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I am a big time traveler. When AirBnB appeared on the scene, it was a life changing event for me. So much better then hotels.

Since then, AirBnB have not added anything that benefits me. But booking.com have catched up massively. To the point that I prefer booking.com again these days. I would have never expected that to happen.

Some of my pet peeves with AirBnB:

AirBnB's reviews are not chronological. So you have to read them all to make sure you do not miss recent complaints.

AirBnB does not show the exact location of the apartments.

AirBnB sometimes removes negative reviews for no good reason.

AirBnB lets hosts get away with removing their listing (due to negative reviews) and relist them with a clean slate.

I really hope AirBnB will stay strong. A healthy competition between them and booking.com is probably best for travelers.

By the way, anybody here using something other then AirBnB or booking.com? Would love to hear if there are other good options to consider.
That's not really the whole picture. Nuclear power doesn't produce CO2, but does produce radioactive waste which must be stored somewhere.
It's not the poster who makes the claim: "Team closes in on 'holy grail' of room temperature quantum computing chips" https://phys.org/news/2019-09-team-holy-grail-room-temperatu...
Children create lactase to process milk (lactose) until around puberty, then they stop creating it. I learned in college that studies have shown that a lot of people of Northern European descent continue to create lactase into adulthood, and thus can continue to break down milk and cheeses without issue.

There is still a percentage of non-European population that can consume lactose into adulthood, and not break it down without any external symptoms.
That’s not actually true. A certain real estate leasing firm could give away the first year on a three year commitment to book the revenue at a very high COGS, allowing for unsustainable revenue growth. The internet 1.0 had many great examples of this.
You could start a different business instead.
I really liked this essay:

http://paulkingsnorth.net/2013/01/17/dark-ecology/

And the author gets to a similar point:

” And so I come to this point, and I ask myself: what, at this moment in history, would not be a waste of my time? And I arrive at five tentative answers.

[...]

Four: Insisting that nature has a value beyond utility. And telling everyone. Remember that you are one lifeform among many and understand that everything has intrinsic value. If you want to call this ‘ecocentrism’ or ‘deep ecology’, do it. If you want to call it something else, do that. If you want to look to tribal societies for your inspiration, do it. If that seems too gooey, just look up into the sky. Sit on the grass, and touch a tree trunk, walk into the hills, dig the garden, look at what you find in the soil, marvel at what the hell this thing called life could possibly be. Value it for what it is, try to understand what it is, and have nothing but pity or contempt for people who tell you that its only value is in what they can extract from it.”
Counter point: They have major investment and signed contracts from real manufacturers like Ford (which is the real issue with starting an EV company, sure you can design an electric truck but can you build them?) The fact of the matter is that they now have the tech, solid R&Ded designs and the best people on earth to help them make them, this is not what any other company has ever had at EV manufacturing, not even Tesla.
Or realistically it means they will collect the same and wait for clarification. Since it's worded so poorly they won't be punished for it or going by past examples in California the fine will be so small it was worth it.
Really? Most sites I go to other than ones like hackernews work way better without javascript.

If you create an account on wikipedia you can tell them to serve you formulas using images or mathml but without doing that formulas stop working. Those hover previews hang midori though, I wouldn't mind losing those.
That's what I'm saying man this behavior is just beyond selfish. And we are leaving nothing for the next generations to use in terms of raw materials in order to help us become a space-faring species. Society is perverted to the core.
And what is your problem complying with that if you collect no information nor share any information?
I'd suggest that in your example, the purchaser isn't having all details about himself being recorded and monetized by the supplier, just simply for contacting the supplier: no agreements of trade have been entered into, but even if they had, there's little cause for selling the information to other 3rd parties.

Surely the purchaser has some rights to sovereignity?
> However, some conspiracy theories turn out to be true, so we can't discount all of them without a merits-based examination of each hypothesis.)

No. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Unless evidence moves the Bayesian priors, conspiracy theories should be regarded as the garbage they are.

I don't subscribe to the post-truth society.
Pesticides are necessary for current crop productions .. crops that go to growing fuel (ethanol), food starch and other things we have mass use of, but that are not going to be sustainable.

Bee populations are suffering greatly and we needs those bees to grow a lot of our food. It doesn't help that bees are shipped in to places like the Almond farms in California, putting them in a lot of stress and hurting their colonies. Even though worker bees only live 2 ~ 4 weeks, the stress of transport does affect these pollinators.

It would make sense the decline in insect populations affecting birds for sure. Pesticides aren't limited to areas around farms and most likely find their way far out into the environment.

