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Re:A long expected update (probablistic programming langauge... by jcadam on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @10:21PM (#33811933)
> "I'm old enough to have read Snow Crash the week it came out and IT WAS A DYSTOPIA, why are we building it?"

But at least it was a dystopia where pizza delivery was an exciting business.

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Re:A long expected update (probablistic programming langauge... by webmaven on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:40AM (#33814597)
> But at least it was a dystopia where pizza delivery was an exciting business.

It wasn't an exciting business.

Pizza delivery was an exciting job (in all the worst ways a job can be exciting, or, TBH, just stressful), but the business part of it was quite boring. The corporate takeover denouement was perhaps the most boring scene in the book, and barely justified the "Chekhov's Guns" that were required to give a baddie a single "oh shit" moment with no payoff.

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