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by conchy 2y ago
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 chemistry lab. However, after careful consideration, the real l
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by conchy 3y ago
Odd that the "Soul Glow" late-70s/early-80s greasy hair product revival didn't get a wiki mention
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by conchy 5y ago
"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
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by conchy 5y ago
wow, seems like they are still around: https://github.com/possibly-wrong/blackjack
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by conchy 5y ago
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 finding C++ code by a programmer called "Eric Farme
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by conchy 5y ago
Governments are awesome at fighting the last fight
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by conchy 5y ago
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 it can been seen as a "feature" of the current fi
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by conchy 5y ago
they should just enroll inmates with room and board at Harvard ... it is apparently cheaper than jail.
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by conchy 6y ago
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 tax that there was no way to avoid until bitcoin was invented.
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by conchy 6y ago
A lot better looking, and nearly as expensive: https://www.humantouch.com/pc-laptop-desk
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by conchy 6y ago
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 intellectual property.
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by conchy 6y ago
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 at your peril!
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by conchy 6y ago
Continue to ignore the best investment of the last decade? Good idea.
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by conchy 6y ago
bitcoin
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by conchy 6y ago
they permanently closed my checking account for buying bitcoins ... in 2011. haha jokes on you now JPM!
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by conchy 7y ago
I feel like I'd like to see some photo verification on who exactly is the equity trader he was supposedly named for.
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by conchy 7y ago
yes, it's a lot better. first time a new MacBook Pro shipped with a new keyboard that is actually better to type on.
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by conchy 7y ago
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 money ... but really paper cash has no such protections when
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by conchy 7y ago
This story is really a parable for government involvement in anything vs. the free market.
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by conchy 7y ago
you can add the emergence of Lightning Network Pizza for your 2019 entry: https://ln.pizza
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by conchy 7y ago
There was the guy that pitched a no-hitter: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dock-ellis-lsd-nohitter/
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by conchy 7y ago
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 significance of this new discovery and its limitation
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by conchy 7y ago
nope
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by conchy 7y ago
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!)
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by conchy 7y ago
Why the repost? This article is from last year.
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by conchy 8y ago
Stuff like this seems to happen in tech all the time: they follow exactly the literal meaning of all the words in their terms of service, but the actual reality is the exact opposite of what the words imply.
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by conchy 8y ago
Over hundreds of years of proximity to nearly limitless natural lumber, North Americans have evolved a highly complex network of water mains, smoke detectors, fire hydrants, and fire fighters to quickly come and put out the fires that inevi
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by conchy 8y ago
What kind of test is going to burn a cinderblock?
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by conchy 8y ago
Seems like this analysis has vastly under-appreciated wood's tendency to burn. Yes, I see they've mentioned how in one specific type of burn test "modern cross-laminated timber panels perform better in fire tests than steel
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by conchy 8y ago
This guy is the Sylvester McMonkey McBean of pharmaceuticals

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