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Comment Lack of compact format vehicles. (Score 1) 352

They complain that no one wants to buy their overpriced line up of luxury vehicles and have yet to make an economy class hatchback or light duty pickup that is accessible to the middle class. This appears to be an engineered, "problem," to me. Chinese manufacturers aren't having this problem. Perhaps it's time to go back to the drawing board with a mind to creating lightweight and strong vehicles that are within the spending limit of your average household. They are refusing to sell to their market in order to create a false narrative, that's just my opinion.

Comment The Elephant In The Room (Score 2, Funny) 78

Conservatives are deathly afraid of any intelligence that can pierce their lies like a hot knife through butter. It is dangerous to know things that would topple the established authority for being in bed with globalists and the 1% rather than running a democracy like it should be - of the people, by the people, for the people. There are a very small group of people that have a lot to lose should the truth be known. AI has the potential to lay waste to madness or incite it, depending on which side of the aisle you stand on politically.
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Airbnb's Naba Banerjee Reduced Partying By 55% In Two Years (cnbc.com) 71

Hayden Field writes via CNBC: Naba Banerjee is a proud party pooper. As the person in charge of Airbnb's worldwide ban on parties, she's spent more than three years figuring out how to battle party "collusion" by users, flag "repeat party houses" and, most of all, design an anti-party AI system with enough training data to halt high-risk reservations before the offender even gets to the checkout page. It's been a bit like a game of whack-a-mole: Whenever Banerjee's algorithms flag some concerns, new ones pop up.

Airbnb defines a party as a gathering that occurs at an Airbnb listing and "causes significant disruption to neighbors and the surrounding community," according to a company rep. To determine violations, the company considers whether the gathering is an open-invite one, and whether it involves excessive noise, trash, visitors, parking issues for neighbors, and other factors. Banerjee joined the company's trust and safety team in May 2020 and now runs that group. In her short time at the company, she's overseen a ban on high-risk reservations by users under age 25, a pilot program for anti-party AI in Australia, heightened defenses on holiday weekends, a host insurance policy worth millions of dollars, and this summer, a global rollout of Airbnb's reservation screening system.

Some measures have worked better than others, but the company says party reports dropped 55% between August 2020 and August 2022 -- and since the worldwide launch of Banerjee's system in May, more than 320,000 guests have been blocked or redirected from booking attempts on Airbnb. Overall, the company's business is getting stronger as the post-pandemic travel boom starts to fade. Last month, the company reported earnings that beat analysts' expectations on earnings per share and revenue, with the latter growing 18% year over year, despite fewer-than-expected numbers of nights and experiences booked via the platform.

Comment Shady Business (Score 2) 18

It would be nice if you could tell whether the officer in question was a good cop or a bad cop. Given all the scandalous behaviour of the RCMP in B.C. this is no longer the case. I should not feel nervous around a group that has been sworn to serve and protect the citizens of Canada but that is an unfortunate truth fo myself and, I suppose, many others as well. When our police force can no longer be expected to hold themselves to a higher standard than the criminals they say they are fighting every day, we can no longer tell whether the officer we are speaking with is a 'good guy' or a 'bad guy'. I have yet to see this getting any better here ðY"

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