Slow Hair Cutter There’s this barber that has shop downtown. But the shop is always crowded, and there’s only the one guy in there cutting hair. So once, I went in to take a number, and I got number 37. He was only number two. And he took about two hours […]
Benjamin Heptagon
Underground Destruction There’s this very clever and wealthy real estate mogul who makes his money by shorting the real estate market. This is not an easy thing to do. You have to set up a system where you make money when real estate goes down. The reason he is so successful is […]
Fibonacci Chaos
Fibonacci Chaos Golden Ratio One of the coolest ideas in science is something called the Golden Ratio, or Phi. This is calculated from the Fibonacci sequence, and can be found in many places in nature. Like if you take ten people, and divide their height by the fingertip to fingertip length of their […]
Telepathic Bridge Champions
Good Idea At The Time A long time ago, shortly after world war II, the CIA was given a huge budget to investigate the probability if finding UFOs or any alien intelligence. They looked pretty carefully for about five years, but then a few strange things happened. Firstly, the administration of the CIA […]
Weaponized Self Awareness
Don’t Fall For It There is this group of ultra rich, high tech pranksters. These guys were born at the right time, in the right place, with the right brains. They were never forced by their environment to grow up. They all went to high school together, and due to their intelligence, […]
Magic Money Scams
What, Me Worry? A fantastic case of accidental arbitrage happened back in the late seventies. This was right on an interesting boundary of two different techniques. Savvy observers of these two overlapping trend jumped on it and quickly profited. But like all arbitrage opportunities, this was quickly slammed shut. What happened […]
Nested Ghosts
Pre Inspection Failure A friend of mine bought a house recently, but then he found out it was haunted. It wasn’t an angry ghost, it wasn’t looking for revenge or for help to solve an old murder. He was just stuck in the bureaucracy, waiting to get to the after life. When […]
The Paradox Of Societal Collapse
Marketing Genius There is a cereal company that has come up with an ingenious marketing strategy. It is a cereal targeted at kids, so they need to have some kind of gimmick. A prize in the box, some kind of game or comic strip on the back. They were slowly losing market […]
Levitation Treadmill
Scientific Shenanigans There is this software developer that has created a very powerful deep fake algorithm. He’s hacked into a few super computers, so he can borrow their processing power. He starts off with a simple text, as short or as long as he wants. Then he types in a person’s name, […]
Downtown Chicken Man
Three Kinds of Operations There are three types of businesses, from a purely financial standpoint. There are hard money profitable businesses. They spend money on raw materials, and turn those raw materials into higher order goods, and make a profit. Then there are businesses based on debt. These are businesses that […]
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