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> We only have radical politicians to thank for that underinvestment by private companies.

I'm not sure who you are talking about.

Domestic producers start talking about "switching modes to returning value to shareholders" in mid-2020.

We were headed for higher oil prices regardless because shale producers were sprinting to stand still in terms of production. The pandemic certainly pulled that future forward. Certain other politicians orchestrating supply-side cuts without demanding price stability on the rebound [1] -- despite obvious impending bullwhip -- probably didn't help.

Generally speaking, though, when it comes to oil prices, it's best to avoid discussing politics and let your personal investments do the talking. I've been selling XLE.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/energy-environme...
Careful. Lectins are the "Compound du jour" of the fad diet crowd.

Lectins are in practically everything that we eat. If it were just lectins, it would be a lot more people than this.

This is likely contamination of some form.
I did this with some 419 scammers, and led them on a merry chase. I documented it in a private web forum, which entertained my friends for weeks.

I had created this persona which was just too good to be true: A bank manager who was getting ready to run off with his mistress, and trying to secure a future for themselves with a quick payout. This fake persona was a total maniac.

At the end, the scammers were super pissed. Sending angry emails, fighting amongst themselves. Eventually convinced them to admit to being scammers. I look back fondly on the experience.
Meh... teachers can do all those things as well.
Probably judges got tired convicting geezers who committed murder to win the tontine.
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The problem is that the game industry is constantly doing bait and switch, at least for the last decade. They promise a great product, and then the product is mediocre at best and full of shameless monetization.

Non-gamers may not understand the difference between a pay-to-win mobile game, and a story-driven RPG action PC game. They're both called "games", but they're in fact different products with different experience. Many of the game companies that made a name with "proper" games are now using the same franchises to create low budget cash grabs.

I think gamers are just asking for companies to stop destroying existing franchises in the name of making more money, and often in the name of some ideology. If we say, well that is their right, it's their IP, then gamers also have a right to express their feelings on the matter.
Marx thought that communism followed the end of capitalism, the moment capitalism completed its mission of growth and there is enough for everyone, that it should switch to communism.

My pet theory is that markets strive towards market freedom as opposed to a free market which is purely defined by a lack of regulation and then followed by processes that fill the power vacuum. No, market freedom is about giving everyone the ability to participate in the division of labor to the extend that they want, the ability to refuse to be trapped by debt against their will, the freedom from being forced to grow the economy against their will, the freedom from rent seeking and the freedom from being deprived of basic humans needs like land and food via the division of labor.

As you can see, these freedoms aren't granted by default, a free market does not grant them. We introduced states with their monopoly on violence to protect people from violence. The right to life has to be enforced by competent officials as otherwise a small portion of the population will inevitably use murder for their own benefit.

Because of this constant striving toward market freedom, people resist authoritarianism and this necessitates guard labor which forcibly distorts the market away from market freedom. At some point half the population engages in guard labor at which point the ruler will be overthrown by the guard labor leading to a military dictatorship which will be overthrown again. If this doesn't happen, then the ruler will be overthrown by the rebellion instead leading to an economy that is closer to market freedom.

"Smart" rulers notice that they should avoid becoming a villain, instead they blame someone else, a foreign country and their leaders. During market saturation, money fails to circulate, leading to mass unemployment as the productivity of a handful of people is enough to produce most products and the jobs are unfairly allocated to people who do not need their additional income. This encourages governments to invest the surplus labor force in the military and for building and stockpiling weapons to fight the villain country. Because the choice to only work for their rent and food has been taken away from them through the unfair concentration of work, people are forced to engage in wartime production, they simply have no choice.

What warfare represents is just a way to keep capital gains and interest rates high in an economy that has no need for further growth. People quite literally destroy capital because they haven't learned how to allocate it properly. Market saturation is as if capitalism was a video game that can be beat, but when you finish it, you and everyone realizes that beating capitalism doesn't solve poverty whatsoever and people get become aware and angry that the problem wasn't a lack of growth to begin with and eliminating poverty is purely about wealth and income distribution for which capitalists have no answer. Hence the endless need to grow and if you can't, to go to war, to keep people busy and sweep the inequality under the rug.
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Great. Now try Tallahassee, Florida. Or Liverpool. Or the myriad of other non-global/dense city with limited public transportation infrastructure especially during off hours.
> Take, for example, this comment by someone calling themselves Proud Retro Fascist: [...]

