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Who's buying dragon dildos on Amazon? Well ... I just searched and it seems they are available there. I did not know that. The real question is why is an ex-
by tenebrisalietum 6y ago
Who's buying dragon dildos on Amazon?
Well ... I just searched and it seems they are available there. I did not know that.
The real question is why is an ex-NSA agent working at a place that sells dragon dildos?
In all seriousness though, if Amazon can predict what consumers want, they will make more sales. An ex-NSA should have at least some experience in analyzing behavioral data and predicting what large numbers of people do.
- totetsu 6y agoMaybe we'll learn to like them watching us buy them..
- feanaro 6y agoIn my opinion, it's highly unlikely the ex NSA chief has any kind of worthwhile expertise in "predicting what large numbers of people do". He's a director, not some kind of universal expert or superhero.
- imglorp 6y agoNo, no, no this is not about selling junk to people. If you thought selling cheap junk to people was profitable, wait until you see what selling mass surveillance to the government pays. Everyone that said, it's an Orwell problem to have pervasive "assistant" devices was right. Look how many billions NSA poured into scanning and indexing everyone's mails and calls in Utah. Now you have OP and a few days ago Amazon PR objected calling Echo a "microphone": all these dumbasses paid for these things and now it's really here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418854 We already know Eric Schmidt's Google is tight with the government, and look, they make home assistants also. https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/ https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close... https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/