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No it was created by them because they ignore those zoning laws and are willing to go to court to fight attempts to enforce them against their clientele. Finding a creative way to help people break laws with little chance of their being any consequences for yourself because you are a) in another jurisdiction and b) backed by billionaires like PG who believe they have a divine right to "disrupt" societies against the wishes of the people who live in them in the name if profit, is not something to be applauded. There is nothing "natural" about the creation of demand by Airbnb and it has brought little but misery to the poorest members of society while enriching those at the top.

Or he makes winners rather than picking them by giving them extra attention, recommending them to fellow VCs and being willing to go further on the whole "disruption" (Aka law breaking) front for them.

I think it's that a lot of us are older and wiser now and having lived through 30 years of VC driven hyper capitalism now look around and see that actually it's made life significantly more insecure and just generally shittier for most people except billionaires and FAANG drones. Of course if you're a billionaire or FAANG drone you probably don't want to acknowledge this.

Airbnb, backed by VC money, were willing to enable the breaking of local laws on a mass scale. These laws, about the standards that bed and breakfasts and other short term lets must meet (things like meeting fire and health and safety regulations) and also limiting the number of short term lets in an area to retain actual, functional cities people can afford to live in rather than tourist traps were and are intentionally bypassed by the Airbnb founders and their funders as part of their business plan. Airbnbs, contrary to the "ooh its helping people meet their rent" narrative pushed by PG are often owned by rich multiple property owning rentiers who are profiting off rich tourists by driving out poorer people who would like to actually live in these areas. Airbnb is a blight in cities all over the world.

Gotta agree with this. From the outside the American habit of venerating national symbols in a quasi religious manner, be it the "founding fathers", constitution, flag, office of the president, national anthem etc. is really weird and something more often seen in dictatorships than democracies.

I always find it fascinating to see the constraints that artists work under and how this effects their work. One thing none artists probably don't know is that a large part of traditional artist training is doing exercises under artificially constrained conditions in order to improve technique (source - I originally trained as a painter - 3 years vocational art and design qualification and 3 year degree). For example you might be given a continual line assignment (draw an entire picture without taking your pen off the paper), or to do life drawings without taking your eyes off the subject (so no looking at what you're drawing). These exercises are the equivalent of doing "scales" For musicians. They're largely boring, and often frustrating but dedicating time to them and doing them consistently over the course of years pays off. Early pixel art is amazing to me because there are so many constraints - in the tools (seriously drawing with joysticks!), the color pallets, the limited resomution and the exploiting of rendering and display artificats. Anyway, just some random thoughts.

Since I develop addons for blender my readmes contain gifs, video embeds and all the things you undoubtedly hate because that's the most efficient way to communicate what the tools actually do and how to use them. Not everyone develops command line tools.

No it's not. "Dangerous goods" in shipping terms is a specific term for a very broad category with multiple subcategories of goods covered by (in this context) the international maritime code on dangerous goods which enumerates in mind numbing detail what goods are covered and what arent. Anybody in the business, who this site is for, will know what "dangerous goods" refers to. Just because you don't know the meaning of a term doesn't mean it's not very precisely defined.