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>>> The US intelligence community actually keeps a clone of Stack Overflow

I feel this is a prudent idea. Not necessarily for a full blown start-up, but a community-funded resource. If you stripped out all the extras. And just cloned the questions and top 2 answers. The text based data set itself is very managable. Several gigabytes in scale. Not to mention its applicability for ML/NLP/codegen research ;)

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Maybe you can use their dataset, https://www.kaggle.com/stackoverflow/stackoverflow

Source is here, https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

I think what the poster means is more than just unpacking the dataset. So the project should update itself every 12 hours, and has the capability of searching the information (using local database).

> the capability of searching the information

Not something SO is known for. Thus, it would be pure improvement over the status quo.

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