Quote of the Day: Capitalism Red in Tooth and Claw

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| Thu Feb. 7, 2013 9:40 AM PST

From Stuart Staniford:

This is capitalism doing what it does best: brutal competition to get more and more efficient, the weakest going to the wall, and a critically important technology becoming cheaper and cheaper.

Click the link to see what technology he's talking about.

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