For varying definitions of "frigging huge". Rich neighborhoods WILL notice if suddenly one of their neighbors turns their house into Grand Central Station and the street starts filling up with cars.
But if the houses are so friggin' huge that the driveways are a mile apart then maybe they won't be too quick to notice. Can you fire a gun off your back porch and not have to worry about hitting your neighbor? If not, maybe your estate isn't big enough to host an impromptu party with hundreds of people.
Yeah, right. Because I am super worried they are going to steal the dishes I bought at Walmart five years ago.
Of course you aren't worried about that, but this is where AirBnB gets weird. I suspect your AirBnB rental is something that isn't your primary residence, but part of the promise (or so I thought) was that people could open up their spare bedroom or even their master bedroom when they were away and not using it themselves. It would be a way to make a little money and also provide an affordable room to someone else who might find paying for a hotel room a bit expensive.
If I felt I could trust someone not to trash my place, I would gladly allow them to stay here for a small fee but I don't know these people and very quickly you'll have to start treating it as a business. So it's not a big deal if they break your dishes, but what if they break all the windows? What if they start ripping copper out of the walls? At some point you're going to want insurance.
And for the average person separating their Ming vase collection from their spare room just isn't feasible. If I were to open up my home as an AirBnB I'd have to shift a bunch of stuff into a bedroom which I wouldn't give people access to which really cuts down on the rentable space not to mention being kind of inconvenient.
But if I were well off enough to have a 2nd home which I had furnished with garbage from Walmart that I didn't really care about it, I could rent it all the time and not really worry too much about broken plates. I can always buy more plates from Walmart, but I have things which are not so easily replaced and which have more sentimental than monetary value.
It seems like allowing everyone to run their own little hotel out of their house without regulation is more of a libertarian move. A socialist move might be something like the government requiring you to rent your spare bedroom and demanding a cut - or maybe quartering troops in your home or taxing your empty bedrooms like they do in some countries.
Which hotel allows you to throw parties with hundreds of people?
The Four Points Sheraton in Warren, Michigan....
Well, they used to anyway - if you were high school buddies with the desk clerk. I just looked them up and that location is CLOSED. I used to work for a company that put all their out of town visitors there. I arrived one Friday night to find quite the party going on and they were all high school kids. I had to get up about 4 AM Detroit time which sucked even more because I was on west coast time. I called the front desk 3-4 times to complain about the loud party and the last time I called I said my next phone call would be to the cops.
Well, my next phone call was rejected because the front desk clerk had shut off my local phone service. What the actual fuck? So I called the cops on my mobile phone. It took them 10 minutes to get there even though they were in spitting distance of the hotel, but about 2 minutes later all the high school kids had scattered.
I found out later that my employer actually owned part of that hotel which probably explains why they didn't seem to care when I told them how horrible it was. So I'm getting a teeny bit of schadenfreude out of finding out that it's now closed.
Also, not only did I quit a few months later, half of the rest of the IT department did too. It's what happens when you treat your employees like shit and make them stay at sleazy hotels.
Which raises an interesting question. What was it about Uber that got them the investors over companies like Lyft and others?. I've only used one of those jitney services once and it wasn't either Uber or Lyft and I don't recall their name.
But the driver arrived promptly which is probably why I didn't call an actual cab company. Those bastards have left me hanging or "ghosted" me too many times in the pas
The cynical side of me thinks it's just that they had no morals and were willing to beg forgiveness when they broke laws rather than ask permission or try to get legitimate taxi licenses in the first place.
I believe there are good reasons taxis are regulated, but the regulations often discourage competition which is bad in my opinion. If anything good comes out of Uber it will be a revision of the taxi regulations in every city where I've ever taken a taxi.
I agree completely, but they're a cab company "with an app".
Have cab companies realized they should build apps too? Maybe they have. I don't take cabs very often.
And if the cab companies can't develop their own apps, why can't a 3rd party step in and deal out fares to several cab companies? I don't particularly care if my cab driver is from Yellow Cab or some other cab company. I just want the one who will get here first. They can display available fares to cab drivers and they can click that they're on their way and notify the service that this fare has been spoken for.
And like a dumbass I typed all that out before checking to see that indeed Yellow Cab does have their own app. And there's also Curb, Waave and Myle that appear to connect people with actual licensed cab drivers.
But Uber was the first one with an app as far as I'm aware.
The link you posted appears to have some facts comparing Vietnam to Mexico but then leaps to the illogical conclusion that it is the result of "culture and genetics."
