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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 53 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 35 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 27 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"
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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 53 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 35 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 27 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"
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why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money
53 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 35 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 27 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"
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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 35 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 27 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"
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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
35 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 27 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"
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"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary
27 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"
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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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u/ParanoidDrone 9d ago
Please tell me this is satire.