A huge advantage for these services is that I don’t ever have to meet you in person.

Availability for assistance is great, but otherwise I have zero desire to encounter you, as a “consumer”.

which is why your investment is not going to pay out. Or at least that's what the article is suggesting. You (and the rest) offered a crap experience. Customers wised up. They're no longer renting.

the main reason of etre of airbnb is to let him and others skip the law and not get a proper license to run a faux-hotel at their second homes.

then people can't afford nor rent nor buying homes in their homeplaces, due to these twats buying it all up to -profit-

this is one of those urban legends that seem to make sense but doesn't add up when you check the actual numbers.

i just need to check my neighborhood to know

Then why not make a 6-figure investment in hospitality stocks instead of buying a house in a single neighborhood?

parent post reminded me of my experience living in Hilton Head and working for the local internet provider.

Storms and loss of power are really common in the area and we would get a flood of really belligerent callers with the following circumstances:

- Lives over 1000 miles away out of state

- Owns multiple AirBNBs in the area

- The locks for their doors required an internet connection and power to function

- They didn't have a local property manager

- Their guests were locked out

It was hilarious because they were screaming and hollering and demanding immediate service from the internet company to get their locks fixed because they were too cheap to hire a local to service the properties and reboot the fiber ONT after a power outage.

And this was about 15 years ago, so I think the "recent decline" of AirBNB is exaggerated and that these owners have always been on the platform, they're now just the _only_ owners on the platform.

I hope not, I love knowing when the bus comes, as well as being able to walk in the random direction in the unfamiliar location without worrying about being lost. Being able to point to a tree (or a flower) and knowing what is its name is also nice.

How about you ban social networks instead? I couldn't care less about them.

Of all the times and places where I'd say using your phone for distraction is not problematic, the subway would be near top of the list. What are else are you going to do? Enjoy the sounds, sights, and smells? It's not a great place for conversation even if you are with other people, and it's not a great place for meditation or reflection if you're alone.

Could read a book or a paper, though of you have your smartphone set up to not be allowed to deliver unwanted distractions from that kind of media then yeah I agree with you, there's not shit else to do on a subway. People watching is only fun to a point.

This is part of why I much prefer above ground trains, at least you get a view then.

Then just read a book or magazine. Or just take that boring time, its life that is not always funny, entertaining and colorful. Most people have the problem of being under pressure to spend even their free time productive. But for whom? Boredom is healthy, spinning down your engine from constantly reving up at the street lights in life. When i commute to work, i got an old Walkman, ancient cassette player with me, listening to an entire album of music where i cant hear the phone ringing, no notification popping up and letting me get distracted from listening to people that spent years of work to create an album of fantastic music.

> read a book or magazine

Assuming that reading a physical book/printed magazine is inherently better than using your phone in the same situation is just a kind of snobbiness.

Someone in those photos could have been watching a veritasium video, or studying their college notes on their phone. Someone in the earlier years with a book could have been reading Mills and Boone.

But either way, who cares? Why are we judging what people do to pass a few minutes of their day in an inherently boring place like the subway?

As to the value of boredom, sure. But environment matters too. I think there's very little value to boredom on a subway. If you want to make a personal choice to be bored on the subway, go for it. But I don't see any valid reason to judge other people for choosing otherwise.

It’s not snobbiness. We have a mountain of literature out now showing how detrimental smartphone usage is to the human mind. Reading has no such drawbacks.

Been there, done that. Boring time in subway is totally not worth it, if you want to relax, take a walk, ideally next to the river.

As for reading a book or a magazine - this only works for the most common topics. The internet brought up significantly more interesting things - can you remeber any printed publication that was as good as danluu's essays for example?

Wait until climate change really bites hard, then you will consider this just a minor inconvenience.

They shouldn't be trusted for any number of reasons, but the need for social systems to adapt to reality isn't their fault.

It wouldn't be their fault if the economic class that they were a part of weren't actively opposed to changing those social systems.

