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You'd have thought the same about all the big tech companies when they were startups. Yet now they're making piles of money and contributing to America's overall economic success.


Back then the landscape was a different one.

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon all were founded years or decades before Git was created and money had a different value back then. (Inflation)

For every unicorn there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands dead horses...


> For every unicorn there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands dead horses...

Nicely put!


And it was 100% natural (un)intelligence. No "AI" involved! :)

So thanks, I take this compliment. You just made my day!


There are dead horses and unicorns, which turns out to be better than just living horses and no unicorns like Ukraine and Europe are more like.




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