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I don’t know anything about their actions surrounding the pull out from Seattle, and that’s what a court would look at. It does seem reasonable that if one were pulling out of a region and they had gps coordinates of all their assets, they would quickly collect them all. If they didn’t do that, that’s probably a strong argument that they were abandoned. If they are in the process of doing that and it’s only been a short period of time since they announced, that’s a strong argument that they’re not abandoned.

Really context pointing toward intent is king here.

Legally, abandoned property (at least at common law, not sure about Washington state) is up for grabs. Claiming abandoned property is not looting and not only is there nothing wrong with it ethically or legally, it’s probably for the best that it is out to reasonable use.

I would not like that, but also understand how purchased real property, which has a long history dating thousands of years and a whole legal system and framework on point getting into even minutiae (Rule Against Perpetuities anyone?) is different than squatting on a generic username on someone’s new tech platform for free.

In the former case, I would usually have legal recourse, unless this is a dystopian future where Twitter can leverage eminent domain.

It’s a bad comparison.

I do think this is philosophically unjust, but in no way should anyone have built any brand on Twitter, particularly a generic like “music”, and not expected something like this would happen. Twitter in particular has a long and storied history of this sort of thing.

I think the move should have been, if one were going to start on Twitter, to slowly funnel the largest possible portion of their 11M followers to their own external site, or collaborated with I don’t know Spotify to funnel people there for cash.

There are multiple apps for this? Seems like PBS KIDS should own the authoritative one, and the licensing.

They have removed them…by banning them.

They’re not banning books that are not aligned with the audience, like banning Chilton car manuals from high schools. They weren’t there in the first place because they’re not aligned to the audience and we’re curated away.

What they’re doing is more like banning all Ford Chilton car manuals from Autozones.

Fingers crossed the FTC finds and fines you. If it’s big enough maybe you’ll have some empathy for your victims, or at least the calculus will change in society’s favor.

I don’t even know where to begin with this comment. It’s a gross mischaracterization of what was being said for starters.

This is great. I found local Llama2 unusable for anything really. Try to have it create basic code and it not only won’t do it, it tells me I should contact a professional to write the software or suggests existing software that does what I’m trying to do.

You’re completely right in everything you say about growing sustainably and making some money over time. But if this project is VC that all goes out the window and it won’t be profitable unless it massively galactus scales to compete with AWS in 5-7 years, and will fail after that almost certainly, like the vast, vast majority of VC projects.

“Losers” according to that, I think, as it calls “losers” “happiness seekers.” But still taking joy in one’s work seems orthogonal to the link presented, which is more about corporate lifecycles.

To expand slightly on my situation (and the anecdotal others I’m talking about): I’m happy with my job because it gives me an opportunity to have a real impact on the world, helping real people, and seeing the direct results of my labor. It’s energizing.

Do you have a rebuttal to the arguments presented?

Which, to make sure your lede is unburied, is past its prime according to Ray, if I remember the book correctly.

Your weird strawman aside, servants rarely or never had the same career and life mobility as hacker news posters.

Not really. First, it’s unfair to extrapolate one persons toxic mindset to work in general. But aside from that, what I’m saying is that there are plenty of examples of people who are happy at their jobs and if one wants to be happy at their jobs they can follow those examples or use them as inspiration.

Speak for yourself, I know many people who derive a lot of joy from their work and find it energizing, myself included.

I’ve done this before too. HN is broken in this way that if you post a link, the text field is ignored, or the site doesn’t support a link with original text.

Good spotting, IFLScience hasn’t been “real” science for a while since they got some traction and vitality. Their role has shifted more towards what makes headlines, which is what sells ads, which is what pays them.

Piggybacking on the class distinctions discussions before, I’ve found that for the sort of people who are or would be regular CCF go-ers a major criterion in restaurant rating and whether they would go back is sheer volume of food, almost at the exclusion of any taste or quality of the actual food.

I’ve heard people say about restaurants many times, “this place is so great, they serve soooo much food.”

Class distinction is a second order effect and isn’t really the topic being discussed. The primary mover is pickiness, which does generally track with class.

Whew! I saw the original title about attention spans declining by 65% and was worried, but now I see the updated title and consistent with Betteridge’s Rule can be confident they have not been actually declining. Thankfully I don’t have to read the article as it seems long.

This does seem cool. When the service matures, are you going to eventually move it to production?

The people with the resources and thus power to effect real dramatic change don’t feel the pain that most depicted in this story are experiencing. I’ve spent some time in Phoenix and they (say, Scottsdale residents) can afford to have a well-watered, green yards and golf courses even during this and live with the A/C blasting 24 hours a day.

Until those people feel real pain from this, nothing will change. Not that that’s a sufficient condition though because most of the residents I mention can easily move or spent summers elsewhere. But the people in power have to be more than mildly inconvenienced before there’s a chance of anything happening. So maybe ten years before this is truly horrid in places like Arizona and Florida.

Not that I necessarily agree with the person you’re responding to, but their point seems to be that this is a bad faith action, not that they will get in trouble for it and need to cover it up with further bad faith.

Oh god I spent way too much time reading this (also thinking it was more of a “learn” than a simple comparison, despite the name) before coming back here and seeing the comment that it’s all AI generated. Now I basically need to forget everything I read.

Honestly it takes a lot of audacity to post this here, not have the disclaimer up front in H1 font at least, and then to ask readers to correct it. I’m honestly pretty annoyed.

Usury for one. Laws have been on the books since the 7th century BCE because it’s such a repugnant act.

Who is saying the commissioner is asleep at the switch?

I don’t really play games at all and the only system I own is a Nintendo Switch. I played the new Zelda and am really enjoying it. When I get stuck or have a question I google it. When I google it, I note that the top say 10 sites that answer my question all have similarly-formatted articles and also have the same mistakes in the answer to the question.

I expect nearly all the sites pointing to Zelda tips or FAQs are not original in any way and are instead just regurgitated from one another through AI to form a webring of shit.

At least I use ad blockers and block JavaScript so they don’t get some ad revenue.

I think he’s fascinating and capable. I read American Prometheus a few years ago, which is the biography of him that’s really in depth and factually accurate. One note I thought was interesting was that Einstein was considered from a different generation of physicists and people looked at him differently.

But the book compares Oppy’s contemporaries like Hans Beta to Oppy and reaches the same “no Einstein” conclusion. But my read was that that wasn’t a bad thing, Oppy was extremely capable in physics, but his real natural talent was in bringing out the true insights from others rather than making those insights himself directly, and was otherworldly good at coordination leadership. Which is why he led the Los Alamos project.

I don’t think I view “no Einstein” as a dig, but rather a factual truth presented in the best biography of the man and meant to highlight his world beating talent.