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  2. Friendster - Wikipedia

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    Friendster was a social networking service originally based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. [2] [3] Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. [4]

  3. Monopoly (game) - Wikipedia

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    20 $500 bills (orange) 20 $100 bills (beige) 30 $50 bills (blue) 50 $20 bills (green) 40 $10 bills (yellow) 40 $5 bills (pink) 40 $1 bills (white) Newer (September 2008 and later) U.S. editions provide a total of $20,580—30 of each denomination instead. The colors of some of the bills are also changed: $10s are now blue instead of yellow ...

  4. Strategy (game theory) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, strictly speaking in the Ultimatum game a player can have strategies such as: Reject offers of ($1, $3, $5, ..., $19), accept offers of ($0, $2, $4, ..., $20). Including all such strategies makes for a very large strategy space and a somewhat difficult problem. A game theorist might instead believe they can limit the strategy set ...

  5. Slot machine - Wikipedia

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    More than likely the player began the game with at least 80 times his bet (for instance there are 80 quarters in $20). In contrast the 150:1 payout occurs only on average of once every 6,241 plays. The highest payout of 2,400:1 occurs only on average of once every 64 3 = 262,144 plays since the machine has 64 virtual stops. The player who ...

  6. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The scammer begins with a large pool of marks, numbering ideally a power of two such as 1024 (2 10). The scammer divides the pool into two halves, and sends all the members of each half a prediction about the future outcome of an event with a binary outcome (such as a stock price rising or falling, or the win/loss outcome of a sporting event).

  7. Backstabbing for Beginners - Wikipedia

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    Backstabbing for Beginners is a 2018 political thriller film directed and co-written by Per Fly, and based on the memoirs of Michael Soussan. [2] It follows the real life corruption scandal in the UN Oil-for-Food Programme , and stars Theo James and Ben Kingsley .

  8. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook is developed as one monolithic application. According to an interview in 2012 with Facebook build engineer Chuck Rossi, Facebook compiles into a 1.5 GB binary blob which is then distributed to the servers using a custom BitTorrent-based release system. Rossi stated that it takes about 15 minutes to build and 15 minutes to release to ...

  9. Food loss and waste - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, an FAO publication based on studies carried out by The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK) found that the total of global amount of food loss and waste was around one third of the edible parts of food produced for human consumption, amounting to about 1.3 billion tonnes (1.28 × 10 9 long tons; 1.43 × 10 9 short tons ...