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Footnote: During a tech bubble you don't need to make sure that whatever you're selling "is working", you just need a minimum viable demo and a herd of panicking investors afraid of losing out. It was
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@cstross@wandering.shop I was around and very involved in '98-'01. This is way, way fucking worse. Dot-bomb, they wanted at least a business plan and something resembling an idea of a viable business.
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos Oh hell yes. In 2001 at least I walked away with a couple of Aerons, dirt-cheap on eBay from failed dot coms. (And I got a novel out of my experiences.) This is just vapourware.
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Someone who owns exactly zero normal cars. No, the Porsche isn't normal either. All toots are mine and do not represent and are not the business (and definitely not the property) of any employer past, present, or future. Any and all scraping, attempted data collection, or any other type of monitoring either by way of purchase or for resale has no lawful purpose. By attempting to do so you both agree and state that your purpose for such is unlawful and discriminatory.
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@cstross@wandering.shop if we're being wholly honest about it?
It's not even the cryptobubble on steroids; this is the direct consequence and continuation of the ponzi. Which NV demonstrably and factually propped up with accounting fraud.
It's the same 'product' driving it.
It's the same people.
Except they figured out how to steal even more money, and to get governments to bail them out when it pops.
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