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If you purchased crypto via Robinhood but not used a self-custody wallet, it is questionable as to whether you own a digital asset. You actually own some sort of financial instrume…

But a pallet of old academic books is unlikely to be composed of such books. It is probable that most of the books are worth less than the cost of shipping, and some of the books w…

This argument would be more convincing if the rest of the law treated the unborn as people, but largely it does not. You can't even deduct an unborn child as a dependent on your ta…

This is less giving authority to the States and much more taking away from the People.

I wouldn't call this a decent recipe, since it doesn't explain how to prepare or incorporate the tomatoes.

In this case Amazon would likely apply pressure to the utility company's regulator, if such discretion was allowed to the monopoly provider under their current arrangements. That p…

AG Barr has been pushing to get this out before the election, over objections of his own attorneys: "He [Barr] pushed career Justice Department attorneys to bring the case by the e…

My smart-ass comment[1] got us new Unicode characters[2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11959139 [2] http://www.righto.com/2016/10/inspired-by-hn-comment-four-ha...

Ah, so a one-off anomaly. Over time it seems that median income is considerably underperforming. [1][2] [1] https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html [2] https://www.f…

Why is it at such variance with the BEA data? That is my question.

According to BEA, "State personal income increased 4.4 percent in 2019, after increasing 5.6 percent in 2018". This is not median data, so the median would likely have increased ev…

But does it make sense that there would be a huge jump in that for 2019 but not 2018? This data smells.

The generation immediately after WWII gave a glimpse of what was possible, before crafty people figured out how to siphon off the majority of that wealth to those already at the to…

While this is not untrue on its face, the bulk of the blame should go to initiating banks, who became more willing to make untenable loans because they could package and securitize…

How is this different from a taxi company? A taxi company can and will blacklist your address. In fact, it may blacklist entire neighborhoods. This happens today.

Here, Congress is more to blame than the Obama Administration, who clearly wanted more money for this. Congress budgeted far too little money, and the administration rightly priori…

This isn't true. Replaying public domain music through mechanical means adds no creativity to the work, and thus has no copyrightable elements.

Is there a reason why price caps on .org can't be restored?

And the Greatwinter Trilogy by Sean Mcmullen. How can you go wrong with librarians, cetaceans, and massively parallel organic computing.

> hence the coveted AAA rating The US Government seems to have begun a habit of launching investigations of credit agencies that downgrade its credit rating. It's happened to S&P a…

Houston had 500-year floods consecutively in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Oh and one in 2001. Must be a terrifically unlucky place.

It's a power law distribution (Mandelbrot's work). That's why these numbers are outlandish.

The 1987 market crash (October 19, 1987, single-day loss of 23% in the S&P 500 index) was a 25 standard-deviation event. Mind you, an 8 standard-deviation event is an event that sh…

And then there's TV Tropes[1] which uses a finer measure [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Plots

Those grandma couches were $399 in 1977 though (article has catalog with prices).