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Unsure calculator.

At first it was not clear to me what this was. After reading about it, I became excited. This is basically a calculator that takes ranges as inputs and runs Monte Carlo simulations to deliver a probabilistic distribution of outcomes. […]

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Fire Island: new urbanist paradise or NIMBY success?

“On its face, Fire Island is a “New Urbanist” paradise. It’s left me with no doubt that walkable mixed-use neighborhoods3 are incredible, especially ones like Fire Island which have banned cars. But it’s also deeply conservative in many ways: highly […]

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The ‘largest illicit online marketplace’ ever.

“Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and crypto exchange—while facilitating $24 billion in transactions.” ~ learn more

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Everyone knows your location.

So many apps secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. This developer decided to try and track himself through this backdoor data. He stopped short of buying his data in the database due to the hefty pricetag. “But still, I […]

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Daddy long-legs railroad.

“Construction started in 1894 and the railway was opened in November 1896. Passengers were carried in a large tramcar-like carriage on a deck mounted on long stilts. It was named ‘Pioneer’ but popularly known as ‘daddy long-legs’. It was equipped […]

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How many artists did The Beatles kill?

“The one claim that’s always fascinated me about 1964 is that it was a line of demarcation between an old and a new way to make music. If you were making hits in 1963 and didn’t change your sound in […]

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Multiplayer minesweeper online.

A dream come true. I have been an avid minesweeper for a long long time, though I don’t pay anymore because the game has changed. This version looks legit! ~ learn more