Or learn to do a cost-benefit analysis. I have been an Airbnb host for 6 years and the worst that has happened is a few broken wine glasses and a stained towel. Since I had bought them at Walmart, total replacement cost was about $20.
A single bad review can cost me 100 times that in lost bookings.
Broken/stolen/damaged items are a non-problem.
everything should be documented and have proper insurance.
Insurance is to cover unaffordable expenses such as legal liability. Only an idiot would buy insurance for kitchen utensils or a TV from Costco.
Yet another large group folds just because some tiny mob of people are angry.
Every time they cave in, they encourage even more mobs, and more manufactured outrage. Decision making becomes ever more dysfunctional, and fixing problems ever more difficult. For an example of what this can lead to, look at France.
Sure, you don't want to be doing it every year, but every 2-3 years, sure.
Yes, about every 3 years is the sweet spot. This not only maximizes your income, but is good for companies as well. Job hoppers help ideas flow between companies, and enables rapidly growing companies to attract top talent and expand faster.
Productivity is higher in places like Silicon Valley where job hopping is common, urged on by California's ban on non-compete agreements. Jurisdictions with rigid labor markets tend to have stagnant economies, and less innovation.
it is only a matter of time before the US adopts similar policies.
America already has a similar system. We are ahead of China on this. The big difference is that in America your credit score is controlled by corporations rather than the government. But similar criteria are used, and excessive job-hopping can hurt your score.
If you give doctor faked imaging scans, he might diagnose wrong?
No, that is not the issue. The problem is that the images are handled insecurely, and it is not difficult for a black hat to tamper with them.
It is easy to imagine how this could be abused. For instance the Russians could modify Joe Biden's brain scan to make it look like a tumor was causing his weird behavior with women. Soon he could be elected president by people that believe he can be turned back into a normal person with just a bit of brain surgery.
This is complete bullcrap. Satellite photos show the exact opposite: The Sahara is expanding southwards into the Sahel, and the Sahel is expanding into the grasslands further south.
Google for "Sahara expansion" and you will see dozens of articles and satellite photos documenting it.
Google for "Sahara greening" and you will see a handful of small projects to grow crops in the desert by draining non-renewable aquifers, along with a few denialist websites that refer to "doomsday-obsessed media, activists and ruling politicians" but are devoid of any actual evidence.
Right-wing kooks see vaccinations as a government conspiracy. Left-wing kooks see vaccinations as a corporate conspiracy. Moderates vaccinate their kids.
Google has a lot of employees around the World (Philippines, China, India, etc) that would love to make $15/hr.
Typical wages in these countries is far less than $15/hr, but expenses are also far less. Paying 1st world wages just pushes up inflation and creating a division between tech "royalty" and everyone else working in the local economy.
It's illegal to discriminate against people based on their political views in California
Ideological discrimination only applies to hiring and employment. Appointment to an advisory panel is neither.
Furthermore, political views are only protected if they are about public policy. So views on discretionary corporate behavior are unlikely to be protected by California law.
The produce at the Asian/Hispanic stores is about half the price at mainstream stores like Safeway, and about a quarter the price at Whole Foods.
They also have some vegetables and fruits you will not see in mainstream stores.
The only vegetable you find in mainstream stores that they lack is brussel sprouts. The Asians and Hispanics have enough sense to realize that when God created brussel sprouts He was JOKING. They were never meant to be taken seriously and eaten as food.
If you don't want to eat meat, why not just eat vegetables instead of highly processed vegetable protein made to look and taste like meat through additives?
That is what I do. I am a veggie, and my favorite burger is the GardenBurger which doesn't even try to taste like meat.
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Stop renting out space that has your stuff in it.
Or learn to do a cost-benefit analysis. I have been an Airbnb host for 6 years and the worst that has happened is a few broken wine glasses and a stained towel. Since I had bought them at Walmart, total replacement cost was about $20.
A single bad review can cost me 100 times that in lost bookings.
Broken/stolen/damaged items are a non-problem.
everything should be documented and have proper insurance.
Insurance is to cover unaffordable expenses such as legal liability. Only an idiot would buy insurance for kitchen utensils or a TV from Costco.
see here. It's been like this since trade became a thing.
Indeed. It was much worse in the past, when companies raised armies and waged war in their own name.
Today's multinationals are toothless compared to their predecessors.
Targeting certain ads toward certain people targets (ie discriminates between) different people? Wow who knew.
That is not what TFA is saying. It is saying even untargeted ads can be discriminatory.
Yet another large group folds just because some tiny mob of people are angry.
Every time they cave in, they encourage even more mobs, and more manufactured outrage. Decision making becomes ever more dysfunctional, and fixing problems ever more difficult. For an example of what this can lead to, look at France.
Northram admitted that he wore blackface to mimic Michael Jackson for a dance competition
But he did it 30 years ago, long before it was widely seen as politically incorrect.
It was a big kerfuffle about nothing, and it was good to see him stand his ground in the face of all the phony outrage.
Somehow 5 years later he is an "industry leader in machine learning"?
