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This isn't about the moral qualities of people there, it's about the impact the company has on the housing market and how it treats AirBnB owners. There are links in the comments here to studies on the harm AirBnB does, nobody said a thing about the employees being unethical.

Out of curiosity, are there any more ethical alternatives to AirBnB? My partner travels a lot for work and doesn't like staying in hotels. He's fine with staying in rooms vs. whole apartments (which seems to be the biggest strike on AirBnB's model) but it's pretty tough to dig up credible renters for each place he visits. Is there a Craigslist-like option or are hotels the best bet if we decide to drop AirBnB?

It's a great post anyway, sorry if my tone was too critical. I enjoyed reading it, for what it's worth, just felt like expecting anything surprising or revelatory out of it wouldn't be the right approach.

Is that not common knowledge? I feel like this is a well-written post with a good point but it's a familiar point. You could boil part of it down to 'all's good in moderation', so don't just keep your code clean, keep it clean and easy to read, etc.

This is fascinating. Are there any cases where the queen was encouraging the move? Or do they always opt to stick with the flooding home until the end? I guess what I'm asking is if it's dependent on the specimen or an instinct.

Literal 'baby steps', hah. The fact that they disable 'save' features might be because they don't want it to mess with their statistics, I guess? Like, they want to see how many people are leaving stuff to watch/rewatch later or something like that. Do they track that?

The rest makes a lot of sense and I'm glad that something is being done.

The cool thing about this for me is that list of the 'worst of 1924'. It highlights that we're trying to preserve ALL media. Not the best of the best, not some cherry-picked list made up by a bunch of critics. Every single flat comedy, ever unoriginal love song, every boring book, it's all being preserved, if found. Because even bad art matters and, besides, it's not bad to everyone. It's important to keep this attitude for the upcoming years of works, where there'll be much more stuff to save. Let's not just take care of Hitchcock's and Chaplin's and so on. Ed Woods of the world deserve remembrance as well.

Honestly, while I'm one of the people who does this a lot, I don't think it always benefits me. I don't watch 'TV', just streamed stuff but I rarely bother to pause it when I look up these details. And that absolutely impacts my viewing experience because if a movie is plot-heavy enough, I can miss chunks of it easily why I try to figure out why that actress in a minor part seems familiar or what the song playing in the background is. Would love to kick the habit but it's surprisingly tough!

It feels crazy to me to see 'make training profitable'.

A) Not everything has to bring you a profit, jeez.

B) You know how you profit from training? By actually providing solid training to pilots who then fly your planes skillfully and don't crash and don't have any trouble landing. You not only get money from customers paying you for those pilots to fly them, you also save money by not getting sued into oblivion for your negligence.

Maybe not every app but definitely one through which I make any type of payment. Spotify wants me to buy Premium, Spotify should offer me security.

I've recently had a similar problem with Spotify. My account was stolen. In part because I did not have 2FA turned on... because the app doesn't offer it for some reason. And, in part, because whoever logged into my account from a different IP and device supposedly didn't trip any of their security measures. So I was never even told that someone took hold of my account until I tried to get on.

It's baffling to me that any popular app wouldn't have 2FA (or any app, for that matter.)

Well, I don't see much reason to get a smart TV if I won't be using it as a smart TV. Both people in the household are fine watching on a medium-sized screen, why spend $300-400 just to watch on a bigger one with no other benefits? Maybe once they become just ridiculously cheap, yeah.

Pretty cool article and highlights the problem of Smart TVs well. I don't think I'll ever get a smart TV but I'm privileged in this because my husband is fine with watching movies on a PC monitor and we don't plan to have kids so it's not like we'll have someone in the house clamoring for Disney+ on a separate big screen. Most households cave eventually because, admittedly, it's sweet to get a huge screen with excellent picture quality for just a few hundred.

My one gripe with the article itself is the introduction: "I’ve noticed something exciting but sort of crazy". Claiming that TV prices dropping fast is 'crazy' seems a bit funny. Prices drop for a lot of stuff though, I suppose, some technology does stay in the same relative range. But it's probably only until it reaches a certain quality point past which there's not much to entice customers into high-end purchases.

While I'm not overly optimistic about his goal of getting solutions from the game to be enacted in real life Seattle, it's a really admirable idea and an impressive execution to boot.

I'm wondering if, with a big enough budget and a team of skilled devs like Dustin here, the local government could create more refined simulations to tackle these planning issues. Or would that inevitably run into the problem mentioned in his Project Mission: 'People are local experts on the small slice of the city they interact with daily -- the one left turn lane that always backs up or a certain set of poorly timed walk signals'?

Perhaps, with a large enough data pool, even these small quirks could be worked out via simulation?

That would require to join Facebook and I'm not coming back there. I'm aware of WhatsApp being E2E, yeah, everywhere except for backups. Another user replied that Facebook plans to go E2E completely, that's surprising but good.

Is this advertised anywhere, like in clear wording? On the site, in the app, etc. If it is, good on them. If not, kind of worrying.

Simply saying "We have E2EE so you can trust us now" and not actually clarifying where E2EE is applicable in your apps is some very typical PR talk.

Sesame Street was just beautiful at dealing with these complex subjects in a way that was both easy to digest for kids and nuanced. Portrayed all emotions, highlighted things that you, as a child, wouldn't learn from adults as those might be things they're ashamed of, scared of, etc.

I think Sesame Street is up there with Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood as one of the kindest and most influential shows on television, not in terms of influencing the medium and other shows but in terms of influencing viewers. Each of them brought up thousands of good people who went on to do more good. Caroll Spinney has, undoubtedly, played a huge part in that. RIP to a great man from a great show.

Ramadan isn't a constant diet, though, it's only for a month in a year. I'm talking about doing intermittent fasting as a regular daily diet. But, yeah, maybe I worded it a bit too severely.

The weight loss is cool and all but it seems like a bad idea to just start doing this method until there's a long-term study about the effects this has on your body. What if you stick to it for a few years and ruin your body? 12 weeks is not nearly enough for conclusive results.