forgetting

True, i guess the author is thinking of over saturating a link and forgetting there are a class of problems that are fine with packet loss.

You are also forgetting that GPUs also have a ~100W+ CPU sitting next to it, which brings down total efficiency significantly.

In my math classes, if I found myself forgetting the formulas, I found it useful to stop and think about what the formula is trying to accomplish, and re-derive it from scratch.

You are forgetting what people had to cope with before.

You're forgetting about Google's huge display advertising network.

Capcom 3 (and possibly others that I'm forgetting).

In general, I think most of the 'Facebook/Google have secretly stolen my personal data with intrusive sureveillance' anecdotes really are the result of someone clicking 'yes', 'yes', 'of course' without thinking when they first signed up, and giving access to their email addresss book or similar, then forgetting about it.

I interpreted "doing something silly" as "firing up 10,000 instances and forgetting to shut them back down", rather than fraud.