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Client < we want to make an rss scraper so we don't have to pay for access to a news ticker api for our historical data so we can get better results by only looking at high quality sources for our market sentiment data!
Me > That isn't how this works, the noise means we only see trends when you have huge amounts of data.
< So can you make the rss scraper? we only need like 10 sources! I want the better results!
> .........
> That isn't how math works.
< But high quality sources! Better results!!

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