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They do (or at least their TOS says they do), if there is not a very good reason (an emergency).

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/990
Multiple containers in different locations is a good idea, soft pouches can be more durable in some situations.

I once went bikepacking, and took a fall on a patch of soft sand partway to the campsite. When I got there, as the sun was setting off a dirt track in the desert, I opened my bag to find that my hard water bottle had ruptured and soaked the bag's contents. Without a camelback and silicone canteen which survived the fall, I might have had to use the SOS button.

Even more fortunately, I had organized most of my food/laundry/etc in large ziplock bags, which kept them dry. That was another useful lesson.
Not parent poster but: by all indications the Typhoon is a superior dogfighter. However it should be noted that modern air combat is not about movie-style dogfighting.

It's about BVR (beyond visual range) combat: launching a missile at a foe and killing him before he knows that you or the missile exist. It's also about survivability against enemy ground defenses attempting to lock onto you with radar and kill you with missiles.

For both of those things, stealth is a bare minimum requirement. The F-35 has it, the Eurofighter does not. (yes, stealth is not a binary property, but that is the TL;DR)

So the Typhoon is going to kick serious ass in certain situations and be completely unusable in others.
Unfortunate situation, but the risk always exists for this type of deals. This is also why hotels charge you x3. Do not forget to scan your airbnb for hidden cameras as well.

How do you expect airbnb should handle this situation?

AirCover policy says that they will find a similar place (whatever it means) or do a refund.

To not risk getting homeless, I think you need to always plan in advance for what to do in case expectations are not met with your stay.
Nothing will change until the government wakes up and starts defending consumer rights. It's a lost cause in the US but there's still a chance in Europe.
He had me until he started shitting on MS Office. I would disagree, I think O365 kind of crushes it value-wise. And yeah, they added the ribbon in 2007. The UI hardly changes year to year, and if you know Excel 2013 you will pick up Excel O365 pretty quickly, and you will actually be pretty psyched about some of the new features.
In the movie mention in the original post, the character looks up to a mobster. A mob guy would typically do loan sharking, so people would go to them for a loan.

If you're going to be a loan shark you can't have people thinking they won't have to pay you back. You have to break their kneecaps.
If possible, I strongly recommend extended stay hotels.

I finally threw in the towel and switched back to hotels after our previous stay in Toronto that was a nightmare, which included:

* Claimed we had the whole house but actually there was a family living in the basement and the laundry room was shared

* Host had crudely typed out instructions and labels over everything in the place

* House rules were extremely strict and required us to clear snow

* Had a 10pm curfew (which we broke because we got in late exhausted)

* Place wasn't terribly clean despite a listing with a $250 cleaning fee

* Absolutely the worst bed I've ever slept in

* Check-out instructions included a list of chores that went above and beyond the usual asks (eg: throwing out trash)

It wasn't always like this, but I feel like the quality of hosts has gone way down. I'm guessing most of the good hosts moved on during the COVID years.
When we first moved to the US, my dad gave a stack of cash from our previous country to a friend who was going to change it into dollars.

You already know how that went.

Some 20 odd years later the guy crawls back out of the woodwork. He had a guilty conscience and wanted to do the currency exchange finally. _At the exchange rate of 20 years later than was originally agreed apon_.

Dad told him to donate the now trifling sum of dollars to whatever charity he wanted, and that he's still going to hell for screwing over an immigrant family.
More expensive depends on location and type of accomodation. In London you can easily get a room on Airbnb for £50. Vs well over £100 for a hotel (I just looked and this is still the case). This has been the case in every city I’ve ever visited. I’d prefer to stay in hotels, but they’re simply too expensive for solo travellers.
best bet, it's feeding, right now, a giant dataset.

What someone could do with the known tecnology - not including hyphotetical AGI level tech, close to scifi - and that amount of information, probably automatically - even quite easily give how the input gets into the system - tagged and filtered data, could be in realms of several billions of value, maybe in months from now (just take a look at the value of OpenAI by now, 29 billions).

