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> What books you bought on Amazon is stored in an Oracle database.

Not anymore.

There seems to be more and more articles and videos by Noam Chomsky and such about how so much of Silicon Valley was subsidized by the government. Not good or bad, but true. Which is interesting if you then move it out to current tech. So was Facebook and Twitter made by the government and then handed to Zuckerberg and Dorsey.

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I disagree the govt handed Zuck or Dorsey anything outside of funds through cut outs. The US govt, I hate to say, is so slow and full of incompetence they couldn't put together a Facebook or Twitter.

What I do think is the intelligence agencies are smart enough to see the collection of data and want in on it. So they likely funnel money through third parties and maybe push ideas through contacts to startups. Then later they come in and use the legal system, FISA and good ole hacking to take what they want.

Yes definitely a lot more goes on in the shadows of private equity than businessmen calculating capital efficiency. Anyone who thinks any measure of power goes unused in society is either naive or hiding something.

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