My dad had a pregnant lady offer him a seat on the train last year. It, uhh, wasn’t the highlight of his day.

You usually don’t have to buy anything at these stores, but depending on the kickback structure between the tour operator and the store, there might be a more or less explicit, “this bus is staying in this parking lot until the people on the bus buy $xxx worth of junk.” This tactic seems less common on tours that…

He could throw himself to the ground, but if he touched the rope (or any part of the ground on the other side of the rope) while he still had the ball, that would count as the ball going over the rope. Looking at the replay, it looks like he might have been able to throw himself to the ground in bounds, but probably…

Y’know, it seems like if you commit a personal foul where knocking the opponent out of the game is a likely outcome, the penalty should be more severe than 15 yards.

There’s also the issue that people can fall into the “as long as I don’t take any principal out, I can take out as much as I want” trap. So the market goes up 15% one year, and they take out 15%. Then the market goes down 5% the next year, and, uhh, they still need to take out some money. It’s not only unsophisticated…

Yeah, you could do that. You’d have to somehow have $5m in your IRA first, which is the hard part. You’d also need to have a couple million bucks lying around to pay the taxes.

A lot of upstart sports leagues seem to spend more time saying “we’re a professional sport! pay attention to us!” than looking at what’s made pro sports successful. Looking at the most successful new pro sports league in the world, the Indian Premier League (a T20 cricket league started in 2008), it’s pretty clear…

Speaking on television for the first time about these allegations, an occasionally tearful Farrow laid out once more how Allen allegedly assaulted her in the attic of her mother’s country house in Connecticut—first in a Vanity Fair story from 1992 and then in a 2014 letter to the New York Times.

Oh, also, is it malware that makes the page jump when an ad loads ~5 seconds after the rest of the page, making me click on the ad (or some article I don’t care about) instead of the thing I’m interested in?

Is it malware that’s making an obnoxious, unrelated-to-the-article video play in the middle of every single blog on this site?

If you’re a local sports editor, hold your beat writer close.

A couple of weeks ago I ran my ring through the dishwasher. Then I made gumbo over night in the instant pot. Can you guess what I forgot to do in between?

Ok, technically, the article is correct. There’s no limit on the amount you can convert from a traditional to a Roth IRA. But that’s a bit silly to focus on, since there’s still an annual limit on how much you can put in a traditional IRA. If you’ve got lots of money already in traditional IRAs that you want to…

We’re talking about very wealthy individuals here

The article is talking about there being no income limits on a backdoor roth. The contribution limits are still there.

Counterpoint: Roombas are useless. I’m not a coffee person, but as an inhabitant of earth, I’m curious about whether Keurig coffee really is good enough to justify the environmental cost. Iphones are ok, I guess.

The best part is how broken it is. “Stare at this gray box while we count down. 5. Still 5. Yup, still 5. 5 again. 4. 3. 2. 1. Ok, now here’s an ad that you can immediately click past because the countdown is over.”

If you’ve got the knack for it, it’s pretty reasonable. I went from successful entrepreneur to struggling entrepreneur to struggling entrepreneur who wrote a bunch of code to professional coder. (I feel kind of like my career has progressed backwards, but I’m in an ok spot now.) I interview probably a hundred software…