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Comment · 8 years ago
This quote

"We're feeding it to the public in bite-sized chunks."

from a non-paywalled article

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/dozens-heard-amel...

makes it clear that this story is part of a carefully managed PR campaign. Not that that makes it false. But it means we should treat it with extra skepticism.

Comment · 8 years ago
Does this make these worms the oldest living things?
Comment · 8 years ago
Privacy nightmare perhaps, but actual threat to SV cos, no.
Comment · 8 years ago
Reading this, I was reminded of Hardy's Mathematician's Apology. He mentions several of these points.
Comment · 8 years ago
Though this article sounds plausible, I became more skeptical when I noticed he put the word "facility" in scare quotes.
Comment · 8 years ago
I've worked at home for decades. In the beginning when I had small apartments, I used to put a table with my computer on it inside a closet. I'd open up the closet door, pull up a chair, and voila, office.

In those days, monitors were thick, and the web didn't exist. Now that monitors are thinner and computers have become many people's de facto TVs, there would be less advantage in doing this.

Comment · 8 years ago
Ask them what they would pay for.

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