If you assume, as you appear to in your solution, that the dragons are intensely interested in this, you could argue they all turn into sparrows at midnight on the first night. It requires a further assumption, that they are able to simultaneously observe each other all at the same time and can determine the objects…

Guys, I have a great video about how to cook pasta. I throw it on a charcoal grill at 125 degrees for 923 minutes. It takes a little longer but the results are amazingly consistent.

It is always a waste of a plastic bag.

I hate the extra garbage created by the plastic bag. It’s not necessary and only requires slightly more skill to execute the same end result with a cast iron skillet/burner/oven.

List of things you need to cook a steak perfectly:

Heck, with prizes this large you could split the difference and take a big chunk of your lump sum and put it in your own 30 year annuity at 1.5% (you avoid the inheritance problem) and live really really really well of the monthly payouts. $25million at 1.5% on a 40 year annuity gives you just under 70k PER MONTH. I’d…

4 and 10 place bets pay 9 to 5 (equivalent to 18 to 10 or 36 to 20) house edge 6.67%. A buy bet of the same numbers pays true odds (2 to 1) minus 5% commission. You’ll get 40 to 20 minus 5% of original bet which is $1 so you get 39 to 20 which reduces house edge to 4.76%. But the catch is you have to bet 20 to get…

If I read that right, it isn’t correct. The 3x/4x/5x odds bets you make backing up your pass line bet are paid at true odds, they have no house edge (there is still an overall edge because you can’t make those odds bets until after you make the come out roll which DOES have house edge) whereas place bets pay at…

Pass line, odds bets and when you’re comfortable with that work your way out from the middle with place bets (6-8, then 9-5). It takes a little getting used to because you have to bet slightly strange numbers ($6 instead of $5 on the 6-8 but $5 on 9-5 and 10-4).

That’s essentially correct. It is boring as fuck, even when you are winning. There are other games (Craps, Blackjack, the right Video Poker setup) that have similar or only slightly worse odds that are far far far more entertaining.

This is solid advice do to frequent pushes where no money changes hands. You have two hands (a five card and a two card) and you have to win both or lose both for something other than a push. And the dealing and playing takes some time so it’s a pretty fun game. They’ve also got some cool bonuses that are…

This is a good dog.

I’m sure someone else has pointed it out, but the K was never for “Kompact” it is for “Kurz” the German word for short.

Love articles like this, because it helps convince rubes to keep plopping down rent money on all the properties I own.

Yes, because it took so long. What do you not understand about that? The police extra-judicially executed a citizen and attempted to cover it up/bury it. They were FORCED to make this evidence public against their wishes. In light of these facts, other citizens are justly enraged. Outrage is the correct response.

This is a bunch of entitled bullshit. Where else in the world do you find recipes that start with taking about 50% or more of a perfectly edible vegetable and THROWING IT AWAY? How about, don’t be a shitty chef in the first place and just learn to cook them properly? It’s really not that hard you guys.

Seems like maybe in Drive, he had his hand on the handbrake to complete the end-swapping maneauver? He reached down there for the J-turn to get going backwards, then left it there to flip it back around. I don’t actually know if handbrake would be useful in going from reverse to forward, but I don’t really see him…

Stupidity

This is stupid. Read what people write. Respect the fact that they believe you need to know what is in the email. A 5 sentence email could be a complete waste of time. A 100 sentenece email could be absolutely and entirely vital. Read your email.

Do you want io9 to post disclaimers every time they show a picture or video of Earth? Given the population dynamics even a single frame snapshot of the planet likely captured multiple deaths.