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If corner crossing is not possible, the value of his private property increases by the value of the notionally public land that's effectively exclusively his now. If corner crossing is allowed, then that value is stripped away and he "loses" millions.

Of course, this claim of damages collapses in a puff of logic when you point out that he never should have had exclusive access in the first place. Maybe he can sue the judge next?


It's a puff of logic in either circumstance:

If he's wrong, he never had exclusive rights to public land in the first place and it was not his to lose.

If he's right, he obviously did not suffer the loss of the value of that property.


I believe corner crossing _was_ illegal until this court case


Still, if he had won the case, it would have stayed illegal and he would have had no financial loss.

If he had lost the case, he would have suffered a financial loss, but having lost cannot recover it from the "trespassers".


If the fed raises the interest rates, my stocks go down in value. Do I sue the fed for my losses? Ranch owner logic.


>Maybe he can sue the judge next?

AKA an appeal


Where do you see the previous poster bring racist? If anything, he is being anti-racist by calling out the structural inequity of medieval society.


Was quite surprised to visit one recently only to be greeted by a full shelf of Faygo Redpop. Juggalo nostalgia!


Immersion is pretty much the point of VR, and until Elon's Neuralink gets their shit together (not holding my breath) VR headsets are the least bad option we have.


Only a very small part of game or world immersion is technical though. The best VR setup in the world won't help you if the game is terrible.


> VR headsets are the least bad option we have.

True, but they're still a bad option.


The street resale value of a stolen $1000 phone is far less than the value of $1000 in stolen cash.


The Baltic Sea is cold and too low in salt for sea worms, so wooden wrecks survive much longer than anywhere else in the world.


Til. Cool


For better or worse, the term "GA" is used by all cloud providers.


Might be so, but it's always a good practice to spell things out.

When I read this title, I first saw it as "Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now [on] Google Analytics." I did a double-take (as this is clearly ridiculous) and then realized what it meant.


Google Analytics is also a thing. Not in this context but I had to think about it before reconsidering


Gotta say the irony is strong with a private equity firm called Ethical Capital Partners acquiring porn company MindGeek. I wonder who's fucking who the hardest?


A lot of institutions name themselves to cover their biggest weakness. It took me a while to realise that the street I lived on a decade ago was called "xyz Gardens" because it didn't have any.


"Democratic republics" are often neither democratic nor republics


Is there anything unethical about porn?


I don't think there's anything inherently unethical about porn, but quite a bit of porn production involves unethical practices.


I think the answer depends on one's world view.

Historically not the kind of topic that can be debated well on HN.


> Americans seem to be kindly, trusting and helpful towards members of their own sub-group, and quite the contrary to those they deem "lesser" in status - the poor, the disabled, people of color.

As a European, I can assure you we share these traits. Try asking one how they feel about local Romani, African or Syrian refugees, foreign beggars, etc.


Or about inherited wealth. America at least has better social mobility, for now.



its a common misconception, since that was sold to the public for the last 100+ years.. but not, actually, the demographics in recent decades show less social mobility overall, as compared to other developed nations in the same time periods..

source: Pew research reports and other


Social mobility requires a society that allows you to fail but stil pick you up afterwards. America doesn’t.


No, social mobility does not need that. And no, America has some (imperfect, but quite wide) social safety net.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_safety_net


They're building a showcase city a thousand kilometers away in a different island as the new capital, but they're not relocating the 20+ million who live in Jakarta.


If they relocate the govt and companies paying salaries to those 20M, won't they also move there?


They are relocating the government. The private companies weren’t invited. This is like how Burma moved its capital from Rangoon to Nay Pyi Taw, Rangoon is still the commercial capital if Burma.


The other examples I would reach for are Côte d'Ivoire moving its capital from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro in 1983, or Nigeria moving from Lagos to Abuja in 1991. In both cases, the old capital is still far and away the largest city in the country, like 10× the new capital city.


> Nigeria moving from Lagos to Abuja in 1991

By comparison, since 2020 the Lagos population grew by more than the entire population of Abuja.


I’m sure some will move, but that number is going to be closer to 0 than 20M


That's it: 20 million helpless people are going to move like sheep because shepherds are moving to another place.


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