"Free-to-play" does not literally mean "free to play." It means a game that is specifically designed around microtransactions.
"Freemium" used to be used for games where it's free to play but you could buy premium content for cash. Why call the new ones "free-to-play" if you have to add a footnote saying they're not free to play?
that results in a total production of 286 TW, which is 19 times the world's current total energy use
compared to
so this project could supply roughly 7% of the worlds electricity
A pretty significant difference.
The articles about this keep saying that "recent international research has shown there may be a link" without providing the source of that data! I can't find it anywhere, all the studies I can find show no evidence of a link. What the hell are these assholes talking about?! Why don't these journalists think this is an important piece of information to include with their articles?
I don't care if a bunch of nuts half a world away banned wifi for their elementary students. I but do care if they had a good reason to do it!
Someone has falsely claimed that "recent international research has shown there may be a link", the press keep quoting it, and are of course unable to give a source since there is none.
That's outdated, since we don't enforce that policy. As long as the feature is opt in, it is acceptable to introduce it in an update.
I've bought precisely ONE lottery ticket my whole life (knowing statistically that my likelihood of winning is the maximum at that point*).
How do you figure? Each ticket has the same chance of winning, the more you buy the more likely you are to win. But the odds are such that the expected return over the long run is less than what you would pay in.
I find it pretty funny that people who never gamble are completely clueless when it comes to statistics and probabilities, while those who waste loads of money gambling know exactly what they're doing.
The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.