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- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 3 days ago:
This is not a good thing, zoning laws often lead to higher rents because they constrain construction. They also lead to having to drive everywhere because your house is too far from anything that’s not another house
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
Yeah, that’s why we should have mixed use zoning. I stayed in a hotel in a residential area in Seoul, it was great. There’s convenience stores everywhere and little restaurants and cafes next to residential houses
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
It means there’s not enough construction. If apartments were used as hotels, then more construction would offset increase in prices
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
They tried to not refund my whole flight so I talked to customer support which refused so I charged back with my credit card and they reversed the original refund and gave me the whole refund
Never book with that site or any of its affiliates
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
Just rent a villa, they offer those in a lot of places
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
Without airbnb more hotels would be built instead of apartment buildings. The tourists will get a place to sleep eventually, you just have to decide whether it’s in an apartment or a hotel. That will determine future construction projects
- Comment on Support dips for U.S. government and tech companies restricting false or violent online content. 1 week ago:
They are also the ones who would be deciding what misinformation is
- Comment on Support dips for U.S. government and tech companies restricting false or violent online content. 1 week ago:
What Trump and Elon consider violent lies is what you might consider a “fact”
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 1 week ago:
Or would it?
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 2 weeks ago:
When I replaced the batteries in my earbuds I broke the left one. It shouldn’t be this hard to replace a part that eventually dies
- Comment on Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. 3 weeks ago:
Socialism means censuring criticism of the government? Since when?
- Comment on Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. 3 weeks ago:
No, that’s communism, brother
A socialist government only needs to provide a safety net. The censorship and government control is straight up Soviet shit
- Comment on Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. 3 weeks ago:
Let’s not get it twisted, any Chinese company is tightly controlled by the government.
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 3 weeks ago:
When you need to read a Wikipedia table but it’s way too big for the phone screen without scrolling sideways or zooming so far you can’t read it
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 3 weeks ago:
Because the front screen on my pixel fold is actually smaller
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 3 weeks ago:
Yet the performance basically peaked already. They are doing 15% increases at the top end and less for the cheapest phones.
- Comment on mwbml, a search engine where the results are community ranked, has indexed 1 billion pages. 5 weeks ago:
(2023)
- Comment on DoorDash will let users buy now, pay later for fast food, a possible worrying sign for the economy 5 weeks ago:
They can’t afford food or they can’t afford a taxi for their burrito?
- Comment on People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true 5 weeks ago:
Oh, so there are authors that never read a story before and just made it up in their heads?
There is no real difference between AI and humans in respect to borrowing elements from other stories.
AI stories may be lacking in some respects, but you can’t tell me human stories don’t recycle the same tropes
- Comment on People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true 5 weeks ago:
Human stories are also plagiarized
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
Stock buybacks are just more tax-efficient dividends. Both return value to the shareholders, but buybacks only realize the gains for the shareholders that want to sell some stock.
If they were illegal companies would issue more dividends
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
It’s free because you’re the product
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
No, not until you embrace open source software. It was always going to be enshittified. Just a matter of time
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
[Buy Turbo to unlock on all servers]
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
Because I don’t care to set up a bot that monitors what is being said while I’m offline. Matrix is actually better, though
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
Oh, it can get a lot worse
- Comment on DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool but will still let you leave it behind 1 month ago:
It’s actually better than Google’s search results which are SEO spam
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s fine as long as you don’t block legitimate users. For example, when I use a VPN a lot of sites block me. Even when my actual IP is banned when I’m in China (4chan range bans Chinese IPs) or the website is blocked in China.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 1 month ago:
Ever heard of counting attempts? Log the IP, present a CAPTCHA after 100 requests in a minute.
Besides, if I wrote a bot I would run a browser dialer from Chrome. It would request your site in a Chrome tab and appear completely legitimate to your stupid fingerprinting scripts
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
By that logic everyone should buy a foldable