My 2nd bet is they are obviously using some of that data to improve their game, whatever systems they have behind the app, maximizing whatever thing they're maximizing (you'd think "money", but that's too linear, maybe they have 50 parallel targets).
Most Americans are completely incapable of that, and it’s not just strength hah.
It’s so wild to me. It performs objectively worse when that high, and adds no tangible benefit outside of ego, or literally looking down upon other drivers. Yet they have all gone that way to cater to the preferences of US consumers.
Video games.

I just bought my kids a switch to hopefully feel that nes era gaming. It kind of hits on it.

Pre-xbox was nice.
The game was pretty solid state.
The systems were 'dumb' and performed the function they were designed to do.

There wasn't 10 control configurations, touch this and that. They were games.

It's sad with the newer Mario's that if you die repeatedly it gives you a powerful at the start of the level.
> clean your room and towels daily

This seems to be increasingly not the case between the pandemic & low unemployment (and the long-term trend towards running laundry less frequently to save on water), but I've always preferred to not have them in my room while I'm there.
This is interesting and, possibly, they've become a victim of their own success.

Back in 2011 @bluehat and I started one of the first professional hacker houses in Silicon Valley (Palo Alto).

One of our competing hacker houses had somebody die at it (found out later it was of meningococcal meningitis - yay fun terrifying times). I believe we had multiple calls from Airbnb support to help absorb some of their guests.

I also distinctly remember multiple times where we had support contact us trying to help a guest who had a last-minute cancellation from someone else. But my data is super old… We shut that hacker house down around 2016 that was around the last time I had any of these kind of calls. I also haven't hosted in 5 years.
This is incorrect. Taxpayers are allowed to apply their lifetime gift exclusion before death. Line 7 on Part 2 of Form 709.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f709.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i709.pdf#page=20
My last Airbnb experience was six months ago. A room rented in an old Silverlake home. It was a superhost with dozens of rave reviews. The woman who owned the house was in her 80's. A few weeks in to my one month stay, she knocked on my door at 10PM and asked me to get ice for her at Whole Foods. When I declined she began screamed profanities, then proceeded to blast calypso jazz for a few hours, among other things.

She had some sort of dementia which is sad, but I could not comprehend how she had been a superhost with Airbnb for years. That is, until I left a review of my experience and Airbnb promptly deleted it. I'll stick to hotels from now on. As far as LA apartment hunting goes I still think I made it out unscathed.

Oh, also I started shorting $ABNB shortly after this experience and it's almost made the whole thing worth it.

Edit: It feels really good to finally tell someone about this. It was so bizarre I'm too embarrassed to tell friends or family.
> Alas, that's not how games work. Someone casts "Insanity", can it be removed with Dispel Magic? What about Antimagic Field? What happens if you kill the person, then resurrect them, do they come back with the insanity effect?

> The story must go on. You either decide that you want it ill specified (ie: whoever improvs the best gets the decision), or you have a rulebook that carefully lays out the interactions.

> You don't have to know the interactions. Simply knowledge that millions of other players have come across this game, and have likely already come across this situation and have analyzed the rules + made a decision is enough.

You need a way to resolve conflicts. But that doesn't need to be some kind of zillion-layer spell simulation game (and in fact I'd argue that that just lends itself to its own kind of bullshitting, where people find ways to do things like the peasant railgun or locate city nuke).

> Going back to the top. Insanity is 7th level and is explicitly stated that only 7th level spells and above (like Limited Wish) can remove it. Trying to bullshit a 3rd level spell (Dispel Magic) into removing Insanity means that the Wizards / Sorcerers become overpowered, relative to the abilities of everyone else. You have to make them spend a 7th level slot to heal this particular curse.

