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These new, young players had novel ideas for how to play classic Tetris more efficiently. Before the 2020 CTWC, Christopher “Cheez” Martinez told Saelee that he had something in the works. It was a new method of playing classic Tetris that he called “rolling.” Instead of hypertapping, which was rather difficult to learn and punishing on the body, Martinez’s new method of rolling involved drumming his fingers on the back of the NES controller, putting pressure on the buttons on the other side.

Teens Are Rewriting What Is Possible in the World of Competitive Tetris

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If this sounds familiar, it is broadly similar to the trade that Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. did earlier this year to sell stock. In each case, there is a weird instrument that looks like a convertible security, and a big “investor” who is buying most or all of it. But in each case, the buyer is not really set up to be a long-term investor in the company: The investor is getting the stock in installments, at a discount to market value, and selling each installment to retail investors on the stock exchange. And the investor is getting paid a nice fee for structuring the trade, giving the company the money upfront, and generally obscuring what is happening. “We are selling $365 million of stock to retail investors to raise $300 million” just sounds less good than “we are selling a $340 million convertible with a 30% conversion premium to a big investor.”

A Stock Fund That Can’t Go Down - Bloomberg

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ITEs provide users with specific and customizable toolsets to be able to navigate, organize, and transform their thinking—and these toolsets are highly extensible. To use your thoughts, you capture notes—notes are instantiations of your thinking that adhere to your model of your world.

Obsidian, Roam, and the Rise of Integrated Thinking Environments—what They Are, What They Do, and What’s Next - Axle

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