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Wait, I'm confused by your numbers there.

Buy: 300 LTC @ 241 = $72,300 + 1.49% fee ($1077) = $73,377 cost basis

Sell: 300 LTC @ 251 = $75,300 - 1.49% fee ($1122) = $74,178 gross

$74,178 - $73,377 = $801 net

and that's before accounting for taxes. What am I missing here?

I am really skeptical about this being worth $5 a month. I suppose you could look at it like you're "buying" 12 free games for $5, since you do the discovery and vetting for me.

But ... the spectrum of quality in free games is HUGE and the percentage of games at the top of the spectrum is relatively tiny. I imagine this subscription would start with the heavy hitters but quickly devolve. And who's the target audience for this? Aren't most gamers relatively "in the know" in the free/f2p space? Can't someone who knows nothing about free games just Google "best free games?"

Even the quantity feels off to me -- 3 per week is too much. In the best case scenario, where you inform me of three games I didn't know about but I want to play, I can't get through them before you deliver another.

I dunno. Maybe I'm just not identifying the target audience for this; maybe they exist, but I can't imagine dropping any amount of money for this.

I kinda feel like this is an unnecessarily judgmental article about what comes down to two people with incompatible core values that never should've worked together in the first place.

Oh. Hmm. On other sites like plug.dj you can pause and when you unpause it just catches you back up!

On plug.dj, this isn't true. Playlists that are in the queue will repeat after all the songs from that list have been played once.

It even shows the YouTube pause icon thing when I click on it. This is really frustrating.

When I clicked on the link, it brought up a page that was already playing a song. I tried to pause it and couldn't. I had to look for the volume control instead?

Why can't I pause the song?

I am a hyper paranoid person. If I don't check my phone, I think that someone might have messaged me. If my phone's notification light is blinking, I think of all the things it could be; the possibilities occupy 100% of my brain. I think -- what if mom just got hit by a bus? What if my doctor's calling me with test results? What if my sister's just found out she's having a baby?

These things are rarely the case. 90% of the time it's a spam e-mail or a note from a friend that doesn't need to be addressed right away. But I will still think about these things, and actively worry about them, until I read the message.

So it helps to put the phone away, somewhere where I can't see it, on silent so I can't hear it -- even still, I have to check it at frequent intervals, without a real pattern, because a random glint in the corner of my glasses will make me think "oh was that my phone? Wait, my phone's in the other room. I wonder if I have messages? Shit, what if someone's been trying to contact me?"

> I don't know what part of the law it supposedly broke

I mean, that's a pretty important thing to know before forming an opinion on this matter.

In essence, the part of the contract that the judge is leaning on is that any manner of manipulation, by either party, invalidates the game and any winnings that came as a result of that game.

I can't view the video here, so reading the article was valuable to me.

This feels unnecessarily reductive and hostile.

registered. this is super cool.

I was kept occupied throughout the game and I didn't go out of my way to collect things (in fact it's rare for me to find a game in which I do that).

Also, quicktime events "replacing skill" is a little unfair. What skill did they replace, and how did it differ mechanically from a quicktime event?

My muscle memory is astonishingly strong (probably from two decades of classical piano training).

I use this to my advantage with passwords: When I need to generate a new one, I play a "song" into Notepad (or vim as the case may be). Not a known song, but a seemingly random string of glyphs that make sense in my head at the time.

Practicing typing that string forms a powerful association with that account/website and that "song," and my hands remember it for the rest of my life.

The one big drawback to this is that it's nearly impossible for me to enter passwords on my phone without having a keyboard handy and arduously trying to recreate the string. Also, changing a password (not that I usually need to) is a little difficult because I have to retrain myself.

The advantages are: They're not written down anywhere; I don't have to struggle to remember which permutation of some base string I used this time; they don't follow any sort of pattern.

The legal answer to your question is that they reserve the right to refund your ticket at any time up to the point of you actually being in the air. Buying a product at a retailer, where your interaction ends when they hand you a receipt, isn't really the same. The comparison would be better if United had tried to charge consumers after the flight. The real question, if you want to use the Rite-Aid example, is "should the employee be allowed to investigate the $1 price tag upon seeing it rung up," and yes, in my opinion, they absolutely should.

That gets to the moral answer, which I think is what you're really asking, I honestly don't think it's that black and white. From the perspective of a business, there are two phases to this mistake, right? The first is letting them buy a ticket; the second is honoring that ticket. The first part doesn't hurt; the second hurts a lot. If I can catch that mistake before the second phase, why shouldn't I? Maybe I'll lose some customers who are genuinely upset that they couldn't take advantage of a bug in my software, but in the long run, I'm not convinced it's harmful.

Meanwhile, from a consumer standpoint, as someone who has -- many times -- bought things at a premium discount because of a bug in software (preorder costs for video games are especially vulnerable to this), each and every time I make that purchase, I'm willing to accept that if they catch it before they ship it and want to refund me the discounted purchase price, fine. I know I'm exploiting someone's mistake and I feel like that's not completely honest.