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A Fuel Shock That Reorders Corporate Fortunes

The article argues that the Iran war’s oil shock is doing more than lifting headline inflation or making drivers angry at the pump. It is rapidly redrawing the map of corporate winners and losers. When oil rises from roughly \$60 a barrel to around \$100, and petrol moves from about \$3 a gallon to \$4, the effect is not evenly spread. Some businesses get an immediate windfall. Others are squeezed twice over: first by higher operating costs, then by consumers who have less money left for everything else.

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Why this article matters

Maddy Huggins’s article argues that inclusion in free flight is not a side issue to be handled after the flying is done. It is part of how the sport survives. Her account of the first Women’s+ fly-in at Tiger Mountain in Issaquah, Washington starts as an event report, but it quickly becomes a case for treating belonging as real infrastructure. Pilots need launches, weather knowledge, shuttles, mentors, and site access. They also need a community that does not make them feel like permanent guests.

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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons resigns (r/news)

• Sc0nnie: Never forget Lyons is the guy that wrote the secret memo authorizing warrantless home invasions.
• BagOfFerrets34: Resignations are cool and all, but I’ll be more impressed when we see transparent investigations into what happened under his watch. At minimum, Congress should drag him in for public testimony.

Millions of Americans are now eligible for Canadian citizenship and many are applying ‘just in case’ (r/news)

• Witty_Fall_2007: I think that any American that voted for Trump should not be eligible to be a Canadian. Fuck off and enjoy your racist consequences.
• Icy-Scarcity: So millions of vote affecting future Canadian elections then.

Pope: World is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants (r/worldnews)

• TriXter69: Of all the stupid things Trump has done, he decides to start beef with the pope
• Zorothegallade: As an atheist, I’m 100% behind this Pope.

How would you feel if the top tax rate was 90% like it was in the 1950s? (r/AskReddit)

• Affectionate-Panic-1: Majority of billionaires make their money from capital gains, which in the 50s was at a 25% tax. Today it’s 20%.
• Hexxys: Great, but in today’s world, the bigger issue is capital gains and, increasingly, endlessly borrowing against assets

Whats stopping me from just going to a university, attending lectures and just learning about stuff? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• GFrohman: Many colleges allow you to pay a massively reduced rate to “Audit” classes for no credit.
• PckMan: Nothing. But you can’t take tests, you don’t do labs, you don’t get graded and at the end you don’t get a certification that tells others that you followed the courses.

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\$1M+ Offers OpenAI, Meta ASI, and Google - help! (Blind)

• prTQ31: People are miserable at Meta, every single one I’ve talked to. Mark is killing his own company
• hdhdhdhdb: Meta will make you work hard even for peasant SWEs, what do you think they will do to people getting paid millions

AI LAYOFFS ARE HERE. Mass Layoff in ServiceNow. QE department eliminated (Blind)

• TomDcHarry: I have a question, Microsoft did this too. They made all testers -&gt engineers back in 2013. So, is it that kind of transition or is it they r legit laying people off?
• clear-mind: Yes lets move QE to dev so we make more mistakes and catch less

Allbirds stock tumbles after nearly 600% rally as the shoemaker rebrands as an AI company (r/technology)

• ZanzerFineSuits: “I’m rebranding my artisanal cheese business and going into railroads!” Someone, probably, in 1903
• chicken_spears: So, a pump and dump with an extra step. I’m sure the current administration’s FTC will investigate this as thoroughly and professionally as they are capable…

Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll (r/technology)

• Elfhoe: I imagine they were sold initially as a tool to bring in jobs, then people started realizing that once the initial construction is done, there are very few actually provided. On top of that, they’re a resource hog, driving up local infrastructure costs.
• anklebiter1360: My question is….what do the people most affected by these centers benefit from for allowing them in their communities? I’m tired of the rich getting richer on my behalf!!!

Laid off today and wife is expecting in August. (r/cscareerquestions)

• Angriestanteater: Apply for unemployment asap. Some states have a lag period (e.g you don’t get money until 2 weeks after your application date).
• Dill_Thickle: Nah man, this is news you mention immediately. Make a plan with your wife on how to navigate this, that is what a marriage is.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum
• Main tags: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree

What the problem is really asking

This problem is easy to misread at first.

The path does not have to start at the root, and it does not have to end at a leaf. It can start anywhere and end anywhere, as long as it follows parent-child edges and does not reuse a node.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Wildcard Matching
• Main tags: String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy

What the problem is really asking

The pattern contains two special characters:

• ? matches exactly one character
• * matches any sequence of characters, including the empty sequence

The match must cover the entire string. That is the part that makes the problem interesting.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Permutation Sequence
• Main tags: Math, Recursion

What the problem is really asking

The numbers 1 through n can form n! different permutations in lexicographic order.

The problem asks for the kth permutation in that ordering without generating all the earlier ones first.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Text Justification
• Main tags: Array, String, Simulation

What the problem is really asking

The input is a list of words and a fixed line width. The task is to break the words into lines and return the exact text layout that a formatter would produce.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Swap Nodes in Pairs
• Main tags: Linked List, Recursion, Iteration, Pointer Manipulation

What the problem is really asking

The input is the head of a singly linked list. Every adjacent pair of nodes must be swapped:

• 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 becomes 2 -> 1 -> 4 -> 3
• 1 -> 2 -> 3 becomes 2 -> 1 -> 3

The important constraint is that node values cannot be copied around. The solution has to rewire the list itself.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Find the Duplicate Number
• Main tags: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search

What the problem is really asking

The input has length n + 1, but every value is guaranteed to be in the range 1 through n.

That guarantee means one value must appear more than once. So the duplicate is not the hard part. The hard part is satisfying the interview constraints at the same time: