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No, you are wrong.

>the fact that not so long ago they were over 3 times higher

They never were. You can check futures price data here: https://www.investing.com/commodities/natural-gas On top of that you're probably talking about those spikes in 2005 and 2008, but they were short lived and spikes are natural for gas markets because of various circumstances (seasonality, pipeline situation, weather, how full are the reserves etc).

>not so long ago It was 13 years ago! And now it's the highest price since. The reason for such a ridiculously low prices for so long was shale gas extraction. Now US is losing this and more. Because natural gas prices are so sensitive (and react quickly!) to various things - you better hope for warm winter with decisions like these...

Also comparing prices in US and in other countries is intellectually dishonest or you simply don't know how natural gas market works.

Re:Spiders are much smarter than you think on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:59AM (#29148061)
Yes, killing spiders is a bad omen in Lithuania. Usually they're simply thrown out. Not sure how many people does this nowadays but it stuck with me.
Re:Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe on Saturday October 23, 2021 @01:15PM (#28970378)
I don't know if that guy was spreading some fake info on twitter but this article is very detailed and factually everything is correct.
Re:Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe on Saturday October 23, 2021 @01:03PM (#28970268)
No one will come for you. They will simply cut you off - won't provide healthcare, won't allow you into the stores to buy food, force your employer to fire you so you have no income. But it's not force - you can choose. Same way like people actually have all the freedoms in North Korea - they can be critical of supreme leader if they want to they just need to choose to do it.
Re:Covid Pass in Lithuania and Throughout Europe on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:04AM (#28968623)
Lithuanian constitution specifically states that no one can be forced to use experimental drugs, yet now you can't go to the shop and buy food if you are unvaccinated. Just yesterday hundreds of cops were checking people in stores for papers. If this is not a dystopian autocracy then I don't know what is. I am seriously consider moving away while I still can.
Hi, I have already showed my project here but now I introduced a pretty big new feature. Now you can follow any user/channel/thread and the latest 5 posts from your follow will appear on your personal wall on the homepage.

You might ask why only 5? Turns out personal wall is not as easy to solve without significant time investment if you want to keep it performant too. Simply naively aggregating posts would be costly on database and wouldn't scale for sure and potentially wouldn't even perform on small scale. Some smart architecture with smart caching for each user wall seemed complicated for that project that is already too big for one person. But then I thought of using things I already use - mongodb and meteor.js. My architecture is quite simple: there are tracker doc collection where document contain 5(or X) latest posts in an array and every-time something is posted this tracker is updated. Then there is userFollows collection with docs to connect users with trackers. From there I allow meteor.js to handle the rest. Once it subscribes to trackers that user follows all the posts of those trackers are shown on the front page with the added advantage that any new post if transferred right away because of meteor's reactivity so front page is "real time". I also use redis-oplog package for meteor which caches collections server side and made this pretty performant and very easy to implement. It's not ideal but hopefully it will be good enough.

If they didn't have antibodies how did they beat covid?
They won't invade Poland or Baltics because those countries are in NATO and EU and it's way too risky. Russia seems pretty involved in all the hotspots lately including starting a war in Ukraine. Very likely same fate would be for Poland and Baltics if they didn't protect themselves with stronger allies. And even if current Russia is not interested/capable to cause trouble to east EU - that doesn't mean it won't change in the future. Country leader shouldn't just look in the last 2 years - he needs to prepare country for the next 50 years.
If your car breaks you would spend 400 eur in an instant without even thinking. If you feel something is off or to do this comprehensive biochemical tests every 3 or 5 years is not that expensive.
Re:UX Debate for Chat/Comments UI on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:19PM (#24664792)
Hard to say without using application itself and how important that form is, but I would say second option feels more natural. Anyway in both cases you need to do an action to access form (toggle or close overlay). Just choose whichever and test another option on real users.
Re:Ask HN: Intel Core i5-10600K Versus Ryzen 5 3600X on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:12AM (#23290503)
3700X since it's almost the same price as 10600K
I am not sure what's wrong with you and why you are happy but unhappy?! but if I would have to guess - it's most likely antidepressants/therapy. There is new "you" but you miss old "you". Brain chemistry is no joke and if you don't absolutely absolutely need medication don't do it. Ask good doctors for second, third and fourth opinions if needed.