OK so why bother having specific named spells with specific mechanics? Just say that guy's a level 7 wizard so his spell has strength 7+d6, my guy's a level 3 wizard so my spell has strength 3+d6, we make our rolls and the explanation of what happens (he bewitches my mate to make him insane and I try to dispel it) is purely flavour? That's no less objective, no less easy to be fair about (in fact it gives me far fewer avenues to try and bullshit you), but it doesn't require us to go memorize a textbook's worth of spell names and interactions.

Think about how you as a DM resolve non-combat conflicts in D&D - I want to persude the King's council to do this, another party member wants to blackmail the chancellor to vote against me - something that's a far more interesting part of most RPG games than "the party kills all the orcs". Why isn't that worth simulating in all this mechanical detail? Or is it that simulating it in such detail wouldn't actually enhance the experience? Then why not treat combat the same way?
My perception is that the f35 suffers the same problems as nuclear power.

Great idea, great in production, but getting from idea to production is an overpriced, inefficient process that every engineer shakes his head at.
I think people here greatly underestimate the risk in becoming a FAANG programmer. It's a easier getting a FAANG job than becoming a top league sports player, but not by far.

There's also a bit of tunnel vision in that these amazing jobs didn't exist 10 years ago; the people who have graduated within that time span just feel like they've been around forever. But when I graduated, PHP programming paid less than working management at KFC. I even applied to a job at KFC because working in tech was this ridiculous fantasy, and I'd eventually run out of inheritance money.

I still don't have a FAANG job. And the odds of getting a FAANG job for me is much lower than the odds of making a million dollar company.

I think that's the case for many career decisions. Some guy out there has better odds at becoming a pro footballer than getting a FAANG job. Many people who become doctors are from doctor families. To them, amputating a foot sounds more doable than trying to make sure a server runs at 99.99% uptime.
It’s a lot better to be wealthy and pay a few grand a year for therapy than to be always broke and unemployed.
I tried playing Civ 6 the other day with my friend, here's what happened;

- Game crashed on startup - after searching online for a bit apparently changing your Steam Download Region can fix it. As in not redownloading the game from another region, just changing the setting. This worked.

- Start game, started in Windowed mode and changing resolution caused the mouse to move super slowly. Restart game. Fixed.

- Try to start game with friend. I can't join him, he can't join me. Generic error about not being able to join host. Search online, apparently newest build is broken.

- Do some more searching - apparently adding the beta code for the legacy version allows you to download the previously released version. Do that. We can now play together!

- Play for a few hours, have fun. I need to go so I suggest we pick up some other time. We ponder if this is possible. We see a "Save Game" option. Do that, but given the earlier issues, doubt it will be useable to continue playing later.

- Try to play the next day. We are right, the saved game is completely hosed and we can't resume progress.

- Uninstall Civ 6

I find this experience so typical of modern software. Seems like we are at a point in time where the really talented people have left software engineering due to age or being promoted upwards. It feels like as a collective software engineers have lost their culture and everything is too complex to grasp so we build complexity on top of a misunderstood base, and everything falls apart.
A bit OT: Airbnb reviews should be taken with a grain of salt. No one wants to leave a negative review with their real name and photo, that's why most Airbnb reviews are positive. I've stayed at a couple places with a 4.90+ rating but there were glaring issues. No one wanted to point it out in their review because they thought "the next guest would surely complain about it, plus why would I want to taint my own profile and start an argument online?" This is why I prefer hotels to Airbnb. I can search tripadvisor and/or google maps for real reviews.
F-35 is designed for export, I would suspect most of it is there, it’s no raptor.
The only time it seems reasonable to use AirBnb is when you’re traveling with a large group to a set destination; then you can rent a whole house and split up chores. Otherwise, you wind up paying just slightly less to stay in a place without service, meals, concierge etc usually far away from any attractions you might be interested in. I haven’t personally had any bad AirBnB experiences, but hotels have so many advantages and aren’t all that costly.
In India a superhost Airbnb is very costly; a lot more than a decent hotel room very often.
In one of the cases the Airbnb was smelling of cigarettes and rotten food. Fortunately I was able to make a video of the entire shit and after a couple of follow-ups with Airbnb, got the refunds.

