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Buttons840yesterday at 10:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Hugely profitable companies leak half the nation's personal data every month. Tell me more about how being wrong at scale is not valuable.


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fwlrtoday at 2:47 AM

So what if it is more profitable or valuable? It is still not better. Something being more profitable/valuable does not make it better, just like something being better does not make it more profitable/valuable. Sometimes, in some pursuits, for some outputs under some circumstances, the two are correlated. In others, the two are anti-correlated.