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In previous times you didn't just rip everything out to a bare shell to then do what an Airbnb person does and put some modern IKEA junk in.

You can't restore doors, tiles, fireplaces and other items of character if some rent seeking airbnb clown has sent it all to the landfill to replace it all with items of fake or non-existent character.

Character is important, imagine if you are in Glasgow and you have a property that really does have Charles Rennie Mackintosh beauty to it, beauty that has served generations with an occasional lick of paint. Now imagine some rent seeker with no values rips out the interior so they can make two airbnb apartments. They don't care for Charles Rennie Mackintosh but they have destroyed a little bit of what makes Glasgow special.

Imagine they also own another Airbnb in the Cotswolds where the property has character that goes back to the cottage industry that started the industrial revolution. They do an Airbnb IKEA job on it the same as they did in Glasgow, a little bit of the Cotswolds dies too.

Eventually when some locals get to buy the property which could happen if they win the lottery then they can't just 'paint in' what was ripped out. Maybe you live in somewhere like America where you don't have houses that have been lived in for hundreds of years and character is anathema to you. Perhaps you already live in Airbnb theme-park world and have no appreciation for heritage.
Well sure; if the tradeoff is worth it for them, then they _shouldn't_ be doing it less. I'm pretty happy with the amount of junk food I eat and drugs that I do and screen time I have, because IMO the benefits outweigh the costs. It's possible for people to be
bad at calculating these costs, but that doesn't require a motivated third party and is not what we're discussing here. This thread is about algorithms exploiting weakness to make you do things you think are bad.
There's suggestions of casual sex and outright sexual behavior in Nightmare Before Christmas, and misogyny/rape in Watership Down. Nightmare Before Christmas includes some suggestions of using alcohol or other drugs on some of the villains.

What evidence is there that normalizing violence is less problematic to a child?

>heavy drinking,

Sure, that's not a great thing to normalize.

>tattooing,

What's wrong with tattoos?

>casual sex,

Again, something suggested in other PG movies from farther back. If your kids can handle it, they can watch it. If not, don't let them. That's what PG has always meant. It's not graphic, it doesn't show any of the foreplay, therefor it fits with the standard of PG that has existed forever.

>deviant sex,

Wait, what? Two men having sex is now deviant sex? Uh, yeah, not gonna agree there.

>dangerous sex,

Again, because it's two men? Where are you going with this?

>and related forms of degenerate behavior.

The only degenerate behavior on this list is the heavy drinking, and even that is being fairly generous to you - plenty of people have nights where they drink heavily and aren't degenerate and don't let it impact their life.

>It's totally different and much more insidious than cartoon or animal predator/prey violence.

You're making pretty huge statements here without any evidence to back it up. I don't know how much of an impact that the sort of scene in Alvin and the Chipmunk's would have on a child - I would guess probably not much, as much of the implications discussed are likely to fly right over their head - but we do know that violence, even cartoon violence, has an affect on children. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/child-adolescent-psychiatry/...

PG movies have had this sort of content for decades. PG has never meant 'You can just show any of your young kids this.' - that is what the G rating is for. PG has always meant that there are things that you might find questionable for your child and that your parental discretion should be exercised. It's not insidious.
The same thing they add to any other business: Better management, efficiency, etc..

I don't think any profession 'naturally fits the partnership model'. Some professions have simply managed to enshrine protectionism for themselves into law. There's precious little evidence that this is in any way beneficial for consumers and serves to do anything other than enrich the members of the professional guild at the expense of the public.
There's a hell of a lot more different between the families you described then whether they used spanking.
This is a solved problem. Independent observers from all parties involved that are allowed to view the entire process from end to end. The issue with computer only voting is that you just have to trust the machine.
What does it have to do with him?

The basic idea comes actually from Interlisp and Warren Teitelman‘s ‚Conversational Lisp‘ and its FOR macro.

The main purpose of LOOP is to question ones assumption what is Lispy and what not. ;-)
Any idea if private equity is involved in ketamine clinics? That would be a juicy story.
> Could you show some examples of the particular Airbnb style?

There is a great long form written in 2016 by the verge about it :

https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-...
Thanks! What's missing from the port? Are you planning to continue working on it?
Although it was a good service (especially the browser extensions), this market is saturated with similar apps and smaller players will have to come up with something revolutionary to survive
I really doubt the significance of the 'cost to the neighbour'. Really is this noise? Because I don't think that's a cost issue so much, nor do I feel hotels are particularly more quiet, or that AirBnB guests are particularly more noisy or rough on property.

I think it's 80% an issue of artificial market distortion due to limitation.

Cities need to rethink this. There is zero negative burden to my neighbourhood if the building I live in happened to be a hotel.