And after having similar and more issues with Airbnb, i look for a hotel room.
Don't AirBNB until they fix things. Hotels are cheaper and more reliable.
i used them for 9 weeks last year in 3 separate stays.

Each apartment was exactly as advertised and considerably, like a third or less, cheaper than the least expensive *d hotel around. The hosts were responsive and I had no troubles.

My travel costs would have doubled if I had to stay at a hotel, possibly more since hotels typically don't have kitchens.
> and I highly doubt they are using DCS as a data source

No one said they did. But they do use simulators for training and mission planning:

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-35-lightning...
When I got hired to work at Wizards of the Coast (no longer there), the contract I signed said I would have to pay back my signing bonus if I left within one year, and 50% of my relocation package if I left before 2 years.

The one thing that often gets difficult with these things is that you get charged tax on the signing bonus (as additional income), but when you are required to pay it back you're expected to pay the full amount pre-tax.
I heard that they wouldn't let Maverick take up a single seat F35, so the F-18 was really the only option...
Well, they were also planning to stay for a month. At least in my opinion, hotels are typically not a great choice for a stay of that duration, and extended stay hotels are often in locations that just don't work if you don't have a car.
The appeal for me is that I prefer to have my own kitchen to prepare most of my own meals while traveling. Cannot do that in a hotel room.
That would require the Typhoon to be able to get a radar lock first.
Why not write two files ./clean.sh and ./build.sh instead?
The ones I was in last year were considerably cheaper than the hotels, other than the hotel rooms that were actually multi listed as Airbnb since there is a merging of those now...
I don’t agree with all of the example a here—I think software subscriptions work well in some instances and cars, besides a few outliers that have a terrible over reliance on touchscreens, are generally the best they have ever been—but social media and video games are worse in many ways.

Social media companies, but Facebook in particular, have always operated out of fear of missing the next big trend and never stopped to be content with what they were. And that poisonous attitude took over social media. They are all complicated algorithm driven nightmares. Twitter’s ability to sort chronologically is a cold glass of water in hell.

Video games aren’t completely bad. I think games are in some ways the best they have ever been, especially when it all comes together, but it is rare when it all comes together these days. All the big publishers put out broken, derivative games that require constant patching with giant downloads. It is especially bad on PC. Every big game is some level of broken for the first year. Part of that is probably a hangover from the pandemic, but I really hope something changes. It feels downright unprofessional the state some games release in.
It's more simple. Small air forces like to use the same jets as their allies because it reduces costs for everyone.

It means there's a larger pool of people qualified to fly and work on the jet, nations can do maintenance deals with each other to reduce costs, parts supply becomes less of an issue, air forces can fly to allied air bases and know that the tools, infrastructure, and mechanics are available for their jets, training costs and resources can be shared between nations, flying and integrating with other air forces becomes easier, shared experience on the same jet helps identify and resolve issues, etc., etc.
Unfortunate typo.
Former pilots use it… I would imagine they would know. The F-35 in particular isn’t super well modeled but it gets killed by what you’d expect to kill it, namely the raptor.

Face it stealth is a huge advantage in BVR when you are well outside the WEZ of fox 2’s.

And yes the F-35 gets killed in dogfights, however it slays pretty much everything in BVR.

Also reports from war games report the same kinds of kill ratios, basically until the F-35 runs out of missiles it will kill every 4th gen
We are a town of around 6,900 people over 30 square miles. There is an army of Amazon vans invading our town. Our local officials and police have no capacity to deal with this.

UPS, USPS and FedEx drivers do not show this level of dysfunction. There are issues, but they are isolated. With Amazon, I fully expect nearly every driver to be a menace.
> Besides issuing a prompt refund and hopefully banning the fraudulent host, what exactly is Airbnb supposed to do in such situation?

