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What a waste of electricity

• thrownaway122 11y ago
  At some point humanity will have to face the question. "Is it worth storing so many cat pictures and selfies?"
• pbhjpbhj 11y ago
  I wonder - looking at the data they have now - how much of the data stored has never been used by ordinary users. There's got to be a lot of cruft that could be trimmed. In the past people would keep letters they felt were important. Now, with the network it's hard to tell what's important, a user might prune items that other users want to keep or might prune items that later become more important. Is there really enough value in keeping everything. I'm a consumate hoarder, I've got 2 decades of emails saved (but not all emails!) ... even I think perhaps we've gone over the top. Perhaps it's good for social history. Or maybe in the future for a Black Mirror like reconstruction of people's personalities in an AI. Doesn't there need to be limits on what we keep? [Meta: the parents is a valid remark and one that I feel adds to the complexion of the scenario under consideration; perhaps it could have been made better, fleshed out, but still. Wish HN - as a population - would value those that add to the conversation in this way.]