So if pesticides are the problem the question is, how do deal with the agricultural industry that depends on them? Is it possible to get our population to stop consuming as much crop based product and prevent more of the pesticides from entering the environment? Or is there a way to limit their effects?
i think the whole bit implying that one has to be mentally ill or on drugs to see such a thing is kind of made in bad faith. for what it's worth, i certainly suffer from mental illness and i have been "out of this dimension" in terms of drug abuse in the past so to speak and i certainly have never witnessed such a thing in my life. so i find it hard to believe either of those things would make one more likely to perceive such things and view them in such a manner. if anything id be more willing to say that it would more likely be someone who has an overactive sense of confirmation bias, but of course I have no idea.
how do you suggest to solve the adtech situation without regulating all businesses?
TBF, the waves propagate more literally through anything than neutrinos. In a, you know, "technically correct" sense.
They seem much better IMO
> This all seems very un-Stripe like, and TBH has me a little worried.

Well, I brought this up, but for what it's worth, as a user who's been thinking about this for a long time, I don't know how they could have done it any better given the new regulations and good support for payment methods that aren't credit cards.
A man who linked CO2 to climate change in 1895
The best place to learn about this is to check out the memos Howard Marks has written over the years.
Yes, since mid-2018, Huawei has not provided a public method for anyone to unlock the bootloader of any Huawei phone.

https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-huawei-decision-stop-boot...

If you can't unlock the bootloader, that means you can't change the OS or root the phone.

This upset developers, especially since Huawei pays XDA Developers to promote their sub-brand (Honor) with sponsored content. It's ironic to see Huawei ads plastered all over XDA when Huawei phones are not developer-friendly at all.
Much to most of KSA's oil is full of heavy sulfur content and is considered sour. Virtually all of the Texas oil is considered sweet. WTI (Texas Sweet) is basically the benchmark for the best oil. Some of the best oil (sweet) in the middle east traditionally was from Libya, but since team america world police took out Gadaffi it has been a mess there. I'm not very familiar with Canadian oil as we don't need much of it here.

https://www.oilandgasmiddleeast.com/drilling-production/3496...

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Saudi crude is generally a mix of heavy to medium sour oil, which is generally high in sulfur and yields a decent amount of residual fuel and vacuum gasoil.
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_crude_oil

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The major producers of sour crude oil include ... Saudi Arabia
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I wasn't meaning they have no sweet light crude oil, only that it is the overwhelming minority of what they have.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-middle-east-crude/analysi...
I want to say it means more like the on ramps to crypto are kind of fucked. Coinbase and other on ramp providers have terrible fees, its almost exclusively the primary reason I don't swap fiat into crypto currency.
All those wetlands are filled with water, which we are polluting. Trump removing the Clean Water Act last week also doesn't help the situation. Eventually this water will get contaminated, insects and species will die. There's no doubt in my mind of that if we keep putting money first.
Ambedkar was a response to Gandhi and his caste Hindu movement. The Independence movement is split into three groups: 1) Upper Caste Hindus 2) Untouchables (or Harijans as Gandhi called them) 3) Muslims. Most untouchables did not like Gandhi because he sought to keep the caste power structure, hence the response from Ambedkar to escape that hierarchy altogether by moving to Buddhism.

The initial organized independence movements which were largely confined to Bengal during the 1900-1918 timeframe were very much an upper-caste movement.
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Yeah, I don't know anyone who uses the term "deep state" unironically that doesn't also have strong opinions about what that actually means.
IANAL, but I'm guessing it's the difference between opting in and opting out?

For example, I think it would be legal for Verizon to get around this law by increasing their prices by $5 across the board, and offering a $5 rebate for customers who want to opt-in to their data being sold.

But it would not be legal for Verizon to allow customers to opt-out of data collection by paying an extra $5 a month.

In the first approach, Verizon will not track by default and customers have to opt-in.

In the second approach, Verizon will track by default and customers have to opt-out.
At a guess: Engineering overhead of two separate extension models, the "real extension" model can't do the kind of cross process communication a lot of extensions really need (password managers, etc).

Then performance problems of extensions injecting and running a pile of JS into all pages.

But yeah, I am not looking forward to losing ublock. I (Safari fanboy) will probably delay updating as long as possible.
From Kotlin to Native: Or how Kotlin concepts are mapped to the Apple framework
No, I have both, the problem on the Thinkpad is the OS. Simply nothing will come close to the productivity of macOS. I’ve tried Windows 10, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, multiple Linux distros (Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSuSE, KDE Neon, etc - I am not new to Linux) and even Haiku on the Thinkpad and I think its going on eBay next.

macOS has steadily been going down hill in innovation and its feature loss and constant addition of useless features (Sidecar? SwiftUI? Catalyst?). Apple’s obsession with control and Apple’s lack of focus are real problems too. However, other operating systems are so far behind in usability it is hard to even consider them instead.

