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It was probably an error in judgement for me to have advised the man to stop talking.
Or judgment even
Both spellings are considered correct, although i personally prefer 'judgment'.
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Congrats, you're one of today's lucky 10000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Also worth reading the poster's follow-up years later and the ensuing discussion. Graeme's observation about the significance of the comment is super important: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661824
Time for another episode of "The Case for 9224" (not criticizing you! it's just my hobby, apparently) That comment has gotten a bum rap over the years. The commenter was trying to be helpful with Dropbox's YC application (that's what "app" meant on HN in 2007). Back then, file synchronization was widely thought to be a solution-in-search-of-a-problem. I've been trying for years to get people to understand this (start…
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#203I hope Matt considers placing all the community resources of Wordpress into the foundation, including Wordpress.org, constituting an actual board, contributing funds, and setting up a governance and contribution system that matches the open ethos of the license and community. I think this is an area that Drupal gets right, and Dries wrote an interesting post about it in October: https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker…
This is pretty on the nose considering Matt's latest blog post[1]. I feel for Matt in some regard, and I do think the lawsuit sets a precedent that OSS developers are required to provide software with warranty. However, I say that with not fully understanding the seperation of actions between Automattic the company and Matt in his own personal capacity. [1] https://ma.tt/2024/12/drupalcon-singapore/
> However, I say that with not fully understanding the seperation of actions between Automattic the company and Matt in his own personal capacity.
Automattic and the Wordpress Foundation are both Matt's to use as he sees fit. There isn't a meaningful distinction between him and his organizations.
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#204matt is one of those inspirational people - like dhh, jason cohen people who built products from scratch and bootstrapped them. so it's sad seeing him go ape shit like that.
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In almost every example you cited, the very wealthy people were also very stupid and violated bedrock principles of the court system in a way that could not be swept under the rug. Specifically: - Elon Musk put it in writing that he was going to buy Twitter with no due diligence. Contracts are nine tenths of the law; no court in the world is going to get you out of one because the biggest value the court system has t…
>He didn't even show up to court. Yes he did, under oath, and he didn't do so well - he was caught lying about evidence during his testimony, and famously admitted that he knew that the shooting wasn't staged. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/03/alex-jones-trial-def...
He didn’t show up to court, so he was given a “default judgement”.
There WAS a trial, but it was not about guilt or innocence, it was about “how much” cause he already lost due to him not showing up
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>He didn't even show up to court. Yes he did, under oath, and he didn't do so well - he was caught lying about evidence during his testimony, and famously admitted that he knew that the shooting wasn't staged. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/03/alex-jones-trial-def...
He didn’t show up to court, so he was given a “default judgement”. There WAS a trial, but it was not about guilt or innocence, it was about “how much” cause he already lost due to him not showing up
In Lafferty et. al. v. Jones, Jones was ordered to be deposed under oath in March 2019, as part of the trial. This was the deposition in which he admitted the deaths were real. It wasn't until 2021 where the judge in that case found him liable by default.
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He didn’t show up to court, so he was given a “default judgement”. There WAS a trial, but it was not about guilt or innocence, it was about “how much” cause he already lost due to him not showing up
In Lafferty et. al. v. Jones , Jones was ordered to be deposed under oath in March 2019, as part of the trial. This was the deposition in which he admitted the deaths were real. It wasn't until 2021 where the judge in that case found him liable by default.
Deposition != court
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within 72 hours..
72 hours have passed now, no change.
It got restored at about 5:30pm PST on Friday evening: https://x.com/wp_acf/status/1867761686389604368
Mullenweg posted a whiny tweet about it: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1867759730992586756