The Rise of the Machines is an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times about our financial system’s dependence on sophisticated computer systems.
It was easy enough for us humans to understand a stick or a dollar bill when it was backed by something tangible somewhere, but only computers can understand and derive a correlation [...]
Poker: Sharkscope has a real-time updated massive database of the results from online sit-n-go poker tournaments hosted on various sites. Really useful for tracking your own progress, looking for soft games, or getting information about the players at your table. You can do 5 free searches a day without subscribing. I’d love to [...]
This guy did an interesting 1-month experiment:
For the month of November, I’m only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of [...]
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Drastic measures to get out of debt: part 1, part 2. - Pretty amazing story.
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Bank of America has a really clever promotion called Keep the Change:
Every time you buy something with a Bank of America Visa® debit card, we’ll round up your purchase to the nearest dollar amount and transfer the difference from your checking to your savings account free of charge. Because every bag of groceries, every coffee [...]
