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And what do the Republican party platforms from within the last decade have to say?

This has also happened to me twice. In both cases, it was when we got a good price booking well in advance for a known-busy season, and the cancellation was last minute and left us totally screwed because there were no alternative accommodations available within our budget.

In both cases, Airbnb would only offer us a refund plus maybe like 10%. They would not make any effort to rebook us at an equivalent property.

My theory is that because Airbnb does not sufficiently penalize hosts for these sort of late cancellations, hosts are incentivized to cancel cheap bookings to get a more expensive booking on another platform if prices meaningfully increase.

Oh it’s dysfunctional alright, it’s just that the dysfunction is a product of the whole market, and not just Apple.

This is needlessly pedantic. Accountability, like so many other things, does not happen until it does. Of course it's lack now does not preclude its existence in the future.

Well that’s because they are legal fictions and often run by morally bankrupt individuals. The people making the decisions are still responsible for them.

Don’t confuse lack of accountability with lack of responsibility.

> but didn't Facebook get in some trouble for purchasing Instagram

They got scrutiny over it, sure. But trouble? No, I would say that they did not get into trouble.

Yea I think the added Biggs scenes are the one thing from the Special Edition that is a clear improvement over the original.

All of this is not mutually exclusive with the models being dangerous, tho.

I actually do think it has been decelerating a bit recently. It’s just that last 1% feels much bigger than the previous 10%.

And how much do people spend on cars, gas, maintenance, insurance, parking, etc.?

Their alternative is to not advertise a plan as “ad free” if that is a lie.

People always bring this up but I don’t get the issue. How often are you using your bank’s app? Banking apps are probably the least essential apps on my phone.

Time Machine on my Mac

>People that accidentality cut their fingers in lawnmowers due to lack of safety features are allowed to sue the lawnmower company.

Anyone is allowed to sue the lawnmower company. Did they win?

This is the kind of thing that someone knowing they are doing bad things at their job says to justify it to themselves.

It’s not true. You can go find something worthwhile to do instead.

Sounds like a great incentive to make sure you don’t lose your driving privileges.

I had the plastic trigger fail on mine. Took the whole thing apart and replaced it with a metal trigger from AliExpress. It’s been going strong since.

I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but if I was a product engineer looking for a way to make my well-engineered product fail just after the warranty period was up, that trigger failure looked like a pretty good candidate. There was a specific piece of the plastic that looked like it was ostensibly there as a structural reinforcement, but it was clearly too short, and the trigger had cracked just past it.

ifixit guide for the curious: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Dyson+V11+Trigger+Replacement/1...

If your "farmer's market" is not selling things from a named farm or local producer, it's not a farmer's market, it's just a market.

There are maybe 2 months out of the year that you can't grow lettuce in NYC in a greenhouse. It's not that cold.

Tomatoes prove your point better, but I still would never eat any of the tomatoes in an NYC supermarket in the winter, as they don't taste much better than soggy cardboard.

Well, one reason is the one described in TFA —- credit card rewards amount to a regressive wealth transfer, and if you think that is bad, you may not want to participate in it.

Another reason is that credit card companies sell your purchase data to aggregators and advertisers, and cash affords more privacy.

Use NixOS, only give your model access to the config in a git repo, zero access to the actual host machine.

This has driven me so crazy it’s about to push me off Google maps. If I’m driving upstate, I want to choose a nice straightforward highway route and stay on it. No, I don’t care if I need to sit in a little bit of traffic. No, Google, I don’t want you take it upon yourself to change my route to a bunch of back roads through Bear Mountain to avoid an 8-minute slowdown. I want you to just take me down the route you showed me when I started navigation.

I’ve had a couple times now where Google Maps has taken me into absolutely terrible traffic jams on back roads in areas where there is limited cell service. What seems to be happening is that there is a slowdown on the main road and a blind spot on the back route with no service, so Google assumes there are no cars there and no traffic, so it just funnels everyone that way until the whole route clogs up. Utterly infuriating.

I have not used it yet, but this project looks interesting to me: https://docs.searxng.org/

The word “obnoxious” does not carry the connotation of smug superiority that “midwit” does.

I didn't see the appeal of bespoke PR stacking tools when it was the headline feature of Graphite, and I still don't see it now.

Stacking PRs is useful, but I haven't encountered issues with the ergonomics of just using normal git operations to do it. My stacking workflow is roughly:

- Open the first PR from `branch-1` against `main`

- While waiting for a review on that first PR, if I need to build on subsequent work in `branch-1`, I'll `git checkout -b branch-2`, and open a draft PR against `branch-1`

- If the open review requires me to make changes to make changes to `branch-1`, I'll `git merge branch-1` on `branch-2` to pull them up the stack

- After `branch-1` is merged, my draft PR for `branch-2` will automatically update to being opened against `main`

- Repeat as necessary depending on how much stacking is requires and how far ahead I get against my reviewers

I don't find any of this all that difficult or cumbersome. Is there something that this feature offers, that I'm missing out on?

What's the point of Dark mode on an eink screen?

Saying you value “ideas and progress” is an empty platitude. What ideas? Progress towards what?

I love reading, and I was explaining precisely why I love it.

> On one hand I want to stay YIMBY here

As far as I'm aware, the YIMBY "movement", or whatever you want to call it, is pretty squarely about housing development. It's not about saying yes to building anything and everything, but saying yes to new housing in particular.

For example, https://newyorkyimby.com/ is pretty much exclusively about housing.

Wow, I could not disagree with this more. What’s valuable about a novel is the social relationships it fosters, both in relation to the author, and also all the others that have read it. I read a book to better understand what other people are thinking, how they see the world — both directly from the author, and indirectly, in discovering what other readers may have found valuable.

I can maybe understand finding value in a machine-written novel if others also read it and enjoyed it, but having an LLM spit out a novel and reading it in isolation, that would be a complete waste of time to me.