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by leterter 4523 days ago
The American Dream is dead.
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JonFish85 4523 days ago
I appreciate the irony of saying such a thing here, a message-board set up around the idea that a person with only an idea can change the world.
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eli_gottlieb 4522 days ago
If by "change the world" you mean "raise lots of VC money for selling a small piece of software to people's smartphones or hosting an ad-supported web application on a bank of servers", then yes.
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jackgavigan 4522 days ago
> ..or hosting an ad-supported web application on a bank of servers"...

"On a bank of servers"? Surely you meant to say "in the Cloud"?

What is this, 1999? ;-)

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