It's time for a rethink.
I am really surprised by not a single known case of vigilante retaliation on confirmed Police murderers.
I don't need a window manager. Give me a single god damn command line that's consistent with the rest of the world. Not this ancient cmd.exe abomination which is completely incompatible with this powershell garbage which is completely incompatible with this half-baked wsl which is not cygwin or mingw or blah blah blah. Bash and posix with forward slashes as first class citizens please and take your dos garbage and shove it.
See, I didn't even know that?!
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How much can we predict?
everybody does these headlines now besides maybe the wire services, it's inescapable
Super excited for this product! The quality and the idea of me bringing this anywhere is so fascinating
Not if your "neighbor" (in reality an company renting out dozens of apartment) put their apartment on Airbnb and you get a new bunch of drunk and noisy tourists every week. You can call the cops all you want, they don't really care because they are in holiday, and next week it will start again with a new bunch of tourists.
No, it's not better. The P20 is over-exposed, causing the colors to be off. The level of detail is equivalent, but the colors on the P20 are the worse. And no, it's not slightly larger. The sensor is TWICE as large in area as the pixel 2.

I took actual photos with the pixel 2, and I know the actual time taken. It's less than 3 seconds every time. By all accounts and reviews I've seen, the P20 is 10-25 seconds. Show me a review saying otherwise.
I think they didn't go into contractual obligations to pay him $90M because no such obligation existed.

It's something they decided to give him after it was decided that he should lose his job over the credible allegation of sexual assault.
> I don't see why it's so "draconian" to expect maintainers to be civil as well.

If only it were just that.

> That used to be considered simple professional courtesy.

And yet, some people are demanding projects adopt codified sets of rules on what is acceptable, what is unacceptable, what will be tolerated, what will not be tolerated, even what will obligate maintainers to take action or face repercussions themselves.

Some CoC activists (especially the "Contributor Covenant" and "Post-Meritocracy Manifesto" people) have themselves acted in ways beyond incivility, sometimes even emphatically and proudly, that would violate the very sets of rules they were trying to push on projects.

This is a political movement (and I'm not saying that that's bad) that is quite far removed from just asking projects to ask people to be civil, courteous, and professional.
Paper isn’t even that bad really, just stating the obvious.

Academia isn’t built to cope with well funded adversaries. Journalists handle the heat much better, at least the NYT got hold of it.
The first time the component renders, each individual call to `useState` results in a new unique-to-that-component state value being stored behind the scenes. React builds a linked list of all hooks attached to that function component the first time you run it, and then reads from that linked list in future re-renders. So, when you run it again, and `useState()` call #1 occurs, it reads the value and the setter function off the first linked list node, and returns those.
If you never let the battery go past 50%, then what use is your healthy, high capacity battery? Might as well have one that can only hold 50% of it's charge.
Haven't used gitlab but have used bitbucket server. It is trash compared to GitHub. Seriously feels like clunky stone age molasses.
There was an NPR (I think it was NPR) story about how medical helicopter rides have skyrocketed in cost.

The issue was a lot of private equity folks realized that you could just get in the market and if you didn't get enough rides... you just cranked up the price and went after individuals who where hardly in a position to shop around when they needed the ride.

Now there is an excess of medical helicopters, solution? Crank up the price...
I experience the exact opposite in regards to “getting sick”. When I travel, which is quite often, I have a greater chance of getting sick when I stay in a hotel. I suspect it’s like being on a plane where you are breathing air that has been recycled with hundreds of other people. It’s noticeable enough that I definitely need to collect hard data on it to establish the correlation. Guessing anecdotally that if I stay in a hotel my chances of catching a cold are at least double and possibly triple my chance of catching a cold in a private AirBnB.

The other part of your comment that I can identify with is the “save the environment” signs you see at hotels. It’s completely disingenuous and it’s one of the rare small things that irrationally infuriates me. Every time I read one of those signs I think something along the lines of “if this didn’t save you money you wouldn’t care”. I inevitably end up pondering the decisions that the hotel could make that would help save the environment many times more than a few wash cycles. Decisions that the hotel obviously wouldn’t take because it would cost the hotel money instead of saving them money. Perhaps my disaffection is mostly because the signs are a perfect example of corporate bullshit; the exact sort of facade you would expect from a faceless corporation that will say anything to get your money.
Simple economics of scale. centralizing a highly effective management and financial instruments create a lot of value, often called a roll-up strategy. a company worth 1 merged with a company worth 1 is typically worth more than 2.
Completely agree. My pet idea is a tax for every bedroom in a residence over the headcount of primary residents. This becomes hairy when deciding what qualifies as a bedroom etc, but it will disincentivize renting properties with spare bedrooms dedicated to Airbnb hosting. This way Airbnb units will primarily be rooms left empty by primary residents traveling.

