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  2. RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    [146] [147] On 6 June 2016, Jagex created two unique and isolated game servers (worlds 111 for RS3 and 666 for OSRS, commemorating 6/6/06) [148] [149] wherein PvP was enabled and players could attack an NPC named after "Durial321", one of the more well known players to have been affected by the bug. [150]

  3. Dishonoured cheque - Wikipedia

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    In England and Wales, the use of the endorsement "refer to drawer" has become standard after a bank was successfully sued for libel after returning a cheque incorrectly endorsed "insufficient funds"; the court ruled that, as there were sufficient funds, the statement was demonstrably false and damaging to the reputation of the person issuing ...

  4. Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Wikipedia

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    ISBN 978-1-4000-6997-2. Expanded 2nd ed, 2016 ISBN 978-0812982404. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. New York: Random House. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-6782-4. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. New York: Random House. 2018. ISBN 978-0-4252-8462-9. (This book was not published with the original bundling of the Incerto ...

  5. Potion - Wikipedia

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    A bottle of colored liquid labelled as a love potion A collection of vials labelled as potions. A potion is a liquid "that contains medicine, poison, or something that is supposed to have magic powers." [1] It derives from the Latin word potio which refers to a drink or the act of drinking. [2]

  6. Loss aversion - Wikipedia

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    A loss of $0.05 is perceived as having a greater utility loss than the utility increase of a comparable gain. In cognitive science and behavioral economics , loss aversion refers to a cognitive bias in which the same situation is perceived as worse if it is framed as a loss, rather than a gain.

  7. Abatement (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    The old coat of arms of the Portuguese town of Castelo Rodrigo, consisting of the coat of arms of Portugal inverted for the town's treachery in the 1383–1385 Crisis. An abatement (or rebatement) is a modification of a coat of arms, representing a less-than honorable augmentation, [1] [2] imposed by an heraldic authority (such as the Court of Chivalry in England) or by royal decree for ...

  8. Information Age - Wikipedia

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    The “Web 1.0 era” ended in 2005, coinciding with the development of further advanced technologies during the start of the 21st century. [35] The first public digital HDTV broadcast was of the 1990 World Cup that June; it was played in 10 theaters in Spain and Italy. However, HDTV did not become a standard until the mid-2000s outside Japan.

  9. Dishonesty - Wikipedia

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    Dishonesty has had a number of definitions. For many years, there were two views of what constituted dishonesty in English law.The first contention was that the definitions of dishonesty (such as those within the Theft Act 1968) described a course of action, whereas the second contention was that the definition described a state of mind.