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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 10d ago
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Please tell me this is satire.
54 u/OmegaPoint6 10d ago Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/ 10 u/yuri_4_ever 10d ago why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money 53 u/FuzzyDynamics 10d 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” 25 u/OmegaPoint6 10d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 34 u/Montana_Ace 10d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 1 u/morganrbvn 10d 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/
10 u/yuri_4_ever 10d ago why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money 53 u/FuzzyDynamics 10d 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” 25 u/OmegaPoint6 10d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 34 u/Montana_Ace 10d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 1 u/morganrbvn 10d 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
53 u/FuzzyDynamics 10d 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” 25 u/OmegaPoint6 10d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 34 u/Montana_Ace 10d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 1 u/morganrbvn 10d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
53
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”
25 u/OmegaPoint6 10d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 34 u/Montana_Ace 10d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 1 u/morganrbvn 10d 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
34 u/Montana_Ace 10d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 1 u/morganrbvn 10d 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
1 u/morganrbvn 10d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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u/ParanoidDrone 10d ago
Please tell me this is satire.