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michaelt
on May 30, 2024
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How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_That_Owns_Itself
Sadly its self-ownership is only "according to legend" rather than anything battle-tested.
portaouflop
on May 30, 2024
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Wow thanks for the entry to a rabbit hole on what is a legal person. Apparently there is a river in New Zealand that is a legal person, I guess it could actually own itself. Does not seem possible in the US outside of folklore
HappMacDonald
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In the US Tree would face civil forfeiture
zellyn
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Yep. That tree is an hour a bit away from where I live, in Atlanta Georgia :-)
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Sadly its self-ownership is only "according to legend" rather than anything battle-tested.