While I don't subscribe to the QAnon related conspiracies, I feel even more strongly that Facebook is a bigger threat to society as it stifles discussion and dissemination of apposing ideas if they are not compliant with their policy.
Meh. When the discussion and dissemination of ideas doesn't go beyond "meme level", nothing of value is really being lost. The platform doesn't really lend itself to deep discussion. It's sound bites but now every crackpot on the planet gets the same voice as experts who have dedicated their lives to a subject.
Please don't buy the hype. I'm going to guess that almost everyone would agree with preservation of environment and wildlife. But the drilling in northern Alaska is not what one may think. Drilling sites have small surface foot prints and reach out via horizontal drilling. Additionally, oil exploration on the north slope of Alaska has been going on since the 1960's with a remarkably good health, safety, and environmental responsibility record. Look at their record and what they've been doing. It may be a rare case, but Alaska's north slope environment has not been harmed by exploratory drilling sites.
The actual drilling is not the real issue. The drills are indeed a negligible footprint. But every drilling site has a road. Every road has bridges. Then, should oil be pumped, pipelines and other support infrastructure. Surrounding all of this is then the local risk of spills, and the non-local implications of burning yet more oil. So to stop all that nasty stuff later, we need to stop the preliminary drilling today.
Canada is struggling with abandoned oil infrastructure, tar sand developments that companies do not want to clean up. (There was a recent supreme court case about this.) For all the pre-planning and taxation, everyone knows that some day in the future it will be the government saddled with cleanup costs.
I don't know why this is being downvoted. Agree or disagree, it's a reasonable contribution to the conversation. To me, downvotes are for bad-faith arguments, axe-grinding, comments that raise issues answered in TFA, and other things that worsen the quality of conversation.
People downvote things that make them angry. The closer one gets to an uncomfortable truth, the greater the anger.
I honestly think that the majority of downvotes on HN are from people silenced by the posting limit. Lacking the ability to respond in text, their only agency is to downvote. The calm and considerate people who read more and speak less don't hit that limit.
You're speaking of ideal scenarios. Explain all the past accidents that have led to massive raping of the wildlife and environment, then subsequent "cleanups" which add additional issues.
It really feels that with proper governance it should be possible to both extract the oil and benefit the environment overall. Reinvesting the profits in environmental improvement projects (both locally, but particularly in other places where small investments can go a long ways) seems like it should be possible to outweigh the damage.
That said, probably infeasible to achieve that type of governance in the US these days, so this Audobon approach of putting its foot down is possibly the most viable.
It is possible, but not when money is on the line. We see this issue everywhere. Nuclear power plants can be made safe, but then checks aren't done when they should, maintenance is allowed, they're kept running being the design life, etc.
Prudhoe Bay oil spill was in 2006. Also exploratory drilling has a huge footprint; they do 4D seismic which means a big grid of tracks. This leaves long lasting scars on sensitive landscapes.
Unfortunately, back in 2014, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign for DreamQii PlexiDrone 8 blade drone. It has not shipped, though they've been in a state of almost shipping for about two years. Lesson learned. DreamQii raised over US$2.2 million.
Unfortunately, back in 2014, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign for DreamQii PlexiDrone 8 blade drone. Still not shipping. Almost shipping for the last two years. A costly lesson.
First, I appreciate the work you've done. Great stuff. Thanks.
Second, I don't imagine these topics fit well with the exercise based course material, but they are of interest to me:
Window Functions,
Logic in the database vs in the code,
Serialization,
Normalization vs Denormalization,
Object Relational Mapping,
Concurrency & Transactions,
Triggers
That's a good idea, unfortunately the providers don't know each other and don't make it as easy as it sounds. Given interest into that, I will see about making something happen, if possible. Thanks!
As a satisfied HelloSign customer, I've been waiting for what seemed like an obvious addition to your product for a long time. Single forms and agreements are fine, but having those conform to our internal process flow makes for a much more useful tool.
An alternative to Bloomberg Terminal, on the research side, is Tiingo, an amazing financial data portal. They ask that if you use it, you pay a minimum of $7 per month, though that is not currently enforced.
Thanks for the mention! The goal is to help liberate financial data and make it accessible to everyone via tools and education. I've already gone where bloomberg doesn't, like a custom metrics creator for the screener, and the podcast is top-rated. Either way, I work my butt off because I want everybody to have access to the same tools I did.
Thank you for mentioning the platform :) let me know if you have any questions!
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The one thing that's somewhat unavailable to me is bond data. Any plans in that space?
For example, Planet Money's toxic asset CUISP: 41161PUA9, part of HVMLT 2005-10 B6. I'd be neat to have visibility into that without paying bloomberg 20k.