For what it's worth, the person called themselves like this in jest: apparently in an earlier comment, someone referred to people skeptical of the new design as "retro fascists." Not sure if that was supposed to be sarcastic as well, since the comment has been deleted.
I'm surprised it isn't higher... feels like many people over about 70 that I know have theirs removed kinda along with getting knee and hip replacements, prostate surgery, etc. I honestly thought it was something every older person needed to have on their radar as a possibility.
A prosecutor could have you killed.
I admit if I got a variant of the “Andy, will my custom mahogany furniture arrive next week?” text mentioned in the article, part of me would be very tempted to reply with, “Absolutely. On its way!”

(I’d probably just ignore it, though.)
I disagree. The constraint is the prisoner's dilemma that is the oil extraction industry, where the incentives are currently aligned such that extracting less oil maintains steady profits for all players as demand recovers from 2020. If you recall, oversupply combined with demand reduction caused oil futures to go negative in that year. The industry does not want to relive that experience in 2022.

Politicians (and policies) don't really have much sway over oil prices compared to market forces. For example, the federal gas tax is 18 cents a gallon, a pretty small fraction of the current price.
Oh yeah, no judgement implied. It’s just a force of habit for me.
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Lobster was once thought of as gross poor people food. Same with escargot in France
It would be a factor but larger factors would be supply and demand issues due to COVID and sanctions on Russian oil due to the war in Ukraine. Without Russian oil on the global market, supply is down, causing high fuel prices. These high fuel prices not only affect the cost to fill your vehicle, but increase the cost of transporting every good and even some services. High transportation costs increases the cost of everything you buy that wasn't locally produced.
Every time some limitation is predicted, particularly when the only limitation is investment, it's usually surpassed. There's more extraction that can be done, and more efficiencies that can be found, so we're not at 'peak', but I can believe that we're at a point of diminishing returns.
> What is behaviorally/biologically beneficial varies by individual.

As someone that has sleep issues that deviate vastly from the norm, I empathize with this point, but it doesn't really mean much when it comes to designing policy, which is supposed to serve its demographic broadly.

> Societal life should be a factor as that does factor into the holistic well-being of the student. Not just some myopic rule about start times that negatively impacts everything else (after school activities, jobs, parent schedules, etc).

The rule being set by the state or by the local school district is hardly of consequence. You're okay with painting broad strokes about parents' lives but then make an argument about individual students.

> If you actually believe that, then you have to be against this law. Any schedule will negatively affect someone. A later schedule would have been terrible for me.

Unless you're suggesting that the start times be adjusted to cater to every single individual's needs, this is just pointing out that the start time the school you attended coincided with what worked for you personally.
I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one who just wants a bank to be a bank.

I've been with the same relatively small regional bank for 30 years. I have a checking account, savings account and that's it. They've been stable this entire time, and I've never worried my money was going to disappear.

As another sign of being an old man, I'm old enough to remember the phrase "as safe as money in the bank". You see, when I was a kid, the banks had been operating under decades of strong regulation by the FDIC and other agencies, and were widely considered to be a safe place to put your money.

Not that the banking sector hasn't seen its share of problems in that time. From the S&L crisis, to the home mortgage lending fraud that lead to the big crash. But in all that time, with just a little effort, you could put at least some of your money in a regular local bank, and expect it to be there tomorrow.

Bank local! If you want to speculatively invest, that's fine. But keep some money in a local bank so that you can pay your bills next month.
To give a bit more contrast - a lot of the other methods people are sharing will definitely help your memory. Getting enough sleep is important. So is eating well. Yet if your goal is to improve your memory to an extreme - like lets say, fully memorizing every word in a large book or being able to recite a number to ten thousand places or being able to be repeat back card for card fifty two cards in a row - what you need isn't just to be rested and healthy. You need actual technique. The comparison I would use is sports. Yes - if you want to be good at sports, you should be in peak shape. However, being in peak shape is only a part of the solution. You also need the proper technique.
Based off some of the other comments, here is the idea I’m picking up on:

If a particular market isn’t that competitive and has oligopolistic aspects, more transparency may increase the “effectiveness” of the oligopoly. Instead of hospitals that were charging more lowering prices to compete, we could see hospitals that were charging less raises prices because they know the competitive pressures are weak and they don’t want to leave money on the table.

