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Tell me how regulation solves this? Why is it that this couldn't happen in a hotel? (Guarantee it does all the time)

There isn't any regulation that can fix people being jackasses. This isn't AirBNB's fault, and it isn't the OP's fault. It's the jackass who held the party fault. Could the OP have done things differently? Sure. It's likely the sublet wasn't entirely legal, and it's likely he could have renter's insurance. That being said, his insurance still probably shouldn't have to pay it. That is what AirBNB's cut should be covering. And I'm sure they will in fact cover it, as this is really bad publicity for them. The only reason for this post is to make that money get there faster.
While you're sort of correct, in my opinion AirBnB should be liable for something like this. It might make them take better steps to prevent it. You're not going to stop it 100% of the time, but there are plenty of horror stories here, and that's turned me off from ever trying it personally.
I agree completely with her grandmother:

> Grandmother: “Why did you borrow money you could not repay?”

> Her: “I thought I could repay it until the bailouts happened.”

> Grandmother: “That is no excuse. You need to repay them.”

For some reason, a lot of people my age lack any sense of personal responsibility. It's not the author's fault she couldn't repay her loans. It's everyone else's. Lately I hear more and more people blame all of their problems on everyone but themselves and it's starting to get really annoying. My (recent) ex-girlfriend was (is?) failing her history class and blamed it on the professor for not making the attendance policy more prominent in the syllabus. It wasn't her fault she was skipping class and getting points deducted.

You know what the author could have done? Not gone to college. Get a vocational position and save up until you have enough to go if that's really what you want. Apply for scholarships. There's plenty of options.
Wait, if you're evicted you're liable for all the rent for the remainder of the lease?
I am too nice to do what those people do. I am too nice to fire anyone, to stab my partner in the back. To steal millions from my employees. To lie to investors.

I am just too honest damned. and just too damn nice to attempt to do what these people do.

Remember the Simpsons episode with Bill Gates where he says "I didn't get rich by writing checks!"

And why the hell are you defending those people? Do you wish to be one of those one day? What is in it for you to spend time with a dope like me sniffing their shit?
lol!sorry but that's funny!Well, if I were a porn producer,it would be a cheap way to rent new locations to shoot porn flicks for sure!
Sounds like she is defaulting, but paying.

The idea of the default is to stop additional interest from being charged.

Then pay down the full debt, wait 7 years and done.

It's not a terrible strategy actually - although it has some serious drawbacks.
You missed her point completely.

She IS paying the debt. By defaulting she is stopping the interest from accruing, but she still pays the principal.
If Zillow's estimates are at all accurate, the building at that address is full of $2M+ condos that rent for $6-8K/month. He mentions the doorman; he's probably pretty well off to afford living there.
For lots of stuff along these lines, Kirsten Dirksen has alot of interesting videos on youtube where she explores cool houses: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsElQQt_gCZ9LgnW-7v-cQ
Thanks for the feedback, a very good point re: thumbs up etc and something we're looking into changing.

Horizontal scrolling was an early call, it gets more content per inch of screen than scrolling down for most users (unless you have a vertical screen. We felt it was a more immersive experience and broke away from the obvious competitors. Feedback so far has been 80/20 love/hate, and we're considering changing it as we go live.
Also the untoasted bread would jump into the toasters and come back out toasted.
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> What functionality would you propose stripping?

The complexity here is not in the functionality. It's in the design and implementation.

> The main loop takes some milliseconds.

The MCU has a 16MHz single-cycle core. That means a 62.5ns instruction cycle, or 16,000 instructions in 1ms. What makes it require >16,000 instructions every time through the loop?

> What benefit would a "continuous" (do you mean asynchronous?) serial protocol have?

I do mean a continuous one, with the master driving the clock at the frequency of the main loop, and the slave(s) synchronising their transmissions with it. One of the biggest advantages I see is that you can make use of unused positions in the key matrix, so that they can be scanned at the same time as all the others. You just need to know which one, and instead of applying debouncing/up/down, accumulate the bits of scancode that are sent in and pass them through.

> 1. It wouldn't work well with the symmetric halves design. The cable would have to switch the TX and RX lines, and no common cable does that.

GPIOs are bidirectional. You can do the crossover configuration entirely in software, since the current design already detects whether it's plugged in from USB.

> 2. It wouldn't support more than two keyboards at once

How would you do this with the current design? They're symmetrical, but I don't see any way to chain or hub them together (unless you use a USB hub to connect as many independently as you want...), so I think that's a bit of a moot point. But if you are thinking of a star topology for this "keyboard area network"(!), using another unused key position in the matrix of the master for more extension boards would work. Each board could act as a hub for more, but this quickly gets into "why would you ever want to do that" territory.

