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Of course you're going to say that, though; your religious beliefs are so thick that they obscure your ability to empathize with other humans.

Let's get some data, shall we? Here's demographics of NYC [0], and here's demographics of COVID-19 deaths in NYC [1]. Black/African-American folks make up 25% of NYC's population, but 33% of all deaths. White folks make up 45% of the population, but 31% of all deaths. I don't need a t-test to know that that's statistically significant.

Shitty private health is due to racism and classism; folks aren't willing to foot the bill for others, as if we're somehow not living in a society. We have plenty of good leadership from sides not commonly represented; Bernie and the Larrys were frozen out, remember? This country's Overton window is so far to the upper-right that it's nigh-impossible to get any traction on positive social policies.

You act as if this country's classist and racist history doesn't exist, which is silly. Hopefully you know about the Voting Rights Act [2] and the fact that this country has been so classist and racist that we have explicitly passed laws about it. And yes, there is a long history in this country of disenfranchising minorities by, amongst other things, denying them banking services.

Sorry, but you need to do better, you pathetic sad-sack snowflake! Right now you sound like not just part of the problem, but happily part of the problem. Fix yourself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#...

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965#Prov...
Colombia's Rappi trials robots to deliver restaurant food to homes
I live in one of the large metros in Ohio, prices are all still $1.30-1.50/gallon here. Like most of the locations in the article, I would guess the sub-dollar prices are very isolated locations or special circumstances (no-tax native american reservations like I saw in other comments?)
WTI is what matters most to North American producers.
>I think each one have to find where those 2-4 hours lies.

True, and I don't think it has anything to do with a personal biological<->time of day connection. The time of day that works for you is probably related to the contexts of what happen before and after in your day. The events which lead you into one mindset or another. So you could change your day to change what time of day it is, as well. You aren't "stuck."
I didn't mean to be provocative, I just wondered what's the advantage of that particular setup. I guess your comment and the peer's explain it pretty well. Also, thanks for the links to the repos. I'll start from there.

Is there any dev forum on ssb or other place I could catch you guys at if I want to learn more or contribute?
Post-scarcity doesn't solve the fundamental problem of earth being unable to sustain infinite humans. Even with infinite resources, there will still be finite space.

Historically, human populations that did grow beyond sustainable had to starve to death back to sustainable. If you prevent this by giving everyone free food, that's not really a good thing.
https://archive.is/6vmOK
Mechanical 7 segment display clock using an Arduino and 28 servos
Brent would not be impacted by storage in America, since Brent is a product of the oilfields near the old Brent oilfield in north Europe.

Which brings up the topic of oil prices: there are many. Every blend, every location, has its own price. In fact the same oil can be sold at different prices if the seller so chooses. Of note Saudis have reportadly raised the price they offer americans as part of the deal, while lowering the price to asia.

Which leads to the saying:"In equity the algorithms are a secret and the prices are known, in oil the prices are a secret and the algorithms are public."

News can only talk about WTI or Brent, but exact prices at each market depend upon situations.
I usually don't watch the news, but after covid-19 I've started to follow a similar pattern as you. But in the second week, I felt very anxious and too much worried, imaging many outcomes that this disease could bring to my family and me.

So I decided to stop to consume news and to try to put in practice a knowledge that is very difficult to practice: "don't care about things that are out of your control."

So since then, I am avoiding the news, practicing social distance, and helping my family to do the same and trying to keep my work and studies. The only thing about the pandemia that every day I search on google is: "coronavirus cure". To know about new vaccines and medications that are under test.
Nobody minds if that's what works for you. We object when you force it on employees because it's what works for you, regardless of what works for them.
I'm not blind but I do like to listen to podcasts, YouTube, etc at 1.5-3x and I've certainly caught myself getting annoyed at how long it takes to listen to a new album I want to check out, but I've never tried to speed it up, I just remember to relax and enjoy it.
It is so incredibly heartwarming to me to see this thread stay as one of the top submissions/threads as long as it has.

Thank you HN community.
I saw that to, but it seems clear that's the sizes now? I guess it was bigger and most of it has rotted away? But also IANANeanderthal.
The limited success of their war on Yemen, despite having the 3rd largest military budget in the world, says otherwise.
Yep, boredom is definitely one reason.

Also, when I was assigned to a new project where I get to work on a modern tech stack and create a proof of concept, I was able to got 6-10 hours of high productivity (sort of like a honeymoon phase with new tech) for several days.

But then I got re-assigned to a project with a tech stack that I really don't like e.g. a "hot reload" would take 5-10 seconds and it would trigger every time I save a file + the project structure doesn't make sense - but people who worked on it have since left the project + I'm not learning anything useful. I've tried focusing on the tech challenges, but my tasks are mostly to fix bugs. Refactoring is not wanted, since the idea is to ship a less buggy version as soon as possible.

