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jrmgtoday at 4:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

You could kind of use that line of thinking to justify spending on anything.


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pfannkuchentoday at 7:37 PM

Only lemming spending. Where the first few lemmings have to justify it some other way.

bluGilltoday at 4:54 PM

There is a fad every few years that uses similar thinking to justify spending. Sometimes they work out sometimes they don't. But they never work out as good as the most optimistic predictions.

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cdud3today at 6:56 PM

Not on anything but on some things like “Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM”