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Because vehicles are expensive and people don't replace them all that often? Affordable, capable EVs are relatively new and being competitive with gasoline vehicles doesn't necessarily mean they're so competitive that it makes sense to prematurely replace a working gas powered vehicle.

Longer term though, EVs replacing gasoline vehicles for those kind of use-cases is exactly what we're going to see. In the US, the postal service intends to start deploying tens of thousands of EVs over the next few years as they replace older gasoline powered delivery vehicles. The economics do apparently work out and pass the sanity check, just not overnight.
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Working in small teams for 7 years. Either on public facing sites, or internal tools to streamline business workflows, mainly in the architecture field, and like to work from start to end on projects : collecting requirements, interviewing with users, keeping an eye on design iterations, building (front/back/middle ground), and maintaining the given tool. I'm curious and like working with people a lot (coordinating with vendors, third-parties, users, etc).

My current tech stack is my current favorite but I'm keen on learning new languages or software design choices.

I would like to be a part of a bigger tech team working on an interesting product.
Most projects are private but I can demo them if we feel it could be interesting.
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I have a PhD in linguistics from UC Berkeley and am just trying to break into tech.
believe Amazon is in the right though. Amazon has multiple sellers for the same listing. You can see the different sellers by the purchase box and switch to a different seller.
> So take your money elsewhere.

The abuse will continue until prospective victims wisen up. There is A LOT of momentum in Airbnb.
> Metro also met a similar demise because it forced a black-and-white, no delimiter UI upon desktop computers.

I recall when they did this to Visual Studio.

They completely removed all colors from all of the icons, making it impossible to pick out one from another and making once familiar icons by color a hunt-and-peck operation to find.

It was all just black and white. Then, due to feedback, they relented and put color back on all the icons.

It was madness.
I imagine being indirectly or directly called a liar/fraudster by a giant multinational is personally upsetting to the parent poster.
Maybe I'm a bit of a small-town boy, but I find it hard to understand that a lot of people choose to live in these conditions and don't move away to somewhere quieter/safer.
This isn't just an AirBNB problem--lots of other companies like Amazon, Google, Expedia, Booking.com, and others do the same thing.
Have you tried getting them set up with Apple's (if they're on Mac/iOS) or Google's (if they're on Chrome/Android)? Using something built-in is almost always the lowest friction option, and it sounds like it's friction that's keeping them from the sticking with the password managers you've tried them on.
Well, SpaceX does build manned space capsules and runs a global satellite internet constellation. It also heards cows: https://www.vice.com/en/article/78xe5e/the-real-reason-space...
It would be in AirBnb's long term interest to promote accurate reviews to increase trust. If a host is bad and they don't get rid of them it will lose customers.
You're not wrong. However, if a company uses my presense (or lack of) on social media as a way to make judgements I will not give them a penny of business.
I think the article is extremely stupid, but upvoted it for discussion here.
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Autocorrect got me! Thanks
That could actually be very exciting.
Where Biosphere II failed, Lunar Palace 1 claims to have succeeded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuegong-1
A step-by-step guide to scheduling Re-Tweets
I spent three months talking to the "helpful" humans at VRBO's tech support, trying to get a refund from a stay that didn't happen due to weather. The host was great and issued the refund immediately, but VRBO wouldn't pass along the funds back to me. They kept alternating between pointing their fingers at the host and pointing their fingers at Expedia (who was involved in the transaction for reasons I still don't understand). When out of options, I took to trashing them all over social media and review sites, and then all of a sudden I got contacted by a part of their customer support org who seem to be able to do things. Finally, out of nowhere the refund quietly showed up on my credit card statement.

Awful experience, and I've sworn them off ever since. Very stereotypical "friendly but can't do anything" human customer support.
How's that different that having a neighbour in hot love with his lawnmover at 6AM ?
You have a say - go to your town’s planning and zoning commission, find others with similar concerns, and force votes on the legality of a full-time hotel next door.
I left a bad review once also. The host had it removed. But, in their review of me, they asked why I left a bad review. In the emails received from Airbnb asking for a review, they tell me as a guest that neither party can see the other review until both are submitted. Evidently, this is a lie. Otherwise, how would the host know whether my review was good or bad?

Another issue I have found is that many of the listings on Airbnb are not by the owner, but by some person acting independently as a broker. I have found this in many different countries. This may explain why, when I tried to request a booking, it was not available. The actual property owner had already rented it to someone else. Further, once the broker/host gives the owner the rent, there is no way to get any kind of a refund if there is an issue. The owner has no affiliation with Airbnb. The 'host' no longer has the money. And, Airbnb does not want to pay the expense. So, the guest is left hanging. Maybe they, too, can submit a review that the host will have removed. It's disgusting.

If risking the use of Airbnb, be very careful when a 'host' says a property is not available, but provides a link to a different property. It may have a very different cancellation policy than the original property.

Airbnb claims in their FAQ pages they want to be authentic. But, they seem to be authentic only in the support of their bottom line, even if that requires dishonesty in other areas to achieve.

Because of the combination of different issues, I have decided Airbnb can no longer be trusted. I now prefer to book hotels or apartments through competitor sites. I encourage others to do the same.
AirBnB somehow swung from consistently being better than hotels to always worse. Now I am just back to getting hotels, which is fine I guess, but it was nice while it lasted. I was a big AirBnB booster so it was disappointing to see this journey.
Developers are smart people who enjoy solving complex, interesting problems. If you give them a simple problem, very often they will find a way to make it interesting.
I keep getting surprised about how good Airbnb's marketing is.

It has convinced a whole generation of travelers to look for Airbnbs before hotels.

Nowadays, whenever I manage to convince my friends to stay at hotels, they are always taken aback by the concept of cheap hotels and how hassle free the whole experience is.

How did Airbnb accomplish this feat?
No, that’s not what I want. It could be a new single all encompassing entry point for any customer/persona to most efficiently get either the information they want or the application/person they need to handle a hard transaction.
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Isn't Mars' gravity just 0.39 of ours, that alone makes me think it's a fool's errand. Yes getting of this rock is a necessary step to taking over the galaxy but that doesn't sound good for humans. Now sending ever better robots might work. They can harvest materials etc and send them back.
> How do you specify "animation like x/y/z" on a screen?

And not just "a" screen, but screens of all dimensions and even physical interfaces (but mostly, desktops vs phones, which are completely different).

I've only dabbled mostly amateurishly on web frontend, but personally I think I'd prefer to serve totally different files to someone based on the form factor of their device rather than deal with reactive frontend frameworks. Heck, I already serve both Gemini and HTTP.
“Last generation” activists begin removing “end of speed limit” signs in Germany
In Germany, "Last generation" activists are removing "end of speed limit" signs. I wonder how that will play out...
Noise ordinances.
Not sure if adobe is any better
That might be what you think that word means, but it doesn't match the common usage (at least in my experience), nor the clear intent of the parent.
Is there any evidence that that actually improves anything?
Large-scale C++ Software Design by John Lakos

See also this talk he gave in 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZzN7WZ6EA
In evolution, most branches are dead-ends (just like in programming languages). Carbon for example is by design an evolutionary dead-end designed to solve some problems for Google. They’re trying to sell it as a generic tool, but knowing Google’s track record it’s hard to say how many will bite.
> keep part of Apple’s branding

I made no comment about actual performance.
Well most of the companies doing this aren't completely harebrained and they actually capture rental markets, Zillow is an outlier
What do you mean? There's no canvas in those examples.
Some are suggesting that the author is against the use of tagged unions.

I don't read it that way. What the author is against is using parameters for the specific purpose of controlling the flow of a function. Instead, the author recommends breaking the function up into as many functions as there are variants of the type key.

This also applies to boolean flags (where only two variants are possible). There are, of course, exceptions as the author points out.

