Incredible story. What a world we live in where something like this is even possible.
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I try to be nice and to do the right thing.
As someone switched on to those kind of arguments I can definitely understand - but to the every day lay man, I wonder how much a real name policy really would have mattered...
(seeing the other side, I can imagine how people uneducated in these things are also naturally suspicious - my grandma is probably more cautious with her data than any other person I know - perhaps knowing the specifics of threats rather than just fearing privacy leakage as a generic fear inducing concept is worse?!)
The books were better than the films anyway!
But goodness me, the rental market does need an overhaul!
If only more people saw this, I'm sure it would be a wake up call for the masses. I know it has been for me.
I think the big losers here, outside of hotels, are renters. As someone who is trying to rent/buy in popular areas of the country (Cambridge, UK), I can see how houses will no longer come up for rent - which sucks, as the article points out.
I guess there could (hopefully) be a point where there are so many professionally rented homes that it no longer represents such an attractive proposition and the first movers enjoying these fat years of high revenues eventually lose out.
Either that, or Airbnb will become the new way to rent, who knows...
I wonder how they define poor quality.
The article isn't terribly surprising, I think the issue here is not so much the fact that goods are bad quality, it is when they are marketed as something of high quality. For example, I wanted this years Man Utd kit, but found £45 for a shirt I will wear every other Wednesday a bit rich for my tastes.
I actively searched for fake shirts the other day and found no results - only clear fakes marketed as the real thing. If it was clearly stated it wasn't official produce, then fine - I know what I'm getting myself in for - the maliciousness comes from the lie of pretending to be something it isn't, and charging a similar amount for it.
Interestingly, Amazon reportedly turnover twice as much from their data services than they do their retail operation. We've seen today with King the value of Big Data
Do enjoy what appears to be VR piloting at 1.28 however. First great useage of it I have seen.
The human body is quite remarkable in it's ability to adapt, the only thing this article adds is the '10 days' portion (pun intended), but even that isn't too surprising!
Being a marketer myself, I'd love to know what people see as a solid alternative to pop ups asking for emails? It's a difficult balance to maintain between making it obvious what you want someone to do, whilst maintaining high quality content.
Something like a scroll up box in the bottom right corner I think could represent a happy medium, but would be interested what people had to say.
Simply making the point that living in a home is an interesting quirk of society.
I feel, and again only speaking for myself, but the thing I strive most for in life is choice, or options.
Having the option to choose whether to live in a home or not. If I was to choose homelessness, I wouldn't see this as a bad thing, but a lifestyle choice. Thinking about it, it's quite a strange concept to return to the same place each day when there is such a big wide world out there full of experiences.
There is a perception that to be without a static home is a terrible, terrible thing, but really, I can imagine for someone who appears to have his life together in many other ways (and free from other issues that plight the homeless community such as addictions) - then it could possibly be quite a liberating lifestyle.
I can of course see the other side of the equation where it would also be a prison - having to lie about his home for embarrassment etc. But in this very specific example, he seems to have got on with it and made the most of the situation
Additionally there is a whole raft of IoT enabled devices making this possible too - think the future is bright :)
On one level, it seems to be a shame - suits do show a kind of respect or reverence for the place of work. On another, I think suits have their place, but as work places aim to make their offices more people friendly (some would say to keep them in the office longer) people's attires will naturally mold to fit the environment. Perhaps the dying out of the suit is something of a reflection of modern work practices and should be just seen as another item of clothing someone chooses to wear, without the significance of it being 'smart' or 'formal'.