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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by techbio on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:32PM (#28042244)
This is the definition of value I am familiar with--whatever the buyer will pay.

I am unsure what colloquial definition GP refers to as the counterpoint. Surely you aren't both suggesting sense and dollars are non-overlapping?

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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by wombatmobile on Monday August 02, 2021 @11:03PM (#28045286)
> Surely you aren't both suggesting sense and dollars are non-overlapping?

The difference is the perspective of time.

A quick buck versus a strategic investment.

e.g. What made sense to Page and Brin in 1998 - the algorithm that would become famous as Page Rank, had only a trivial market value at the time, whilst Yahoo was "worth" billions.

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