that build hundreds

@duncancampbell Is it that surprising. Prob costs $1000 to roll a truck here no matter what you do

@s8mb do you really think that if 15% of london's workforce is priced off the tube&forced onto the roads or out of the city that wont fuck the economy? dont you freaks love 'second order effects'? whether youd be happier taxing the plebs off public transport isnt the only consideration

My unpopular opinion is that TfL should raise peak tube fares more. In the mornings, stations and trains are uncomfortably overcrowded and it's often difficult to get a seat. Higher fares would help with that and raise more money to invest in newer rolling stock.

@JessePeltan no one can build transmission when they dont know where gen is going. Only texas, where the CREZ mandates building a ton of transmission, and non-RTO states, where utilities actually know where gen will be, have build tx in the last 30 yrs

“Gold plating” is a complete red herring meant to distract everyone from ridiculous unit costs. It simply does not cost this much to build grid infrastructure. Even in the U.S., private companies can do it for way less, we just usually don’t allow them to because utilities have a monopoly. We need real competition in grid infrastructure to get construction costs down, we need to build at much larger scale to get economies of scale, and we need real price signals to coordinate better utilization of each unit of capacity.

The problem is NOT that utilities are “gold plating.” The problem is that we are paying WAY too much money AND getting way too little for it. We need to build a lot more capacity a lot more efficiently. (and make better use of it)

@isa2001m it is for when they disapprove of a thing

People think the French say “ooh la la” in a sexy / intrigued way but in reality they mostly say it in a concerned way

@KelseyTuoc i like abundance i just dont like companies because ads are annoying & i dont support stealing but also companies are dumb so i dont get mad & you cant say you don;t like abundance if you dont like companies and your not mad about stealing i already thought about that your wrong

@brazen__head I think once you love anyone you will realize that you love material abundance, which allows you to feed them their favorite foods and spares you and them from seven days a week of backbreaking labor and ensures you and they will live longer than any of our ancestors

I doubt that anyone I know steals from Whole Foods, but the milieu that the article depicted, where it's normal for perfectly well-off people to steal things because why not, was really upsetting to read about, so I actually want to try to earnestly explain why you shouldn't do this just in case there's someone out there who has never had it explained to them. When a business opens - or really, as soon as a business starts making plans to open - a defining question for the business is how it will collect payment for the goods or services it provides. If you trust the people you sell to, you can be pretty relaxed about this; send people an invoice, most of them will pay it on time, any who don't will pay it a bit late. You have to think about convenience and mistakes but not about people trying to cheat you. This saves you so, so much defensive planning to make sure you get paid. It's so much easier. But if you're selling to the general public, you do have to think about people trying to cheat you. You have to structure the physical store so that it's hard for them to steal. You have to not carry some items that you'd like to sell, because they'd also be attractive targets to steal. If people swap price tags between items, you can't use stickers. If people put things on in the dressing room and wear them out, you need to pay someone a full time salary to monitor the dressing room. The world that we all live in is much poorer than the world we'd live in if people didn't steal. The stores don't carry things that they could carry if people didn't steal. They don't use pricing and inventory systems that would be way easier and more convenient if people didn't steal. But it could be much worse! If I walk down to my local Whole Foods today, items on the shelves won't be locked behind sheafs of plastic - that is only worth it when the background rate of stealing is much higher than it is at my local Whole Foods. When more people steal, businesses have to further intensify security, or go out of business. When you shoplift, you directly and unambiguously impoverish your community. You make prices higher for everybody else, you make stores less usable for everybody else, or you make businesses not viable that would otherwise be viable. The direct impact each time is small, but it's a lot larger than the direct impact of taking some trash out of the trash can to throw on the ground, or pouring just a tiny bit of poison into your local river, and most people have a deep, instinctive abhorrence of antisocially wrecking your community like that. So don't steal. The other thing that it seems possible some people might not understand is that while you might have a social circle that is incredibly nihilistic and cynical and thinks that everybody steals, in fact this is not true. Most people do not steal. Most people, if they learn that you steal, will lose more respect for you than you had to lose. I don't know anyone who has shoplifted except 'as a kid/teenager'. It is not always the case that virtue is rewarded and vice is punished but even before you bring the legal system into it, the risk-reward tradeoff of having everybody you know know that you steal things sometimes is absolutely terrible. Who would hire someone who steals things? Who would trust them around a vulnerable person? Who would want to live in a society with someone who will delightedly and routinely wreck it for the slightest personal benefit? I hope that "Gina" turns her life around. I hope that Gina realizes that she needs to. And if you have been told that it's just a corporation or that having ethics is lame or that if you think about it, other bad things happen too, like wage theft, so that means stealing is okay, I hope you really, actually, think about whether you'd accept any of those as excuses for anything else.

@CathyYoung63 @KelseyTuoc i was kidding i love companies i would never do anythign mean to hurt them i promise please dont hate me

@brazen__head @KelseyTuoc Fuck off, parasite

@ClickingSeason you do not live life in the ocky way

To be honest nobody loves the Arab bodega keepers because they don’t smile or build relationships. They are not at all interested in chopping it up with you while the speaker is blasting Oye Como Va