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by icedistilled 4y ago
Oil price: >Rather, supply, demand, and sentiment toward oil futures contracts, *which are traded heavily by speculators,* play a dominant role in price determination. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics&
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by icedistilled 4y ago
not I bonds? Why not? after 1 year they are not locked up.
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by icedistilled 4y ago
how can that not be ponzi scheme?
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by icedistilled 4y ago
> If I had some disease and hundreds or people told me that spinning around in circles for a few minutes would cure it, If you believed in that cure then it would be likely you'd treat the disease with less caution and be more likel
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by icedistilled 4y ago
One thing that's probably safe to conclude is that Putin doesn't actually care about what nato does or who joins it because that's a very predictable outcome of invading another non-nato country. Sure he'll say stuff abo
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by icedistilled 5y ago
He complains that this doesn't happen in europe. What could be different about european cities... If SF were in a european country, the national welfare system would be far better and taxes would be far higher and guns would be strictl
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by icedistilled 5y ago
Biden caused global inflation? Biden can fix global inflation? It's fun to scapegoat and cathartic. But it's counter productive and inaccurate. I seem to remember money printing and pressure to keep fed rates low even before biden
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by icedistilled 5y ago
>"At the end of the day the only bad thing about the Trump admin was the mean tweets." That's a new definition of "mean tweets", I didn't know it meant the failings of a twice impeached president whose wife
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by icedistilled 5y ago
>in fact we got a lot of good out of his administration. The economy was great, taxes were low, gas prices were low This a mixture of the state of the country Obama left him with and things that presidents and their admin don't have
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by icedistilled 5y ago
The Putin war of aggression violates all of Ukrainian's human rights. Just saying. Putin forcing russian teens to die while bombing and destroying Ukraine and Ukrainian civil infrastructure violates Ukrainian human rights. Conscription
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by icedistilled 5y ago
IT is a "cost center." Cut it all?
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by icedistilled 5y ago
I did a prime trial and then cancelled it... only to get a bill a bit later for prime. My account showed cancelled, I did not have active prime. I had to call in and the phone help explained that the auto bill option was checked... Nowhere
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by icedistilled 5y ago
Putin can win if by win you mean "Putin made a desert and called it peace and a win" to adapt a recent quote I saw.
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by icedistilled 5y ago
My twist on Kant's universality law is to add a "how many golf balls fit into a 747" guestimate. Yes I think some people would cherry pick skewed numbers to justify whatever action they want, but doing it with good faith esti
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by icedistilled 5y ago
That would get oil in like 5 years. Same with new leases it would get new oil far in the future and locked in far in the future. That is not what we need. What we need is a green energy surge. That is the only way to end fossil fuel fueling
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by icedistilled 5y ago
>Mandated return to work date 3 days/week minimum unless you’ve transitioned to remote This is what bugs me about the hybrid set up. If the company onboarded a lot of permanent remotes and also doesn't have people sync up the i
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by icedistilled 5y ago
Setting aside the USA for a second, can you acknowledge that Putin spent the last several months building up almost 200k troops on 3 sides of Ukraine and then invaded despite claiming he had no such intentions even days before his invasion.
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by icedistilled 5y ago
Is that your point US should have stayed out of WWII because of WWI?
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by icedistilled 5y ago
A similar sentiment was expressed in the 1930s.
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by icedistilled 5y ago
Cells don't live for free and fat is stored in cells. So yes storing fat burns calories, just far less than muscle. And that's just the direct expenditure. I see a few numbers thrown out for how many calories a pound of fat burns
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by icedistilled 5y ago
Since the article is comparing non-fat mass is this saying that someone with 60kg of non-fat mass will burn the same amount of calories if 1. their overall mass is 75 kg and they're athletic or 2. have more fat mass being 85 kg overall
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by icedistilled 5y ago
I'm baffled by the take away from the study. If a sedentary person and an athletic person burn about the same, doesn't that just mean the sedentary person's energy is being spent on maintaining and accumulating fat mass? But
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by icedistilled 5y ago
how "smart" is a contract that will delivers good to non-existent entities. How "smart" is a contract that is actually a piece of code that's riddled with footguns? Calling these things "smart" contracts w
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by icedistilled 5y ago
it's like telling someone never to deal with physical cash or dollar bills, only use credit cards.
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by icedistilled 5y ago
Apologies, but the headline isn't drawing me in to read the article for a rather significant fact. Nearly all of human activity seems driving by short term considerations, why would government be so different, or at least why would it
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by icedistilled 5y ago
That's like a whole different topic, this article is about the US warning the EU that Russia invading Ukraine is a big possibility. If one's goal is to stop the US getting involved, then the US giving the locals a heads up so they
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by icedistilled 5y ago
semi-disguised Russian troops already invaded ukraine and annexed parts a few years ago. It's not a random xzy, it's the xyz that they already invaded parts of under a pretext of "rebels". And it would have big implicati
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by icedistilled 5y ago
England didn't send poorly disguised troops into US and annex various parts of its territory a few years ago. And england hasn't had troop buildups along a US border. The equivalency is false.
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by icedistilled 5y ago
Tomorrow on hacker news I expect to see a "This-name-does-not-exist" app. Make it happen.
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by icedistilled 5y ago
A wood catalytic converter stove will easily heat your main living areas and all you need is an area to store a few cords of wood, which does not need to be in your living area. It is more work to keep running but would save a ton of money

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