The idea of the sharing economy was supposed to be sharing what you normally use, when you happen to not be using it, with financial incentives to offset your property "rent". Not setting aside resources exclusively for "sharing" in order to profit. That's just subcontracting.
The money wasn't owed. It was an exit package.
It is about elbow grease and not money. It is about recycling and not land-filling.

If you move into a place that has been airbnb'd then it is clear that things our forefathers built to last have been trashed by philistines rather than lovingly restored. If you are paying for the property then you are also paying for the IKEA junk that the estate agent has bumped up the price for. This is a con if you wanted vernacular rather than to be stiffed over.

Heritage matters but if you have none then you cannot appreciate this. Don't be a cynic, jealous of those that want a home rather than a dwelling unit.
Can you give an example of soundness regressions in the previous release? Neither the 1.29.1 release nor 1.29.2 are indicative of people not using the beta; the former concerned a potential security vulnerability in a stdlib API that had existed for several releases, and the latter concerned a runtime heisenbug that could neither be found by merely compiling with beta nor even reliably by running the code.

> Notice specially the last month or so of actively asking people to try the beta.

This is because for the last month the beta has represented the first release candidate for Rust 2018, which is more important than normal releases in all three of implementation scope, backwards compatibility concerns, and marketing potential.
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The level of economic illiteracy in the media these days is just incredible.
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Me neither. If you own a property, you should be able to do whatever you want with it. The argument, that it's bringing up prices is false - AirBnB, same as Uber, exist because the prices were already high. If the prices were normal (especially here in Australia), these types of services would not profit. Think about a scenario when young couple with kids is paying so much for mortgage/rent so if they need to go overseas for a few months, they don't really have any other choice than list it on AirBnB to cover portion of the cost.
it would be veeeeryyy upsetting if this comment gave someone any ideas
Good. They had 4 yearly DST changes previously, two during summer/winter and two during Ramadan. Must be exhausting. Algeria dropped DST since 1980.
Because media outlets cater to a fittingly ignorant audience.
> If you own a property, you should be able to do whatever you want with it

The idea that law should not govern your actions provided you are using your own property in those actions is...unusual.
> Peking was the widely-accepted transliteration - until attitudes (and power) changed and the Chinese asked the world to use Beijing instead.

An interesting exception is [Peking University](http://english.pku.edu.cn/) which elected (and was permitted) to retain its venerable Romanized style.
To be fair, hotels are often infested with bedbugs despite “regulation.” I have yet to see many stories of people dying because an AirBnB is less than sanitary. Besides, if you have bedbugs in your place, you get hammered on the reviews and your place gets delisted.

AirBnB is aggressively strict about reviews. Too many 4 star reviews and you get “punished.” One of my listings in France got suspended for a week because it had an average review of 4.4 stars! Yet a French hotel that gets a slew of 2 star reviews on TripAdvisor or similar doesn’t get touched. AirBnB reviews are far more effective than regulation in weeding out “bad” places. I have stayed in plenty of shithole hotels across Europe despite “regulation.” Some hostels are downright poisonous. I have stayed in a few rat-hotels in the Bowery in New York and those places are still around. I have gotten sick more times at US restaurants than in years of eating street food in East Asia. AirBnB isn’t a health risk of any significance; I would invite data to the contrary. Besides, even if it were a health risk, nobody forces you to stay in one. In this era of nonsense warnings such as “don’t use a hairdryer in the shower” or coffee cups warning that coffee is hot, I have become quite sick of well-meaning people who seek to infantilize grown adults and protect them from various boogeymen that could be avoided with simple common sense: rats in the dining room? Don’t eat there. Dirty sheets or fire hazards? Don’t sleep there. A place selling for $10 per night when everywhere else is $100? Use your brain, do your homework, be a responsible grown up and stop expecting government to protect you from bedbugs.
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> would easily move to a cheap locale even if tech scene there is not abundant

I wouldn't. Being in high demand in Silicon Valley is amazing even compared to Seattle. I wouldn't move to a backwater for fear of having to move again every 3-5 years.
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He had a $150M stock grant that he used to negotiate the exit package. - According to https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-rubin-90-million-exit-p...
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Or everywhere. Which brings me to a pet peeve:

Why is Economics not taught in regular schools?

All sorts of arcane trivia is taught to kids, but how a modern society actually works is never explored.
> The amount you can charge for rent is fundamentally limited by the income of your potential renters, but now it becomes income of potential renters plus the amount they could expect to earn by sharing the property out on Airbnb.

