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68JQ TIL two men were brought up on federal hacking charges when they exploited a bug in video poker machines and won half a million dollars. His lawyer argued, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” The case was dismissed.
J1d5v TIL there was a moratorium on the establishment of new US MD-granting institutions from 1980 to 2005, which artificially suppressed the supply of doctors. We're still playing catch-up.
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WVjL TIL Voyager I and II are currently in the Heliosheath, nearly 19 billion miles away. They could possibly prove to be the most valuable thing humans have ever done…