Comment on One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion

Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this the wikipedia-argument back at him? The whole twitter post history could fit on a single hard drive, so why are people paying for it?

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  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That argument is unfair anyway, cause what fits on a hard drive gets bigger every year.

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    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No it’s completely fair because the value of information deflates as we gain better ability to store it! /s

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    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And there’s endless examples of a small well ordered thing being far more expensive than essentially the same thing less ordered in bigger volume - a room full of carbon dioxide, a bag of coal, a diamond…

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• ChrisLicht@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Considering that almost every public lib continues to use it, there is something to it, even if only the network advantage.

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• Snonky@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And a lot of consumers on it

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