All CAPTCHA are abusive and hostile against the user.
Soon the EUPARL will debate&introduce a regulation to forbid CAPTHCA across EU.
The service providers/SaaS must find another way to protect their servers from abuse/DDOS, by not penalizing the users.
Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices
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Plus if you stay in a hotel you don't have to worry about taking housing away from the local residents of the place. I loathe AirBnB for multiple reasons, but that's the primary one.
> you don't have to worry about taking housing away from the local residents Why not? Isn't the hotel taking up space that could otherwise be housing?
No, because it's zoned for being a hotel. What's happening with AirBnB is completely different as you're having people (1) buy up existing housing to convert it to AirBnB and (2) it's not zoned for tourists. Believe it or not, tourists are considered in city planning, and that's why they have special zoning laws for hotels and hostels. What's happening is tourists now feel they have the right to 'live as a local', and that eats up the housing supply the locals would use, which is zoned for residential use. Thus forcing the locals out. To suggest hostels/hotels suffer from the same issues is to ignore the fact that they're often planned into the city to accommodate tourists, whereas residential housing is, well, for residents.
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#223Yeah, you know what computers suck at but it's relatively easy for humans? Summing numbers. /s edit: I mean the captcha could keep all the "hard for robot" elements (recognizing top face, recognizing symbols) and remove the "hard for human" one (sum), like "select the dice that have the following symbols on top: , , ".
Problem with the latter example is those that are colour blind although I guess it's not much worse than asking people to sum up dice. I'm guessing though they are more so looking at % correct and the actual behaviour of making a selection rather than just whether you are capable of adding up numbers.
Well that's not the case. I made a mistake on the fifth one and had to start all again from the start.
So it's 100% correct or redo. Infuriating
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What's wrong with sharing bathrooms? That's a dorm, or a youth hostel for that matter. It's totally fine. Pretty common all over the world, not just for the poorest.
We're presumably speaking about a shared bathroom in your home, not about travel accommodation. It would infringe upon a fundamental need for privacy that people have: having a space that is yours alone, where you are free to do whatever, without being observed by others. I've seen some (studio) apartments that have a private bathroom that outside the front door, but still inside the building. I would very much disli…
I lived in a dorm for 2 years in college. Not only did I not have a private bathroom, but I also had a roommate, so really I had no reliably private place at all. It was fine. I mean occasionally privacy would be nice, but I also enjoyed the increased sense of community in the dorms.
Maybe you'd hate this, but that doesn't make it a violation of human rights or anything.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can't? I always suspected the electoral majority is not particularly bright (which sort of contradicts the idea of near-100 being an average IQ nevertheless) but if this is "unusually smart" then things feel really creepy.
>Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can't? I have met a few, yes, including people who are intellectually limited (colloquially called "dumb"), people who were born or acquired mental handicaps, people who are suffering most likely suffering from dyscalculia (dyslexia for arithmetic/numbers). E.g. we think my grandma might have had a milder form of the latter, as she had a lot of trouble adding up numbers i…
In most of the cases you mentioned, that would be considered a handicap though. In such cases it's a failing on adding an accesability option or secondary option.
Among people, who aren't straight up unable due to handicaps, who couldn't solve them? It seems easy enough that mostly anyone could.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with sharing bathrooms? That's a dorm, or a youth hostel for that matter. It's totally fine. Pretty common all over the world, not just for the poorest.
We're presumably speaking about a shared bathroom in your home, not about travel accommodation. It would infringe upon a fundamental need for privacy that people have: having a space that is yours alone, where you are free to do whatever, without being observed by others. I've seen some (studio) apartments that have a private bathroom that outside the front door, but still inside the building. I would very much disli…
Of course it's not for travel, I understand that. But neither are dorms. And people stay in youth hostels and similar accommodations for longer periods too.
> upon a fundamental need for privacy that people have
I don't think you should project your personal preferences with objective needs. Besides, you share bathrooms at the office where you spend 8 hours a day, are you also concerned about running into people there?
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you be _more_ averse to sharing a bathroom if you're low income? I think it's more about American germophobia or new members of the middle class feeling that sharing bathrooms is beneath them now that they've made it. In most places being poor doesn't mean you live in squalor, it just means you have less money. You are still doing your best to keep your place clean etc. And obviously your neighbours won't b…
Privacy? The original point, although not fully written out, was that the elite schooled grandfather thought it would be more effective to build housing with shared bathrooms, but he neglected the humane aspect(s) of living. Somewhat ironically you are falling into that same model of thinking.
> Somewhat ironically you are falling into that same model of thinking.
This is called 'disagreeing'.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can't? I have met a few, yes, including people who are intellectually limited (colloquially called "dumb"), people who were born or acquired mental handicaps, people who are suffering most likely suffering from dyscalculia (dyslexia for arithmetic/numbers). E.g. we think my grandma might have had a milder form of the latter, as she had a lot of trouble adding up numbers i…
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I don't see why my grandma - if she was still alive - or my mom's friend wouldn't be booking Airbnbs; people of at least "average" intelligence by the way, except for their issues with basic math. My mom's friend is an avid global traveler in fact, and if I remember correctly she used Airbnb on several occasions in the past, and yes, she does her own bookings.
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Did not know this, just enabled all of them. Thank you!
There is also an extension on chrome and firefox store named 'I don't care about cookies' which is specifically made for this issue.
I had a mixed experience with this extension: very effective but it breaks many sites - initially I didn't understand why, it took me some time to identify the culprit.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with sharing bathrooms? That's a dorm, or a youth hostel for that matter. It's totally fine. Pretty common all over the world, not just for the poorest.
The fact that most people opt out of doing so as soon as they can afford not to have to share should be a good indication that people value the privacy and comfort of not having to highly.
I have never seen any statistics about that at all, so I wouldn't know if that is the case. It would be interesting to see how much more people are willing to pay for an equivalent apartment with communal bathroom being the only difference. As it is, only the cheapest places have that, so there are very strongly confounding factors. Are people getting private bathrooms because that is what they want most, or because they have more money and all nice apartments have them.
And I imagine it varies a lot between cultures.