Fortunately I'm a contract freelancer, once this project ends in 2 months, I won't extend and will look for a new company.
Does the Saudi kleptocracy have any reason to distrust the US klpetocracy? After 9/11/2001 the US was quite loyal in a difficulty time.
No I'd bet he's getting avgas. That's avgas price territory.
Sorry, I am relatively new to your state. This my second year in Indiana. I tried going to Meijer https://www.meijer.com/ a few times. imo clientele's too posh & everything felt too upscale, clean & stuck up. I tend to skew blue collar. When I think grocery I want a see an unkempt farmer pull up in a truck & dump 100 pounds of broccoli in crates so there's stalk and leaves all over the store, and that is exactly Kroger. I then get to pick up the broccoli for a dollar. If I go to Meijer they wrap the broccoli nicely in plastic & charge $5. I don't have that kind of spare change. For $5 you can rent a whole vm on linode & get a business going.
No more than the great recession made investing in the stock market a bad idea.

This is a temporary and largely self-inflicted shock, demand will return and prices will go back up. As much as I like renewables, with the latest oil prices I've snapped up oil/natural gas producer stock at a hell of a discount for the last few weeks.

For the record, I've also invested in renewable energy companies. Both ought to do well over the next 10 years IMO.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/25/business/saudi-arabia-tou...
After the WW2 House of Saud made an agreement [1] with USA that in exchange for the US Army support of Saud, they will pump any amount of oil that is needed.

Now not sure how long this will last, since the current price war is directly affecting the US producers. Time will tell.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10719728/us-saudi-arabia-allies
Can you elaborate? I'm actually looking into building my first PC and the small form factor of this case looks really appealing.

Here's some builds that use it: https://pcpartpicker.com/builds/by_part/wBw7YJ
>The thing that has put us off the last few cruises is realizing how workers on the ships are treated.

I read somewhere that the main reason these cruise ships, including those owned by well known US companies like Disney, won't register their ships under the American flag is so that they can avoid US labor laws, I don't know if this is true but it sadly wouldn't surprise me.
Few of these involve the possibility of significant explosion, which is one way in which they are different.
Wow, I underestimated your seriousness about adapting to alternate output methods. Did you have to buy that braille display at your own expense? As I'm sure you know, they're expensive. How recently did you start learning braille? Has it been a challenge for you to learn to read it with your fingers?
"Facebook uses aggregated public data from a survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon University Delphi Research Center. Facebook doesn’t receive, collect or store individual survey responses."

But, what are you afraid Facebook would do with these survey results?
Qatar makes 95% of their revenue on LNG. These are long-term contracts at fixed prices. Kuwait and Qatar also have the fewest amount of actual citizens that it would need to "pay off".

Ex: During the Arab Spring, Kuwait handed out $500k checks to all Kuwaiti males above 18 years old. He also told the citizenry that he would forgive all car loans - population went and bought ferraris, range rovers, etc. and got the loans all forgiven by the government.

I worry more about the Arab countries that have high populations and cannot afford to pay everyone off - Saudi is on that list.
Note that this is for the May contract, which closes tomorrow, and anyone left with a contract then will have to actually take delivery of the physical product. Since we are in supercontango (oil storage is full, causing spot prices to be significantly lower than forward prices), I am guessing that traders who are still holding on to contracts and don’t have available storage have to unload contracts pretty quickly.

The June contract, where most of the trading is happening, is at around $22, and the July contract is $28.
Didn't they just start to issue tourist visas last year?

I have to say, from flying across in a research airplane that was not allowed to measure (so no work for the scientific crew = lots of time to move from window to window and observe) - it is a colourful country and very beautiful from above. There is black and white, and red and yellow, and the many patterns in the sand and the mountains are interesting. I didn't know they had (extinct) volcanoes either. If I wasn't a woman I might have even considered going.
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> This is a complete farce.

This seems like a highly disproportionate response.

> other data coming out from places like Germany is putting us closer to .2-.6% IFR.

Which is not that different from 1% if you're talking about people deliberately exposing themselves to the virus. If I'm not going to do that at 1%, I'm not going to do it at .2% either. So the term "complete farce" seems way over the top. To me, if you seriously think a significant number of people are going to be willing to deliberately infect themselves and take a .2% risk of dying, or even a considerably lower risk than that, that seems like a farce.

> The important thing here is the individual needs to be empowered to make an informed decision based off their personal risk tolerance.

