By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Today is the last day: amid the spiraling increase in inflation, the cost of a paid subscription to Numlock is…
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By Walt Hickey Fraud A Massachusetts man was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to running a sophisticated romance fraud…
By Walt Hickey Merch The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has prompted a run on Silicon Valley Bank swag on secondary markets, bound for collectors of…
By Walt Hickey My dear readers, at the insistence of our accounting department amid the spiraling increase in inflation, the cost of a paid subscription…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Shazam! Apathy of the Crowds The new sequel to the 2019 D.C. comics film Shazam! bombed at the box office, with Shazam…
By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Dave Infante, who is behind the excellent newsletter Fingers . This week…
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Slightly On The Outsider Trading A new analysis of IRS data about the stock trades of ultra-wealthy business…
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By Walt Hickey Yankees Delta Airlines charges about $9 per flight for in-flight WiFi, a fact that affects many people who are not Major League Baseball…
By Walt Hickey Pressed Vinyl sales have grown for the past 16 years, up 17 percent year over year to $1.2 billion in 2022, outselling CDs on a unit…
By Walt Hickey Skip Ahead Dish Network introduced a feature called AutoHop, which allowed users to skip commercials from DVR content. This feature led…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Wine The swift panic-induced bank run on Silicon Valley Bank obviously presents problems for many of its core customers in…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to James Temple, who wrote “This geothermal startup showed its wells can be…
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