I could see making the argument that it's at least partly due to "culture", but I don't believe it's "genetics" especially given the genetic diversity in places like Mexico which had a caste system based on "race". In paintings they often portrayed 16 different classes of people based upon how "pure" their Spanish roots are.
But to some Americans, they're all just "Mexicans" even when they come from Honduras, Guatemala or even Texas. I'm not convinced it's cultural especially given the large number of "Mexicans" who have lived in the US for generations.
And we have people like Tucker Carlson saying they will make America "dirtier". It's racist nonsense in my opinion.
Comparing Facebook to the attitudes of "Christian clergymen" is interesting but in the past the Church, particularly the Vatican, wielded so much power they were much more like the government. They didn't just excommunicate people. Often they would banish them, imprison them or even torture them and burn them at the stake.
I do think FB has too much power but it is the people who give it to them and no one is forced to submit to them as many were forced to do by "Christian clergymen" of the past.
And let's just refresh our memories on what happened to scientists like Galileo.
Fortunately, all Facebook can do is kick people off their platform. When they start arresting people for their beliefs your comparison will be applicable.
Note the kids trying to block the robot (~0:26) and even better the little girl who yells at it to go backwards. Maybe if she were to yell just a little louder the robot would "hear" her.
Hopefully those kids will grow tired of it before they grow into adults.
I remember as a kid seeing a picture of a real Tasmanian Devil for the first time.
I just shook my head because it doesn't look anything like Taz. I can't really blame WB for making a cartoon version of an animal that isn't entirely accurate. After all, what animal looks like Bugs Bunny, but I was a bit let down upon seeing a picture in a book.
The Wikipedia article includes this quote from T.S. Eliot which seems somewhat relevant to your first point though, even if he appears to be defending the concept of Children, Kitchen and Church.
The report, by its abbreviation, may do less than justice to Miss Bower, but I do not think that I am unfair to the report, in finding the implication that what is Nazi is wrong, and need not be discussed on its own merits
It does seem somewhat apt that it can be abbreviated with 3 "K"s.
It's late, but I initially interpreted this to be precision and thought how much more precise do I need it? Isn't it precise to within a few feet already?
But accuracy is different.
I actually did think it was fairly accurate, but if sometimes it shows you being miles off even then I haven't heard many stories about it.
Or maybe this just gives us more data and only slightly moves the needle from very accurate to slightly more very accurate.
I'm too tired to RTFA to see what they're talking about.
Even if your lifestyle puts you at certain risks there is no reason why you shouldn't do everything within your power to mitigate them even if if means hacking your CPAP machine to break DRM.
I'm not overweight but I've been monitoring my sleep as best as I can and it's not good. I might benefit from one of these....maybe...I plan to consult a doctor.
Some people like to eat too much and exercise too little, while others drink too much and others jump out of airplanes.
I'm certainly not going to criticize the people who go sky-diving for wearing a freakin' parachute.
Personally, I wouldn't even want to get into the kinds of planes many of those skydivers jump out of, but they enjoy it so more power to them. Most of them survive.
I've heard that shoe story before, but it was spun a little differently.
In the version I heard I think they were actually work boots and it wasn't because the poor person didn't save up enough to buy the ones that would last, it was that he couldn't afford them in the first place and he couldn't earn money without a pair of work boots.
But it is a fair point that a lot of seemingly minor choices can have a major impact much later on.
My anecdotal experience is the opposite. CenturyLink works reasonably well for me while Comcast was horrible
I could write a huge wall of text detailing my complaints about Comcast, but I can summarize it as follows:
I'd rather have 75% of the promised speed 95% of the time and only goes out once a year (CenturyLink) than 20% of the promised speed 33% of the time that goes out once a month. Those numbers are guesses, but should show the difference in my personal experiences with the 2.
I hate Comcast so much if you were passing out torches and pitchforks I'd join in, so I'm disappointed this lawsuit seems mostly to be about potential abuse rather than something more....substantial?
CLink and Comcast both have similarly horrible customer service and charge similarly exorbitant prices, but I don't have to talk to CLink as much.
The only other options are satellite, mobile or waiting several years for municipal fiber to be built out which might be faster than waiting on hold with Comcast.
And this is why I don't turn off my adblocker just because a site begs me to. It's very rare for a site to have exclusive content that I really, really want to see.
If it's a news story there will be other sources. If it's a video....maybe I just won't be able to see it. I'll live.
I don't understand. Either this was a very specific operation limited to a small area or these things have gotten much cheaper than I realized.
It's too early in the morning for me to read the whole article.
