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by d0gsg0w00f 595 days ago
I think the difference is that technical and business leadership at a bank understand that data is lifeblood. Bad data will get you on the front page of WSJ and a phone call from a regulator in Luxembourg.

For a lot of smaller Internet companies, data is just a fluffer. The real business is in image and which VC bbq you get invited to.

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Can you define fluffer as you use it here, and maybe mention where you picked it up? I haven't heard it used much outside of a specific and very notorious Sankey diagram.
girls in porn who blow the guys so they stay hard while they film.

i think