top | item 9564891 (no title) zachalexander | 10 years ago True, but laptops have a fixed price. They aren't worth $0 most of the time and $1B a tiny fraction of the time. discuss order hn newest DannyBee|10 years ago This may in fact, be wrong, if that laptop is the only way to say, stop and outage costing 100 million a minute.It would be worth $0 most of the time, and ~100 million a minute during that outage.(Rather than IP, let's say the laptop's TPM chip is what is necessary to get access to stop the outage, so it's tied to something real) mattmanser|10 years ago No, a laptop is worth what you can sell it for. You're over-thinking this.
DannyBee|10 years ago This may in fact, be wrong, if that laptop is the only way to say, stop and outage costing 100 million a minute.It would be worth $0 most of the time, and ~100 million a minute during that outage.(Rather than IP, let's say the laptop's TPM chip is what is necessary to get access to stop the outage, so it's tied to something real) mattmanser|10 years ago No, a laptop is worth what you can sell it for. You're over-thinking this.
DannyBee|10 years ago
It would be worth $0 most of the time, and ~100 million a minute during that outage.
(Rather than IP, let's say the laptop's TPM chip is what is necessary to get access to stop the outage, so it's tied to something real)
mattmanser|10 years ago