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New IEA Report Recommends WFH (International Energy Agency)(iea.org)
2 points by alecco 7mo ago|0 comments
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Oil stored at sea is running down fast [ ] 1/3 of what's left is Iranian(bloomberg.com)
3 points by alecco 7mo ago|1 comments
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by alecco 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/T9UUP Oil Market’s Seaborne Buffer Runs Down Fast as Iran War Drags On
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by alecco 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/lWBcI US President Donald Trump has seemingly turned the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil into a referendum on his war against Iran. Thumbs up if WTI stays below $100 a barrel. Thumbs down if i
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The White House Is Using the Wrong Oil Price for the Iran War(bloomberg.com)
8 points by alecco 7mo ago|2 comments
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by alecco 7mo ago
Sure, but it's not that easy. The swaths of new people need infrastructure and support: schools, hospitals, police, fire stations, roads, water, sewage, flood prevention, etc. That's a lot of money upfront. This is why most cities
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by alecco 7mo ago
This should be the post, not Wired's blogspam.
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by alecco 7mo ago
I think it's just normal taxes.
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Iran conflict turns shipping market into 'Wild West'(ft.com)
4 points by alecco 7mo ago|4 comments
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by alecco 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/pzsme The conflict in the Middle East has turned the container shipping sector into a “wild west”, with carriers adding thousands of dollars in extra charges and dumping containers at far-flung ports, ac
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by alecco 7mo ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423094
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by alecco 7mo ago
Good writeup. It is very confusing how Linux source code has macros with names that make them look like functions. At first view it looks like "flags" is passed uninitialized, but it's a temporary save variable used by a macr
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by alecco 7mo ago
Even Apple hardware looks inexpensive compared to Nvidia's huge premium. And never mind the order backlog. x86 and Apple already sell CPUs with integrated memory and high bandwidth interconnects. And I bet eventually Intel's beanc
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by alecco 7mo ago
I don't see him even bothering to link to the original research (AFAIK Reuters and expanded by this thread's substack post who links to Reuters). His video description is all about self-promotion. And from the bits I've seen
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The Biggest Oil Risk Is at the Bottom of the Barrel(bloomberg.com)
3 points by alecco 7mo ago|1 comments
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by alecco 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/Frr5T - Fuel oil is now an ultra-expensive commodity due to the Iran war, which is bad news for the global economy. - The shipping industry is sounding the alarm as some key ports may run dry, forcing
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by alecco 7mo ago
I call BS. From my extensive anecdata: No amount of education, experience, and grit can turn a 100 IQ person into Einstein. IQ is a massive multiplier.
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by alecco 7mo ago
I think you are reflecting on survivor bias for successful people. Almost all rich families I met saw entrepreneurship as lower-status. They chase arts and such. They are posturing they don't need to care about money. [of course it&#x2
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by alecco 7mo ago
Memorizing is not understanding. You can see this clearly with LLMs trying to predict outside their training data. Yes, memorization is important. What I argue it's pushing out truly understanding and critical thinking. Kids need trial
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by alecco 7mo ago
The effects of Idiocracy are much worse than we appreciate. I believe it's hidden in part by technology (as a cognitive crutch) and part by top skilled immigration (people previously suppressed in their undeveloped countries). And educ
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by alecco 7mo ago
I didn't complain about length per se. I pointed out Google's contradiction. As my previous comment clarified. Jesus.
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by alecco 7mo ago
I didn't say that.
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by alecco 7mo ago
Actually, it's not just the domain: https://youtu.be/X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X
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by alecco 7mo ago
My point is Google engineers go to the trouble of setting up a URL shortener service on one hand, but on the other hand it seems ad the business anti-privacy executives can override anything. This points out it's a dysfunctional compan
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by alecco 7mo ago
Offtopic: I find it remarkable the shortened YT url has a tracking cost of 57% extra length. We live in stupid times.
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by alecco 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/gYBq6
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FT: US intervention in oil futures would be 'Biblical disaster', CME warns(ft.com)
5 points by alecco 7mo ago|2 comments
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by alecco 7mo ago
You are missing the point. The real purpose is to control the Internet and free speech. They've been trying this for ages. Now the excuse is protecting children. Soon terrorism will be back. And don't forget aոtisеmіtism, too. Not
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by alecco 7mo ago
Related podcast episode https://corecursive.com/red-queen-coding/
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by alecco 7mo ago
And who buys those troubled assets at deep discount? Where do they get the cash to pay for them?

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