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I recently sold a Mega Charizard card. Send it to the buyer. Got paid. Like 2 months later I am getting bombarded with messages to please take the card back. Turns out they bought it because they thought some Card Rating thing would give it a 10, but just gave it a 9 so now they want their money back.

In September 2011, a 4chan user asked a question about The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, an anime whose 14 episodes famously aired out of chronological order: If you wanted to watch the episodes in every possible order, what's the shortest marathon that covers all of them? (Orderings can overlap--the end of one sequence can be the start of the next sequence.) E.g. With 3 episodes (A, B, C), there are 6 possible watch orders, so watching them all separately takes 18 episodes. But what if the orders can overlap? It turns out the minimum number of episodes to watch all 3 in every ordering is 9 episodes long: A-B-C-A-B-A-C-B-A contains all 6 orderings as consecutive chunks (episodes 1-3 are ABC, 2-4 are BCA, 3-5 are CAB, etc.) The open question: what's the minimum marathon length for n episodes, for arbitrary n? That problem was an open problem in a field called combinatorics: finding the shortest "superpermutation"--a sequence of symbols that contains every possible ordering of n symbols. Mathematicians had been studying it for ~25 years with no proven answer. An anonymous user in the thread then posted a proof that any superpermutation must be at least n! + (n - …

Last week the news started popping up about the Nepal flood. I followed along closely because I’ve hiked in Nepal/Tibet and loved the area. A few hours later my phone starts dinging. WhatsApp messa

😭 at this point the express lane needs a ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ option.

It is 39 degrees in my office. It is so hot that my wooden desk is too hot to touch and my mouse is uncomfortable to hold it is that warm. My mobile phone has to be on an ice block to prevent it from

I just discovered my work colleague has been using afterpay or whatever these buy now pay later apps are for doordash?!? Now she's asking me for a loan to help pay off the late fees! Is this a common

Just got an email about from Affirm that I won’t be able to use my Discover card to pay for any more BNPL purchases. Is this only for me or did anyone else just get this email?? Are they really going

Splitting payments across three chunks or pushing the bill back 30 days has been seamlessly integrated into almost every online checkout in the UK. For those who use them, do you find them genuinely u