With "open-sourcing the algorithms", does he mean actually publishing models? If so, it will be very interesting to see what happens - could this mean making it easier to find 'vulneravilities' in the models and exploit them? Kind of like this early-age internet "SEO" where you could put white text in your page's HTML with some buzzwords to make it more popular?

Both @ IPO prices. In a recession both of their main offerings drop as people don't use the service - to keep their share prices up they need to up their rev share combined with equity prices dropping as a hole. Strongly disagree with this opinion.

If the argument is for working at them - I think any large tech corp with a voluminous employee size is probably relatively safe (layoff risk always abound).

Except there is no house during a recession. People don't travel nor look for vacation rentals to stay in.

or people look to airBnB as a cheaper alternative to hotels.

Except that an AirBnB now typically costs more than a hotel for basic travel (a private bedroom & bathroom with wifi and maybe some basic kitchen supplies for coffee).

AirBnB also uses a bunch of dark patterns (service fees and taxes are not listed in the default nightly rate...) and you don't always get what you thought you were getting. I've been burned enough times with deceptive AirBnB listings to not trust the sticker price (hotels are typically less hassle).

I can attest to this. My wife and I are planning to rent our house out for a couple of years and become “digital nomads”. I was looking at AirBnbs in different cities. The decent ones weren’t any cheaper than a 3 star (middle of the road) Homewood Suites.

With Homewood Suites, we get a full kitchen, a gym, a pool, and a crazy amount of Hilton Points when we use their highest end credit card.

On top of that, we know what to expect.

Nice! I'm slightly surprised that Signal did not create as nice bot API as, for example, Telegram did. Feels a bit weird having to use a phone number and not some username.