If someone who would have paid $250 for a hotel instead pays $50 for a room in someone's house, there is $200 less holding up rents. It's theoretically possible to make the difference up on volume, since more people are willing to pay $50 than $250, but is it really more than five times as many people?

And if it was, haven't we just created an enormous economic surplus by giving all those people a place to stay at a price they can afford when they otherwise couldn't have? Meanwhile the upward pressure on rents even in that case would be small, because six times $50 is more than one times $250, but it's not that much more.

> It's similar to what happened with low interest rates before the housing boom and bust. You'd expect low interest rates would make housing cheaper for buyers, but it also had the effect of causing house prices to rise because now there were more people who could afford to bid on the same housing stock.

Notice that this is only true when supply expansion is constrained. If it costs $50,000 to create an additional housing unit and prices rise from $40,000 to $60,000 because more people can afford a loan, new units would be created until the price stabilizes at the cost of creating new housing. Unless regulations are repeatedly imposed to keep that cost above the existing housing prices and prevent that from happening.
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I am genuinely curious how having a COC does something like "foster inclusivity"? I mean, you do realize it is just words right? And not just any words, but words that were forced upon the maintainer/project leader to include. Anyone have evidence of pull requests being rejected because the author was a woman or someone from the east? Personally I haven't, and I can guarantee some text in a file isn't going to help any.

What we actually have, is the other way around. Time and time again, an author of a project is accused of being racist if they don't have a COC without any evidence at all[0]. How is that OK? Who has the SQLite project offended that warranted people to contact monetary supporters of the SQLite project and try to get them to pull monetary support based on nothing else than they don't have a COC?

We must remember that it is the individual that is sovereign, and not any one group or minority. You can divide a finite group of people an infinite number of ways, but eventually what you end up with is an individual. COC's go against this as they are always pushed by a group with a group agenda that is steeped in tribalism. People need to wake up.

[0]: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/10/exposing-true-face-of-sjw...
Tie them to a really name and government issued photo id? Please note I hope that this does not happen but that is one logical (very scary) conclusion that regulators may reach when that question is asked.
When 7 came out people said "hallelujah you listened!" even though it wasn't perfect. When 8 came out people said "why did you do this to us?" When 10 came out people said "at least it's better than 8." Windows 7 was probably the high point of actually doing the work to make the OS usable and clean instead of bloated and annoying. Before that Windows 95, for all its flaws, was built on a ton of actual real world usability research. Unfortunately, MS has a long history of ignoring fundamental research and common sense and dictating "the way things will be" with the OS UI/UX. They think this is what people want since Apple does it and gets away with, but MS isn't Apple.

Also, the fact that people keep complaining doesn't mean that those people are wrong, it's possible for a company to continue fucking up year after year for decades. I could explain exactly why MS makes these mistakes (part of which is due fundamentally to bad corporate culture and a long legacy of bad incentives and performance review systems) but that's another conversation.
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if you are going to judge by their intent then the intent of the prank caller was most likely to give someone a scare, the intent of someone that pulls the trigger is to kill another person
Russians obeying traffic laws? I am surprised.
Which burdensome hotel regulations would you like to see removed?
Exactly ditto for me.
Who is being "oppressed"? And since when does some text in a file have any bearing on one's conscious?
"AirBnB allows to utilize spare capacity available in the already dense city that is doing no work at optimal pricing."

That statement is, to me, awful and terrifying.

I live in Berlin, where AirBNB is not popular at all. There's no problem with people renting out spare rooms, or their own flat whilst on holiday, but that's not what happens a lot of the time. Instead, apartments are taken permanently off the rental market, despite the fact it would be perfectly possible to find tenants for them at normal market levels of rent, in order that they can be rented out on AirBNB at a much higher price. They are not "spare capacity doing no work", they are flats deliberately being made unavailable to the local population that actually live in the city for the benefit of tourists and the landlords profit margin. Is that what you want? A city centre made up of tourists staying in "optimally priced" AirBNB flats, whilst the actual residents are forced to live elsewhere?

Unsurprisingly, despite AirBNB launching a massive advertising campaign in Berlin, aimed not at potential users, but at local residents, promoting the fairness of so-called "home-sharing"(nonsense, it's a holiday apartment rental business), public opinion is against them and in favour of the permit system now introduced in Berlin, which is free to rent a room, but requires a fee to rent a whole flat.
All tenure does is largely protect you from getting fired. They can still do a fair amount of damage though you still have employment. Lab space can be reduced, it can get harder to get approvals for research, decreased funding etc.
It isn't hard, it's just that with a bit of road in between you and the sky the signal is lost. Airplane use barometric pressure for altitude is in part backwards compatibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level