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Chris Peterson
Personal blog · cpeterson.orgeconomicspolitics
Chris Peterson's personal blog at cpeterson.org covers economics and politics. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the source for a post on oil futures and commodity futures rollovers, which explains why gas prices are so high. Commenters cite it when discussing commodity futures.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I limit my subs to mostly tech and feeds that post infrequently but well. I go back and forth between enabling Hacker News and disabling it. It's too busy and distracting sometimes when I need to get things done and I don't want to get lost it some lengthy article somewhere. Here are my current feeds sans HN http://abstrusegoose.com http://xkcd.com/ http://cmurphycode.posterous.com http://acmel.wordpress.com http://…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?”Submitted Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It’s Not Libya) as a story · 192 points
HN discussionFrustratingly, the post you are probably thinking of was here: http://www.cpeterson.org/2011/03/10/why-gas-is-so-expensive-... (Aside: this is one reason why I have so little trust in the web as a long-term historical medium.) Although that article focused primarily on oil futures, it also discussed commodities futures, and specifically addressed the rollovers. Unfortunately, I neither understood it well enough at t…
Comment linking /2011/03/10/why-gas-is-so-expensive-today-hint-its-not-libya-2/
on “The Food Bubble (2010)”Submitted A Brief Guide To User-Generated Censorship as a story · 2 points
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