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Spamming & scamming must be highly lucrative, or there would not be so many people employed thereto... I wonder if it is possible to estimate the industry size from the number of daily calls one gets (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

One reason I love Cryptonomicon is how it describes the way our whole world is built from WWII lessons.

One of them being that yes, you can't learn contact potential from contact surface. This is also true for "in the open" scams like the whole Silicon Valley.