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Comment Re:Lazy owners. (Score 1) 130

It's caused by people who try and run an AirBnB empire with multiple properties, and there is no way they can reasonably go to each property to clean after every stay, so they hire management companies or cleaning services to do it for them and try to hand off the cost as "cleaning fees" instead of building the costs of running their business into the bottom line nightly cost. AirBnB was supposed to be for people who had an extra bedroom they would rent out and you know actually be like a BnB, or maybe an unused mother in law suite, or maybe a rental property that is currently vacant and you want to fill it with short term stays till you can get a full time resident in it. It wasn't designed for investors to snap up a dozen properties in the area and list them all on AirBnB as full time short term stays.

Comment Re:VRBO (Score 1) 130

AirBnb should just outright ban "cleaning fees". Build the cost of your operations of the property into the nightly stay cost like hotels do. Most hotels don't nickel and dime your receipt at the end of a standard stay at most you might see regional accommodation taxes or fees line itemed. "House rules" regarding usage of amenities, cleaning required at the end of stay, etc should be required to be fully stated in the listing.

Comment Won't be possible. (Score 0) 152

Are you really going to put laws into place mandating that companies keep game servers online, maintained and patched till infinity? Perhaps what you can mandate is that games will continue to function without contact with the mother ship. That games have viable offline single player and or peer to peer multi-player modes that will not rely on companies keeping infrastructure running into infinity

Comment Re:the internet has world-wide propagation range (Score 2) 196

I wouldn't call AM radio a waste of spectrum. There isn't much else you're going to do with approx 1mhz of bandwidth in that low of a frequency that is actually more useful than AM broadcasting. Yes the content on a lot of AM stations is absolute garbage, but the tech can still be useful. If we ever did get into a SHTF situation you can easily build a crystal radio out of about 5 parts and some wire if it REALLY came down to that.

Comment Re:They're not losing interest. (Score 2) 152

They're likely looking into job prospects over the next 40 years and with AI just about every white collar office job is coming off the table in that time frame. You can't even get your foot in the door at these kinds of jobs now because all the entry level bullshit that interns and recent grads would do has already been replaced with AI.

Comment Re: Internet - Single point of societal failure (Score 1) 59

It's probably more that the old pre integrated circuit and transistorized phone network would have probably better survived an EMP. Since you were basically talking about a bunch of mechanical switches and relays. Copper phone networks from the 70s to today would probably be just an vulnerable to EMP as fiber since they rely on integrated electronics.

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