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Oct 27, 2010

shovelbum posted:

Why are we assuming tech is a bubble again

lots of absurd valuations. companies and investors paying far more than things are actually worth, particularly in the case of companies which have never made a profit and don't have any plan to ever make a profit. the fact that pretty much every big tech IPO in the last few years started off significantly overvalued

investors don't have any idea how to tell the next Amazon.com from the next Pets.com, and they don't have anywhere better to put their enormous piles of money anyway, so they leave regular due diligence by the wayside and just randomly shovel money around

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Oct 27, 2010

KaptainKrunk posted:

techno-utopians really are dumber than lieberals aren't they?

it's basically religion

confronted with the awful mess we've made if everything and the essentially nonexistent chance that we'll fix any of it before it's too late, some people find it comforting to pray that we'll invent a perfect machine god that will make everything better

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Oct 27, 2010

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

here's the full thing in case someone hasn't seen it yet

thanks for reminding me that there is still good in this world

i miss LF, C-SPAM just isn't the same

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