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At least 500 years old. Everybody else is just too damn infantile and stupid.

Money

Years ago you needed to send them a check every month. You also mostly got paid with a monthly check.

For some (historic) reason bank transfers are very underutilized in America. I think it gets better though? I don't know am not 'murican.

Yep. That's why I stopped distro hopping years ago.

Once set-up it just works™.

The "this would never happen to me" mindset really is cancer to logical thought and reasoning.

I somewhere read (maybe it was thinking fast and slow by Kahneman?) that even psychology students learning about certain behaviors would later anonymously claim they would never fall into these patterns. But plot twist: they are also only human, so of course they also could fall into these patterns.

Another example: People that think they would never fall for a scam. If it is the right scam they will fall even more easily for it than people that know that it could happen.

"Of course it can't be a scam. Scams are obvious and only idiots fall for them."

I needed to scroll way too much to see people mention marketing and advertising. It's a huge deal.

The power of good advertising is not to be underestimated. There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it. And it's not only traditional advertising but viral and "astroturfed" advertising.

Not surprising. The Netherlands has way more money per square meter.

You only need to ask yourself why the PSU manufacturer would bother including the second connector on the same cable if it wasn't ok to use it.

If you use a third party extension/splitter that would be another story but it doesn't look that way in the diagram.

Only if you buy a shitty PSU. Quality ones have lots of protection circuits so worst case the PC would randomly shut down in high load situations.

Even then if the manufacturer put two connectors on the end of the cable they made sure to put large enough conductors to handle at least the max load of the connectors specifications. Again if it's not a shitty no name brand. Probably with a good safety factor as well.

It's not like 300-400W is that much energy in the grand scheme of things, so thicker wires wouldn't even be expensive.

In my case that would mean that over 70% would be in the DMZ... It would be the main network

Yup it is contrary to normal economic principles, read up on luxury goods and in particular veblen goods and how price finding works there.

In the end humans are not at all times rational. There is no homo economicus. Economics is as much math as it is a social study.

I once moved ~5TB of research data over the internet. It took days and unfortunately it also turned out that the data was junk :/