Seems plausible to me, depending on how oligopolistic most hospital markets are.
My highschool started at 7:15AM. I have no memory now (~15 years later) of any first period classes. I can remember things for 2nd period and later, but first period? Not even vague memories.
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And this is good to legalize?
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That doesn't match my experience at all. I started at 7:15 (special elective) and school started at 8. The only kids who would fall asleep were the kids that stayed up late playing videogames, abusing caffeine (and/or other drugs), and didn’t care about grades.

So my anecdotes don't match your's.
And vice-versa: when things go well, they're geniuses and circumstances outside of their control have nothing to do with it.
Classic Malthusian viewpoint, nothing new to see here. If only it were true that oil is running out - it might force us to think about alternatives more.
I also get messages on WhatsApp with similar profile pictures, although I’ve never replied or tried reverse image search. Some of the recent messages:

“Mike, this is my new number. Let's play golf tomorrow and talk about working together?” (My name isn’t Mike.)

“Hello, how's Kevin doing?” (My name isn’t Kevin and I doubt they're talking about anyone I know whose name is Kevin.)

The thing that always seems so weird to me is, if I’m on some list, why are there so few messages? Is this some group that keeps their list of numbers to themselves and is very disciplined with how often it sends out scam attempts?
There is no person. You are just helping train an AI
Agreed. But given that legacy dispatch infra is bad/inefficient, you need rider density to support the quality of service of a London.
"Physical UIs also don't need to help the user navigate digital content. Hugely different to physical content."

Consider the Beat Buddy pedal (automated drum accompaniment pedal) which can play lots of digital content via user commands. Yes the foot commands are limited ("add a fill", "splash sound", "next phrase", "end song"), and so are the dials ("choose playlist", "change tempo"). However, the proper stomping really helps if you want to add an extra solo or just chill with a beat while you tell a story.
Suppose you are a kid who's getting bullied by a larger kid. Every day the kid takes your stuff and messes with it or something. You (maybe) complain to the teacher, but really you're scared that if the teacher leaks that you complained, the kid will beat you.

So eventually you grow tired of it, you've worked out a bit, and now you beat the kid up. Now... you get suspended/expelled, instead of the bully. That's a zero-tolerance policy.

My wife's cousin was suspended for a few weeks for standing up to her bully. My in-laws and her family decided to reward her and she got two weeks of a fun family vacation. But the school was trying to punish her, and if her parents and grandparents weren't more sensible, perhaps they would have succeeded.
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Yes, we have right-wing channers infesting the place, we have a constantly declining level of tech competence in the comments, we have people who never actually read past a title, but it's Ann Reardon's YouTube titles that will destroy this community.
I don´t agree with your wording. You sound like that especially in a democracy the minorities get crushed. But its the democracies that build upon the core idea of alienable human rights, that gives you voting power but also guarantees as an individual. It is no wonder that you will find such constitutions in democracies.
Thats why I said trias politica.

I encourage you to think critically and at the same time ask you to cherish what you have. It is you duty to defend democracy and keep it functioning, or else you will lose it. I am not saying that do you do that personally, but I see a lot of spoiled people in the west that shit on their own chair, by dismissing democracy, even sometimes equaling it with autocratic regimes. Those don´t know what they ask for.
Gangs and guns.

I was beat to the ground several times a month all of high school - often by 3 or 4 people. I took care of my friend after having been stabbed at a party. 2 of my friends were killed before I graduated. I’ve been shot at and had guns pulled on me “for fun”.

The education was terrible as well, but I don’t blame the teachers or staff. They were doing the best they could.
I went to public school and would argue it's a terrible place to be socialized. You are socialized by kids your age in an environment that's more akin to prison than the real world.
Somehow this ain't really all that surprising. American "cowboy" culture is nowadays pretty thoroughly whitewashed; in the actual days of the cow rustling gun slinging Wild West, cowboys were a lot more racially diverse than in their modern portrayals. Country music itself reflects this, combining elements of European, African, and Native folk styles.
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You can but it’s a lot a nicer to set key bindings.

For example I hit ,gd which I have mapped to the go to definition.

I also have ,fr mapped to find references.

You can come up with whatever mappings you want.

I have K (so shift + k) to show the type information.

Etc etc. Vim and neovim let you customize all this and anything else.
My religion is Christian. I'm not allowed to make a god out of cookware, text editors, cars brands, or any of that others.