I'm generally in favor of the idea that people should be given the best available information and then should make their own decisions. In this particular case, I just think you are way, way off as far as your apparent estimate of the average person's risk tolerance when it comes to deliberately infecting themselves with a virus.

Also, if we're going to talk about evidence-based public policy, we need to look at the evidence regarding how well people make decisions when they are empowered to do so. I think the evidence of the last couple of months shows that many people are very bad at that; a lot of public places continued to be crowded with people well after the point where there was plenty of public information telling everyone that close contact with other people in crowded places would spread this virus.

Further, our current public policy regime holds public officials responsible when things go bad, regardless of whether it was actually their fault. That creates a huge incentive for public officials to impose restrictions on people, whether or not they actually make a difference. If we really want to be empowered to make our own choices, we need to stop expecting our public officials to automatically protect us from bad things happening, and take the responsibility for protecting ourselves.
> but past 1 o clock nothing I produce will be that much good and my productivity will be a shadow of what it was in the morning.

This used to be me until 4 years or so ago when I started skipping breakfast.

I love breakfast, but not because I feel hungry in the morning so once I discovered this I started skipping breakfast.

I'm fully convinced however that a good number of people would become more productive if they did eat breakfast.

FTR: I often wake up extremely early (often before 04 for days in a row) and can hardly get anything except extremely simple work done after 2100 (even back when I used to sleep more normal hours.)
Except it doesn't spread by aerosol.

https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-t...
That is true, however Dubai is not in Saudi Arabia. It is part of the U.A.E.
Spotify doesn’t use “the Spotify model” and neither should you
"Peer-management. Promise what you’ll do in the coming week on internal Yammer. Deliver – or publicly break your promise – next week."

This idea of commitments as value keeps coming up. It's difficult to explain to many technologists who see their value as measured in work, middle managers who see their value measured in negative time. If you just take the problem you are solving, express it functionally in terms of what goes into it, and what it will produce when it is solved, committing to that creates value for others. If you've seen Ray Dalio's "economic machine" video, commitments are are not unlike creating credit that facilitates spending, which creates growth. I get there are dodgy anti-patterns for creating fake commitments and fake credit that project managers tend to use, but a team that is creating growth doesn't need people like that.
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That was my first reaction too, comparing it to somewhere like Doha or Dubai. But maybe religious tourism? [0]

[0] https://qz.com/1684679/the-hajj-pilgrimage-to-saudi-arabias-...
It does seem crazy that New York still has two man operation. A machine is also capable of confirming correct alignment to some marker, and won't get distracted or confused. I assume it's a union thing?

If you are going to spend millions of dollars (yes really) paying for an extra person on every train, clearly having them fixed in a place where they can point at a board so as to not automate an easy problem is a poor use compared to them roaming the train. Of course New York's trains still also don't have open gangways, so it wouldn't be easy to do that either. But a guard who actually strolls up and down the train helping passengers might actually make a useful difference compared to replacing a trivial mechanical sensor with a well-paid human.
Are you saying we should propagate white genocide? If not, than how are those fourteen words not a pretty reasonable thing to say? Don't you want a future for white children? How is this a far-right belief? It boggles the mind.
I suggest you to learn meditation. It can help to relief your stress.
"Please enable Javascript to read the full article".

How about no.
I understand that it's hard to stop oil production, leading to pileups. But even after 2 months it's still unstoppable?
Not the only reason. Until last week Russia and Saudi Arabia was in a price war, which was/is a large part of the reason for the low gas prices, at least in the EU.
Parent specifically noted crude
Chicago area, I haven't seen anything below $1.79. I'm making an assumption that the station owners are trying to make up some lost profit from the lockdowns.
I've heard stories of the TT-RSS dev being an abusive maintainer.
Yes. He thought he’d be able to live his exile in luxury, but what he thought of as his assets (really belonging to the Iranian people he looted, of course) were frozen by Carter.
Survive in a small enclave in a third country with a small group of servants, sure. Survive as dictators, I am not so sure -- it requires keeping troops and those in key positions happy, which is expensive. My 2c
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States start hiring battalions of contact tracers to track Covid-19
Engineered yeast produce the active ingredients of marijuana better than plants
Well, Saudi started this mess when they decided to declare economic war on Russia and take out oil production in North America as a nice bonus. As long as Saudi can pay the people in Saudi they should be able to weather the storm they started. The huge demand drop for oil just makes it quite a bit nastier.
security is something that can be fixed , through standard practices and iterations. usability, reliability, unobstructiveness etc are not
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I watch a YouTube series where experts compare two of the things that they're an expert in. (Food/drink wise, that is.) They then have to pick which is more expensive.

