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No CEO cares about commercial real estate profits. It isn't a factor in any major company decision.

Why not extend the baseless paranoia and say it is because they want to see auto company profits go up? And also support petroleum companies?

Or is it just real estate that is boogeyman secretly running the country behind the scenes?

It is hilarious that people think the second largest company on the planet, with a market cap over $5 trillion, spends even one second worry about the profit margins of commercial real estate companies, makes any decisions based on that, or is somehow cowed by their alleged political power despite being much, much, much smaller than Microsoft.

So the argument is that, even though age verification is required for this line of business in the real world, online it shouldn't be required because their ad-supported model won't be profitable?

Serverless restaurants have been common in Australia for decades. You just get a buzzer and then need to go pick up your food when it is ready. There's a single person behind the bar to take orders and pour beer/wine/soda.

Is it really any different than the thief who steals things just under the felony limit...but does it every day?

In Texas the felony limit is $2,500. Is stealing $1000 on Monday, $1000 on Tuesday, and $1000 on Wednesday really so much better than stealing $3,000 on Monday?

Rotten Tomatoes licensing for a major streaming platform would probably be millions of dollars a year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/4649rw/comment/d03a...

I found the initial lack of mention of the recent Supreme Court ruling weird and when I read the actual Circuit Court decision I felt the actual article was bad, biased journalism bordering on outright lying.

The article spends a lot of time telling us about this fourth generation farm and telling us about workers who quit after one day.

The actual circuit decision says they didn't provide adequate housing -- failing to put insect screens on doors and windows leading to an insect infestation and putting mattresses directly on the floor which is known to create mold. They also failed to provide free food as required and even started selling beverages at profit with no notice you the workers. They are also supposed to provide free transportation but were found to be using drivers who were driving illegally without licenses in all 5 vehicles.

I'm in favor of them getting a trial in a real court but the whole article smells fishy to me and came across as incredibly biased.

Kind of weird framing as "historic" and "violated the Constitution" when the actual decision from the court just says,

"Following the Supreme Court’s recent decision in SEC v. Jarkesy, 603 U.S. 109 (2024), we hold that Sun Valley was entitled to have its case decided by an Article III court."

Usually it is a non-story when lower courts start following a brand new Supreme Court precedent. Not sure why this one is on HN or why even really why it warranted 10,000 words in the original link.

Yep, everyone I know in Australia just uses the BOM (the government bureau of meteorology) app. (If they aren't just using whatever build in weather app they have, that is.)

I've never understood what benefit any other app could provide given they are just ingesting the BOM data.

I lived in a country where Netflix never bothered to open up (until very recently) so piracy never went away for the 100 million people living there.

The target is 2%, not 2-2.5.

Being off by 40% is cause for alarm in almost any circumstance.

I recently discovered that the Internet Archive has the Tomodachi fansubs of Fushigi Yugi which, at least in my experience, were the most famous example of that technique.

https://archive.org/details/tomodachi-fushigi-yugi-vhsrip

The early hype of MOOCs wasn't "a few people in handful of fields will get up-skilled".

If that was all they claimed there wouldn't have been early hype around transformative potential.

Coursera had 1.7 million "students" in under 2 years and was growing faster than Facebook. The President of edX talked about "disrupting" the entire higher education system. Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and Duke all offered MOOCs with the idea that anyone anywhere in the world could now get an MIT/Stanford level of education without needing to be on-campus (or pay a lot of money in tuition).

From the 2012 NYTimes article on MOOCs:

'Dr. Agarwal predicts that “a year from now, campuses will give credit for people with edX certificates.” He expects students will one day arrive on campus with MOOC credits the way they do now with Advanced Placement.'

Never happened.

'Dr. Stavens promises more change, and more disruption: “We are only 5 to 10 percent of the way there.”'

Turned out we were already 100% of the way there after 24 months of MOOCs being launched.

Why would there be outrage at laws when the article we're talking about specifically says this isn't about any laws but instead about a Mastercard rule about damaging their brand?

Disagree with him if you want but calling Thompson a grifter makes it hard for me to take anything Musharbash seriously or want to dive deeper into whatever he's written.

It's not unusual at all. Here's a bunch in America just over the past 12 months and during a huge economic expansion with low unemployment.

https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/zip-codes-cities-home-pr...

Thompson is responding to a specific paper.

'One of the most detailed articles in this space is an analysis of the Dallas, Texas, housing market by the lawyer and writer Basel Musharbash. In “Messing With Texas: How Big Homebuilders and Private Equity Made American Cities Unaffordable”'

Musharbash doesn't mention RealPage either, so go blame him, since he doesn't think RealPage contributes to Dallas's problems.

Then why the need to ban it?

The PEP explains why it isn't part of the regular python syntax.

uv and other tools would be forced to implement a full Python parser. And since the language changes they would need to update their parser when the language changes.

This approach doesn't have that problem.

Making it a "language feature" has no upside and lots of downside. As the PEP explains.

Yes, disk usage grows indefinitely

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/5731

It IS built-in language syntax. It's defined in the PEP, that's built-in. It's syntax:

"Any Python script may have top-level comment blocks that MUST start with the line # /// TYPE where TYPE determines how to process the content. That is: a single #, followed by a single space, followed by three forward slashes, followed by a single space, followed by the type of metadata. Block MUST end with the line # ///. That is: a single #, followed by a single space, followed by three forward slashes. The TYPE MUST only consist of ASCII letters, numbers and hyphens."

That's the syntax.

Built-in language syntax.

I don't think corporate election influence or mass media really have anything to do with it.

The issue first showed up in 1828 election, when some of the Framers were still alive, and the US basically did nothing about it over the ensuing 200 years.

Remember it was Andrew Jackson who went around ignoring Supreme Court decisions and saying "they made their decision, let's see them enforce it".

And his abuse of executive powers during the Bank Wars to punish political enemies led to the formation of a new political party.

> There's a similar issue with free speech - the moment you ban certain speech the door to banning your political opposition opens.

There is TONS of speech that is banned, even in America. There isn't a single place on the planet that has no limits on speech.

Saw the same thing happen 20 years ago with DEC in Colorado Springs. Lots of people assumed it would last forever until it didn't.

They were getting paid "California salaries in Colorado" (well, really Massachusetts salaries but popular sayings don't have to be completely accurate) and lots of people had virtual mansions on senior tech salaries (plus probably stock options?).

Then DEC imploded and there were almost no other options for hundreds of storage engineers. Knew a lot of people who had their houses foreclosed because so many were flooding the market at the same time.

Why is preventing them from calling other people an important feature? The market for people who care about that sounds extremely tiny.

It's a little bit hard to figure out from the marketing but...is this just a regular old VOIP phone for $75 + $10/month? The same that Vonage, Ooma, axvoice, voiply, and others offer? Sometimes your ISP will even give it to you free or very cheap (we have it free with ours but don't have a phone plugged in to it).

Why not?

Are PE firms worse landlords than mom-and-pop landlords?

But the badness of the analogy highlights the flaw in reasoning.

They want to go to war with a simple design? Sure, they get a Lee-Enfield bolt action rifle. They fight against people with EF88 Austeyr.

They will die and lose the war.

Longer range, higher rate of fire, lighter, grenade launcher mount, scopes, more accurate, higher lethality, etc, etc.

Simple design so it doesnt't jam doesn't mean you've maximised all the other areas that are important for winning a war.

Simple guns jam all the time bro. Even 100 year old super simple designs jam.

"White House spokesperson Kush Desai said the Trump administration remains committed to reviving U.S. manufacturing"

Irrelevant since the point is to grow US manufacturing, not manufacturing in "countries besides USA and China".