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·el año pasado·discuss
Unrelated, but is this a case of the Pareto Principle? (Admittedly the first time I'm hearing of it) Wherein 80% of the effect is caused by 20% of the input. Or is this more a case of diminishing returns? Where the initial results were incredible, but each succeeding iteration seems to be more disappointing?
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·el año pasado·discuss
We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning...
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·el año pasado·discuss
Your comment made me think of the Terry Pratchett book "Going Postal" in which a conman is put in charge of the post office and quickly realizes what you said: selling stamps is free money. One of my favorites from his later discworld books.
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·el año pasado·discuss
See the EV1, a popular, mass produced electric vehicle that was controversialy "discontinued" in 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1?wprov=sfla1
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·el año pasado·discuss
If you're in the U.S. and a "government agent" told you to use iMessage, you are 100% being scammed. No way they would accept anything less secure than a fax message or a document portal that looks like it was set up in the 90's.