> unless I implemented a shared-line serial protocol from scratch, and then why not just use I2C?

Because I2C was defined with different assumptions in mind.
> people rarely solve problems on whiteboards

I don't know what you do or where you work, but it's no job I've ever had, nor any office I've ever been in. It's not unusual to end up spending most of a day in rooms with whiteboards and a few colleagues working through problems.
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The cargo-cult phenomenon dates from before the internet, but the internet (and certain historically recent social changes, too, I think) create an echo chamber of massive proportions that changes the nature of the phenomenon. In this environment, it becomes much more difficult to insulate yourself from cargo-cult thinking, and much more difficult to tolerate opposing opinions.

(@jsmthrowaway I'd enjoy discussing this in more detail off-forum, if you'd like.)
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Oh, I realize she is paying it. It's just that she shifted the blame of the problem.
There's a plan here in Oregon to try and work up a viable system to do this. The idea is called "Pay it Forward" and you would essentially pay a 3% tax for 20 years after you graduate. I'm not entirely sure it will ever come to pass, but it's not a terrible idea IMO. It may not save money, but it does mean you get an automatic income based repayment plan, you can never be in default and you get an automatic deferral when unemployed.

That said, it doesn't really do anything to fix the problem of skyrocketing education costs which is less than idea...
I guess affordability is relative. Last I checked, air locks were pretty expensive.
Grasshopper for Rhinoceros is top of the line for visual algorithmic modeling. You can also write python scripts and use them as custom nodes, I see no boundaries with it.
The tough part is convincing one of them to get verified before destroying someone's apartment. It's pretty hard to walk away from the damages after giving up your payment info, a copy of your drivers license, and a link to an established (not newly created) social media profile on Facebook or LinkedIn, which are part of AirBNB's verification.
It is supplied by corporations, but it is a HIGHLY regulated industry, and almost all corporations have a government granted local monopoly. Very little choice in where you get your electricity from.
Wonder how the "million dollar" insurance policy will work out for this guy...
is a colleague ina room with you?
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Stupid question, if everyone does this do we expect that these loans will still be available?

Maybe it was the "best Decision of (YOUR) Life" but every time this happens it hurts these programs even more.

Congratulations on a perfectly self-centered Millennial decision that was the best decision of your life that most likely made these programs one step closer to being discontinued.

I guess I'm old fashioned, I've never signed something I've not read and I always honor my commitments to the best of my ability and with honor and respect for everyone involved.
This is a really great point. While I don't mind increasing security at the major failure points in the short term, it makes a lot more sense to make the system as a whole more resilient and get rid of the small failure points.
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That's a sad story. Clearly not a common occurrence (at least not common enough to be "oh another airbnb trashed my place" type response).

So what happens next will be interesting.

Presumably AirBnB's insurance will make the renter whole again.

Also presumably their ability to identify the person responsible will allow them to press charges against them, I suspect there are codes against charging cover charges for a sex party (I vaguely remember the controversy over the sex club in LA about this, something about indirect solicitation but that was like in the 70's so I'd really have to go back and dig it up.)

It seems like the 'TWINN' character was reasonably well connected in this community and perhaps if a great big hassle comes his way it will discourage others from that community in using AirBnB that way.

Definitely a wild story though.
Notice we are talking about the government as some "other" instead of what it should be, made of you and me. Lets rephrase what you said with that in mind.

"Wasn't that, in at least part, the reason why WE felt the investment was worth making? To fund (expensive) basic research that can then be taken to drive and create enterprise?"

and let me finish it off for you.

"that can then be taken to drive and create enterprise so that we can pay out the ass for everything we buy so that a couple of snakes can have billions."

The reality is the government made that decision behind our backs. Nobody asked you and me. They made that decision to pad the pockets of their friends. They are just administrators after all.
Docs are a good place to start. In the projects I've worked on, new contributors usually enter when they've found a bug/desired-feature and worked out a fix for themselves. Aside from that, good first commits are usually smaller, so it's easier to review, and address a single concern. After you get a commit accepted, you can start claiming commits.

Answering questions on Stack Overflow / mailing lists / issue trackers can be a good way to build up trust in your abilities and a working relationship with other contributors.

Often projects label things that are "good for a first commit" and you should check out those.

