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This would be true but you're not accounting for OPEC and other groups (e.g. historically the Texas Railroad Commission in the United States, not sure how relevant they still are) …

The whole game is basically one giant random number generator, so there was a lot to gamble on. E.g., two players put one million gold pieces in their inventory, equip no equipment…

They did run a dicing clan as well, FWIW, although I doubt they were the first to do it.

There were dozens of ways to make money off of RuneScape back in the day. Selling bot scripts, running bot farms (this is still very lucrative to this day), running gambling rings,…

It’s a fun Vegas vending machine gimmick, but if I go to nice pizzeria I'd prefer my pizza be made by a human. Am I missing other use cases?

Didn’t Apple themselves at some point release an ad with a teenager using an iPad going “what’s a computer”? They’re pretty aware they’d be cannibalizing their lower-end laptop lin…

I worked at a bring your own distro place before, ISO certified. I don’t exactly recall what we had to install for compliance but one of them was Clam AV. So it’s possible. I recal…

Took a winter trip to Norway once with friends, which included a Norwegian that'd immigrated away to the much milder climate the rest of us were all used to. We got a meter of over…

The watch face can change, repurposing the hands for a stopwatch and compass mode. See the multigraph section: https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce

There's a more in-depth page on the Ferrari website: https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce

Those fall into the category of defeatism, perhaps?

> I had a very similar experience, except it killed my libido Did you, as well as the other people seconding this, have any libido left in the first place? I got on Sertraline beca…

I feel like we do generally brush, a little too easily, over the fact that economics is still a theoretical science, of which finance is subsequently the practical and technical im…

Most Zoomers around me that pirate use some application that obfuscates the torrenting part away, they just have to know how to use a search box and hit play.

About 20% of sites, and there’s some big services behind Cloudflare so that percentage doesn’t even tell the full story.

You should look into different tires perhaps.

https://archive.is/NhyjE

I’m interested, please link!

Makes a lot of sense, thanks for the insight!

Hah nope! Even as a Belgian I find the naming of the Brussels train stations maddening. Brussels-Midi is the south station, so Brussel-Zuid. Midi allegedly means south in French, b…

Quite curious, which route was this on? Not one time have I had a consistent internet connection whilst flying transatlantic on Delta, KLM or BA airplanes, to the point that I regr…

We self host Grafana Tempo and whilst the cost isn’t negligible (at 50k spans per second), the money saved in developer time when debugging an error, compared to having to sift thr…

> Someone studying abroad usually isn’t allowed to work Citation needed, because I'm almost certain not being allowed to work as a foreign student is the exception to the rule. A s…

I agree that mining is probably the worst of it, but trucks usually last a decade and a couple million kilometers, after which they’re shipped off to Africa or the Middle East wher…

The Dutch simply shamelessly scratch their butt, and if someone's watching that's their problem ;)