"plain English specifications that can be rewritten in modern code."

So just the easy bit left to :)

Their ability and desire to pay this much shows how much they make from the fees that they charge vendors.

Interchange fees are capped in Europe and yet they are still able to offer service there.

shocked, to find out that an IT project has overrun it's budget.

Please leave a message and your call will be ignored in the order it was received.

They have clearly realized that they will make a lot more money as part of a cable bundle that 10s of millions of people buy (however unwillingly) rather than a stand alone sports package that many fewer would buy.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2F2d2...

"... But then came a too-good-to-be-true subscription deal from MoviePass, a promotion that offered a daily movie for a year for just $94. With ticket prices no longer an issue, I ended up seeing 181 movies — including most of the Oscars contenders. Those movies would have cost me $2,747 without MoviePass. That’s 52 cents per film, a 97 percent discount from $15. The deal was so good that MoviePass no longer offers it..."

I have been using it since it was called Netscape Navigator.

"People willingly wanted to have many children, in spite of all the uncertainties."

People willingly wanted to have many children, because of all the uncertainties. If you had a few kids then hopefully at least one of them would look after you when you can no longer do it yourself.

Oh wait

"Peter Thiel's campaign to bury the media outfit for posting excerpts from a Hulk Hogan sex tape"

That is not the reason he financed the case. Gawker had outed Thiel as gay, which is the reason he wanted revenge. The Hogan sex tape was just the tool for exacting revenge.

In other words the money didn't really affect any of the races. It is just bribes to make sure that the winning candidates stay pro-crypto.

"Nobody under the age of 18 needs to use social media"

In theory this is correct, but if a child's circle of friends communicate a lot on Instagram or other social media site then the child will miss out on a lot of social interaction.

Could you use whatever the proper name of it is rather than just calling it "car thing"?

Quick search

Oh wait, it really is called Car Thing.

"tricked, coerced, and manipulated consumers into subscribing to Amazon Prime"

Isn't tricking, coercing and manipulating just standard salesman tactics.

"I am an absent-minded, introspective engineer who often goes on long walks while cogitating on technical issues.
I have been hit by vehicles in crosswalks three times (so far).
None of those accidents prevented me from reproducing"

It was the absent-minded, introspective engineer bit that prevented it.