Maybe? The two violated patent claims are "a protrusion comprising opaque material configured to substantially prevent light piping" and "one or more chamfered edges" of the protrusion, on a patent titled “User-worn device for noninvasively measuring a physiological parameter of a user.” It doesn’t appear anything that HN users would consider technology related was involved, and despite the palpable sense of Schadenfreude here, if it had happened to a company other than Apple, we’d probably be more sympathetic.
The patent’s claims seem likely to be further invalidated once it gets to court, but the timing unfolded to Apple’s disadvantage. (Or maybe not, as they managed to hold everything off until after Christmas sales were completed, and maybe managed to get a bump out of the pending ban.)
I generally feel no sympathy or outrage for Apples patent strife. They are often a target not so much because of their bad acts but because they’re wealthy and a big potential payday, but they’re also wealthy enough to defend their interests and the expenses are just the cost of doing business. (Although they are usually much better at preventing this level of chaos, but they pissed off a billionaire by hiring his top staff, so there’s that.)
This could be drawn out to almost career. There isn’t an X shortage, just a shortage of people willing to work for Y that the market will bear.
Automation really is the only way to increased human productivity. The more machines we have doing things, the less things the humans need to do, simple. The only struggle will be ensuring that all the profit for robot labor doesn’t wind up in just the pockets of a few.
Commercial pilots are actually paid incredibly well. The reason for the shortage seems complex and has to do at least partly with regulations passed that mandate 1500 hours of flight time before one can even apply for a job at an airline.
And also that militaries are training far fewer pilots with the advent/expectation of future wars being primary fought with drones and missiles rather than fighters.
Average entry level pay for pilots in the US is $50K. That’s not only not incredibly well, it’s at best median for most jobs that require formal training and certification.
ngl pilots are going to be automated soon for commercial people/cargo for domestic origin/destination. Unlike a truck that has to drive on roads, planes have a large room to make errors. In the future there won't be any pilots or even flight attendants and there would be a designated person on there to land the plane if needed at a much lower salary.
This was literally the reason I became a landlord. All the houses on my street were being rented. Why work when I can get a management company that will give me 2.5x my mortgage each month so I can rent in a big city.
I'm talking about the "not working while living off the income of other people" aspect. Because when poor people do that they're called freeloaders and welfare queens.
Indeed, by this logic no one should be able to retire, as the primary means of doing so, using accumulated investments, exists due to others' continued work. Even social security payments are simply the current tax base funding retirees' spending.
It all depends on what you think about capitalism, which is the social theory that the key determinant of what happens to resources is who owns them
If you are OK with that then living off rent is a natural conclusion
Me, I am not "anti capitalist" (a silly identity many of my comrades have adopted) but I believe capitalism should be an economic theory that society restricts to where it is useful and away from where it is harmful
Yeah it's crazy out here. It looks like the low interest rates of 2020 seems to be the cause of the low availability and since those are fixed rates, it incentives people to not sell lowering houses on the market even more.
