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It might be a conversation for another time, but dog bite cases are a staple of basic tort claims. Plenty of recourse - an owner is responsible for any reasonably foreseeable harm caused by their animal.

Doesn't stop certain obnoxious owners from taking their animals where they really ought not, etc.

I don't think the problem is with service animal laws, which I think are genuinely well-intentioned, but with the type of people who would consider owning a potentially dangerous dog in the first place.

Some animals really aren't suitable as pets for the vast majority of owners - which might be a more fruitful discussion than objecting to service animals too quickly.

I would actually agree with this! An NFT is primarily a financial vehicle - that's the core purpose - albeit one that comes "decorated" with visual trappings.

For a dumb analogy, you can put a bow tie and a party hat on a stack of cash, but it's still fundamentally a stack of cash.

To find white collar employment? At least before remote work became prevalent recently, I suppose so.

On the other hand, the infrastructure for a large urban area doesn't run itself! Trade work is definitely needed to keep the roads paved and cars functional, the warehouses and stores stocked, the buildings in repair, etc., I would hazard even more so than in less urbanized areas.

I think what I'm getting at is that it seems a little too facile to say uncritically that anyone can just go drive a forklift and expect to make a reasonably liveable income.

I think #1 needs to factor in cost of living. In many urban areas, 45K is near or even below the poverty level for a single worker.

I'm a little taken aback at 100M+ qualifying as "not a lot of cash" in comparison to, say, YC's usual funding level for brand new companies?

I think it might be restating the obvious to say that a company pulling in 100M+ is no longer a startup, it's an established (even if relatively new) company in aggressive growth mode.

This question reminds me of the cognate question for aspiring writers: "What do I do to become a quote-unquote real writer?"

It's impossible to give a blanket answer since everyone takes their own path!

But this might be helpful. One piece of conventional advice for writers is to submit your work to as many journals, publishers, etc. as you can, to build up some name recognition and a publication history. As the thinking goes, if you're persistent and lucky enough, eventually you'll become "known."

The problem there is that you're putting yourself at the mercy of other people's gatekeeping.

Maybe you could do what I did, only for visual art (assuming you're interested in visual art) - start an online art review magazine. Grab a domain name and a site template, pick a free or at least cheap hosting provider, get Submittable / Duosuma accounts, then start publishing stuff from other artists while you work on your own.

The benefit of this approach is that it turns the tables on some of the barriers to entry and also acts as a fantastic networking mechanism. People love, absolutely love, having their stuff published, even in new and untried magazines and journals. It's the quickest way I know of to meet dozens of like-minded people in a very short time.

Hope that helps.

Exactly. It's the employer's property, and aren't there such things as devices you own?

Why blur the lines on something like that? This reads more like an overreaction to a lapse of judgment more than anything else.

That seems to ring true, but - it also seems a bit defeatist, don't you think?

"Never question a scientific superior?" Not parsing that concept, please elaborate.

Echoing other comments, your company was acquired. The way you're used to doing things sounds like it's quite different from how the new owners do things.

I can't make any sort of judgment call on which is or isn't "better" based on a brief HN post, but I think it's worth keeping in mind that it pays to be adaptable and to scout out the post-acquisition lay of the land before you let it affect you too much.

You don't want to create an impression of being a "difficult" employee "left over" from the acquired company, as unjust or unfair as that may seem.

It's obviously implying a threat if you're at all familiar with the legal sphere.

Passive-aggressive language, sure, but still not exactly inviting the recipient to a picnic, and passive-aggressive language doesn't get you off the hook.

Related, doesn't matter if it is completely without merit and could never succeed.

This entire story and thread is just something else. Talk about failing to meet even baseline ethical standards.

Trust people to know what they're doing? A lot of PR reviews tend to devolve into almost anything but solving the issue at hand.

Yes, there are! Familiar with this approach, pretty common with greenfield development.

After causing a few outages and issues that you have to hear about, one learns fairly quickly not to write code that needs endless PR reviews.

Not really? People across the planet have had predominantly or exclusively vegetarian (not necessarily vegan) diets since forever and have been perfectly healthy.

I think there are - might be misrembering - more credible studies that you can live on a diet of exclusively potatoes without ill effects aside from, well, that kind of diet itself.

I looked over the article and was expecting to see something on it like "Funded by [Tuscany's version of the Beef Producers Council]."

It's tempting to say something sarcastic like "If you want tidy stories, stick to fairy tales," but that would be unnecessarily sarcastic.

There's a little more that goes into well-written novels than following strictly-defined plot conventions.

I'd say, if a reader reacts that strongly to unconventional narrative structures, they might be a bit more invested in the story than they think? Which tends to be a sign of effective writing.

I've never had a problem with BackBlaze - wasn't it at some point one the gold standards for backups?

Ah. Unfortunate.

Just out of curiosity - I wouldn't use vehicular manslaughter as a point of comparison for open source projects? Is there a reference I'm missing with that part of the comment?

Lem is easily one of my favorites for the sheer ingenuity of the stories.

Not 100% on topic, but related - not mining or using crypto or writing apps / software / sites that enable it, at least the ones like Bitcoin that are massively greedy re: electrical usage, might also be effective.

YAML is like Python without the effectiveness.

I like the idea, it's fun playing around with text-to-speech generators. AWS Polly is slick, nicely done.

But podcasts? There has got to be a more interesting use case than that.

I think this view assumes that consistency like that actually works. You can be consistently driving headlong off a cliff, right?

Nobody wants to mention "don't roll your own security"? That's a 101 kind of question - very easy to feel clever when you try it as an amateur, nightmarish when (really not if, when) you get it wrong.

That is one area where I think you want to outsource that to specialists.

Or, for the contrarian view, you have a few people mutually reinforcing poor coding practices under the guise of whatever they view as readable and maintainable, which in my experience is equally likely.

Starting a company will do that! There's no time to ruminate on whether you "ought" to be this or that when you're busy keeping the lights on and building out your product, etc.

A bit lacking on the plot, but for animation and art direction - not bad at all.

I think the commentary largely speaks for itself, but there is an aphorism that I think would be helpful:

If you measure yourself by someone else's yardstick, you'll always fall short.

That's a gritty question!

First things first, I would think about the parts that went well, that you actually liked, then look for a role that incorporates those same elements to the extent feasible. Really dig into that one and isolate what you'd want to duplicate in a new role.

Regardless of the size of the company. There are exceptional and awful roles at any company size.

I would also be prepared for interviewers to expect a calm and candid explanation for why the company didn't get to where it wanted to go. Obviously, no finger-pointing or hyperbole in it.

If social media is to be believed, firing 2,000+ employees is also a bit concerning.

At a bare minimum, that does not show much confidence in the organizational structure they put together, either.