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Could you state explicitly what conclusion you think mathbabe draws, the one you're not sure follows?

• AnthonyMouse 14y ago
  It's this that I don't really agree with: >The Goldman Sachs’s of the world will always know how to make use of “freely available to everyone” data before the average guy. Because the Goldman Sachs's of the world have the data. They buy it from proprietary databases or hire underlings to look it up in dead tree format in the government records office behind three filing fees and six miles of red tape. If there is a buck to be made doing stuff like that, you will find the financiers making that buck. Putting the data online may help them a little, because maybe now some things that weren't cost effective become cost effective, or the money they once paid to clerks and bureaucracies can now go to marble and champagne. But it helps other people more, because even though it doesn't make the playing field totally flat, it makes it more level than it was before.