Linux multiple monitor setup with HiDPI 4K monitor

I've read on HN before that Linux has shaky HiDPI support but after I setup my new computer and started looking into it I got really worried as my research indicated I am in trouble. I have 1070ti nvidia card, 3 older 1080p monitors and beautiful new 4K LG monitor. It seems X server does not support different dpi setup and using Wayland is not possible because nvidia. However actually I managed...

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Re:Ask HN: I lost my job on Thursday April 02, 2020 @05:22AM (#22757386)
It seems you still don't know exact reasons why you were laid off. Did your managers tell the exact reason during your lay off interview? Maybe it's just bad luck with current situation. Did your managers tell you about lack of leadership problem at any time during your reviews and one on ones?
Re:Firefox 73 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:52PM (#22304280)
Still waiting for when Firefox starts supporting Matroska container for videos. Right now it cannot play h264 recorded by Chrome as Chrome puts it in Matroska for some reason. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422891
Re:Investors Bet Against Tesla–and Lost $8.4B in Five Weeks on Sunday February 09, 2020 @07:52PM (#22285509)
Stock market is much much much more efficient compared to housing and wages. One of many reasons is of course ability to short sell. In addition to price discovery short selling provides support when overpriced companies share price free falls and investors starts to panic. It also provides incentive to uncover outright frauds.

> Furthermore, the advantage appears to be extracted purely as profit by the short seller. So? Do you work for free? Short selling is extremely risky business as we could see here with TSLA. Even if you are right you can get obliterated by a short squeeze. It's basically impossible to go against solid company and damage it. And there is no reason to - there are plenty of badly managed companies with questionable financials that you could go after.

Re:GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:27AM (#20282136)
If that’s true then the gdpr was not used according to it’s spirit at all. They punished annoying guy who was trying to get some attention. Of course google or fb is fine...
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone still using Meteor framework? on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:03PM (#20207818)
I am interested what's the end game for this investment? It's kinda hard for me to imagine it would become billion dollar company doing some improvements on Rest API. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I don't really get GraphQL. Anyway best of luck for them it is really good news. If people much smarter than me believe in it then there is something to it.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone still using Meteor framework? on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:40PM (#20207663)
They are still alive, but all development seems stalled. The company does not seem interested in their community at all. Here is interesting issue: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/10477
No need for gatekeeping. Maybe you won’t get 100% but you still get close to russian culture if you read War an Peace and that’s precisely why it’s so interesting and fun. It expands your world view, show you new points of view and you get interesting story too. Now it seems that you propose only reading your native country authors?
You can start Coursera prof Ng course on machine learning to test waters if you don't know anything about machine learning.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019) on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:03PM (#19291152)
Yes I did. Wish you the best.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019) on Saturday March 02, 2019 @06:50AM (#19288825)
Not looking for a job but this is a product I was thinking about for a few years. Even now I am just thinking to do it for myself. Let's say I read a book about negotiation. Then I want to have its summary, key points, set some goals for myself and check if I reached them, random reminders and maybe reminders integrated with calendar (if I have negotiation event) etc. I have those ideas of what I want but couldn't find anything like it. Hope you guys succeed and save me time so I don't need to do it :)
Re:Ask HN: Should I work at a startup or obtain an MEng? on Saturday February 02, 2019 @01:41PM (#19064770)
If you like programming more just go for it and be happy. It is very likely you will be much more successful at the thing you enjoy and software is definitely not a bad place to be in with a lot of opportunities and possible roads.
Re:Efficient AVL Tree in C# on Sunday October 21, 2018 @12:46PM (#18268825)
Here is java comparison of various self balancing trees (https://intelligentjava.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/self-balanc...). It seems that AVL tree is doing quite well.

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