Anon4Now

I doubt you'd find much polling. The movies Wall Street (1987) and Other People's Money (1991) would be the next best thing for a pop culture view of the finance industry.

But the answer to that shouldn't be to return results that don't even contain the words searched for.

Some might see legalized euthanasia as a benefit.

Really, though, I was making a sideways joke about all the "cured in mice" headlines we see on HN.

Anyone else envious of the health care packages lab mice have? They get free exercise and nutrition programs, get cured of diabetes and other chronic diseases. You name it. They must have a great union rep!

Nepotism means showing favoritism towards family members, e.g., a nephew hired or promoted instead of a more qualified person.

Sorry to nitpick. I just see that word misused a lot online. I doubt that you're implying that a person would be effectively disowned by family members for taking a semester of their Harvard MBA program online instead of on site.

There is. You have to zoom in on a region. I zoomed in on Portland, OR and found areas of light pink.

I'm more curious why the Sahara is considered a neighborhood with limited street access, but the sparsely populated Oregon High Desert (SE Oregon) is not.

Reminds me of an app I saw in the late 90's developed with Delphi. I never used Delphi, but apparently it had the ability to compile an app to an ActiveX plug-in and run a full desktop-like application in Internet Explorer. Of course, ActiveX had major security problems, but the UX was amazing.

Out-migration (with a dash) is fine:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/outmigration

They didn't _need_ it, but I think people gloss over how much easier jQuery made things back in the Bootstrap 1 era. In essence, Bootstrap used jQuery to bootstrap Bootstrap.

In my experience you just take out a toilet seat cover (aka, ass gasket), place it on the seat, and as you turn around to sit, it flushes automatically. Voila!

From the article:

> the company had reported several cases of the coronavirus, and the employees affected were told to stay home.

I'm self-employed and my little software company took a sharp hit with the pandemic. Not being one to wait until all the money runs out, I took an "essential job" stocking groceries at the nearby Walmart. Every day, before employees can enter the store, they are screened. In the time I have been there, several employees failed the screening and were sent home. Two of those turned out to have the virus.

Tesla and other employers have similar screenings, so unless the employees lied about being symptomatic, they should not have been among the workforce. Add to that, the CDC just announced findings that non-symptomatic spread of the virus was very rare.

> It means there is coronavirus at the Tesla plant

Possibly. The employees could have contracted the virus outside work.

Oops, yeah, each production plant lists capacity at about 1/2 _million_ metric tonnes / yr.

I'm not sure that would scale. According to their website (https://www.draxbiomass.com/), each plant produces about 1/2 metric tonne of wood pellets / year. The Drax plant uses 7 million tonnes / year, so you would need 14 equivalent plants to produce enough wood pellets for just one power plant.

In the 1980's, old growth logging was shut down in my state (Oregon) for environmental reasons. The new growth forests had a long growth cycle, so the two big operators (Georgia Pacific and Louisiana Pacific) moved the bulk of their operations back to the South, where the Southern Pine had a 12 year growth cycle.

I think a reasonable guesstimate would be that the max wood pellet production from renewable forest land would be far less than the input required to convert all the existing coal-fired plants to biomass. It's just one play in what will have to be a multi-faceted approach to green energy.

I'm mixed. I enjoy programming video tutorials, but they are often too slow and padded with non-essential and repetitive information. Unless there's a transcript, searching for a part that you need a recap of isn't much different than information retrieval from tape drives in the 60's. The best video tutorials have include a transcript and a github repo.

Ahh, that explains it. I had a screenshot of the SmartScreen dialog on my download page. After releasing a new version last fall, I noticed the dialog changed to the hidden Run Anyways option. My error, apparently, was including the major version number in the setup file name. When that rolled, the reputation reset.

> but that SmartScreen window has looked like that for many, many years

It changed a year or two ago. The "Run Anyways" button used to be on the main dialog. Now the user has to click the "More Info" button to see that option.

The movie Impostor doesn't get enough credit. The personalized ads credited to Minority Report appeared a year before in Impostor. Both were based on Philip Dick works, so maybe he was the genesis for both.

> Stacked Bar (a pie chart for grownups)

That made me laugh, but the scale on the y-axis is odd. The inputs are all integers but the generated tick labels are floats (e.g., <span class="TickLabel" style="--tick-label:'99.8'"></span>).

> freshman moderator of /r/portland

You poor soul. I stopped visiting that sub a few years ago. There was a pervasive negativity about it that was just depressing. I hope it's gotten better.

> [...] the Portland Police Department

BTW, it's Portland Police Bureau (PPB). Calling it PPD will get you labeled a transplant. ;-)

The good news is that banks really do not want to foreclose on delinquent loans. It's a long legal process, and it's a money loser for them. I can't guarantee jack squat, but most likely the bank would be willing to work with you to keep the home. If you can make even small partial payments, that will work well in your favor.