beervirus

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1231.
by beervirus 7y ago
It's good for some companies, bad for others. Even some companies where it seems like it'd be a good thing (say, airlines) might be fully hedged against the price of oil.
1232.
by beervirus 7y ago
Except it hasn't happened yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_liquids_and_US_tig...
1233.
by beervirus 7y ago
Well, it's the price for a different contract. The June contracts already exist, and their price is more or less continuous.
1234.
by beervirus 7y ago
They wound up doing a limited sale to local investors. It has been suggested that there was some "influence" applied to the investors to put the price where it needed to be instead of at the purely market price.
1235.
by beervirus 7y ago
Sure, pure gasoline will eventually go bad too. But that’s on a much longer timescale than the ethanol water problem.
1236.
by beervirus 7y ago
I care a lot more about making the computer quiet than I do about making it small. Those are competing objectives. I'm currently using a fairly large case from Fractal that has a bunch of big, slow-spinning fans as its only moving part
1237.
by beervirus 7y ago
What felony do you think they've committed?
1238.
by beervirus 7y ago
Ethanol is hygroscopic. It is indeed the ethanol at fault.
1239.
by beervirus 7y ago
On a related note, how do people pronounce the Intel 8088? Eight oh eight eight? Eighty eighty eight?
1240.
by beervirus 7y ago
Automobile, not train.
1241.
by beervirus 7y ago
The real economy might be just fine in a year.
1242.
by beervirus 7y ago
Salt is insoluble in oil.
1243.
by beervirus 7y ago
It also lasts forever. If you have room to store it, there's no downside to stocking up when you have the chance. And since everyone else is buying lots of it as well, there's an obvious upside--if you don't buy it today, you
1244.
by beervirus 7y ago
No one except robocallers uses this “feature” anyway.
1245.
by beervirus 7y ago
Link?
1246.
by beervirus 7y ago
Using a port above 8192 and connecting by hostname?
1247.
by beervirus 7y ago
> Basically, the overall thrust of this series has been this: C is not the hardware, it’s an abstract machine. But that machine runs on real hardware, and abstractions are leaky. If you go too far into “purely only the abstract machine,”
1248.
by beervirus 7y ago
Double blind isn't arbitrary. The number of participants sure looks arbitrary though. (Powers of 10 should be treated as presumptively arbitrary.)
1249.
by beervirus 7y ago
Well, identical except for weak force interactions.