TANSTAAFL - ορισμός. Τι είναι το TANSTAAFL
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Τι (ποιος) είναι TANSTAAFL - ορισμός

POPULAR ADAGE COMMUNICATING THE IDEA THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
TINSTAAFL; There is no such thing as a free lunch; No free lunch; Tanstaafl; TNSTAAFL; There's no such thing as a free lunch; Tanstafl; TASTAAFL; There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch; There Ain'T No Such Thing As a Free Lunch; TANSTAAFL; Taanstafl; There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch; There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch; TNSTAFL; TANSTAFL; TINSTAFL
  • TANSTAAFL: a plan for a new economic world order. (Pierre Dos Utt, 1949)

TANSTAAFL         
/tan'stah-fl/ (From Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups. "What? Don't tell me I have to implement a database back end to get my address book program to work!" "Well, TANSTAAFL you know." This phrase owes some of its popularity to the high concentration of science-fiction fans and political libertarians in hackerdom. [Jargon File] (1995-02-28)
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There Ain#&39;t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (Reference: telecommunication-slang, Usenet)
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Old saying, but Tanstaafl as a word was popularized by the book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.
A. Hey, let's go into that bar - they give away free drinks.
B. Tanstaafl, my friend ... What? The food pays for the drinks. If the drinks weren't free, the food would cost half as much. No matter what, someone, somewhere pays.

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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" (alternatively, "There is no such thing as a free lunch" or other variants) is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing. The acronyms TANSTAAFL, TINSTAAFL, and TNSTAAFL are also used. The phrase was in use by the 1930s, but its first appearance is unknown. The "free lunch" in the saying refers to the formerly common practice in American bars of offering a "free lunch" in order to entice drinking customers.

The phrase and the acronym are central to Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 science-fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which helped popularize it. The free-market economist Milton Friedman also increased its exposure and use, by paraphrasing it as the title of a 1975 book, and it is used in economics literature to describe opportunity cost. Campbell McConnell writes that the idea is "at the core of economics".