not super critical but is there a terraform provider for proxmox? I looked at proxmox a while back when building my home server but went with esxi free because of the community provider - https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi
Took it as referring to the text box that appears at the top of the item page on the site that says something like "you purchased this item on <date>."
Part of the reason this hobby continues to exist (and remain so lucrative for some participants) is because they are such a small segment of the total passenger miles traveled. If we had some numbers I think it would dramatically weaken this particular argument. Also in general the airlines' primary justification for giving away seats as awards is that they predict those seats will go unsold.
I'd be surprised if there are more than a thousand or so people who game the FF programs to this degree. And the number who do so to the degree of Lucky (subject of the article) is probably in the single digits.
That said, I don't think Lucky even comes close to the amount of flying Tom Struker does, United's only 10 million mile member.
In a platform race, in a business where multi-year contracts are typical, and platform lock-in is strong, there is an argument to be made that the first device someone purchases is most important.
What do you mean? Most important in what way? The Samsung Instinct was a failure for Samsung. They did not sell way, the grandparents' friend was one of the few that got one (and like most people, he didn't like it). If that's not the market working, I don't know what is.