I mean I bought some decent but very reasonably priced security cams for my home in the last year, but they're nothing stealthy. (I keep telling myself that's a feature, not a bug).
But compared to prices I hear for red light cameras or body cameras for cops or whatever, how can this be so cheap unless it was very specific and small in scope?
It seems somewhat akin to my electric bill which tells me how "efficient" I am compared to 100 comparable sized homes in my neighborhood. The jokes on them though because my occupancy rate is lower than average too. I only do badly in the summer (running the AC), but during the winter I consider it a game.
In over 40 years of asking I've only found 2 people (who were not lawyers) who knew the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States of America.
What do you mean by "knew"?
Do you mean have they read them? Remembered all the details from when they read them? had them memorized? or whether they really understood all the details?
You should ask them if they can name any of the Bill of Rights beyond the First and Second Amendments.
Better yet, ask them a set of leading questions like so:
Do you support our military? Do you think people should do everything they can to help them defend our freedom? Do you think it should be permissible for homeowners to be forced to house soldiers in their private residences if the Commander in Chief decides there is a need to?
You're a force-multiplier for all of the votes from people who do cast ballots.
It's simple math. If there are 100 voters and all of them vote, my vote is only 1 in 100. If only 50 vote, it is twice as powerful. Now I've just got to convince the 49 other voters not to vote too.
Maybe we should discourage people from voting, but let's not make it hard to vote.
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For varying definitions of "frigging huge". Rich neighborhoods WILL notice if suddenly one of their neighbors turns their house into Grand Central Station and the street starts filling up with cars.
But if the houses are so friggin' huge that the driveways are a mile apart then maybe they won't be too quick to notice. Can you fire a gun off your back porch and not have to worry about hitting your neighbor? If not, maybe your estate isn't big enough to host an impromptu party with hundreds of people.
Yeah, right. Because I am super worried they are going to steal the dishes I bought at Walmart five years ago.
Of course you aren't worried about that, but this is where AirBnB gets weird. I suspect your AirBnB rental is something that isn't your primary residence, but part of the promise (or so I thought) was that people could open up their spare bedroom or even their master bedroom when they were away and not using it themselves. It would be a way to make a little money and also provide an affordable room to someone else who might find paying for a hotel room a bit expensive.
If I felt I could trust someone not to trash my place, I would gladly allow them to stay here for a small fee but I don't know these people and very quickly you'll have to start treating it as a business. So it's not a big deal if they break your dishes, but what if they break all the windows? What if they start ripping copper out of the walls? At some point you're going to want insurance.
And for the average person separating their Ming vase collection from their spare room just isn't feasible. If I were to open up my home as an AirBnB I'd have to shift a bunch of stuff into a bedroom which I wouldn't give people access to which really cuts down on the rentable space not to mention being kind of inconvenient.
But if I were well off enough to have a 2nd home which I had furnished with garbage from Walmart that I didn't really care about it, I could rent it all the time and not really worry too much about broken plates. I can always buy more plates from Walmart, but I have things which are not so easily replaced and which have more sentimental than monetary value.
It seems like allowing everyone to run their own little hotel out of their house without regulation is more of a libertarian move. A socialist move might be something like the government requiring you to rent your spare bedroom and demanding a cut - or maybe quartering troops in your home or taxing your empty bedrooms like they do in some countries.
Which hotel allows you to throw parties with hundreds of people?
The Four Points Sheraton in Warren, Michigan....
Well, they used to anyway - if you were high school buddies with the desk clerk. I just looked them up and that location is CLOSED. I used to work for a company that put all their out of town visitors there. I arrived one Friday night to find quite the party going on and they were all high school kids. I had to get up about 4 AM Detroit time which sucked even more because I was on west coast time. I called the front desk 3-4 times to complain about the loud party and the last time I called I said my next phone call would be to the cops.
Well, my next phone call was rejected because the front desk clerk had shut off my local phone service. What the actual fuck? So I called the cops on my mobile phone. It took them 10 minutes to get there even though they were in spitting distance of the hotel, but about 2 minutes later all the high school kids had scattered.
I found out later that my employer actually owned part of that hotel which probably explains why they didn't seem to care when I told them how horrible it was. So I'm getting a teeny bit of schadenfreude out of finding out that it's now closed.
Also, not only did I quit a few months later, half of the rest of the IT department did too. It's what happens when you treat your employees like shit and make them stay at sleazy hotels.
Where the fuck are my mod points when I really need them?
Mod this AC up!
Do we need an "Obvious" moderation category?