The small win is that the type key no longer needs to be maintained. The big win is that each function that gets split out has fewer reasons to change. The individual functions are therefore easier to maintain and understand.
For me, reviews are a primary parameter when selecting a "thing" from "a platform". So when I experience that the platform is manipulating the reviews, I not only feel manipulated (maybe all previous times I overpayed, missed opportunities etc?) but I feel that what we all do know: we are there only to make that platform a nice revenue; it doesn't care about giving it's users the best value, it only cares about it's bottom-lines, which apparently don't align with my needs.
Come to Amsterdam. Its city wide hobby to shit on Airbnb by residents and complain to newspapers and city. They even had an official city sponsored online participation board dedicated to complaining about airbnb. And it was pretty successful. Now so much registration is required to rent on Airbnb and max days that pretty much only professionals are left. They also gave like 10k fines to citizens who forgot a few things or days in the registration process. So the pendulum swung the other way here.
A couple of months ago I had to develop a whole CRUD GUI in, wait for it...Excel, using VBA.

It was very much like designing desktop programs some 20 years ago using WinForms, which was actually a piece of cake using the designer tools that came with Visual Studio etc.

It's shameful that creating programs in Excel is such a smooth ride compared to even the most trivial web app. But of course, the web app must be compatible with a billion of other things, compared to Excel and VBA.
> Is that complexity necessary or artificially inflated?

100% inflated and ego-based. How do I know? After years of struggling to understand the increasingly complex front-end space, I decided to build my own full-stack framework [1] to check my own opinions weren't left-field.

Here's the harsh truth: it doesn't need to be as complex as it's made out to be. Not even close. I can speculate as to why (ego, job security, etc) but ultimately the punchline is that all of the APIs and a lot of the code under the hood are pointless Rube Goldberg machines.

People don't want to hear that because they're invested emotionally in a lot of these tools, but from direct experience doing multi-year research and building of a framework, it's all a scam.

[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
The city ought to be dealing with unlicensed hotels, but of course it won't, since decisions are made by the politically connected landowner class. Airbnb just gives better returns than longterm rentals, and because of that it also increases property values. Landowners won't reduce their income stream, that's for sure.
MacOS has also been much more willing to break backwards compatibility. You haven't been able to directly run 1993-vintage software for a long time, much longer than the equivalent Windows period. And the difference gets even clearer for more recent software.
It's not different at all. Were you expecting me to disagree? That's exactly the point I'm making.
Because business cares about business and moves too fast to get it right or waste time on values, and by the time enough people might object the network effect or inertia or tech debt or whatever you want to call it has become The Way It’s Done and nobody can stop long enough to fix that.
> If worst comes to worst, a private school can expel a kid who is causing problems.

Even deeper bingo.

In the first order, it's absurd how much better you can make your performance at a task look if you get to not count the times you dropped the hard cases.

For a second-order effect, the students who cause problems degrade the educational effectiveness of the entire classroom, so eliminating them improves performance for the rest of the students.

Unfortunately (for public schools re. their comparisons to private schools), our society demands that a cursory attempt be made to provide educational opportunities for _all_ of the children.
Very cool! Do you have privacy concerns?
Geography seems to have been a more important topic then. The Sandhurst exam, 1890-ish, included "draw from memory a map of some country or other", quoting Churchill from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76347/page/n27... :

> I also succeeded in passing the preliminary examination for the Army while still almost at the bottom of the school. This examination seemed to have called forth a very special effort on my part, for many boys far above me in the school failed in it. I also had a piece of good luck. We knew that among other questions we should be asked to draw from memory a map of some country or other. The night before by way of final preparation I put the names of all the maps in the atlas into a hat and drew out New Zealand. I applied my good memory to the geography of that Dominion. Sure enough the first question in the paper was: ‘Draw a map of New Zealand.’