All that said, most projects are eager to include new people, and personally I enjoy helping new contributors feel comfortable and get their commits accepted.
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You missed Xcelerate's point. They're complaining about her attitude. Of course she's paying off her loans, she has to. Student loans typically can't even be wiped away by bankruptcy. If she could I'm quite sure she would.
Ah, the old "Google is just an advertising company" cliche. This is just a small step from the Reddit hipster memes that say things like "oh, self driving cars are not that interesting, they're just a way to get your attention off the road and onto their ads".

The vast majority of engineers at Google have never worked on click through rates in their lives. Downplay it as a "feeder technology" all you want, but I'm pretty sure Google search, for instance, has had a huge impact on humanity. One that some people might consider just as important as sending a robot to Mars.
she just said in ther the board is the wrong color. ive got a black pen itz in my hand so that's y the board is white now ive forgotten wat I was gonna write onit . I can't imagine bein da boss of all ya I wouldn't trust my friend whos not angry to know how to pick up the right people watsit employ, rite ur hired go home get dressed den go in there were its says room and start doing somfin, dats wat shes like
I'm willing to give up my personal privacy if everyone else is. That's the catch now, isn't it?
Fences [1]. And while we're at it, also recommend DisplayFusion [2]. It allows you to replicate toolbars across multiple monitors, plus a bunch of other customizations.

[1] http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
[2] https://www.displayfusion.com/
There is cheap land in Detroit. (I know, its pedantic, but it disproves the statement)

But this project isn't really solving a problem per se, its a design project.
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What are some uses of a USB slave device?
Randomness is a factor whenever you have social interaction; as it turns out, people are subjective to the core. Trying to gauge someone's ability to deliver results is educated guesswork at best. You can only be so objective about it; there's going to be some measure of variance.

Google errs on the side of rejection because one bad hire has a much bigger impact than one good hire.
The student loan system in the United States has all kinds of negative effects, including being partly responsible for two decades of out of control cost growth in higher education. If a high default rates pushes the government to go back to the drawing board, that's a good thing.
The idea of the default is to stop additional interest from being charged.

But interest being charged was part of the original agreement she made. The fact that she was able to exploit a loophole in the system to avoid paying interest does not make it right.
4K is great, but two problems: it's not "Retina" resolution at 32" (and definitely not at 39", though that's too big for a monitor), and the display ports that exist today do not support it well at all.

DisplayPort 1.2 can do it, if the monitor pretends it's two half-size monitors next to each other. This causes major problems for OSes, though I did eventually manage to work around it on Linux. (On an nVidia card, enable Xinerama. Due to a bug, this turns Xinerama and RandR off, making the window manager think you only have one monitor. Perfection.)

HDMI 1.4 can do it, but only at 30Hz, which is ugly. It's actually not unusable, but you'll be aware of what's going on.

As for the resolution issue: you're still not getting very good density. Your phone can do 440ppi. The Chromebook Pixel is 240ppi. 32" at 4k is 140ppi. Mind you, it looks great at 200%, but things are a little big. (I ended up liking this and my normal monitors now run at 125%.)

You really want 8K for a big monitor.

You also want 120Hz refresh, if only so that movies play each frame at a constant speed. 24 doesn't divide 60 (or 30!), but it does divide 120.

So until there is some transport layer that can do 8K at 120Hz, we're taking a step backwards. (4K at 120Hz is fine for TVs, though. Perhaps even HD is enough there.)
Reading is a good place to start. Find places where people describe their system architecture, and work your way through it, trying to understand why they make the choices they do. If you come across concepts you're not familiar with, look them up on Wikipedia or Google and keep digging until you do understand them. Ask questions if you need to - StackOverflow and ServerFault are good for this.
Public universities are funded by government, which in turn is funded by taxes. The choice here isn't between "university for a loan" versus "university for free"; the latter choice is actually "university in exchange for an extra 3-5% of taxes for the rest of your life" (I'm guessing that percentage, it might be higher or lower). You have to look at it as "do I want to pay a loan for the next 10 years" versus "do I want to pay 5% more of my salary for the rest of my life". There are up- and down-sides to both options.
I mean, are you familiar with the history of google and facebook? Pagerank was paid for by a government grant. Why aren't the profits of google being distributed into our pockets? Facebook had early investment from CIA connected sources. SpaceX is almost all funded by NASA.

I mean look at the technologies they built. Largest people tracker (Google) and largest communication graph (Facebook). Look at the current web technologies and the massive centralization of technology.

