bandits

Their life expectancy was short, with risks of starvation, being killed by bandits, being killed as bandits, and so on.

Sun and Oracle were the basis of most of the first Internet boom and both made out like bandits.

We use those technologies to drive production algorithms that incorporate bayesian inference, multi-armed bandits, matrix factorization, and collaborative filtering.

That and the fact that, for the most part, government/bandits don't take the money you get for creating wealth.

PS: Consider rather than a ticket scalper you had a group of bandits charging a toll to cross a bridge.

The foreigners install themselves as competent stationary bandits and the country at least enjoys some stability and rule of law.

Maybe it you stopped worshipping bandits who bully the world into crappy software, you'd give yourself a chance at doing something remarkable.

Conspiracy theories thrive because people just can't believe that morally-grey area people seem to keep making out like bandits from bad situations.

Anyone with any intelligence of the Internet/Web knows online bandits are already having a field day with government data and public information online.

Pirates were vicious high seas bandits: they robbed, kidnapped, raped and murdered.

Never played it) does auto groups where if you jump in and help someone kill those 20 bandits, you get credit toward your quest for that.

I guess in the real world, the Bandits end up winning after all.

All that is not to say that there wouldn't be "bandits", and that it wouldn't be necessary to defend the "good guys." But the fundamental attitude seems wrong to me.

>"NPR is such a tamed softball throwing limpdick entity I consider them almost as bad as CNN" I used to have rather high regard for NPR until, and I don't know if this has just changed or I just started realizing that NPR has significant backers that are not only Republican and Conservative in spirit, but also beltway bandits, big recipients of government contracts.