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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by pure-awesome on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:24AM (#22064762)
My goodness, would you look at that! Luckily the paperback is only 1% the price, so solid deal there!

I thought it's a data entry error, but no, it looks like that's the legitimate price range for the NEW hardcovers (the actual listed ones are even more!):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0007JVUSK/ref=dp_ol...

It's either a ripoff, or some sort of collector's edition original versions. Though if it were the latter, I'd have expected it to be advertised as such.

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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by ComputerGuru on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:25AM (#22066011)
They’re priced by different algorithms that “outbid” each other.
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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by pure-awesome on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:06AM (#22072518)
Do they start them at $1'000 and let them bid down from there?
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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by SQueeeeeL on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:05PM (#22077329)
This isn't exactly related, but it's one of my favorite blog posts.

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

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Re:An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t h... by ComputerGuru on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:11AM (#22082901)
One of the algorithms could be capped at $1000 for their inventory.
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