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Re:BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @06:42PM (#41782535)
My cynical interpretation is that the current CEO needed to begin taking steps to meet this 2030 goal and determined they didn't make financial sense. The 2050 goal is also unrealistic but is his successor's problem.
Re:First 100 miles on my E-Bike on Saturday December 30, 2017 @10:48AM (#16035712)
This isn't enforced in New York. Every delivery guy in the city is now riding an e-bike. They're a menace. Their bikes weigh a ton and they occasionally utilize the sidewalks. I had a friend who was knocked to the ground by one.
The science to date has linked the quakes to deep salt water disposal wells lubricating faults. These wells are taking flowback and produced water from oil wells once they are put on production. The earthquake phenomenon is not related to circulating "mud" during drilling.
Re:When Does Point-Free Notation Make Code More Readable? on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:12AM (#15365398)
"JavaScript doesn’t include this out of the box, but it’s an interesting exercise to write your own."

I may be misunderstanding point-free notation (I had never heard of it before), but I think `bind` (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) let's a programmer provide some of the arguments to a function and returns a new function that requires only the remaining arguments.

Re:SEC Discloses Edgar Corporate Filing System Was Hacked in 2016 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @03:05PM (#15306428)
As much as the UI appears dated, Edgar is consistently one of the fastest websites I use on a daily basis. Punch in a ticker under "Fast Search" here (https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html) and click around the filings for a bit to see what I mean.
I really liked this. I wish more negative results such as this were published and discussed, especially when they go against general intuition and feel-good narratives.