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Modular Phones Invented before Google's Project Ara

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Modular Phones Invented before Google's Project Ara. Jan 15, 2015. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. A white, smartphone-sized base onto which cameras and LCDs can be attached interchangeably. For some reason they didn’t use the terminology phone upfront. They keep describing it as a gadget builder. This may be the only one that’s actually sexy enough to be sold today. The lobster is a modular phone that connects by stacking one piece on top of another.

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Speakeasies in New York

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Speakeasies in New York. Jan 15, 2015. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. Milk and Honey (23rd and Madison). Fig 19 (131.5 Christie, LES). Pouring Ribbons (Ave B, btw 13 14). Raines Law Room (Flatiron). Backroom (102 Norfolks, LES). Third Man (116 Ave C). Booker and Dax (EV). Lovers of Today (EV). Cata (Gin and Tonic Cocktails and Tapas, LES).

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Nonobvious Personal Finance Tips and Tricks

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Nonobvious Personal Finance Tips and Tricks. Jan 13, 2015. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. Every two weeks, pay off all your credit cards. As long as you pay every two weeks, you don’t have to worry about the due dates for every single account. If you make this cycle, you’ll always pay on time. In case you missed the cycle or something happens with the payment itself, your chances are less that it will actually be late. Read up on your credit card perks. The zero balance trick. For example, I’ll keep $2,000 i...

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Words Everyone Mispronounces

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Feb 2, 2015. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. Ack-A-DEEM-E-Ah, not like Macadamia. Et-Set-Er-Ah, not Exccedra or Essetra. Es-Press-O, not Ex-Press-O. Es-cape, not Ex-cape. Feb-Roo-Air-E, not Feb-Yoo-Air-E. Jew-El-Ree, not Jew-La-Ree. Nawk-E-Ah, not No-Key-Ah. They are a Finnish company, not Japanese. Nuke-Leer, not Nuke-Yoo-Ler.

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Things That are a Lot Older Than We Think

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Things That are a Lot Older Than We Think. Nov 1, 2014. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. The word ain’t (1618) Wikipedia. Electric cars (1884) Telegraph. Cocaine (1885) The article naming its discovery. The F word DailyMail.

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How to Lose Weight

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How to Lose Weight. Nov 15, 2014. Subscribe to Adam's Lists.

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Phone Customer Service Still Sucks

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Phone Customer Service Still Sucks. Jul 11, 2015. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. My wife and I have been in the process of moving out of our apartment, getting married, and hiring contractors to remodel our current home all in the span of about three months. Needless to say, we’ve been spending a lot of time on the phone and have become extra sensitive to the bad customer service of company’s phone systems. With over-the-phone customer service and how they could be fixed. Let’s start with the. On the other h...

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How to Be More Productive

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How to Be More Productive. Dec 29, 2014. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. Your time is your personal fortune. Manage your wealth. Stop treating the weekends as a magical bottomless bucket of time. The time you have over the weekend is exactly 48 hours minus the time you need for meals, chores, bathroom breaks, and sleeping in. When you actually sit down and count those hours, it’s not as much as you think. The amount of things you can procrastinate on Mon-Fri the amount of time you have on the weekend. Later i...

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I Told Elon Musk we Should Have Space Internet, Musk Announces Space Internet a Month Later

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I Told Elon Musk we Should Have Space Internet, Musk Announces Space Internet a Month Later. Jan 17, 2015. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. I had this great idea for putting data storage in space last month. You know, you could host servers and back up all your data there. This wasn’t a joke. I really see this as a significant and inevitable part of our future. See my future technology predictions. I wonder who would get a kick out of an idea like that. Maybe Elon Musk! Want to do it?

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How to Stop Fighting With Your Girlfriend

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How to Stop Fighting With Your Girlfriend. Jan 30, 2014. Subscribe to Adam's Lists. More in my answer on Quora. While these tips might work for readers with male partners, I think these tips are optimized for males in opposite-sex relationships. Also, I’ve never been in a relationship with a man, so I have no idea how to avoid arguments with them. Obviously, Girlfriend applies to Wife as well. How to stop fighting with your girlfriend:. This is the number 1 problem men have in arguments. Maybe you did ev...