Beautiful con, tbh. I don't welcome this behavior (borderline criminal), but you have to admit - well played.

well over the border

Which law? I genuinely don't know. These prediction markets are new enough that I'm not sure if the laws have been written yet.

Not even a wager. Just out of ~100C sauna after 20 mins straight. Pretty normal, and I'm not Finnish. In that area though.

Lots of empty emotional statements, generalisations with no facts supporting them. Why bring this here? Release your anger somewhere else and really think about the issue before posting rants.

Otherwise, a really nice overview on the Venezuelan oil. Thank you.

EDIT: oh, I see I'm in the minority with such opinion here. Well, that's ok, let the bashing begin..

No, your view is valid. The people in Venezuela deserved better than the government they had, and expropriation of the oil assets broke the system and they were left to rot. It's stupid. The parade of refugees down through Brazil to Uruguay and beyond tells a tale.

But lets not pretend this is about global oil prices, or that the oil is good oil to work with. The huge reserves are there (ie unexploited, in the ground) for a reason: it wasn't economic to exploit them.

So why has that changed now? I don't think it has.

Honestly? I don't think my words were particularly angy. Writer-Reader impedence mismatch. Your own are hardly un-emotional I might add, but lets keep off ad hom, it doesn't go anywhere useful.

teapot dome forever!

ggm only needs one fact to support his argument: the current price of oil is $63.

That says two things:

- it's cheap therefore the market thinks it's abundant - $63 is less than the Venezuelan cost of production.

More supporting facts: Gasoline demand is dropping in China despite the Chinese buying cars at a very quick rate. But oil demand is flat because petrochemical demand is increasing.

It hurts my eyes to see spelling mistakes in error messages. I know English is not your first language, but, dude, in the age of autocorrect and AI, it is sloppy and screams incompetence. Not what you want anybody to see when using your interpreter.

Otherwise, what a cluster*uck of a code this is.. I am amazed and appalled at the same time.

Nonsense. If 27% of GDP is suddenly gone, how US economy could be the largest? (rest of the world can substitute US trade between itself)

The US Economy is 53% larger than the next largest, China, in terms of real GDP (Not fake PPP nonsense). 28T vs 18T.

How is PPP "fake"? Nominal only matters specifically for trade, which in this hypothetical is the thing the USA is expressly failing to do.

PPP is more relevant than gdp nominal.

+2, very nice movie. Might be very eye-opening for any some about what it was like under USSR umbrella...

Played video games on ZX Spectrum and some Soviet computer at home. Wanted to learn to code games as a teen, took a course in Basic, very shallow. Then in high school some exposure to Turbo Pascal (90s), learned a bit, but wasn't great.

Then really learned Python in 2010s trying to solve a real-life problem - had to scrape an ecom website, used Scrapy. Now it's Go, quite complex projects, about to launch our SaaS startup.. took a while..

Spot on! If you add car tuning or PC overclocking, you might as well call it a hobby.

Maybe because Lithuanian has 3 kinds of stresses...

Watch this, where he goes through the questions and explains how he did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mx_xhiIRpw

I'm pretty good with Excel, my main tool at the job for over 20 years. I understand how he did it, but it's just really humbling...

I still think quality of what you do with Excel (idea) is more important than how you do it (skill).

I'll never forget a past job where they used a lot of Excel in ways I did not know was possible.

First of all they had an invoicing system in Excel, that pulled in data using VBS, into Excel templates, and at the press of a button in the UI generated invoices from these templates.

And the craziest part was their server inventory system made in Excel, where they had drawn all the rack cabinets, you could click on each, to drill down and show all the servers in that rack. Also a ton of VBS, you could even get monitoring status of each rack.

Excel has been OP for a long time, long before its Python capabilities.

nowadays, you can even use =WEBSERVICE(...) to access some web apis, if I understand correctly.

Did either of those systems have unit or integration tests?

Do any of the competitive solutions?