They virtually always get it right. Though I think the trick is in the formulation; it's not "is this thing $50 or $5," it's "which of these two is the expensive one?" Several episodes, the person says something like "I actually think this one is better, but I know that it's the cheaper one." I think one, if I recall, was mint chocolate chip ice cream. "This is the cheap one but it tastes like what you're imagining when I say "mint chocolate chip ice cream," this other one has higher quality ingredients but you may actually prefer the iconic one."
>Generally, plants make their food using the sun's energy (photosynthesis), while animals eat, then internally digest, their food. Fungi do neither: their mycelium grows into or around the food source, secretes enzymes that digest the food externally, and the mycelium then absorbs the digested nutrients.

https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/publications/00029/mushwhat.ht...
I may try this, but a couple thoughts I'd love feedback/ideas on:

1) I routinely get into these "browser time loops" while waiting for a build. App's got 30s build time? Ah, I'll check reddit. 30 minutes later ... I have found that autosave has helped, and hot module reload in Webpack, but for server code that requires build (.NET), still looking for a way to reduce that. Similar for publishing code. It takes a few minutes to publish to web host, let's go read the news... I feel like a really good CI would help with this.

2) I value being informed. I use Feedly to monitor news, especially industry news. So part of me doesn't want to block sites on principal. I keep saying "I value staying up to date on these topics. I'll just avoid when I should be working" but never do. A way to time access would probably be worthwhile.

3) I question too much focus on "productivity" as defined by spending time looking at an IDE. I don't have 24x7 cranking out code as a goal. I'd much rather focus on extending time "in the zone" where I'm focused and writing quality code. Pomodoro breaks that for me. Music helps sometimes, but can also distract. Caffeine helps, but requires more and more.
Usually by the time you see commodities activity hitting the front page of HN the bets are in and the market is about to take a wild swing in the other direction.

It is very easy to side with the news on oil right now that there is a historical over supply (so much so we have no place to store it any longer, and even considering paying producers to leave it in the ground) and we have a historical drop in demand...so any guesses on what the "news" will be to push oil prices wildly upwards?
and the prices of storage as well.[1] ( Article quite old, but argument stays )

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-shipping/oil-t...
Generally an increase in oil prices is considered an argument for more renewable investment. You're saying that a decrease in price is too. Is there any oil price movement that doesn't argue for more renewables to you? How about no change, is that a case for more renewable investment?
They in part collected this data from a little survey request modal at the top of your facebook timeline main page thingy, so just be aware that it's not at all representational of the population as a whole. Old people and young people and people who read Hacker News are less likely to have answered than would be expected.
Friend of mine is in the car battery business and he's gearing up for a huge surge of dead battery replacement business when this is all over. Doesn't really make up for the lost OEM business from the car manufacturers but it's something.
Would they take delivery or would they pay the producers to dump it in the dirt or ocean? Oops into the ocean is cheap storage of useless oil.
Airflow doesn't look too great on it though?
I'm a software developer, which translates to being somehow smart, but I'm not that into economics: Will this have a rubber band effect? E.g., the price will skyrocket in the next 2 - 5 years, because of this?
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Dubai is certainly a tourist destination but it's not in Saudi Arabia.
Oh wow you're absolutely right. This is actually a really clever solution to the problem presented in this paper.
That is not true, cryptocurrencies do not necessarily have to be decentralised.

Although I suppose that depends on your definition, but then you would be disqualifying something like XRP from being a cryptocurrency. Which people generally agree is.
Amazon sells copy-paste texts from the internet as “Books”
I think it is very reasonable to think, that it is okay to be white. Don't you?
> Does this not make the case for investing in renewables over shale extraction and fracking that has a price floor below which it's not economical?

Basically everything has a price floor below which it's not economical.

The real risk to oil right now is that the combination of low demand and low prices make it unusually attractive for governments to implement a carbon tax, which would also provide funding for the sort of stimulus they're looking for right now, without having constituents upset over high gas prices. The "carbon tax + dividend" thing does exactly that. And would have a meaningful effect even if it was only done by e.g. US blue states and western Europe (which represent a disproportionate amount of world oil consumption).

In which case the demand for oil would never recover.
The Royal Navy used to have adverts that said that as a the Captain of a UK Trident sub you could make £100K a year (mind you this was a few years ago) - my genuine reaction was "I don't think that's enough".

NB UK nuclear weapons don't have permissive-action locks - they don't need any code from HQ to be able to launch or for the warheads to work. They are completely under the control of their crews so being the captain of one of these subs is quite a responsibility.
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Philosophy of Immunology [pdf]
> If they do cap it that can impair future production.

Great! Let's get started.