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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania “A fool and his money…”


If you were gambling on tulip futures in taverns, you knew exactly what you were doing.


“Paranoid and jaded” is reading as “not stupid” to me here.


Nintendo sells tools, Sony and Microsoft offer a network of repairmen who will come to your house for a scheduled visit. Yes, they’re both very similar as to what is accomplished by the end of the process, but one of them is satisfied to sell you a tool whereas the other wants the tool to be part of other things… not hard to see why most people who want a tool don’t use their service when they don’t want a service at all.


It’s… just text on a page. Weird.


That is the reference password, yes. What is the secret password?


It's a secret, but I'll tell you if you keep it between the two of us. The secret password is "Leonore" without quotes - so don't do any air quotes when you offer the secret password for most illustrious entrances.


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