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2/14/2023
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Numlock News: February 14, 2023 • Stick Shift, Fake Eggs, Weed Stores
By Walt Hickey R The Hong Kong license plate that just reads “R” sold at auction for HK$25.5 million ($3.25 million) after 60 rounds of bidding at auction, which started at the lowly price of HK$5000.
2/13/2023
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Numlock News: February 13, 2023 • Titanic, Kimonos, Maple Syrup
By Walt Hickey Box Office This weekend at the box office, Magic Mike's Last Dance came out on top with $8.2 million, but the real action was going on lower in the rankings, with James Cameron's
2/10/2023
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Numlock News: February 10, 2023 • Beyoncé, Beef Stew, Pappy van Winkle
By Walt Hickey Securities On-paper stock losses are very advantageous to the ultra-wealthy, as they're able to take on-paper losses and very efficiently turn them into fewer taxes. An obvious way
2/9/2023
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Numlock News: February 9, 2023 • Funemployment, Whales, Ghost Ship
By Walt Hickey Blood and Honey Next week the parody horror film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will release on 1500 screens in the United States. That peculiar sentence is the result of several
2/8/2023
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Numlock News: February 8, 2023 • Nintendo, Match Fixing, In-N-Out
By Walt Hickey Nintendo Nintendo is expecting their net profit for the year ending in March to fall to ¥370 billion ($2.79 billion), which would be a 22.5 percent drop year over year and down ¥30
2/7/2023
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Numlock News: February 7, 2023 • Wolves, Natural Red, Menhaden
By Walt Hickey Who Keeps Company with Wolves Will Learn to Howl A new study published in Communications Biology played back audio of wolves howling to gauge the reaction of various breeds of
2/6/2023
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Numlock News: February 6, 2023 • Kombucha, Jupiter, M. Night Shyamalan
By Walt Hickey Artists A proposed rule change out of the US Department of Homeland Security would jack up the prices of O-type and P-type visas that are currently used by musicians from around the
2/3/2023
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Numlock News: February 3, 2023 • Wrestling, Linda Ronstadt, Fake Diplomas
By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! AEW There's a new fresh babyface in wrestling in the form of the All-Elite Wrestling, an upstart competitor to the WWE juggernaut staked by the scion of
2/2/2023
11 : 4
Numlock News: February 2, 2023 • Caesium, Icebreaker, Forks
By Walt Hickey Man It's A Hot Zone The mining company that dropped a 6-by-8-millimeter chunk of extremely radioactive caesium-137 somewhere along an 870-mile road in Australia announced that state
2/1/2023
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Numlock News: February 1, 2023 • Owls, Kias, Omegas
By Walt Hickey To The Moon Swiss watch exports hit 23.7 billion Swiss francs in 2022, up 11.6 percent year over year and at an all-time high. Overall 15.8 million watches were exported in 2022, which
1/31/2023
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Numlock News: January 31, 2023 • Salamanders, Robot Music, Mayans
By Walt Hickey Audits An analysis of 90 government audits into overpayments made to Medicare Advantage health plans covering billings from 2011 to 2013 revealed a combined $12 million in overpayments
1/30/2023
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Numlock News: January 30, 2023 • Fish, Whopper, Caesium
By Walt Hickey Fish Plays In the great spirit of Twitch Plays Pokémon, several channels that involve pseudorandom attempts to play video games have sprung up and thrived, one of which was operated by a
1/27/2023
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Numlock News: January 27, 2023 • Universal, Big Box, Garbage Fire
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Universal Universal's theme parks have been a major bright spot on the earnings of Comcast, the cable company, responsible for $2.11 billion in revenue in the
1/26/2023
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Numlock News: January 26, 2023 • Yerba Mate, Belgium, Metrocard
By Walt Hickey Blockbusted Between Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water and Elvis, this year's crop of Best Picture nominees is the highest-ever grossing class of films, with all 10 nominees
1/25/2023
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Numlock News: January 25, 2023 • Aquifers, Otters, Justin Bieber
By Walt Hickey Oscar nominations are live: You should absolutely subscribe to the Numlock Awards newsletter, the spin-off newsletter where I do the Oscar modeling and analysis. It's really fun.
1/24/2023
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Numlock News: January 24, 2023 • Puppies, Podcasts, Pickleball
By Walt Hickey Road The big ice roads in Alaska — the ones that have television shows — are in service to the oil extraction and mining industries predominantly, but networks of resident-supported ice
1/23/2023
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Numlock News: January 23, 2023 • Flo Rida, Carp, Reactors
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Water Avatar: The Way of Water is on a record-breaking tear, hitting $2.024 billion as of this past weekend, $598 million of which came from North America and $1.426
1/20/2023
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Numlock News: January 20, 2023 • Catfish, Covers, Eggs
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Sunday was another Numlock Podcast edition of the Sunday edition, available for anyone to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts,
1/20/2023
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Numlock News: January 11, 2023 • Vigilantes, Megalopolis, Bowling
By Walt Hickey Megalopolis The single most interesting movie currently in production right now is Megalopolis, a sci-fi movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The reason this is so wild is because
1/20/2023
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Numlock News: January 12, 2023 • Kingdom, Titles, Princes
By Walt Hickey Whoops JP Morgan is suing a 30-year-old founder of a fintech company they bought for $175 million in September of 2021, alleging a shocking amount of fraud during the due diligence