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I've a special reason to remember Enron and the summers of 2000 and 2001. The mighty Enron was being lauded as a pioneer and an innovator. It was a Wall Street darling. IBM and AOL jumped into bed with Enron to create a new retail energy provider. The sun shone, and Californians had plenty of energy capacity. But behind the …

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  1. anonymous boring coward Silver badge

    This is an 'aha' moment for a lot of people, most importantly, for a lot of regulators and legislators.

    For a lot more people than that, this is not an 'aha' moment. They are simply way to thick for that.

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  2. Ilsa Loving

    History

    Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

    Those who do not history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.

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  3. Gobhicks

    See ...

    ... Who Owns the Future by Jaron Lanier (2013)

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