September 12, 2019
September 11, 2019
Someone moved $1 billion in a single bitcoin transaction. We don’t know who was responsible for the massive transfer of 94,504 bitcoins. Someone doing way illegal stuff, I can tell you that much.
September 10, 2019
Pornography Users Hold More Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Than Nonusers in a Representative American Sample. Completely not surprised. Prudes hate women far more than anyone else.
Why Are America’s Three Biggest Metros Shrinking? After a post-recession boomlet, the New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago areas are all seeing their population decline. Maybe because they are hellholes that no one sane can stand.
September 9, 2019
Nobel Laureate Shiller Says U.S. Home Prices Could Start Falling. I suspect this is inevitable within 1-2 years.
Do unmarried women face shortages of partners in the US marriage market? Time to start marrying “down.”
September 8, 2019
Computer Science from the Bottom Up. Good basic intro.
The Gun Problem Is Guns. More a symptom, but take away the guns it’s much harder to kill people en masse (the actual piece says something similar).
Why Does USB Have to Be So Complicated? It doesn’t, but was designed by fucking morons.
Why It’s So Hard for Young People to Date Offline. Meet-cutes are hard when nobody wants to talk to strangers. The thing everyone told me wasn’t, couldn’t and wouldn’t happen is happening.
September 7, 2019
EASA Insists On Testing Boeing 737 MAX Itself Before Lifting Ban. How it should be.
September 6, 2019
“Everything as a service” is coming—but we’re not there quite yet. A rental-only world is not a good one, no matter the field.
Algorithms Should’ve Made Courts More Fair. What Went Wrong? Ahahahahahaha! Oh, Wired, you’ll always be this dumb and I kind of love you for it.
September 5, 2019
Study finds that texting while walking is fine. But highly annoying as these idiots bumble around and stumble into everything and get in the way of other people walking.
September 4, 2019