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> This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels
by rw 17y ago
> This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change the world.
Try calling it experimentation or play. This dramatic word usage reminds me of how programmers are supposedly "lazy", when we are actually just being efficient by amortizing our development costs.
- edfgtrfgh 17y agoWhen free evening/weekend calls were first introduced there were stories of people using their cell phones as baby monitors - the phone co had to introduce a one hour maximum call length.