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  • It used to be a lot better. For the SNES they made a collection of all super Mario games (literally all up to that point) as a single game for the SNES “Super Mario All Stars +”.

    I think the biggest issue with the Mario galaxy bundle, is they had released the “3D All stars collection” a couple years back (which got flack for not containing Super Mario Galaxy 2). So if you bought that game, you now have to pay $70 ($100 CAD) just for Galaxy 2 (Making the re-release of the game more expensive than the original).





  • Deflation can be really damaging because it disincentivizes things like investments and longterm projects. Here are a couple of examples:

    • One of the biggest issues with mortgages is if you are under water (can you pay off your debt if you sell the house). With deflation, you could buy a house today and owe more than the house is worth tomorrow.
    • If the total cost to manufacture a car is $X, but by the time I can sell the car the market would only pay $X-50, then I’m actually better off not making the car.

    Essentially, high deflationary pressure causes people to hold their money and not spend it. It’s what happened in Japan around 1990s-2010s resulting in basically negative growth in their economy - Source

    Hyper inflation is a similar issue, but on the other end. The value of money is lost so quickly that things like life savings can become worthless due to money losing its value so rapidly.








  • The article mentions this. They only mention a 77% drop in visits from the UK, but VPNs have seen increased use. So most likely people in the UK are using VPNs to view porn (however, they don’t mention other countries numbers being up or down).

    Additionally, they call out that most likely people are also going to sites not following the law. This has always been a big issue with these laws, in that they push people to more extreme/unregulated sites rather than actually curbing the behavior (which is a problematic goal in the first place).


  • I’m really confused by this one. Usually China seems to take the smart calculated move, but this knee jerk reaction seems to just prove the Dutch made the right move.

    If China feels like it can just cut off these chips whenever they want, then there was a real risk to continuing business as usual.

    While I think the US was overstepping in how it pressured the Dutch, the overall outcome highlights the continued risk of relying on China for these supply chains.

    Additionally Toyota seems the least impacted as they’ve apparently been shifting away from reliance on China for these chips, furthering proving that’s a smart move.