• wildginger
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    1 year ago

    That argument is unfair anyway, cause what fits on a hard drive gets bigger every year.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No it’s completely fair because the value of information deflates as we gain better ability to store it! /s

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      And there’s endless examples of a small well ordered thing being far more expensive than essentially the same thing less ordered in bigger volume - a room full of carbon dioxide, a bag of coal, a diamond…