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> Step 1: We create a database and use estimated point/mile values found online, such as those provided by The Points Guy. While not ideal, this approach provides a necessary start…

I'm worried about this and feel like "vim" as actively maintained software probably also died today.

How many things are there on earth that you can suddenly sell $1 billion worth of, and not lower its price? I never hear this criticism of any other assets even though it applies t…

Social media communities really ought to observe a "leave no trace" rule with respect to GitHub and other such spaces. This commit from February 2022 is now as of today littered wi…

> He lost Sadly this is not true. Wright was ruled to have won the case but had the damage award reduced to only 1 pound.[1] (Wright is being bankrolled by billionaire Calvin Ayre.…

Why is this an app? It sounds like a nice service but I don't know why I need to install software on my phone and interact with a small touch screen in order to use it.

I would be careful working on this sort of thing during the next 2 months while you are still technically under the employment of the company.

> No, you aren't making it more costly for the bank. I sure am; almost all of my spending earns a rewards percentage that exceeds the rate charged to the merchant. (This is not eve…

I don't feel bad about extensively using these rewards cards. If you are a net recipient in this distribution, your participation doesn't directly correlate with any higher partici…

Coinbase has not been a bitcoin company since 2017, when they were on the losing side of a debate on whether the protocol should be modified to support commerce at the expense of d…

> Before Kalshi, markets that allowed you to trade on economically relevant events were illegal or unregulated. Totally untrue. PredictIt was legal and regulated and well-loved for…

Some people think it's good to trade some of bitcoin's security for extra features, or at least, think that enough people will feel that way in the future to make these tokens good…

Mea culpa, searching for the actual original name “Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications” pulls up a number of interesting stories about the origins of the …

I guess this is the person who posted recently about their very sad hobby of intentionally spreading misinformation on here and Wikipedia.

It's one thing to have excess power, and another to have excess power in the time and place that you want to do these things. For example excess solar energy in the middle of the c…

The miners don't need to be running at all times. If the cost of power exceeds mining returns then they definitely should not be running -- they'd be losing money AND wearing out t…

There is no reason PoW-incentivized energy development would have to be only used for PoW. PoW means there can now be a buyer of last resort no matter when and where you are genera…

Yes he probably knew about Twitter's pervasive spam problem before but today has been a particularly bad day, as spammers are deploying a large number of hijacked verified accounts…

The spammers impersonate famous people and then spam the replies of other famous people, for example the fake Vitalik in the OP is a reply to one of paulg's tweets. If you read the…

That iPad has enough content, gamification, and social aspects that it keeps you motivated to work out on a consistent basis. For many people that effect (especially if it leads to…

Also highly misleading is the phrase "crisis pregnancy center" referring to a facility which has the objective of dissuading pregnant women and girls from seeking abortions. I woul…

Just wanted to retract that about the license -- I missed on the Youtube page that it does have a Creative Commons license listed there.

Apologies, I did not see that image in the article's history. I assume it lacked a free license as the other commenter mentioned. Interestingly, the current image on that article a…

Ronchetti's Wikipedia page has never had any other photos. And the article was protected[0] due to a series of vandalism edits on July 10[1] that had nothing to do with his page's …