Cast iron is cheap and works, so I use it. Maybe whatever else is better, but I'm busy making supper not building storage for another cupboard to store whatever the perfect pot of the day is.
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"A grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't"

I discovered when I first bought a MIG that there's a world of a difference between "I have a welder" and "I am a welder". I used to be bloody good at oxyacetylene, too...
It’s not just QE. Couple excessive government spending, with intentional disruptions of the energy supply, and the ongoing damage from the COVID lockdowns and inflation was inevitable. Powell’s comments are concerning since it was obvious as the nose on his face.
Wrong numbers generally used to be caused by misdialing.

Nobody dials numbers any more.
> Gallstones don't develop overnight

Yeah, the fact that this even made it to the legal system says everything.

Gallstones are normally a gooey crystal. It's cholesterol that has "crystallized" slowly over time. It's one of the reasons why they don't have very good drugs to treat gallstones--any drug would have to "ungrow" that crystal which would take just as long.
It's an entertaining read, but mostly subjective opinion. I love doom predictions in general, they're always correct if you wait long enough and keep the framing loose, like saying we're in the process of collapsing. Something will eventually cause a severe global disruption, and when it happens it's easy to just say you were off on the timeline.
The universal cut benefits those who would have been laid off as they're likely the ones who would be most concerned. I've seen this once and the ones who liked it were those who feared losing their jobs knowing it would be hard to find another.
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Energy company execs themselves. See recent news for examples

Would you invest billions in projects with 10-20 year payback periods if politicians eager to score points were using your industry as a scapegoat and vowing to destroy it?
Do you think the sanctions on Russia will end when the war ends?
“Live insurance” also makes sense. It means you get money when you lose your life, just as “car insurance” means you get money when you lose your car.
Same here, school started at 7:34 and the first period was always a complete wash. Might as well have called it napping class, or as close as you can get to napping while keeping your eyes just open enough that the teacher doesn't call you out. I've just looked it up, and it looks like my old school district got the memo because these days the bell rings at 8:09.
Society will collapse once absolutely nobody is predicting collapse.

If there's still a chorus predicting collapse, we're not there yet.

Then, once everyone is convinced we are now in a permanent dark ages and all advanced civilization is at an end, it will rebound.
This seems crazy late. IIRC I had a 0-period class starting at 6:00am. Starting 2.5 hours later is surprising.

If I were back in high school, all this would have told me is that I'm staying up until at least midnight, if not later. I was usually good about sleeping around 9:30pm which gave me roughly 9 hours sleep.

Since I assume this means school will end later in the day, this just means homework gets pushed much later too. My parents were very strict about homework being done the same day, so there's no chance I would have been able to keep my old schedule and do homework in the mornings.

I'm curious what the effect is on the average and median kids. This would have been incredibly annoying for me.
People are getting more sensitive to the opinions of others, and I am not sure that is necessarily a bad thing. It does mean we might want to be a bit more careful with how we express opinions, considering others a bit. I also don't think that is necessarily bad.
Neat project. Only two commits for 2022 though: https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/commits/main
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"why the youngest ended up getting up the earliest puzzles me."

It's so parents who have to go to work, can drop their kids off. The youngest are the ones who shouldn't (in most cities unfortunately) be going by public transports by themselves. While teens can just take the bus or subway.
They were a lender to 3 Arrows Capital, who was liquidated.

These crypto exchanges are over leveraged. They make banks look like saints in risk managements.
Based on the delays in these sorts of calls, I’d guess that they’re robocalls which dial way more numbers than they have operators for and try to filter out no-answer and voicemail pickups automatically. Then if you pick up, they route you to an operator. If there’s no operator available, it just drops the call rather than reveal which annoying company just wasted your time. That way the operators— clearly the most expensive link in the chain — are always engaged. Just a guess though!

Even if that’s wrong, I’m sure you’re right that they collect caller-pick-up stats. I imagine even cursory vetting would dramatically increase the resale value of their lead list.
I mean, isn’t that always the case though? That lots of people don’t belong there? It’s just the law of large numbers + the ever shifting lives of people.
Isn't that one of the main selling points?
Late 80s, Netherlands. As of the age of 6, I was free roaming on my tiny bicycle. I could go wherever I please, zero supervision, just be back in time for diner. And of course without any technology (smartphone).

Modern parents would have a heart attack.
One can say the same thing about public and private schooled kids -- sheltered from traditional and conservative ideas.
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It's hard to find someone and "pick their brain" over a coffee to discuss their school decision or the next career move. What if you can pay alumni to give you direct advice about a school/job?