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A comment on Amazon’s plan for Alexa. Parent comment

Re:Amazon’s plan for Alexa by puranjay on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:08PM (#21502070)
But this has always happened in politics. CA just optimized it
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Re:Amazon’s plan for Alexa by virgilp on Monday November 11, 2019 @01:04AM (#21502545)
-people always travelled, automobile just optimized it -people always produced goods, factories just optimized it -people always used weapons, nuclear energy just optimized them

... never underestimate the impact of “just optimizing” something

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