The keyboard on the Thinkpad is far better though.
The GDPR does a lot to protect user data. As someone that’s implemented stuff at a huge company for GDPR and at my startup, it was waaaay harder at the larger company. The ICO has been beyond helpful with the few questions I’ve had recently and implementation for my startup has been fairly straightforward.
While I generally agree that they can be useless, they can also help in searching and finding quality content. If you're getting a bunch of fake negative reviews then that is a different problem.
This would be true, except bcmp has been removed from posix some years ago. There's no particular requirement that a function called bcmp does what you expect.
Because then they'll have to be up front about "why" they're charging you a lower amount, which puts a real dollar value on the data for the user, something which previously was never disclosed.
I don't think lawmakers have thought through the ramifications. Here are a few:

Way too hard to enforce, the definition of 'customer data' is going to be a constantly moving target. Does every click count? How about aggregated clicks important for general product optimization?

What constitutes 'selling' user data? Very few companies actually sell your data, instead they place ads based on your data. Will that be banned as well? Many companies, including Google would have to significantly change their pricing model if so.. yet that is apparently illegal.
By your rule, companies should not engage in A/B testing to figure out how to make their sites easier to use. Because that involves tracking users for a purpose that is not actually essential to delivering content and services.

Does this outcome make sense to you?

(Disclaimer, I have worked in adtech a little bit, but I have worked a lot more with A/B testing.)
oh i was always wondering where Elvis' name came from in that game. thanks for sharing a potential bit of provenance
What's extraordinary about conspiracies?
If this is your experience buying things internationally from smaller websites, that surprises me greatly. When I purchase items from US retailers in European countries, before the item arrives, I get a little slip to pay the duties on the item. If I don’t pay, the item doesn’t arrive.
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> for the first time, you can have fast, convenient trading without custodial trust.

Really? From your description it sounds like I would have to trust Sparkswap and some other unknown bank with my fiat.

> In just the first half of 2019, almost $500M^3 was stolen from custodial exchanges.

And why would you be immune to this?

> product that solves a real problem

What problem? To buy LN coins instead of Bitcoins?
They're trying to make a computer that computes using light that bounces around inside the computer. The more the light bounces around, the dimmer it gets, and the less effective it becomes at computing things. They figured out a way to make the light bounce around twice as long (and so be able to compute more stuff) before it gets too dim to work any more.

("Dim" isn't quite the right word, but you did say five.)
Namely that Im not using coinbase, who are essentially the facebook of the crypto world.
Do you have an error log on your web server? Does that only collect data that is essential or do you do something like log a referer or IP address or user id in hopes that it might be useful un debugging. Is there an access log? What happens if a user asks to delete their data. Do you go back and scrub all such logs? What about if you have a backend service that logs errors about what data it had problems accessing. Or an SQL server that logs bad queries?

It's not so straight forward as you make it seem.
Population has been a red flag topic in the environmental community, for decades at least. One issue is the typical inverse relationship between population growth rate and per capita resource usage. Plus the fact that population growth rate tends to drop with increasing economic development, particularly increased educational opportunities for women. So it tends to self correct, over time.

Still, the overshoot is problematic.
It’s jarring to see such headlines on TechCrunch. They fed the valley by giving every little news a place and are ne of the original hype masters for startups. They profit off the area by hosting the disrupt conference as well, which is again a huge pat each other on the back event. So now they turn around and post a headline like that is just somehow ugly to me. It’s absolutely in their right obviously.
Is this a hypo or a real example?
Am I the only one who noticed multiple spelling errors in the article. "whine" instead of "when", "revelled" instead of "revealed" :(
> SS through ML is commonly a nasty, duct-taped work-flow that at best results in a system that looks more like a POC or DEMO than a proper production system, unless you work at Bing/Google that is (probably, but I have no hands-on experience of those systems).

This is being worked on in Solr community. See an in-progress book: https://www.manning.com/books/ai-powered-search
And related issue for an example of work: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9418
> However, we also think that the experience of instant transfers is valuable, so on a risk-based approach we allow instant transfers using ACH for certain customers and certain transaction sizes.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding how ACHs work. There's no such thing as an ACH that is "completed". At +180 days the state is "It is probably going to be fine". At +365 days the state is "It is probably most likely going to be fine" etc.

Source: Done consulting for execs at medium sized banks.
Yeah, you haven't answered the question. A box-office bomb does badly at the box office; that's all it means.
Wow when did appeasement become something americans should be ok with. Why are you so ok with that being the world we live in. Tip toeing around monsters instead of pushing them out of the world stage.
They can start charging everyone and offer a "data-share discount" back to free.
llvm9 branch will be merged into master today (as soon as the CI infrastructure is updated with LLVM 9) and it has basic risc-v support in the std lib, as well as cross compilation targeting risc-v using glibc and musl.

edit: [me updating the CI infrastructure](https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1174769700343074818)
This begs the question a bit, no?

