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Re:What you could do if you were Google and had their databases by daenz on Friday March 16, 2012 @05:10PM (#3715305)
This is what our brilliant minds work on, because they're chasing that damn dollar.
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Re:What you could do if you were Google and had their databases by mindslight on Friday March 16, 2012 @05:43PM (#3715451)
You can never fully escape economics, but I think a better way of looking at it is overemphasizing micro-optimization while being stuck in a small local maximum.
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