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8 months agoMawp
Mawp
I was looking for this comment just to post:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. –Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
Asimov has a short story I just read while backpacking in the mountains this past weekend. It’s about humanity attempting to reverse entropy. The Last Question is probably my favorite short story ever.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-backs-tenants-price-fixing-case-big-landlords-real-estate-tech
Turns out the large property management companies have been colluding on this for years, skirting the law because “it’s an algorithm bruh”