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Making $25k/month Selling Chocolate Dicks

Adam is the founder of Dick At Your Door, an e-commerce shop for prank chocolate dicks. What started as a joke quickly became a viable business with real opportunity. Getting viral on social networks and news platforms, turned the eCommerce into a $25k/month business.

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The Impossible Expensiveness of American Life – Eudaimonia and Co

What My Daily Grocery Shopping in London vs the States Says About American Precarity

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Hasnain says:

"Americans think, proudly, that they pay less in taxes — but the impossibly higher price of food alone chews those illusory savings up long before we even get to healthcare, education, finance, or transportation. Americans don’t know how bad they have it. And the reverse, I think, is true, too. Europeans don’t know how good they have it, either."

Posted on 2018-08-18T21:05:15+0000

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Georgia Police Dept. Defends Use of Taser on 87-Year-Old Woman Cutting Dandelions

The woman, Martha Bishara, was cutting the plants with a knife when officers asked her to drop it. Her family said she speaks very little English.

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'F--- You!': Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders and break a cardinal rule at the company

During a meeting between Google's top managers and employees to discuss the company's plans for China, many were shocked to learn someone inside Google was feeding real-time information to reporters. Suddenly, press leaks became the No. 1 issue.

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Hasnain says:

“The person or people who shared the information with The Times gave Pichai and Brin an excuse to stop discussing anything substantive about China at the meeting, said the sources, two of whom strongly oppose the building of a censored search engine by Google. What's more, the executives were made to look like victims of a breach of trust, the sources said.”

Made to look like? Really?!

Posted on 2018-08-18T03:51:01+0000

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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part one)

I wasn’t looking for trouble. I wasn’t trying to build Chrome a thousand times in a weekend, I was just engaging in that most mundane of 21st century tasks, writing an email at 10:30 am. And sudden…

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Surprise Gift: Free Tuition for All N.Y.U. Medical Students

A plan will cover the $55,000 annual tuition for every current and future New York University School of Medicine student, regardless of financial need.

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MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery

It’s nearly impossible to break a dry spaghetti noodle into only two pieces. A new MIT study shows how and why it can be done.

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