I wouldn't care nearly as much about AI were there a stronger social safety net in the US. However, that's not going to happen anytime soon, because that requires taxes to pay for, and the very wealthy do not like paying those because it reduces their wealth.

It kind of is their fault when they're simultaneously lobbying against those social systems and designing their platforms in a way to further align with that propaganda. It seems very intentional to me.

My mom taught me how to crochet when I was a young boy and every now and then I still get out the yarn and pass some time. Even without attempting to make anything specific, it's quite engaging while simultaneously relaxing.

I can only assume the author omitted context. ex: seems to be primarily expressing sympathy with complaining/venting, particularly when it is about another department or higher level within the company. It is commiseration, but without that additional context it is difficult to understand why it is viewed negatively in the post.

> unhappy people generally deliver shitty work

I believe one suggestion the author likely intended but didn't make was that "commiseration" does not create happy people. It may deepen trench bonding, but it doesn't increase happiness. The focus then should be on actions that produce happy people, who then produce better work.

I'd argue that this is only true sometimes.

As the author says in the last paragraph, sometimes people do need to complain and need that commiseration. Not allowing that, or shutting it down immediately, makes it fester and just get worse.

There are ways of commiserating that don't confirm the complaint, though. Being heard is usually 90% of the need, so just "I hear you, and feel your frustration" is often enough to get them back to an emotional even keel.

And yes, there are people who love to complain, and are only happy when it rains. Managing them can be difficult, because it's treading that fine line between hearing them and agreeing with them.

Personally, I find frustration to be a powerful motivator. I’m not really sure that _happiness_ per se is what leads to better work, but I think feeling empowered to change something is.

On the topic of unhappy people delivering great work... see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka

I mean, the alternative was that they did hard labor. So I guess there is a silver lining to everything.

There is power to "wow doing this shit fucking sucks, might as well get good at doing this shit work because there is nothing better to do"

It is unclear how this comment was meant; in any case, it is appreciated. As stated in the link:

“The common English usage aligns with a metaphorical interpretation of the learning curve as a hill to climb.”

Followed by a graph plotting x “experience” against y “learning.”

That’s interesting. I always intuitively assumed x-axis was progress and y-axis was cumulative effort.

1. Ignore lists of 101 anything.

Yeah. The 40% seems like the interesting bit.

Yeah, the fact that 40% get them regardless makes the slight increases seem.. statistically irrelevant?

It turns out we in fact have tests to determine statistical significance - and the fact that this study was peer reviewed and published means the results were indeed statistically significant!

> We included 1,781 participants (mean age 74.9 ± 12.5 years, mean education 4.8 ± 4.0 years, 49.6% women, and 64.1% White). Compared with participants who never consumed alcohol, moderate (odds ratio [OR] 1.60, 95% CI 1.19–2.15, p = 0.001), heavy (OR 2.33, 95% CI 1.50–3.63, p < 0.001), and former heavy (OR 1.89, 95% CI 1.41–2.54, p < 0.001) alcohol consumptions were associated with hyaline arteriolosclerosis while only heavy (OR 1.41, 95% CI 1.10–2.30, p = 0.012) and former heavy (OR 1.31, 95% CI 1.02–1.68, p = 0.029) alcohol consumptions were associated with neurofibrillary tangles. Former heavy drinking was associated with a lower brain mass ratio (β −4.45, 95% CI −8.55 to −0.35, p = 0.033) and worse cognitive abilities (β 1.31, 95% CI 0.54–2.09, p < 0.001). The association between impaired cognitive abilities and alcohol consumption was fully mediated by hyaline arteriolosclerosis (β 0.13, 95% CI 0.02–0.22, p = 0.012).

Being statistically significant is about how good your measurement is. (In one particular way.)

It's entirely unrelated to being practically significant.

Just telling it "Avoid upward inflection" or "Use a flat tone" prevents the lilt for me. Perhaps it doesn't "stick"? Perhaps it varies by voice.

It partially works but it doesn’t “stick”, as you say. I’ve tried setting it on Preferences but it isn’t consistent.