Each of these properties may be more or less relevant based on your situation, but taken together, they will help you formulate a vision of how big data could be managed in the long term, in an affordable way.

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You know, based on your reporting of this situation, I can imagine a scenario where people move to these areas in order to get away from those kinds of conversations.

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These activities and processes are informal by design, based on people making the best choices they can, given their situation.

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