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>repo industry

When I saw the title, first think to cross my mind was "what the hell does GitHub have to gain from it?"



Correlate an account with a license plate, and now you can have not only an approximate dataset of where people tend to be while commits were made (which you can get with far less precision from IPs), but a decent idea if that location is their home, a business (locating new stealth-startups and identifying their employees by finding new clusterings of people making personal commits during lunchbreaks in a new office?), etc.




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