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As someone who makes cold brew every day, this is one of the two approaches I've considered to speed things up, the other being one of those magnetic stirrers they have in chemistr…

Odd that the "Soul Glow" late-70s/early-80s greasy hair product revival didn't get a wiki mention

"Why don't you just make ten a little harder, and make ten be the top number, and make that a little harder?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven

wow, seems like they are still around: https://github.com/possibly-wrong/blackjack

Very nice writeup on this calculation, thank you. Around the turn of the century I was also interested in calculating such a thing, but I am a lousy/lazy programmer so I wound up f…

Governments are awesome at fighting the last fight

When money used to have a firm link to the real world, when it was lost (like when gold coins sunk to the bottom of the sea or were stolen by pirates) it was really lost. Certainly…

they should just enroll inmates with room and board at Harvard ... it is apparently cheaper than jail.

Because the people who control the money everywhere on this planet all simultaneously debase their phony currencies all the time over and over again, creating a hidden inflation ta…

A lot better looking, and nearly as expensive: https://www.humantouch.com/pc-laptop-desk

That was also my first reaction when I saw their choice of name for this. Daimler-Benz owns Unimog, I'm sure they have plenty of lawyers hanging around ready to defend their intell…

Any answer here that includes the word bitcoin will be downvoted to oblivion, but it was the right answer 10 years ago and it is still the right answer today. Ignore and downvote a…

Continue to ignore the best investment of the last decade? Good idea.

bitcoin

they permanently closed my checking account for buying bitcoins ... in 2011. haha jokes on you now JPM!

I feel like I'd like to see some photo verification on who exactly is the equity trader he was supposedly named for.

yes, it's a lot better. first time a new MacBook Pro shipped with a new keyboard that is actually better to type on.

The article brings up an interesting legal point as to whether bitcoin will be afforded the special legal status of paper cash that protects innocent recipients who accept stolen m…

This story is really a parable for government involvement in anything vs. the free market.

you can add the emergence of Lightning Network Pizza for your 2019 entry: https://ln.pizza

There was the guy that pitched a no-hitter: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dock-ellis-lsd-nohitter/

No surprise coming from The Economist, this article has done the best job (that I've seen) of explaining these complex topics in a language accessible to most. I now understand the…

nope

LOL the best investing advice everyone in this generation ever got is "buy bitcoin" ... and not one of these clowns said it (before OR after the fact!)

Why the repost? This article is from last year.