As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul • Hacker News Board

Re: As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul

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Post by wpietri » Mon, May 28, 2018, 4:03 AM UTC

arthurofbabylon wrote: post #32

wpietri wrote: post #26

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Gosh, it's almost like Google is a company 10x the size of John Deere, one used by billions of people (and the great bulk of the NYT's readers). And you might note that this is in the section specifically devoted to covering the technology industry. Do you also object to the Times having that and not an agriculture section?

Why would it be in the tech category? Nature, ecology, sure. Tech? Only if indeed it’s more about sensationalizing a buzzy tech company would a story about cats and owls be in a tech category.

Because reporters are assigned to beats. If you had bothered to click on the author's name, you'd learn that he's been writing about tech for the NYT for 11 years.

I'd guess that he heard about this through one of his many Silicon Valley sources. I'd further guess that he pitched the story to his editor, who then ran it their section, which it is their job to fill. Rather than the Nature or Ecology sections, neither of which appears to be an actual NY Times section: http://spiderbites.nytimes.com/sections/00000.html

Re: As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul

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Post by Kellie1575 » Tue, May 29, 2018, 10:26 PM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #40

Clearly they need some Coyotes out there too. When I was at Sun, the 'main' campus early on was at 2550 Garcia ave, (now Intuit) and we would walk around shoreline at Lunch. There were lots of signs to be aware of and not to disturb the burrowing owls (which once was misspelled the borrowing owls and so we had a lot of pan handling owl jokes for a while). When I worked at Google (on Amphitheatre way) there was a cat…

Wait, what? "Eliminate" cats? They're trying to save cats, not kill them.

It's nice they want to save cats ... it's not nice they're doing it at the expense of other species.

Google has lots of money; around $26 Billion in annual profits. So, INSTEAD of tagging them with RFID chips, building cat-huts, setting out cat food, and all that nonsense.

HOW ABOUT AN OFF-SITE CAT SHELTER sponsored (paid for) by Google?? Employees could even sign-up to give pre-tax charitable contributions to the Google shelter. A shelter would save their cats along with the neighborhood fauna. Right? Everybody happy?

Re: As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul

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Post by hueving » Wed, May 30, 2018, 12:24 AM UTC

fanzhang wrote: post #56

hueving wrote: post #53

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>Also, the former literally makes money by altering the environment whereas the latter is generally web-based. Do you think the web is some magical place outside of the environment? Google has more servers running than any other company in the world consuming significant amounts of energy.

Out of all the organizations that do bad for public policy, you're going after Google. And out of all the things you can get Google for, you're going after the latent heat of their servers?

Latent heat isn't the issue. It's the environmental impact of the electricity production and manufacturing processes for all of their servers.