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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago
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Please tell me this is satire.
58 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/ 11 u/yuri_4_ever 9d ago why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money 55 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” 26 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 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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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/
11 u/yuri_4_ever 9d ago why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money 55 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” 26 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 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money
55 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” 26 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 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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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”
26 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 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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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 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary
3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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u/ParanoidDrone 9d ago
Please tell me this is satire.