I can well imagine that a military officer may need to have that knowledge at hand faster than consulting a map. ("I am the very model of a modern major general!" and all.) For upper-class U.S. Harvard students, trade knowledge may be more important, thought that doesn't explain needing to know the source of the Amazon.
Long time front end developer here.

This is pretty accurate. I would rank your issues a little differently though.

I think what's different here from other front end development are items 4 and 3.

So 4, 3, 1, 2; I guess.
So, are you saying small businesses shouldn’t be required to make employees whole for harms of the illegal labor practices the business undertakes? Because that’s the only consequence NLRB imposes.
There are topics on which I hold opposing positions logically and emotionally. There are topics on which I can hold different positions depending on my mood.

Humans are not robots, we do not compute our worldview from set of learned facts or opinions - it is formed by lived experience.

Therefore, neither convincing your opponent is guaranteed to ultimately change their mind - they may easily change it back hour later. Nor is it pointless trying to convince someone who appears immovable in their position - your words may be the last drop that will make them change their mind or at least put a crack in their worldview next time they think about the topic.
Interesting to note that there is ~30kWh of energy in a gallon of gasoline, so the reason EV would only take 20% of US electricity consumption is that they are 5x more efficient (than the 20mpg gas figure used).

Indeed seems manageable.
We are in agreement that Julia is not the origin of ! for this, I was just pointing out that if you want a historical take (what influenced what), Julia most likely got it from Scheme (whether it originated in Scheme or not is immaterial). Rust doesn't use ! to signify "This is a mutating function", it uses it to signify "This is a macro". Whereas Julia and Scheme use it as an indicator for the same thing: functions that modify their arguments. And Julia is known to have been influenced by Scheme, which existed when Julia's development started while Rust (publicly) did not.
You absolutely have a say in the matter, but it’s possible that on one will listen. Talk to your local city council person (or local equivalent) and see if they are willing to ban short term rentals in areas that are not zoned for it. My city did that and it’s pretty great.
Money creation in the modern economy – Bank of England (2014) [pdf]
There has been some discussion recently about financial systems on HN, where people were arguing that banks can't just create money, and some myths about reserve requirements and so on.

In the link is the article from Bank of England. It's not me saying it. Straight from a central bank of UK.

On the very first page:

> Whenever a bank makes a loan, simultaneously creates a matching deposit in borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money.

Later:

> And in the modern economy, those bank deposits are mostly created by commercial banks themselves.

and

> When a bank makes a loan, for example
to someone taking out a mortgage to buy a house, it does not typically do so by giving them thousands of pounds worth of banknotes. Instead, it credits their bank account with a bank deposit of the size of the mortgage. At that moment, new money is created.

> And reserves are, in normal times, supplied ‘on
demand’ by the Bank of England to commercial banks in
exchange for other assets on their balance sheets

Enjoy the read. If you'd like to venture deeper into the subject, consider watching vidoes with Richard Werner online. One example: https://vimeo.com/142597468?embedded=true&source=video_title...
> people are getting squeezed for living space and rising rents partially due to AirBnb taking those rentals off the market

From what I've seen, short term rentals have negligible effects on the housing market. And restrictions on short term rentals have little to no effect on housing prices. It's just another scapegoat (like foreign owned housing) that people like to use because they can't accept the fact that the solution is to BUILD MORE HOUSING. (Reduce restrictions like exclusionary zoning and environmental/community reviews)
I've tried Windows full-time again in 2022. I'm a developer. I bought an XPS 13 9310 UHD and activated Windows Pro. WSL2 make the life of a developer pretty easy, specially if you need Docker, it runs better on WSL2 than on Mac. But Lord! What a crappy UI/UX experience, but it is at least getting better. The battery management is terrible, make traveling with a "Thin and Light" laptop a bad experience, you have to be nearby a power outlet. On Dec 29 I bought another Mac. About same price of my XPS. Battery is amazing and the UI/UX still way better.

Note: People say that the XPS FHD has a good battery life. I don't care, I don't want a FHD, and UHD is a pretty bad product. Fix it.
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