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   by b0bd0bbsb0b 5y ago

   >I suspect this is a side effect of Christianity becoming the state religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century. How many more millennial until humanity becomes free of our barbaric abrahamic past?
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   by b0bd0bbsb0b 5y ago

   > They could of already had a buyer setup also that was looking for server equipment for doing nefarious or non nefarious things. Nefarious? Like running Oracle?
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   by b0bd0bbsb0b 5y ago

   Huh? Why would a datacenter ask questions? I've worked in dozens of datacenter and nobody ever asked "hey! Where did you get that?" The E10k was a $1m server. Steal 3 racks of those, sell them to a var for $500k, party.
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   by b0bd0bbsb0b 5y ago

   I remember something similar happening at "AboveSecure", Abovenet's silly "super secure" vaulted datacenter in that downtown San Jose building that used to be the massive sports bar. The thing there was storage tho
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   by b0bd0bbsb0b 5y ago

   Whoever pays the most. At some point most of us get inspired by WuTang and take the "Cash Rules Everything Around Me" mentality. Work is where we trade our bodies and our limited lifespan for money 8-12 hours per day. I personally
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   by b0bd0bbsb0b 5y ago

   About 23(?) years ago, just after the 2(3?) chip factories in Taiwan burned down, there were Vietnamese and Chinese gangs in San Jose / Milpitas robbing stores/warehouses of ram and pentium chips, which were in very high demand.