I was addressing the “waiting to acquire signal” part, not the “removing from a bag” part which I imagine to be fast

Your phone does not need an internet connection to tap to pay, in the same way your credit cards do not need an internet connection to tap to pay

If you click the most expensive model and then click max/fast mode, the same task can easily cost 10 or 20x of the cheaper models

That $60 game costs them $20 to sell on steam. So not that different than paying $20 to manufacture a cartridge really.

There’s 3 possible categories, and you got the earliest. The other two are “December” and “2027”.

It’s not a backup if it’s stored in the same place as the original

lol that’s almost 7 years? Insane they lasted that long to begin with

The new steam controller sold out within minutes, so it seems like they priced it too low if anything.

A used n3ds xl costs close to a switch 2 these days lol

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but you can’t replace batteries on most modern portable computing devices these days.

yeah same, I don’t understand why people need DNS. Every place I’ve ever worked at that used DNS had an outage, and nobody could get into anything

Fair point, will keep that in mind. For anyone else allergic to clicking Reddit links, here’s the blog the author also posted the content to:

https://singlelunch.com/the-bad-economics-of-wtfhappenedin1971

Would you like me to buy a domain for $10/yr and copy and paste it onto there for you, would that make it seem more legitimate somehow?

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/16igh9t/the_bad_economics_of_wtfhappenedin1971/