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Right -- this is pretty clear cut fraud. I think the normalization of criminal activity in the crypto space is largely due to regulatory ignorance but when there are clear cut case…

Not sure when long form shitposting became acceptable but no one wants to read this tripe

There is data on the Kia/Hyundai problem that is unique to these makes because they cut corners on safety features that are standard across industry -- I don't know why your anecdo…

This sounds exactly like the LIBOR rigging scam, various commodity market scandals. People rightfully go to jail for this stuff -- meanwhile we see the big tech companies bid rig

Diesel demand comes from shipping goods primarily. How do we replace the 4 million trucks on the road quickly? How do we get rid of container ship emissions? How do we solve backup…

Great summary and analysis. The context on the cracker shutdowns in February makes it all the more clear. This processing bottleneck has been playing out across the commodities sph…

You're right for some oil but there isn't enough rail infrastructure to enable Canadian crude growth without pipelines. Discounting WCS crude diffs to WTI will price out most long …

This is exactly what Tesoro did a couple years ago. They sold their entire asset mix to Marathon, probably why they want Goff on the board.

The 2 who were elected were a former Tesoro executive (oil refiner) and a Neste (another oil refiner) busdev person who helped develop their industry leading biofuels business. You…

This is probably illegal via antitrust law -- it's inherently anticompetitive -- and just hasn't been tested. Another example of Amazon being an unethical company.

Yeah. The part that should freak people out is this looks multiples more infectious to boot.

That's basically matched to inflation - would be more surprised if unchanged

Not sure if serious but he's an accounting major. Guessing he has it covered.

Competing ideas are good but mass public disinformation is one the 21rst century's biggest problems already. There needs to be some counter to this.

Gold has embedded demand via governments, a global jewelry industry, and yes industrial demand. Bitcoin demand is speculators (mostly) and a handful of people who use it as a trans…

I would say roughly 50 percent of things I have bought are counterfeit (books, all electronics, CLOTHING, you name it!) It is, frankly, going to end Amazon as a company eventually …

I would say 50 percent or more of the items I buy from Amazon are counterfeit. I suspect clothes, almost all books and electronics are fake. Amazon tacitly accepts it to boost thei…

Lots of people trying to justify their college experience in here. Reality is, none of it matters. What matters is how you were raised 20 years earlier and how you choose to live y…

Social media and privacy have always butted heads and I hope courts start to side with pro privacy advocates

Yeah, crypto hype in fake technological improvements is part of this mess. People actually think there is intrinsic value in a public ledger (there isn't).

the issue is the lack of housing, the artificially restricted supply, not marginal effects like rent controls. definition of missing the forest for the trees.

Yeah, the article makes some false claims about how electricity markets work. By driving up power demand, you're incentivizing fossil fuel usage as it is the marginal molecule. The…

"Rabid partisan". I do love coming onto to HackerTheDonald to get my hot takes.

I'd say about 50-60% of the electronic items I buy from amazon end up being counterfeit. For this reason, I avoid amazon unless it's unimportant stuff.

What this PR piece doesn't talk about is the huge oil and gas growth in eastern Ohio/western PA which is probably massaging these numbers quite well. Pretty much all of Ohio outsid…