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I suspect this is related to all of the people getting kicked off of other social media platforms. Signal may be becoming the platform of choice for the far-right to share disinfor…

No, refresh grants (around 25% of initial 4-year grant) for median performance are the norm. As far as I am aware, this is the case in all FAANG except Amazon.

I've stayed in ~70 Airbnbs over the last few years and have never gotten those sorts of demands. That seems unreasonable and I'd just ignore them.

There is certainly lots of incentive for many businesses, especially those that don't rely on repeat business, to do things this way. I imagine things will gradually get worse unti…

As far as I know, the only cities full of apartments that prohibit short-term rentals are high CoL cities in the US and perhaps some parts of Europe. I've travelled all around the …

To offer the alternative experience -- I've stayed at >60 Airbnbs around the world and have never had to lie or sneak around. Much of the time I've picked up the keys from the buil…

There is a surge of awfully unprofitable businesses with poor business outlooks that are going public with very large valuations.

You don't need to go back in history to see this. In many countries where such speech laws exist today, they're used by majority groups in order to stop minority groups from speaki…

It's more that they paid to cover the costs of all of the other emergency room patients that never paid their bills. No one actually pays the sticker price anyway, that's an artifa…

That's significant information, is this something you should be speaking about publicly?

This isn't going to happen while the problems are still theoretical. Few people care if companies have their data as long as it isn't used against them.

There's something really strange happening here. It looks like a few days ago someone anonymously edited the wikipedia page to add a designer and claim it's open source, linking to…

This would be very useful if they could automatically solve the "last mile" problem for transit. For example, if I can make a single order from home to work, involving both Uber fo…

These are daily occurrences in parts of TX and FL in the summer, and people generally do drive through them.

I'm not aware of any good opportunities out there - did you start your own thing or work remotely?

This seems pretty clear. He had a bad experience but didn't leave a review for the place, and then when the review period expired, he saw that the place had left a bad review for h…