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Re:Google's software mistreats or harms the user by shrimp_emoji on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:28PM (#20750978)
Unquantifiable externalities.

At the end of the day, serverside autocomplete is useful, and coal is cheap!

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Re:Google's software mistreats or harms the user by ariwilson on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:57PM (#20751341)
My thermometer is a pretty clear indicator of a quantifiable externality of coal.
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Re:Google's software mistreats or harms the user by greyhair on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:31AM (#20757553)
Your thermometer is only a good indicator if it provides a comparison of the current temperature to the average temperature for that moment plus windowed samples over the last one hundred years. Otherwise, it just tells you the current temperature. </s>
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