Once again, lifehacker has read my mind. I was just thinking about the cooking spray thing an hour ago, while shoveling snow. Great to see that I’m not the only one who thinks it’s a brilliant idea.

I like cornstarch and water if I’m making an Asian-style dish and I want the sauce to thicken up. For some reason, a buttery roux just sounds weird, but that’s my 100% unprofessional opinion.

I think your logic is incorrect. Let’s say you have $1,000 in debt at 4%. If you invest $1,000 at 6% forever, you pay 4% but earn 6%, so that net, you earn 2% forever. However, if you pay off that $1,000 in debt, you earn nothing on that $1,000, but you pay nothing, forever.

I wanted to say this. I think all of the advice in the article is good, but I tend to just stick to DB press if I don’t have a spotter.

“Your personal emissions take into account the disgrace you traveled as well as your class of service and environmental elements.”

This works great for games that have semi-complicated end-of-game scoring. I have a google sheet saved on my phone that calculates scores for 7 Wonders (which requires you to add up your points over multiple categories). Takes less time than adding everything up in your head, and wastes no paper.

“Pay Attention To What Kind Of Car Is In Your Rearview Mirror”

I think this is great advice. However I would go even further and say you shouldn't get ANY information from memes. 

When surge pricing goes up 2x-3x, and Uber takes ~30% of a fare, Uber would end up losing money on a lot of rides. For better or worse, Uber is in this business to make money. I wouldn’t be willing to take a pay cut at my company just to keep prices low for customers, and I wouldn’t expect Uber to do that either.…

So what are you suggesting? That Uber not use surge pricing, and people just end up waiting 2 hours to get a ride?

I’d like to point out that the Uber website says that they use surge pricing both to decrease demand and to increase supply. The latter is what I think a lot of people don’t get. The point of surge pricing is to encourage more people to drive for Uber and Lyft on busy nights like New Year’s Eve and the super bowl.

Count me in on the freak train. I’ve used plastic cutting boards for a decade and never found that garlic and onion taste sticks around after even just some soap and water.

I don’t think the purpose of target date funds is to maximize returns. It’s to proved reweighting of asset classes in a way that results in higher risk/higher return earlier on and lower risk/lower return closer to the retirement date. The point of owning one is so that you don’t have to manually reweight every 6…

Did you even look at the quiz? It gives you a brief overview of candidates’ positions on 10 issues. Seems like a little bit of “political education” to me.

If only people used the argument that “I shouldn’t do this because if everybody did, things would be really really bad” argument for things like pollution or not voting, rather than buying used cars...

22% seems like it would make a big difference between a properly inflated tire and an underinflated one, though.

That’s a good point. She probably should have given a history of fire, too. This article is pretty incomplete.

This isn’t too surprising. It’s ECON 101. When entry into a market is easy, economic profits ($ profit - the opportunity cost of your time) go to zero.

Lol. Nobody gets the “full range of human experience”. And there are plenty of things that you miss out on by having children. This just makes no sense.

Saving accounts have never been a good place to actually “earn money”. If the rate you earn is higher, it’s likely because inflation is higher. Banks can’t do a lot with that money (short-term demand deposits), and so they can’t pay you much (in real terms) to hold onto it.