No doubt, and to tech folk like you and me, it's a tiny amount of money but in the nightmare situation of trying to rebuild after an abusive marriage, the price of natural vs. lab grown makes a difference.
If you marry the wrong husband, it's helpful to have a items you can sell in order to rebuild. The costs of lab grown diamond vs. natural is like a 60% difference. I understand wanting a real diamond for such an odd contract as marriage.
I think the current CEO is very relevant to a company. Leadership comes from the top.
"Ideally they should just eat the 100K fine." , I don't see that happening with their current leadership; a half-fought court battle for PR sake seems on brand though.
Why is Aaron Swartz not given co-founder status in this article? I'm not saying he was part of this review faking allegedly going on, just odd he's memory holed.
Redditors I've seen: 1. They don't know what's going on with their favorite subreddit being taken offline. 2. They agree with the protest but couldn't care less if some person doesn't get free / cheap API. 3. They are actively angry that a Reddit neckbeard took their business, show, hobby page offline, unilaterally.
I could see this backfiring and spez preventing subreddits with a certain following from going private in the future.
I'm wondering if this is even real. The Daily Dot link seemed to have no fact checking and the original source, an unsubstantiated TikTok video was already taken down.
Regarding your point though, my spellchecking sense is telling me the author probably meant to type: "...that’s too often our mental image of “working” " .
I'm confused as to how this made the front page. It's your standard John Doe / Jane Doe mystery story and It's not even a link to the full story, just an excerpt that links you to the full story here: https://magazine.atavist.com/searching-for-mr-x-amnesia-miss... . It makes me wonder how easy it is game HN rankings.
This feels like one of those Ads disguised as a news article. It's claiming an air conditioning startup founded in 2020 (windmillair.com) is bigger / "cooler" than Dyson (dyson.com).