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A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite (2014)

by kf on 6/30/20, 5:22 AM with 13 comments

• by dang on 6/30/20, 7:09 PM

  If curious see also

  2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661581

  2016 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802353

  https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/ - on the same topic - discussed twice in 2015:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9725851

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816123

• by simonebrunozzi on 6/30/20, 4:22 PM

  > John Birges Jr. was 19 years old. He liked weed, beer, girls, and the Stones.

  I really like this passage here. So poetic in its own way.

• by notdonspaulding on 6/30/20, 10:12 PM

  Investigative journalism at its finest.

• by ajuc on 6/30/20, 2:24 PM

  > The feds always got them at the money drop.

  That's one problem bitcoin is solving.

• by blarg1 on 7/1/20, 3:50 AM

  Hate it when they write articles like this, makes it hard to skim it.

• by m_eiman on 6/30/20, 2:49 PM

  Scrolling was broken for me until I removed the extra parameters in the URL, to make it https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite