We continuously seem to be surprised when things we thought worthless turn out to be invaluable

A few years ago people were surprised when certain domain names turned out to be worth millions, now perhaps some of the shortest or most i18n are worth factors of ten times that amount. Now some are surprised that all of the effort that went into making something like Bitcoin or its descendants and siblings.

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Author: lefttiger

Some people have a mental palace. I have a mental millenium falcon, except it's symetrical along the long axis, as the ship would travel in flight as seen from the top. Thanks, first replyer, for suggesting that I make that clearer. "That always bugged me" would have been the sentence after that but now it looks wrong, coming right after mentioning the first replyer, who I actually do appreciate, as I see what they mean now. Sorry, I used to read Faulkner and other SOC writers. It's a lost art except for some Twitters.

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