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		Ekaros on March 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Look at the Slow, Silent Death of America’s Midd... The whole adtech making as money as it makes is just insane when you think about it... How come advertising makes so much money? I understand Amazon and Microsoft or even Netflix. They provide services or massive logistics or just software. But Google and Facebook and so on is just strange, do they really add so much value to world?

iancmceachern on March 4, 2022 [–]

Indeed. And the relative code base size of Google relative to say, the f35, space shuttle, OSs, etc is staggering. What does all that code do?

Source: https://medium.com/free-code-camp/the-biggest-codebases-in-h...

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