The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

[Kilemall]

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. It’s quite simple.

I loved how first do no evil got road killed the moment they needed to monetize.

[tigger]

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. It’s quite simple.

I loved how first do no evil got road killed the moment they needed to monetize.

Look, this is nitpicking but it’s not technically true. Google has a brilliant business in that the better search results it serves, the more users come, the better ads it can serve. And in Eric’s time, (2001-2011) this was indeed so, and the scale of growth was massive, so there were no pressures to make it not be so, and there were practically no efforts to do quality-vs-ads trade-offs or other bets.

[tigger]

I’m not saying he’s not a jerk, just that you cannot blame circa 2019- moral decline of Google on him.

[Kilemall]

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

[tigger]

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

OK, I thought for a second we were discussing real world, not imaginary stuff. Carry on.

[Kilemall]

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

OK, I thought for a second we were discussing real world, not imaginary stuff. Carry on.

Uh huh.

[Gustaf]

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

[oyaji]

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

harvested data early on without consent

when you harvest something from someone else without consent, that would be like me bringing my combine harvester over to your field and taking your crop while you weren’t home.

there are words for that, aren’t there? i think it is called “stealing”. or how about “theft”?

[Kilemall]

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

harvested data early on without consent

when you harvest something from someone else without consent, that would be like me bringing my combine harvester over to your field and taking your crop while you weren’t home.

there are words for that, aren’t there? i think it is called “stealing”. or how about “theft”?

I’m told that’s imaginary. Billions in sales says otherwise.

[Kilemall]

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

[Blanks]

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives

[Kilemall]

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives

Trains…… go on tracks…. you look both ways before crossing…. it ain’t hard to avoid them.

[Lob12]

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives

Trains…… go on tracks…. you look both ways before crossing…. it ain’t hard to avoid them.

Evil cannot be avoided. It must be defeated.

[Gustaf]

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives

Trains…… go on tracks…. you look both ways before crossing…. it ain’t hard to avoid them.

Evil cannot be avoided. It must be defeated.

Trains go on tracks, it shouldn’t be that hard for them to not fall off the tracks and blow up.

[Kilemall]

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives

Trains…… go on tracks…. you look both ways before crossing…. it ain’t hard to avoid them.

Evil cannot be avoided. It must be defeated.

Those guys were losers. And looks like the shipper didn’t disclose the volatility.

Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway - Wikipedia

[Gators1]

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

[oyaji]

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

the shipper didn’t disclose the volatility.

oh, c’mon now, don’t tell us that you aver that is the reason the train left the track?

[Lob12]

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

It’s basically like Al-Qaeda pointing to the Islamic State and saying “Look, they’re bigger assholes than us!”

[Gustaf]

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

It’s basically like Al-Qaeda pointing to the Islamic State and saying “Look, they’re bigger assholes than us!”

Except AQ’s not as bad as Big Rail

[Lob12]

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

How do you differentiate these “losers” from the rest of big rail? All the same to me.

It’s basically like Al-Qaeda pointing to the Islamic State and saying “Look, they’re bigger assholes than us!”

Except AQ’s not as bad as Big Rail

Obviously, but my point was just that they’re all terrorists in the end.