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I was backpacking Europe years ago and I met this Brazilian girl. We were discussing places that required a visa and she said she never bothered with them. I asked how that was possible. She said that…

Money aside, that building is a marketing vehicle. It's meant to show Apple in the posh, advanced, and sustainable light it wants to be seen (whether that image is true or not is another question…

He just finished building a $5b headquarters. I’m sure that affected his opinion.

I laughed at the part about how on the first playthrough the game was inscrutable with a crazy steep learning curve. Many games were like that back then. Which is why there was also such a big market …

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Being skeptical of Putin's Russia is simply logical given his track record.

I’m not sure he “sees right through it.” His his view is sorta clouded by cynicism. The world is not all bad, after all. Or at least not as bad as he makes it out to be. Full agreement on his not givi…

If you like turn-based games, play it. It’s one of the best. Everyone says V is the high water mark. I didn’t pick it up until VI, but really liked it.

Two documentaries about word games came out at similar times. “Word Wars” (2004) was about Scrabble and “Wordplay” (2006) was about crosswords. Both are excellent films about high-level play in thes…

I think the people buying scratch offs every week are gambling. The people who buy a Powerball or Mega Millions a few times a year, when it gets huge, are just doing it just for entertainment’s sake a…

> The risk of dying from COVID-19 increases significantly with age. Not exactly shocking news. The risk of dying from most diseases increases significantly with age.

My local bike shop is something of a throwback. They don’t sell $2500 wheels, in fact, I don’t think they sell a whole bike that costs that much. They sell a lot of kids bikes and a few medium-end hyb…

They don't need Tik Tok's tech. They want the brand and the youth demo it attracts.

I use a similar heuristic that I’ve dubbed the 90% rule. In many cases, you can buy something that is 90% as good as the best product available for two thirds or even half the cost. If you want the ve…

I think it’s related to a human bias towards novel stimuli. Evolutionarily, it’s unsafe to disregard new and unfamiliar signals. That sound could be nothing, or it could be predator outside the cave.

"I'm now consumed with curiosity why this plant has evolved to have this feature." Grapefruit didn't evolve naturally. In fact, it's only a couple of hundred years old. It…

I am very much talking about the unit shutting down from heat. If I plan on rendering video overnight or anything like that, I change the maximum CPU utilization to 97%. If I want to play a modern gam…

Apple isn’t alone with that strategy. I bought a fairly expensive Dell XPS 15 that was overheating. They literally replaced the mobo (which had an i7 and a GTX 1050 attached to it) four different time…

I opened a new checking account just for Paypal that never has more than a $100 in it.

A quote often misattributed to Hemingway puts it even simpler: “Write drunk, edit sober.”

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

“Lisa’s on the can. Go away.”

I bought an Air 3 to replace my Air 1 recently and came the same conclusion as you. I got it for almost the exact price of my original one ($400) but with 4x more storage and the screen is larger (10.…

I thought the U.S. was able to beat the Zero primarily by changing tactics. They instructed pilots to dive at, them make one attempt at a hit and then quickly climb back up to higher altitude to try a…

I'm not religious, but I hate the idea of an Eruv. Who do you think you're fooling? God, apparently. If he or she does exist, do you think they are going to fall for your little string ploy?

I think that quote is describing the fundamental attribution error: "the tendency for people to under-emphasize situational explanations for an individual's observed behavior while over-emph…

You are what you eat eats.

"It's a great demonstration of how incredibly difficult inventions become easier just by knowing they're possible." See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg…