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		ergo98 on Aug 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mongo DB is web scale I'm not quite following, however the projects I am talking about have pissed away hundreds of millions to over a billion dollars. That is what makes them significant.

artsrc on Aug 28, 2010 [–]

If people did not consider those projects in significant in some way other than costing millions of dollars, they would cancel them.

Being insignificant creates a need of efficiency.

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