ohhhhhh man this comment is not going to be received well around here

FWIW many services will respond to STOP even if they don’t advertise that “feature.” This is because they either implemented it themselves, or the underlying service they’re using to handle SMS implements it on its own. For example, Twilio handles STOP messages on its own, blacklisting that phone number, and its on…

Each service should offer its own set of backup codes. Facebook does.

Who cares what the best deals were this time last year? :)

Who cares what the best deals were this time last year? :)

Yup. Another important use. My mentality is that transportation is more important, though, since you can survive without electricity, but it’d be important to be able to transport yourself and whatever you have scavenged away from densely populated areas (where the most zombies are and where the most food and medicine…

He can exchange it for fiat currency whenever he wants. Maybe he already has? Hopefully someone has advised him (or he has decided himself) to exchange at least some of his bitcoin to fiat and not leave it all in bitcoin.

Interesting insight! Thanks!

Ok maybe. There might be something to that. But it’d only be effective in very specific circumstances. You wouldn’t want to start lighting surrounding structures or forests on fire. It would be really risky to use that method to clear out a potential residence, for example, because of the high risk that the structure…

Probably true, and at that point at least you wouldn’t be killing zombies with fuel you need to get around, but I still think there are better ways to kill zombies for reasons I discussed above.

Fair point, but I think it’d still be better used for transportation - mostly because of how ineffective it is at killing zombies.

Not as quickly as severing it or firing a bullet through it. Even if it were effective, it’s still a bad approach for the other reasons that I mentioned. Given the scarcity and weight of fuel, you could kill way more zombies by carrying an equivalent amount of ammo.

Side note: I never understood everyone’s infatuation with using flamethrowers against hordes of zombies. It just seems really ineffective. In a post-apocalyptic world, fuel would be difficult to acquire and best used for transportation. Flamethrowers use a LOT of fuel. For example, the XM42 only lasts for 3 minutes…

It’s hard to quantify which is more important. For example, in terms of utilization percentage and resulting score impact, utilization is probably more important in the sense that if your total utilization were 95% it’d impact your score more than if a single account were at 95%. But that doesn’t mean that an…

Mine took a nosedive after putting a large purchase on a CC. My overall utilization is around 22% (which Credit Karma considers healthy), but two cards are nearly maxed out. CK doesn’t do a great job of explaining this, but my experience says that the utilization of individual credit lines matters just as much as your…

I love the scene with the guy dancing while holding the Capsule. Just... why?

I love the scene with the guy dancing while holding the Capsule. Just... why?

Try to check your bag at the gate

Your thoughtful, objective view of the world is not welcome here. If you aren’t taking a random slice of the world and calling out the bias you see in it, you’re Internetting wrong.

It looks like a white-labeled Antminer S9 - which is consistent with their projected returns (after accounting for electric costs, but not accounting for increased difficulty).

The only legitimate “source” here is a “Bitcoin economist” and he projects an over 70% return. That’s far from a “scam you should avoid.” A scam would be if Kodak took your money and never intended on paying you a dime. A bad deal? Maybe - since you take all of the risk while Kodak takes none. But definitely not a…

Silk Road was just a marketplace, too.