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how did we all survive before async UI... ¬‿¬

I also never encountered this during all of my bookings over the timeframe mentioned (2018-2021) making me think that I had a selection of AUD in the Preferred Currency settings https://www.airbnb.com.au/account-settings/preferences

So I must assume that a default selection of USD or (no default) setting was the one affecting these customers. Strange that Airbnb, with their widely regarded bleeding user experience, still chose to render $ amounts without the default? "USD" qualifier.

Was this really deliberate? Seems likely given their attention to details like this.

I'm still passionate about the aspects of dev I was 5 years ago, but I've seen the patterns roll around so many times, I wonder if the things I care about actually matter than much. So like any good solution without a problem, I don't know if I have meaning in that sense...

> Frances Haugen: And what's super tragic is Facebook's own research says, as these young women begin to consume this-- this eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed. And it actually makes them use the app more. And so, they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. Facebook's own research says it is not just the Instagram is dangerous for teenagers, that it harms teenagers, it's that it is distinctly worse than other forms of social media.

I just started listening to this https://www.audible.com.au/pd/More-Than-a-Body-Audiobook/035... which shows directly through research how this kind of depression leads to physical self harm.

Now I'm questioning why I even want to have an Instagram account.

How do we vote for and elect representatives in sufficient quantities that will throw out privacy and security overreaches like this?

Very few of the representatives in both houses will understand the technical means, underpinnings, and exploit and overreach potential of these bills because they simply don't understand the technology in the middle.

All a party/member needs to do is draft the bill and then cause enuf fear and panic in a sitting parliament for the large majority of representatives to pass it. Are these things even being challenged in parliament? Who objects to this who understands it?

Here in Australia, we have consumer laws that protect us from this kind of defect. They will ensure that as a consumer, I would receive a complete and full refund for an event like this- many times over if necessary. This kind of cost to the manufacturer creates the appropriate motivation to remedy.

Unless you're writing desktop software or your application behaves in a way where you have actually selected the particular hardware components (most of us in cloud hosting don't do this), you probably don't [need to] care.

It seems likely that the test for a "reasonable person" could be easily abused with a motivated majority.

However that doesn't bother me as much as the virtually untestable "threatening, abusive or insulting" which is almost exclusively a personal interpretation. How is there any test or defence for this?