If the rentals number in the search results is correct, Boulder, CO has 1,864 listings on Airbnb. The population is somewhere around 104,000 people, with around 42,000 households.
That is insane.
Not sure how many hotel rooms there are, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's about 1/3rd the number of Airbnb listings.
Don't bother watching it. TLDR; Sergey stands awkwardly on stage for 5 minutes, telling you how isolating it is to whip out your cellphone. With Glass you can keep your head up, something he cannot seem to demonstrate himself - choosing instead to come across as isolated from the audience, distracted, and unprepared. 2 million people have watched this for some reason.
I've got a Roku HD (model 2500X) and just did some measurements:
Starting up: 3.5W
Sitting idly on menu screen: 3.15W
Sitting idly on screen saver: 3.3W
Streaming Arrested Development: 3.45W
Also worth noting that when not in use, it goes to screen saver mode. It never actually powers down at all.
So basically, it uses the same amount no matter what you're doing with it. And really ironic that the screen saver uses more power than the menu screen. I guess the appearance of saving power is more important?
I've heard over and over that Boulder (county, which is around 300,000 people) is #1 in the country for software jobs per capita - but unfortunately I don't have a tangible source for that.
Corporations get taxed ~15% + 14% hotel tax.
Individuals get taxed ~30% already on their Airbnb income (plus Airbnb charges the guest 6%-12% and the host 3%).
If they're going to charge 14% hotel tax to people renting out rooms on Airbnb, wouldn't it be more fair to tax that income at the corporate rate instead of the individual rate?
(Yes, I understand the taxes go to different places in each scenario. But from the "take home" perspective of the person/entity doing all the work here, hosts on Airbnb are already having their transaction taxed significantly more than any hotel chain).
> Corporations get taxed ~15% + 14% hotel tax. Individuals
> get taxed ~30% already on their Airbnb income
Greatly simplifying things:
(Big) corporations in the US get taxed 15%, and then when they pay dividends to shareholders, that gets taxed again as income for the individual.
In fact many small businesses are incorporated in such a way that they skip the 15% tax rate and pay taxes on all of their income at the individual owner's tax rate.
Blocking any spam that contains a link is helpful, for sure, but doesn't get everything. Every few months I see waves of comments like: "Really graet article. We need more people like you in the world."
Each comment has exactly one pair of transposed letters. There is no product being pitched, and no url (we don't display or link to email address either). It's baffling.
Some blog platforms whitelist comments from people who have had previous comments approved. I'm pretty sure these meaningless (but positive) comments are an attempt to get on that list.
yes. also some platforms (mostly forums, less of blogs) allow editing of posts, so forum spammers sometimes post meaningless crap only to replace it later with spam.
We should be able to detect that by looking for large numbers of posts with small edit distances. That will contain false positives, but looking for very large numbers should mitigate that.
> Each comment has exactly one pair of transposed letters. There is no product being pitched, and no url (we don't display or link to email address either). It's baffling.
I would guess that the transposed letters are used to keep tabs on where their comments are live. It could look innocent, as if it were a human typo, but later the spammers could run a search and see which sites are trusting their comments in order to either edit them later or use their trusted account to post spam links.
Those comments could be used to make automated spam filters less effective. Spammers could post comments that would normally be labeled as spam, but do not contain any URLs. Over time a spam filter would have a harder time distinguishing between cut-and-dry spam and real comments (assuming the admin is marking those spam comments as ham).
Also, I'm a fan of not allowing brand new accounts to post URLs in their comments. It's a no-brainer.
Of course not however when someone goes to the effort of making such a nice looking site, it makes it look a bit off. Also, with sites that I use often, I like to remove the bookmark title so it is just the icon on my favourites bar, so no favicon does make a difference there. Looking back, my post made me look like a huge nit-picker but it was merely an attempt to help out the developer. I don't think it was deserving of a downvote :-(
