Newmark's Door

"The smartest people in the world can’t crack them. Maybe you’ll have better luck."

UPDATE: link fixed now.

Interesting Quora discussion.

It’s not asking for “good shows”. They need to be shows that have “FINISHED”, and not only are satisfying along the way, but also have a satisfying ending.

Supposedly, one company is more than  1400 years old and another handful are 1100 or more years old.

The headline probably should be relabeled to "I Can Guess Where You Grew Up". With that change, it was, for me, surprisingly accurate.

Two people pointed to our grocery stores, which is nice. I think the modern American grocery store is vastly underappreciated.

I guess maybe my next house should have more copper.

When researchers reported last month that the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic survives for days on glass and stainless steel but dies within hours after landing on copper, the only thing that surprised Bill Keevil was that the pathogen lasted so long on copper.

From WalletHub. Nice to see my current city of residence ranked second.

Monday was the 6th anniversary. For English soccer it's the equivalent of "Buckner booted the ball".

Glenn Reynolds with a fine column:

There really are two Americas here: Those still getting a paycheck from government, corporations or universities, and those who are unemployed, or seeing their small businesses suffer due to shutdowns. And the America still getting paid is, so far, not showing a whole lot of sympathy for the America that isn’t.

Some of us don't need a "reminder". Some of us do.

What has counted during the crisis is the ability of certain businesses to carry out their core functions at a very high level: the efficiency with which Amazon can deliver essential goods to our front doors; the ability of communications firms to give us socially distant social lives; and, above all else, the ingenuity of pharmaceutical companies searching for treatments, better testing, and a vaccine. In all these cases, the pursuit of shareholders’ best interests looks much less parasitic and much more aligned with society’s wider interests than it might have appeared before the crisis.

Related: "No, Capitalism Did Not Fail".