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I'm also happy we have a single connector but, n=1, I have a couple things that will not work with all cables. I have no idea why, nor have I bothered to find out, I just marked th…

I Wish the author would write more articles, I enjoyed these when they came out immensely.

> Entered into several Cloud Services Agreements totaling $14.1 billion in contracted sales to provide customers with access to compute capacity, which resulted in $1.6 billion in …

I'm heading the same direction, for the same reason. Fuck amazon and their bait&switch.

yes, that is the case. But I think the point is that paying 7€ makes it a pretty good deal, at 14€ for "a bowl of soup" it becomes a meh experience. Similarly, as an Italian abroad…

If you buy a cheap Italian club and spend a ton of money you will do well in the national league and go to the UEFA champions league. But the amount of money a random premier leagu…

Players wages, players price and fees to various intermediaries which have bubbled up through the years, yeah.

This is a wonderful article. Not being American and not having lived through the Vietnam war (nor am I a history buff) I wasn't particularly familiar with McNamara, but I watched "…

Ryanair is the epitome of "cheap with compromise" which is the opposite of the BMW brand. And kindle basic gets advertising as a known feature at buying time. Pushing advertisment …

Tire dealers that go around puncturing tires has been a urban legend for decades

Hungary is flat as hell, there's nowhere to build enough hydro storage. But yeah batteries would be nice.

The one that shut down in Romania is a CANDU, built in the 80s.

it's a cat and mouse thing, but the truth is that there is no will to actually do it, because the party who championed this has since moved to other things, and clubs _want_ the mo…

> The dotcom bust took a decade to grow and collapse I'm inclined to think the collapse has already started but nobody wants to see it yet. In the last few weeks SP500 is down, kos…

Referee complaints are common, but I can't remember a case where a disqualified player was allowed to play in last world cups. Covert bullshit, like the Moreno care in South Korea,…

It's crazy that as despicable an organization as UEFA is, they're still far better than FIFA. Infantino has been a disgrace, I hope they manage to get rid of him, but I have very l…

it's arguable the "much of the rest of the world" could refer to number of countries rather than number of people, but I think "much of" applies to both so the author avoided the c…

I'm outside the loop so please forgive me, but what is different between substack and a self managed mailing list? I've been subscribed to a few website/blogs newsletters for years…

I had very positive experiences with some offsites, where the people 1) had fun 2) felt closer and able to interact more easily with each other (especially when working in a remote…

I honestly don't know. We do get to subzero temperatures relatively easy in winter in Hungary, it's quite a different climate from Greece and Italy.

This is literally how it works for most fines. You don't get a higher fine every time you go very the speed limit or park in the wrong place. You don't get a higher fine if you don…

Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet sell a lot more things than AI. They were huge before and would still be huge after. Do you think iphones and windows™ will stop selling once the …

I frankly don't know, the "unprecedented" is something I read in articles but haven't actually investigated.