Which raises an interesting question. What was it about Uber that got them the investors over companies like Lyft and others?. I've only used one of those jitney services once and it wasn't either Uber or Lyft and I don't recall their name.
But the driver arrived promptly which is probably why I didn't call an actual cab company. Those bastards have left me hanging or "ghosted" me too many times in the pas
The cynical side of me thinks it's just that they had no morals and were willing to beg forgiveness when they broke laws rather than ask permission or try to get legitimate taxi licenses in the first place.
I believe there are good reasons taxis are regulated, but the regulations often discourage competition which is bad in my opinion. If anything good comes out of Uber it will be a revision of the taxi regulations in every city where I've ever taken a taxi.
Fox never did either.
Did Fox News Sue for the ‘Right to Lie’? FALSE
I agree completely, but they're a cab company "with an app".
Have cab companies realized they should build apps too? Maybe they have. I don't take cabs very often.
And if the cab companies can't develop their own apps, why can't a 3rd party step in and deal out fares to several cab companies? I don't particularly care if my cab driver is from Yellow Cab or some other cab company. I just want the one who will get here first. They can display available fares to cab drivers and they can click that they're on their way and notify the service that this fare has been spoken for.
And like a dumbass I typed all that out before checking to see that indeed Yellow Cab does have their own app. And there's also Curb, Waave and Myle that appear to connect people with actual licensed cab drivers.
But Uber was the first one with an app as far as I'm aware.
The link you posted appears to have some facts comparing Vietnam to Mexico but then leaps to the illogical conclusion that it is the result of "culture and genetics."
I could see making the argument that it's at least partly due to "culture", but I don't believe it's "genetics" especially given the genetic diversity in places like Mexico which had a caste system based on "race". In paintings they often portrayed 16 different classes of people based upon how "pure" their Spanish roots are.
But to some Americans, they're all just "Mexicans" even when they come from Honduras, Guatemala or even Texas. I'm not convinced it's cultural especially given the large number of "Mexicans" who have lived in the US for generations.
And we have people like Tucker Carlson saying they will make America "dirtier". It's racist nonsense in my opinion.
Comparing Facebook to the attitudes of "Christian clergymen" is interesting but in the past the Church, particularly the Vatican, wielded so much power they were much more like the government. They didn't just excommunicate people. Often they would banish them, imprison them or even torture them and burn them at the stake.
I do think FB has too much power but it is the people who give it to them and no one is forced to submit to them as many were forced to do by "Christian clergymen" of the past.
And let's just refresh our memories on what happened to scientists like Galileo.
“We order that by a public edict the book of Dialogues of Galileo Galilei be prohibited, and We condemn thee to the prison of this Holy Office during Our will and pleasure; and as a salutary penance We enjoin on thee that for the space of three years thou shalt recite once a week the Seven Penitential Psalms.” And then he spent the rest of his life (nearly a decade) either in prison or under house arrest.
Fortunately, all Facebook can do is kick people off their platform. When they start arresting people for their beliefs your comparison will be applicable.
I saw this earlier today:
Locally made robots wait tables at Kathmandu restaurant
Note the kids trying to block the robot (~0:26) and even better the little girl who yells at it to go backwards. Maybe if she were to yell just a little louder the robot would "hear" her.
Hopefully those kids will grow tired of it before they grow into adults.
Phil Spector's Wall of Sound
Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound
There's probably a joke about Trump and a border wall in here somewhere too, but I'll leave that alone.
The key there is "like that". There's plenty of quality TV nowadays IMO. Just not "quality TV like that".
I remember as a kid seeing a picture of a real Tasmanian Devil for the first time.
I just shook my head because it doesn't look anything like Taz. I can't really blame WB for making a cartoon version of an animal that isn't entirely accurate. After all, what animal looks like Bugs Bunny, but I was a bit let down upon seeing a picture in a book.
Kinder, Küche, Kirche
I know just enough German that if Slashdot hadn't garbled the 2nd word, I would have understood the whole phrase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Wikipedia article includes this quote from T.S. Eliot which seems somewhat relevant to your first point though, even if he appears to be defending the concept of Children, Kitchen and Church.
The report, by its abbreviation, may do less than justice to Miss Bower, but I do not think that I am unfair to the report, in finding the implication that what is Nazi is wrong, and need not be discussed on its own merits
It does seem somewhat apt that it can be abbreviated with 3 "K"s.
Because I suffer from insomnia, not fear of early death!
