The intention of the law is irrelevant once it becomes law. Airbnb will never win this fight because it's obvious what the law targets: prostitution and illegal hotels. That said, there are alternatives where you can stay with people for free, although that will be a lot more difficult. In that case, it would not be considered renting.
Should've shown the invention first ... or maybe the slides. It says a lot about the garbage that is being built here by engineers treated like slaves who report to clueless idiots. These problems are an epidemic here and a pandemic across the world. In the 60's we put people on the moon. Now, money is basically given away by committee (couldn't think of a better way to make bad decisions) to any company to play with it and fail. This model of expecting constant growth out of even the ones they do and out of the area as a whole (or the world as a whole) is insane and unsustainable, especially as salaries have actually dropped in the last two years.
Can you say bubble? Because the housing market's screaming it loud and clear.
It is a bad thing. If that developer was responsible, he can be held liable. Likely, he wasn't and someone signed the app with his key. This single point of failure (assuming that all developer keys will be guarded, never lost, stolen) for the whole system turns into hundreds of thousands of single points of failure (or however many developers currently have the ability to sign for apps, including internal Apple employees and contractors) and can come from any developer, even the well intentioned ones.
The whole gatekeeper system is a way to get more money out of customers while seeming to provide more security. It obviously doesn't. I would be my life's fortune there are apps with malware in the app store right now. This walled garden concept may be working for mobile phones now, while they are still in their infancy, but is a surefire way to turn away knowledgeable users and make a ton of money off the ignorant ones (which make up 99.9999999% of Apple's user base ... either that or they're all millionaires).
The reason people who can truly use the full power of a Mac buy them is because of OS X and slightly better (for now) hardware (on laptops only). If OS X licensing allowed it to be run legally on non-mac hardware (ie-> not osx86), no one would pay the inflated prices for a Mac.
And now they want to pretend to add security while adding a feature used to tie one in to one's proprietary and quite terrible app ecosystem.
This explains the lack of both decent housing and healthcare don't exist in the US. A country that cares so little about its citizens' human rights that it will publicly murder them is not a country that is likely to care about healthcare or housing.
When homeless people can be monetized, they will be, and they will grow the GDP because as we know, this is the only measure of real progress ("economic 'progress'"). The more homeless, the more money, the higher the GDP. Welcome to America. Or the world for that matter.
The US is all about fuck you, I got mine. If it hasn't spread to your doorstep (I find this hard to believe as it's a general societal trend, not specific to the US) you aren't looking hard enough.
At least you don't have people arguing abou scala or ruby or language xyz on your doorstep. If you did, you might prefer the homeless too.
Another step towards the next dark age. It's sad that all the technological advancements around us are leading to a dumber anti-intellectual civilization that actually wants another period of stupidity, another dark age. Social gain is one thing, but most science that promotes economic gain is generally detrimental to society (at first) and usually not that useful in the long run as it is destructive in nature first and foremost and constructive only rarely. Science, these days, all comes from a desire for crime and its ultimate expression, war (internet, quantum computers, gps, weapons (obviously), etc.).
Unemployable is not wholly in your hands because burnout is not at all in your hands, as evidenced by the startup culture that expects and rewards long hours even though they know how unproductive and unsustainable that is. Burn out is just another way of saying "major depressive disorder" or some other mental illness. It is not glorious and it's only in your control if you never start down that road.
Is it possible to create a startup and working normal hours while still having tight deadlines? Sure. Accountants do it for startups all the time. Why can't founders or developers? Likely because they're spending too much time working long and late, getting done in 4 hours at 2am what they could have accomplished in half an hour at 2pm. It is possible, but I have yet to see it happen.
We get it. It's an addiction that's glorified by society. Parents can't help because the entrepreneur doesn't want help. Till he ends up totally broke, burnt out, and unemployable. I'm pretty sure then the "don't give us money" rule gets reversed, at least by some parents. It's no different than having a crackhead or dopehead as a child. The chances of success are equal, if not higher for the drug addicts.
This is incorrect. Once you get to see the url in the bar, it's too late if you've been redirected to a site with malware. This is an extremely serious security flaw and downplaying it is not going to help anyone.
There is no use for this security hole other than to deceive people. Period.