Say goodbye, my friends, to the close-quarters financial combat of the commodities trading pits ( Read more... )

It's these times when the dealer is pimping the oil-frack pipe price down we need to remember, remember when the first cars were designed to stop at your local farm and fill up on white lightin'
But this is better said by one of my favorite cynics of all time, Kurt Vonnegut:
It's time to go cold turkey

This guy seems to know what he's talking about

The most interesting comments are about how bitcoin requires 23% deflation to be able to pay for mining.

And this:
Despite the Austrian fervor around limited money supply, having a flexible stock of transaction credit really is essential to dynamic modern economies. I'd rather have low inflation than ( Read more... )

I have found myself not really wanting to watch a whole lot of television, or even movies, because I get involved and engaged with the stories, and it affects the way I act and what I think about for days afterwards ( Read more... )

Well, I was going to post on okcupid, but they have gone and killed the journals. Blah

http://www.thegloss.com/2013/11/26/sex-and-dating/people-are-having-sex-less-frequently/

Farming is kinda like Game of Thrones, you farm, or you die ( Read more... )

Everything I've seen about Intel CPUs is that there are a lot of very low-level bios, virtual machine, boot code, and things like the SMI interface (system management interrupt/interface) that would make it quite easy to write a virus like this ( Read more... )

Awhile back I posted an open letter to Toyota ( Read more... )

I was re-introduced to the glory of livejournal by, of all things, a referral on my mayortroy.com blog ( Read more... )

Choice quote of the week, from a self-described recovering co-addict, roughly paraphrased "In the addiction community there is a saying.. How do you know when an addict is lying: Their lips are moving"

So this slate article on delusion is really quite interesting

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