I read this story in an anthology several years ago I think it was either a robot anthology or a salesman is sci-fi/fantasy anthology   A man is teleported (I think) to a planet to explore it for a company, he is happy because the pay is really good but then he realizes that the company has the sole monopoly on resupplying him and they charge exorbitant fees for even the smallest things (I think razor blades are mentioned somewhere)  A robot appears from somewhere and starts trying to sell him stuff thats better than the company provides and at cheaper prices the company is understandably upset about this and threaten him with breach of contract  thats pretty much all I got
Science fiction story where a colonist is sent by a company to colonize a planet and there a robot tries to sell him a depilating liquid by pulling a gun on him. The company who sponsored his trip to the new planet is extorting him by charging him exorbitant rates for anything they declare is not considered by them as bare necessities. The robot and man collaborate to get from the company the fair deal he deserves.
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Why does a light object appear lighter in your peripheral vision when it's dark? So, I am not sure I can reproduce it via images, but the steps are:  1) At night, open a window and have a look at the surface of the earth  2) Suppose there's an object that reflects a tiny amount of light  3) When you actually try to focus your eyes at this object, you either don't see anything (depends on the amount of light it reflects) or you can hardly see it  4) When you focus your eyes on something that is 3-10 metres away, you can easily see this object with your ambient vision. Not the details, but it seems that it reflects more light.   Why does it happen? How to enable default file manager(nautilus) to handle desktop icons How can I capture text from a specific terminal and redirect it to a log file while simultaneously working? Why is this sequence of equicontinuous functions uniformly bounded? Let $\left\{f_{n}\right\}$ be a sequence of equicontinuous functions where $f_n: [0,1] \rightarrow \mathbf{R}$.  If $\{f_n(0)\}$ is bounded, why is $\left\{f_{n}\right\}$ uniformly bounded?