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I love how resourceful you people are, every time I check out a HN thread I learn about more databases and references.

Some of us are young and untrained in how these markets work. I think the original commenter wanted to contribute a counter-example because they're learning about this market.

What would you suggest for learning more about the energy industry? Best references and anything to avoid?

There are more like 50 different Microsofts, one for each major product. My theory is that there are still some old Ballmer loyalists left over running some of these products. Dark UX is not what Satya wants.

Great stuff. I was thinking about this after watching a talk by the Beyond Meat CEO in which he states that instead of using animals to rearrange plant proteins into animal proteins (muscles), they're taking the animal out of the equation.

My next thought was, can't you take the plant out of the equation too? How difficult is it to rearrange these nutrients from a fertilizer mix straight into something resembling animal proteins (though easier for humans to digest)? I wonder at what point plants scale better than raw conversion of fertilizer to whatever protein these companies seem to be synthesizing.

I make a monthly donation to charity: water that I believe directly impacts the life of some ~20 people in South America, Africa, and Asia who otherwise wouldn't be able to access clean drinking water. It's not like I created the charity, so I don't think I'm some superhero for doing the minimal thing of giving them some of my hard-earned money, but I do think the charity is making a difference in real peoples' lives.

I had my first allergic reaction to red meat in 2013. My diet currently consists of some form of chicken at every meal, or ground turkey.

It was 6 months of torturous experimentation to figure out why my stomach was burning like lava after every meal. When I had something important to do that day I knew I could eat bread or crackers to avoid a food reaction.

The allergy is rare in my home state so I had to see a doctor from South Carolina to recognize my symptoms and order the correct test.

Man I miss the old youtube, you can hardly find those cool zero budget "filmed on dad's camcorder" kind of videos anymore with all of the high budget 10 minute production videos being dumped onto it. I've had to start watching at 1.25x speed, I think they slow some videos down to hit the 10 minute mark. Youtube sucks.

Do you have some savings? You should do a vacation in the south. Get some sunlight in a southern state (Cali, Texas, Florida). With proper planning your interactions with other people can be as minimal as your average gas station run-in.

The world isn't burning, the media definitely is though. That's a dying animal doing everything it can to keep your eyes glued to the "latest disaster" and their ads of course. We are going to get a vaccine and slowly work back to normal. If you are concerned about the world, do something about your little slice of the world. Pick up some trash and drop some groceries off for an elderly neighbor.

Reddit is cute dog gifs on the surface and a quickly sloping pit of torment once you sink into it. I'm glad to have deleted it from my phone. I browse the internet much more responsibly on a laptop. I deleted all social and news apps from my phone, I basically have email, maps, and a chess app. I was bored for a day, but now that I'm not pumping stupidity into my eyes through this phone I'm actually creating music and learning chess deeply. I'm much more conscious of constructive uses of my time now. Gotta cut that cord, most of you are probably addicted to those apps.

Favorite death metal bands?

Last year: moved to PNW for a high paying job after participating in a mass exodus from a failed startup. Commuted 2hrs a day, crashed at home completely exhausted and got eaten alive by the seasonal depression. Cried on the drive home about twice a week because I was miserable. This year: covid hits, I go wfh full time. Decide to move to a new team. They're really great to work with and work is fun again. I have hours back in my day for all kinds of fun activities. Lockdowns were actually a blessing in disguise.