Let the government turn off the money spigot, and silicon valley will be bankrupt in a week.
AirBnB has a $1,000,000 insurance on every booking. Yes, what happened sucks, but the guy should raise noise if AirBnB refuses to cover his damages. For what it's worth, claiming your host insurance with AirBnB is part of doing business with them.
But having interest accrue was part of the original agreement she made. The fact that she has exploited a loophole in the system to avoid paying that interest does not make it right. If nobody paid interest on loans, there would be no loans, and she would not have been able to get one to pay for her education.
You can use the Standard Firmdata sketch, and then use whatever you want. For example, Node.js with Jhonny-five: https://github.com/rwaldron/johnny-five

I use it together with a pcDuino and it works like a charm.
BTW, "American Blackout" was a recent National Geographic program about a hypothetical nationwide blackout http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/american-black...

There's a British version too. Probably worth watching one or the other, if only to prompt you to make some basic disaster preparations.
I'm liking 32" as a monitor size. I think 35" would be fine. 30" feels too small now, though.
Cool idea! I really like the site design. Coincidentally enough, the color scheme and flat design style looks almost exactly like something I'm working on haha
The point of regulations is not always to prevent a bad thing from happening; the point is that when the bad thing does happen, it can be contained/handled more effectively, or that there are established and well-understood procedures for recovering from it.

Regulations which say that hotels should be hotels and apartments should not be hotels are as much about containing the effects of bad actors as anything else.
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I totally understand someone who can't pay back the student loans. But please--try to do it right. Right now student loans are not subject to discharge in bankruptcy court. Before you ruin your credit: obtain as many credit cards
as possible. It might take a few years to obtain the amount of credit you need. Then pay off you student loans
with their money. Wait awhile--then do your own bankruptcy.
(I have no sympathy for credit card companies. They have
a lot in common with Loan Sharks.) (One other thing--If you pull off this caper, remember just how terrible you
felt when you were in trouble.)
Another Google SRE chiming in here... there's a reason why I swear half of the flat vertical surfaces in our office are whiteboards. Including some of the walls.

I'd estimate that no more than 50% of job is spent coding, if that. Solving computer/software/system/architecture problems, yes. Coding, no.
I'm being excessively literal. Aside from the grammar detail, your point is clear.
Interesting factoid.
"They're not much of a consumer brand tbh"

People google stuff on bing, tho. So, if you're brand is a verb, in widespread common usage, I'd say it's doing ok. Kinda like Kleenex.
My father worked for 30+ years in auto dealerships. He was a mechanic and in the end worked his way up as the service manager. It was made clear to him that sales had to make money and service had to make money and they didn't care how it was done. He is a good and honorable man and even quit one dealership because they pushed crazy service incentives on service writers to up-sell every kind of service you can imagine. That said in the end he retired early because the dealership he was at was bought by a consortium of dealerships and they let him know that his service shop wasn't as profitable as needed and that he needed to up-sell more services to the customers.

In the end dealerships are about making money from their clients by "adding value". Sadly most of the time that value is having the black car in stock -vs- someone down the street who only has the blue one.

It's sad to see a government more concerned about backing the establishment then creating an environment for free trade and new business models.
Would love to know the degree/school.

It really irritates me when someone says they have to get $200,000 in loans for a worthless degree from a 'big' school. Both the people who advised them that this was a good plan in the first place, and the people who loaned them the money.
scrollbars much?
If there is motion blur, yes, your brain sees motion with 24 fields per second. Without motion blur, not so much. Try gaming at 24fps and then at 60fps. You will notice the difference.

I've never seen 120fps, so I can't tell you if that helps. But if you're playing back 24fps source material (movies) and 30/60fps source material (TV), then you need 120Hz refresh at a minimum, just to be able to display each frame for the correct amount of time.
Typically, you're responsible, if it's a lease, for the rent until the property is re-leased, with the assumption that the landlord makes all reasonable efforts to do so expediently.
Don't vote by defaulting, vote by voting. To default on a loan after you signed it because you have some sort of agenda is not voting, it's just defaulting on a commitment.
I had something else in mind, I think the parent thought that too.

Imagine, for instance, how many articles there are about how A has relation R with C, and B also (e.g., George Washington was a president of the USA, Abraham Lincoln also). For some definition of "understanding", you wouldn't need to encode data about the text of both articles A and B, you could use NLP to somehow store just the ontology. The problem would change from encoding text to encoding a graph. So it would be a lossy process (because you wouldn't be able to decompress into the original Wikipedia), but in my opinion seems more relevant to AI than bothering with the original corpus.
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3 weeks, eh? Shucks, I won't be teaching your orientation class. Should have started this coming week instead. :P
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