Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession

alexandros wrote: post #4

anyone know why there is 'loading' activity whenever I select text on the page? I noticed the same effect on yesterday's esquire articles as well.

They're probably using the same text highlighting code as esquire.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/98o77/go_to_esqu...

Re: Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession

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Post by sharpn » Mon, Sep 14, 2009, 4:57 PM UTC

hughprime wrote: post #3

nobody_nowhere wrote: post #2

Spot the glaring fact-checking failure in this article...

How about you just point it out to save everybody some time?

I guess the author hit 'replace all' when editing in the word 'Christmas' somewhere:

"You used to look Christmas from here straight over to Indonesia..."

Re: Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession

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Post by nobody_nowhere » Mon, Sep 14, 2009, 5:04 PM UTC

hughprime wrote: post #3

nobody_nowhere wrote: post #2

Spot the glaring fact-checking failure in this article...

How about you just point it out to save everybody some time?

Hint: first sentence

Re: Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession

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Post by sanj » Mon, Sep 14, 2009, 5:17 PM UTC

It is time for Startup School to take to the ocean.

I think we should charter one of these vessels and sale around the South Pacific while building our companies.

We could fit 100 companies on board, charge each $100/day and turn a profit:

"You may wish to know this because, if ever you had an irrational desire to charter one, now would be the time. This time last year, an Aframax tanker capable of carrying 80,000 tons of cargo would cost £31,000 a day ($50,000). Now it is about £3,400 ($5,500)."

Anyone want on board?

Re: Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession

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Post by defen » Mon, Sep 14, 2009, 5:27 PM UTC

sanj wrote: post #9

It is time for Startup School to take to the ocean. I think we should charter one of these vessels and sale around the South Pacific while building our companies. We could fit 100 companies on board, charge each $100/day and turn a profit: "You may wish to know this because, if ever you had an irrational desire to charter one, now would be the time. This time last year, an Aframax tanker capable of carrying 80,000 to…

Don't forget that the engines in these things burn something on the order of 1 liter of fuel oil/second.