I'm drinking heartbreak motor oil and Bombay gin
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Straight from the bottle, twisted again
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Well, I take this medicine as prescribed
I'll sleep when I'm dead
It don't matter if I get a little tired
I'll sleep when I'm dead
- Warren Zevon
It's late, but I initially interpreted this to be precision and thought how much more precise do I need it? Isn't it precise to within a few feet already?
But accuracy is different.
I actually did think it was fairly accurate, but if sometimes it shows you being miles off even then I haven't heard many stories about it.
Or maybe this just gives us more data and only slightly moves the needle from very accurate to slightly more very accurate.
I'm too tired to RTFA to see what they're talking about.
Even if your lifestyle puts you at certain risks there is no reason why you shouldn't do everything within your power to mitigate them even if if means hacking your CPAP machine to break DRM.
I'm not overweight but I've been monitoring my sleep as best as I can and it's not good. I might benefit from one of these....maybe...I plan to consult a doctor.
Some people like to eat too much and exercise too little, while others drink too much and others jump out of airplanes.
I'm certainly not going to criticize the people who go sky-diving for wearing a freakin' parachute.
Personally, I wouldn't even want to get into the kinds of planes many of those skydivers jump out of, but they enjoy it so more power to them. Most of them survive.
And if not, why can't I root it and make it emulate the 3 inch screen on my phone?
Anything is mobile if you don't mind carrying it around with you
(Extension cord sold separately)
That's a line from a Frank Zappa song that pops into my head whenever I see the words "record" and "company" or "companies" together.
But then again this system works
As perfect as a dream
It works for all of those record company pricks
Who come to skim the cream
I've heard that shoe story before, but it was spun a little differently.
In the version I heard I think they were actually work boots and it wasn't because the poor person didn't save up enough to buy the ones that would last, it was that he couldn't afford them in the first place and he couldn't earn money without a pair of work boots.
But it is a fair point that a lot of seemingly minor choices can have a major impact much later on.
My anecdotal experience is the opposite. CenturyLink works reasonably well for me while Comcast was horrible
I could write a huge wall of text detailing my complaints about Comcast, but I can summarize it as follows:
I'd rather have 75% of the promised speed 95% of the time and only goes out once a year (CenturyLink) than 20% of the promised speed 33% of the time that goes out once a month. Those numbers are guesses, but should show the difference in my personal experiences with the 2.
I hate Comcast so much if you were passing out torches and pitchforks I'd join in, so I'm disappointed this lawsuit seems mostly to be about potential abuse rather than something more....substantial?
CLink and Comcast both have similarly horrible customer service and charge similarly exorbitant prices, but I don't have to talk to CLink as much.
The only other options are satellite, mobile or waiting several years for municipal fiber to be built out which might be faster than waiting on hold with Comcast.
And this is why I don't turn off my adblocker just because a site begs me to. It's very rare for a site to have exclusive content that I really, really want to see.
If it's a news story there will be other sources. If it's a video....maybe I just won't be able to see it. I'll live.
If there's malware, I'll avoid it.
I don't understand. Either this was a very specific operation limited to a small area or these things have gotten much cheaper than I realized.
It's too early in the morning for me to read the whole article.
I mean I bought some decent but very reasonably priced security cams for my home in the last year, but they're nothing stealthy. (I keep telling myself that's a feature, not a bug).
But compared to prices I hear for red light cameras or body cameras for cops or whatever, how can this be so cheap unless it was very specific and small in scope?
It seems somewhat akin to my electric bill which tells me how "efficient" I am compared to 100 comparable sized homes in my neighborhood. The jokes on them though because my occupancy rate is lower than average too. I only do badly in the summer (running the AC), but during the winter I consider it a game.
In over 40 years of asking I've only found 2 people (who were not lawyers) who knew the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States of America.
What do you mean by "knew"?
Do you mean have they read them? Remembered all the details from when they read them? had them memorized? or whether they really understood all the details?
You should ask them if they can name any of the Bill of Rights beyond the First and Second Amendments.
Better yet, ask them a set of leading questions like so:
Do you support our military?
Do you think people should do everything they can to help them defend our freedom?
Do you think it should be permissible for homeowners to be forced to house soldiers in their private residences if the Commander in Chief decides there is a need to?
Thank you for your service.
You're a force-multiplier for all of the votes from people who do cast ballots.
It's simple math. If there are 100 voters and all of them vote, my vote is only 1 in 100. If only 50 vote, it is twice as powerful. Now I've just got to convince the 49 other voters not to vote too.
Maybe we should discourage people from voting, but let's not make it hard to vote.