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It's quite amazing that a few hundred ksloc of Javascript gluing together a bunch of npm packages can be valued on the same order of magnitude (in the billions)
by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
It's quite amazing that a few hundred ksloc of Javascript gluing together a bunch of npm packages can be valued on the same order of magnitude (in the billions) as a multi-decade scientific/heavy engineering undertaking.
- bostik 5y agoWith an online business you're not placing the value on the software created, but on the potential to create lasting addiction. The same way when you see news of large drug busts, the numbers floated around are based on how much the confiscated load could fetch on the street (iow. end of the chain, with addicts paying through the nose) - not on how much it cost to manufacture.