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    4 months ago

    True but at the dawn of computing we were too naïve. We couldn’t imagine people would record everything.

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        4 months ago

        Yes, absolutely, but we also preserve everything because separating the wheat from the chaff is too much work. For example, most people store all the pictures they take because it’s easier than selecting the ones we might want later. But we kmow some of them are useless.