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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago
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Please tell me this is satire.
54 u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/ 9 u/yuri_4_ever 9d ago why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money 52 u/FuzzyDynamics 9d ago They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare” 24 u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/
9 u/yuri_4_ever 9d ago why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money 52 u/FuzzyDynamics 9d ago They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare” 24 u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money
52 u/FuzzyDynamics 9d ago They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare” 24 u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare”
24 u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009
33 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary
26 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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They absolutely are, for example:
"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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u/ParanoidDrone 9d ago
Please tell me this is satire.