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five below (one above)

todays unethical life hack: if you request a refund within the valid period, sometimes companies will offer you a "partial refund" where you KEEP the order for 5-15% of the refund back

@below_ocean i sure hope thai food never disappears as a concept

Why race and ethnicity will no longer matter in the future echen.io/shorts/shiftin…

do time arbitrage brainpickings.substack.com/p/trading-time

navigation apps should have a “route leaderboard” with fastest times by foot, bike, bus and car

prices of iphones sharply decline at the release the subsequent iphone, which suggests to me that you could profitably execute a short sale a week before launch pricehistoryapp.com/product/apple-…

someone convince me this is not a valid startup idea: a pass-through credit card that redirects a purchase on-the-fly to the card you own which will earn you the most points, while charging some proportion on the points

the philippines, and other places, have stoplights that count down the seconds. we need this immediately in the US. without a counter, every red light feels like a constant disappointment. and, with a unreliable green light in the distance, you must drive to survive.

@below_ocean you’re never leaving 6th place

@petejzh good thing i'm maximum cringe

i aspire towards the element wise maximum of my 5 closest friends

there ought to be an airline specially marketed for those who don’t feel the need for their fellow passengers to pass TSA. it will offer discounted tickets and optional life insurance for the weak hearted.

that HR departments choose to invest in talent search over development is a monetary bet on talent being immutable in large parts. why look for the “best” if you could just train an average joe to a top performer?

there’s a special place in hell for people who piss on the toilet seat. this corner of hell is an exact replica of the over world except every chair, bench, and stool is regularly drizzled with piss

pre-recorded announcements translated from chinese to english (in airports, subways, etc) are spoken in a thick chinese accent, one that would be much better replaced by siri. is this intentional, or did some voice actor overstate their qualifications?

golf has done an unimaginable amount of good for sustainability by aligning the incentives of rich assholes with nature preservation in urban areas

insurance companies should sell people calls on health outcomes: miles jogged a year, resting heart rate, BMI, VO2 max… if people are overconfident, insurance companies should make money on both overvalued calls and reduced claims

the best sense to lose is, by far, smell. followed by touch. then taste. and picking between the last two is probably controversial.

by modestly littering in an accessible public space, do i not, in expectation, create jobs for the economy? isn’t that what we all want, officer?

a sample curriculum: fortnite->DOTA ->civ V->wii bowling->Go

the real benefit of video games is to teach the common man that hard work pays off. eager parents should train their kids using games with increasing demands for focus and patience and decreasing rewards. when the rewards hit 0, they are ready for adulthood.