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		nefitty on Jan 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best... "... ML is at least useful to humanity (sometimes), smartphones and tablets are tangible products, and price fixing can be investigated and punished." I'm amused that you're qualifying the worthiness of a project by its usefulness to humanity. In comparison to PC gaming, to me, revolutionizing the financial world seems a lot more "useful to humanity".

jakebasile on Jan 21, 2018 | [–]

> revolutionizing the financial world seems a lot more "useful to humanity".

1. Citation needed.

2. Revolutions aren't always positive changes.

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