They could take a deposit in advance from the host that is forfeited (and goes towards compensating the would-be guest) in case of a major problem. This would remove the financial incentive for bad actors.

Same can apply for delivery drivers, etc - if the law can't be enforced (or if the law doesn't cover this bad behaviour), you need an incentive to keep them honest.

Problem is, doing this would eat into the company's margin - bad actors still provide "supply" in this marketplace and as long as the actor isn't bad enough to land them in significant PR/regulatory trouble, they are actually still an asset to the company. Most people for example, would settle for this scam when stranded in a foreign location late at night, so in the end both the scammer and Airbnb benefits. In terms of food delivery, a dishonest driver nibbling on orders here and there is likely to go unnoticed for a long time and is better than throwing an error about no delivery drivers being available, and the occasional complaint for an outright-stolen order can be stonewalled as most people (even here!) don't seem to be aware that payment card chargebacks are a thing.

Weeding out most bad actors would mean that prices on the marketplace will rise as the downwards pressure from less scrupulous hosts (if not outright scammers) goes away, to a level where it's no longer competitive with hotels.
The just manual describes some ways to do this.
https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_65.html

The intended way seems to be to invoke just with explicit --justfile and --workdir arguments, and wrap that invocation with a shell alias/function.
I think for me there is just so much garbage out there that it's not worth it to me to even read enough to find out if it's any good.
Is Amazon and door dash a competitor to UPS?

If I ship something important or for business, I want either UPS or FedEx Express or USPS to take care of it.

Amazon and doordash is for low value trinkets, and I do not trust random people enough to even order food from doordash or whatever.
The thing that bugs me about video games these days is that they all seem like a bunch of work instead of the fun of discovery.
I’m...talking about using make for its intended purpose, which is selectively building artifacts whose dependencies have changed, e.g. compile executable A if source code files X Y or Z have changed and leave it alone if not.

What exactly are you talking about? Are you upset that make isn't a cross-platform package management system?

You don't know what alternative there is to Make and then in the next breath you say the only arguments for it are personal preference?
The problem is that for longer stays the typical hotel room is a lot less comfortable than an Airbnb apartment or condo with more space and a kitchen and without weird hotel WiFi that often barely works at all.
AirBNB runs this scam all the time. Say AirBNB because they’re actively part of the scam in my opinion based dealing with similar situations and them intentionally not offering guests insurance, guarantees similar to those they offer hosts, have guest cancel policies, etc; even their current marketing to guest called “AirCover” to me intentionally misrepresents what they actually offer and they removed the clause about actually covering guest costs if a host cancels the booking.

Thought about starting simple AirBNB guest insurance company, but if it was successful, AirBNB would just offer it as a service and business would be dead within days.

If you’re going to book on AirBNB only use super hosts, since odds of them canceling a stay is significantly less, especially compared to new listings.

In my case, hosts cancelled the booking with less than 24-hours prior to the month long stay starting; Host messaged me via AirBNB’s system asking me to cancel it and saying they would refund me off platform (which I obviously didn’t do and is against AirBNB’s terms of service); AirBNB cancelled the stay for host; AirBNB told me to pay the host 3-4x more to rebook the stay, then when I told them that’s bait-and-switch and fraud, they told me to take them to arbitration; AirBNB allowed the host to relist the booking for 2-3 times more and rebook the stay; AirBNB refused to let me leave a review on the listing and/or post an automatic review saying my listing had been cancelled; they funds tied to the booking for the month long stay were paid upfront and not refunded in week after booking was cancelled; AirBNB made no effort to find a like or similar stay, they basically said using their website was identical to them helping find a stay; etc.

Do NOT trust AirBNB as a guest - always have a backup plan and funds available to cover it.
Not sure what your point is. Countries can buy the F-35B variant which does support it.