zackcrockett

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What happens to your Bitcoin after you die?(thehustle.co)
1 points by zackcrockett 5y ago|0 comments
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The rise and demise of Subway's $5 footlong(thehustle.co)
4 points by zackcrockett 6y ago|0 comments
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The business of selling illegal cocktails on the streets of NYC(thehustle.co)
1 points by zackcrockett 6y ago|0 comments
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A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship(thehustle.co)
496 points by zackcrockett 6y ago|225 comments
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Costco gained a cult following – by breaking the rules of retail(thehustle.co)
2 points by zackcrockett 7y ago|0 comments
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The professor who beat roulette(thehustle.co)
2 points by zackcrockett 7y ago|0 comments
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Goodhart's Law: When targets and metrics are bad for business(thehustle.co)
2 points by zackcrockett 8y ago|0 comments
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FB Uses Artificial Intelligence to Predict Your Future Actions for Advertisers(theintercept.com)
1 points by zackcrockett 8y ago|0 comments
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by zackcrockett 11y ago
"Major Fraud" is an awesome doc. Charles Ingram, a former British Army major, won £1,000,000 after his wife (planted in the audience) coughed to signify each correct answer. Unlike Larson, his winnings were rescinded.
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Non-Cooperative Games – John Nash (1950) [pdf](cs.upc.edu)
27 points by zackcrockett 11y ago|0 comments
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4 Cancer Charities Accused in F.T.C. Fraud Case(nytimes.com)
6 points by zackcrockett 11y ago|1 comments
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by zackcrockett 11y ago
Author here. That quote should read "...how the hell am I getting these [whales] out of this park?" Thanks for catching that. I went through and read the rest of the article to double check for other mix-ups, but this was the only
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“Community of Excellence” – 3 miles from Stanford(supost.com)
12 points by zackcrockett 11y ago|3 comments
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Throwing My Broken Laptop in the Oven Baked It Back to Life(gizmodo.com)
1 points by zackcrockett 12y ago|0 comments
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by zackcrockett 12y ago
Alan Adler is an amazing human being. I had the great pleasure of interviewing him last year. If anyone is interested, this covers his life's work: http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/
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Wait-Free Synchronization (1991) [pdf](cs.brown.edu)
4 points by zackcrockett 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Getting It Wrong Is the Future of Design(wired.com)
1 points by zackcrockett 12y ago|0 comments
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by zackcrockett 12y ago
Great question. I didn't come across any explanation for this, but I did dig up some other names for cotton candy around the world: France: Barbe a papa ("Papa's beard") Greece: μαλλιά γριά του ("old lady's hai
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by zackcrockett 12y ago
A subsequent search of the inter-webs yielded this (what may be the strangest site I've ever seen): http://www.pigeonphotography.com/en/portfolio-2/#
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by zackcrockett 12y ago
Thanks for catching that; fixed!
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by zackcrockett 13y ago
She confirms she worked on the Indigo Magic Desktop (mainly designing icons), but says she can't recall the exact scope of her work: "It was LONG ago but I will see if I can dig it up...sorry not to be able to summon this up!&quot
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by zackcrockett 13y ago
Theodore - I reached out and asked her for you. I'll edit her response in here when she replies!
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by zackcrockett 13y ago
For those who may not know: Apple commissioned eight two-dimensional sculptures for its R&D campus front lawn in 1993. Officially, the "icon garden" fulfilled an agreement to have art in Apple's front park (and paid homag
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by zackcrockett 13y ago
You're correct; the show did offer Ford Mustangs as a prize (in addition to cash), but not until 1964. Fixed! Thank you sir.
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One Programmer's Journey from Homeless to Founder(priceonomics.com)
2 points by zackcrockett 13y ago|0 comments
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The curious resurgence of pogs(priceonomics.com)
2 points by zackcrockett 13y ago|0 comments