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Re:Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? (2016) by Retra on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:46AM (#20030617)
The rationality of hoarding makes more sense if you have 'warehousing' capabilities. Not so much if you're just piling things up haphazardly. (And those capabilities have costs associated with them.)
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Re:Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? (2016) by darkpuma on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:29PM (#20034066)
> "The rationality of hoarding makes more sense if you have 'warehousing' capabilities"

Or if you believe you could/will organize the data in the future, perhaps with an unrealistic expectation that doing so will become cheaper in the future.

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