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		goldenkey on Jan 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits Greed is anticorrelated with logic as it is usually a vice that causes poor decisions made by overweighing possible gains and minimizing possible losses. It is a non rational mode of human weakness, and can even be correlated with evil ie. Nestle and formula / water fiasco, Microchip companies hushing fab workers with birth abnormalities/ health issues

naveen99 on Jan 30, 2018 [–]

There are greedy algorithms in computing that make sense sometimes.

goldenkey on Jan 30, 2018 | [–]

We are referring to monetary greed here. Depending on what the resource's value is (cheap CPU cycles), yes, greed can make sense.

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