There is definitely a discussion to be had about nuclear energy. However I'd like to point out that the way you phrased your comment makes it sound as if there's no discussion at all, that building more nuclear plants is obviously the right choice and that any sane, reasonable person would agree.

I personally am not completely anti-nuclear but am deeply skeptical of the human agencies which we would have to rely on to manage nuclear power plants safely over the lifetime of the plant and its residue.

I am a bit tired of advocates of nuclear power dismissing the concerns of others, so if I am over-reacting, I apologize.

I actually think if nuclear advocates faced head-on the terrible reputation of the industry, and acknowledged that while some fears may be irrational (and that other feares _are_ rational), they are certainly _understandable_, and worked to repair it, and show demonstrable change in transparency with the public at large, nuclear power could have a role to play.
I think the idea is that regulation always has unexpected side effects, some of which can be abused to actually do the perverse inverse of what they're intended to protect against.

This is intuitive because regulation + law can really put a competitive barrier for established incumbents who (and arguably, they would be the target for lawsuits here) have resources to implement and comply with these regulations.

The law does sound great as a consumer, but I think the question is still up in the air about how will it be enforced and what will be the unexpected side effects?

Definitely something to watch for.

P.S. We've been working on a developer-friendly SaaS that helps companies automatically comply with jurisdictional controls + data security / privacy controls. Feel free to email me: mahmoud - @ - https://verygoodsecurity.com and I can dive deeper to answer any questions.
If you used a programming language where you could only create (prod-footprint) and modify the state of (op-footprint) objects but you could never garbage collect them … what would you think of that language?

Don't you need + Disposal-Footprint(EV-Van) and + Disposal-Footprint(ICE-Van) tacked on to the end of both of your equations?

EV and ICE vans don't magically poof! into thin air once you're done with them.
I don't think that works quite like you think it does. The Federal government generally does not restrict states from making stronger laws than the equivalent Federal law. Take the Federal minimum wage, for instance: they set one level, but states are free to set a higher minimum wage.

This case follows the same pattern: whatever meager privacy protections in place at the Federal level will continue to apply, but California law will take precedence in the case where it's stronger.

There are certainly exceptions, like how currently Trump and the EPA are attempting to disallow CA's higher vehicle emissions standards, but, again: exceptions. (In this case, the relevant law has specific language that makes the EPA the final authority on this sort of thing, and requires states to get waivers for going their own way. That's not a general, common thing, though.) And I expect that bit to be tied up in court for a while.
Haha I love that. Maybe I should turn on the redesign.
seems like you need to read some good scifi. i'd recommend the culture series.
It does look like APL or Perl without enough understanding of Haskell (which I know very little about). I am guessing you have some experience writing Haskell code, so it looks clear to you.

The example used idiomatic one or two letter variable names (x, n, xs) which I found difficult to read. The rewritten example was much clearer to me because I could see the variables.
No, it's been 6 months
From Blue Apron's SEC filing:

> We have experienced net losses in each year since our inception. In the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016, we incurred net losses of $(30.8) million, $(47.0) million and $(54.9) million, respectively.

Blue Apron and AirBnB are not comparable.
Um, citation please.
Just signed up but apparently you need a hundred visits per day to qualify. If I had that sort of traffic, I would just go with adsense ...
Reading the first part of the sentence got me hopes up that something resembling a perfect room temperature for a shared office actually exists
I see a lot of comments deriding this law, can someone explain to me why these are bad things?

Jeff Hammerbacher: ‘The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads… That sucks.’

Those best minds are now having to change the way they generate revenue..
Interesting so this means that if someone really want llvm to support an extension (say a C attribute) that GCC supports, then you "just" have to make a contribution to the Linux kernel that use the gcc attribute and that is a minimum useful.
Then LLVM will prioritize the support of said attribute.

As such, hardcore developers might become new Linux contributors just as an Indirect (but effective) way to force LLVM/clang to add support for an attribute.
A direct listing is definitely the most likely option which is why they didn’t call it an IPO anywhere. They already have huge numbers of institutional and strategic investors. I’m not sure who you think they are waiting to get investment from. Crunchbase lists 53 investors including YC, Sequoia, Andreesen Horowitz, Greylock, Founder’s Fund, CapitalG, and TCV. They turned down SoftBank funding. Their shares have been owned by mutual funds from Vanguard, Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Principal, T. Rowe Price, and Hartford for at least five years. They’ve already raised the warchest that you’re talking about.

Spotify and Slack had fine initial listings, but they are both losing tons of money so the market reacted negatively as their quarterly earnings made this more and more clear. Not a great comparison to a company that has been printing money and hasn’t raised a serious round in years.