kevinthew

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by kevinthew 3y ago
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 cases of fraud, the SEC should aggressively prosecute these croo
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by kevinthew 3y ago
Not sure when long form shitposting became acceptable but no one wants to read this tripe
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by kevinthew 3y ago
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 anecdote of people getting carjacked is relevant at all?
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by kevinthew 5y ago
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
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by kevinthew 5y ago
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 generation problem? Go look at what's happening in Sou
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by kevinthew 5y ago
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 sphere as the 2nd order impacts from COVID play out.
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by kevinthew 5y ago
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 term production growth without offsetting higher c
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by kevinthew 5y ago
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.
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by kevinthew 5y ago
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 can see why a vanguard or Blackrock would sign up for that
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by kevinthew 6y ago
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.
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by kevinthew 7y ago
Yeah. The part that should freak people out is this looks multiples more infectious to boot.
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by kevinthew 7y ago
That's basically matched to inflation - would be more surprised if unchanged
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by kevinthew 7y ago
Not sure if serious but he's an accounting major. Guessing he has it covered.
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by kevinthew 8y ago
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.
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by kevinthew 8y ago
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 transactional value store. Comparing the two is a waste of time -
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by kevinthew 8y ago
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 but they do not seem to give a shit.
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by kevinthew 8y ago
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 their sales figures.
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by kevinthew 8y ago
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 your life every day. Is every day a new puzzle to solve? Are
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by kevinthew 8y ago
Social media and privacy have always butted heads and I hope courts start to side with pro privacy advocates
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by kevinthew 9y ago
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).
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by kevinthew 9y ago
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.
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by kevinthew 9y ago
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 cheap power on the grid is already likely being max ut
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by kevinthew 9y ago
"Rabid partisan". I do love coming onto to HackerTheDonald to get my hot takes.
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by kevinthew 9y ago
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.
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by kevinthew 9y ago
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 outside the major cities in this area is fracking countr
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by kevinthew 10y ago
Article shows some thoughtful insight into how political organizations monetize emails and online surveys. I also think it shows how outrage can be used as fuel for opposition as well as kindling for rallying support for an in group. It re
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Why You Should Stop Taking the GOP Media Accountability Survey(medium.com)
1 points by kevinthew 10y ago|1 comments
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by kevinthew 10y ago
The pedantic bullshit in these comments is why America is in the shitter.
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by kevinthew 10y ago
electricity is a very liquid market, they're probably selling this generation into ercot, buying it in offset in whatever grid they operate on. they could have some sort of physical exchange in place to act as the offset (i.e. they sel
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by kevinthew 11y ago
happened to be recently: Manager: Hey you're here for the xx position right? You know, you sound like you'd be a really good fit for this new job that opened up, I just fired this guy, millennials amirite, so let's talk about

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