Perhaps it had something to do with publishing original research that revolutionized machine learning.
Remember hearing about Alphazero defeating the world's Go champion? That was based on a GAN, which Ian invented.
He also wrote the definitive book on deep learning which anyone in the field should read. Twice.
Sure, you don't want to be doing it every year, but every 2-3 years, sure.
Yes, about every 3 years is the sweet spot. This not only maximizes your income, but is good for companies as well. Job hoppers help ideas flow between companies, and enables rapidly growing companies to attract top talent and expand faster.
Productivity is higher in places like Silicon Valley where job hopping is common, urged on by California's ban on non-compete agreements. Jurisdictions with rigid labor markets tend to have stagnant economies, and less innovation.
Churn is good.
It seems rather redundant. I mean, excessive job-hopping would seem to make one less employable already.
1. People lie on their resumes all the time.
2. Credit scores, in both China and America, are used for far more than employment.
it is only a matter of time before the US adopts similar policies.
America already has a similar system. We are ahead of China on this. The big difference is that in America your credit score is controlled by corporations rather than the government. But similar criteria are used, and excessive job-hopping can hurt your score.
If you give doctor faked imaging scans, he might diagnose wrong?
No, that is not the issue. The problem is that the images are handled insecurely, and it is not difficult for a black hat to tamper with them.
It is easy to imagine how this could be abused. For instance the Russians could modify Joe Biden's brain scan to make it look like a tumor was causing his weird behavior with women. Soon he could be elected president by people that believe he can be turned back into a normal person with just a bit of brain surgery.
You have to hold the people in charge accountable, not the people who follow orders.
The lesson from Nuremberg is that both have to be held accountable.
Satellite pictures clearly show a greener Sahara.
This is complete bullcrap. Satellite photos show the exact opposite: The Sahara is expanding southwards into the Sahel, and the Sahel is expanding into the grasslands further south.
Google for "Sahara expansion" and you will see dozens of articles and satellite photos documenting it.
Google for "Sahara greening" and you will see a handful of small projects to grow crops in the desert by draining non-renewable aquifers, along with a few denialist websites that refer to "doomsday-obsessed media, activists and ruling politicians" but are devoid of any actual evidence.
I have a 38sqm in Manila that costs 1000 USD per month.
Unless you have a top floor unit right on the bay, you are paying at least 5 times the market rate.
Food and energy are commodities and they cost the same everywhere you go.
I was in Lanzhou for two weeks last summer. Everyday, I bought a bowl of rice congee for breakfast. It cost 5 mao, or about 6 cents.
Food is far cheaper in poor countries.
Not true, stop repeating this. It's not a partisan issue.
Indeed. Anti-vaccination beliefs don't follow the usual political polarization.
Right-wing kooks see vaccinations as a government conspiracy. Left-wing kooks see vaccinations as a corporate conspiracy. Moderates vaccinate their kids.
I never thought I would see people on Slashdot argue in favor of discrimination, but here it is.
I did not argue for (or against) anything.
Google has a lot of employees around the World (Philippines, China, India, etc) that would love to make $15/hr.
Typical wages in these countries is far less than $15/hr, but expenses are also far less. Paying 1st world wages just pushes up inflation and creating a division between tech "royalty" and everyone else working in the local economy.
It's illegal to discriminate against people based on their political views in California
Ideological discrimination only applies to hiring and employment. Appointment to an advisory panel is neither.
Furthermore, political views are only protected if they are about public policy. So views on discretionary corporate behavior are unlikely to be protected by California law.
Perhaps the Grammy awards can have a new category for best insect repellent.
You better work on changing the law they are obligated to enforce.
They are not obligated to enforce. They have prosecutorial discretion.
Eric Holder did not prosecute dope possession in states that had legalized it. Jeff Sessions made an explicit decision to do so.
If you believe in states rights and personal liberty, then at least on this issue, it is obvious which political party you should oppose.
This will just make some people trust their government less.
This is nothing new for Singapore. They have always been authoritarian with heavy-handed censorship, backed up by a pliant judiciary.
They are also a capitalist democracy, and the authoritarians have stayed in power by delivering decades of strong economic growth and prosperity.
The produce at the Asian/Hispanic stores is about half the price at mainstream stores like Safeway, and about a quarter the price at Whole Foods.
They also have some vegetables and fruits you will not see in mainstream stores.
The only vegetable you find in mainstream stores that they lack is brussel sprouts. The Asians and Hispanics have enough sense to realize that when God created brussel sprouts He was JOKING. They were never meant to be taken seriously and eaten as food.
If you are shopping for premium produce at low prices I recommend the Hispanic store.
Asian stores also have fresh produce at low prices. I live in San Jose, and there are plenty of Asians here, as well as plenty of Hispanics.
I've never even heard of one!
They go by the brandname Xperia. I have never seen one in America. I have seen a few in Japan, but they are far from popular even there.
If you don't want to eat meat, why not just eat vegetables instead of highly processed vegetable protein made to look and taste like meat through additives?
That is what I do. I am a veggie, and my favorite burger is the GardenBurger which doesn't even try to taste like meat.