How should people view complaints about oil companies being rampant with greed when the natural gas companies (which also often deal with oil) have decreased prices in recent years?
Are too many HR employees female? (93% were female in this study) "Unlike in North America, attaching a photo to a resume is customary in much of Europe and Asia. The researchers discovered that resumes with photos of physically attractive women were far less likely to land an interview than those without a photo attached. ... After trying out various theories, the researchers concluded: 'Female jealousy of attractive women in the workplace and the negative perception of women (but not men) who include pictures of themselves on their CVs are the primary reasons for the punishment of attractive women.'"
"The price of front-month oil Brent crude futures has ballooned to more than $30 above the cost of contracts for delivery in 2018, which some say calls into question the claims of those who believe that oil output has peaked. ... Concerns about disruptions to supplies from the Middle East have helped drive up prices this year. But the gap, or spread, with the December 2018 contract, one of the most distant futures contracts available, is widening because of the prospect of improved production."
The story has an interesting figure to go along with it's analysis, looking at efficiency improvements since the 1940s. ”... the power needed to perform a task requiring a fixed number of computations will continue to fall by half every 1.5 years (or a factor of 100 every decade). … In 1985, the physicist Richard Feynman calculated that the energy efficiency of computers could improve over then-current levels by a factor of at least a hundred billion (1011), and our data indicate that the efficiency of computing devices progressed by only about a factor of 40,000 from 1985 to 2009. In other words, we've hardly begun to tap the full potential.”
A Huffington Post piece by a woman who's a bit depressed about how she finds New York City to favor hookups and shallow relationships over long term commitments. Of course, she doesn't tell the story as to why "I left my husband" - i.e. is she now to some extent regretting not living up to her own ideals (despite never saying anything about this in the article).
"'The ERCOT market requires the developer to believe in the possibility of price spikes,' said Barbara Clemenhagen, vice president with Topaz Power Group . 'However, it is difficult to get banks to finance 'possibility.'"
Kind of fascinating. The list of countries on the verge of collapse seems roughly the same as though in which the poor increased incomes faster than the rich. The image is part of this article.
