This. I never gotten when or why Steve Jobs became such and idol and I still don’t get it. The only outpouring after a death that I’ve been more surprised about is for Michael Jackson.

It’s so weird that Ballmer is doing this and Gates is eradicating malaria, but Jobs — and his total devotion to consumerism — is the one we’re supposed to love.

When do we get to see how companies manage money, or even government subsidies? It will be necessary if anyone wants to play this data as some sort of excessive government waste, like the private sector doesn’t hand out corporate credit cards like candy and let you expense a grotesque amount.

I stayed in Air bnb twice. too many cancellations just to get those rooms. I checked back a few days later and those places are still for rent. hotels are easier to book and they only care that I have money. too many racists on air bnb so I don’t even bother anymore.

If you don’t take to her that’s fine, but that last paragraph taking a potshot at her looks (especially for a Ripley archetype who was never going to be a va-va-voom supermodel) was so unnecessary.

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I teach in San Francisco Unified. We have a crisis-level teacher shortage because teachers can’t afford to live here. Our city is currently in court fighting Airbnb because it’s decided the legislation it wrote and the city passed is not permissive enough. Rental housing is conclusively disappearing into illegal…

You’ve literally 100% missed the point.

The entitlement of millenials knows absolutely no bounds, does it? Unbelieveable. Every app is worse than the last.

How rightly DARE responsible adults expect Uber drivers to have proper insurance in case a rider gets hurt? HOW DARE YOU SIR?

And illegal fulltime hotels run via AirBNB? Which, shut up, is how most people…

Yes for example, the neighbors decided to host a 10 bunk bed airbnb in a one bedroom apartment on my street. It’s basically a youth hostel. People mistakenly come to my door several times a week. They just go right for the handle and try to walk in, even when I have a sign on my door. It’s already a terribly congested…

AirBnB has caused a lot of problems in Colorado. In mountain towns near ski resorts, airbnb has ravaged seasonal housing for ski resort workers. Which has major economic consequences for those regions. Some of the larger operators are building their own housing for seasonal workers, but that takes time and the…

- There has been a rash recently of hacked accounts renting out places, and then robbing them blind. How do you tell? AirBNB needs to enforce 2FA.

I live in a townhouse style duplex and my neighbor was doing exactly this despite the fact the HOA regulations specifically forbid it. I ignored it for about a month until a group of college kids partied so loud and out of control that I had to call the cops. Needless to say that was the last straw and I now have a…

I see. So, because I overstated the scope of the problems, AirBnB has no problems, is that it?

Your problems with hotels are a great example of first-world problems.

Hotels pay taxes and have employees, on which they pay more taxes. They also have to abide by health code regulations and any other regulations that are appropriate.

Hotels can’t compete with AirBnB and homeowner partners, because they have to pay stadium/convention center taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes, deal with city inspections, employ unionized labor and while of course, homeowners have some taxes and issues, the difference is so much that AirBnB owns a big chunk of the…

That’s great until you have to live next to some fucker who’s renting out his house for summer weekenders. And let’s not forget the assholes who rent out multiple apartments and then Air BnB them without their landlords knowledge. Fuck Air BnB forever.

If I had to guess, but maybe I’m wrong (though, working with AirBnB hosts, I find this is fairly true), you’re not declaring the income, you’re not complying with or possibly subject to the same health codes hotels are, and you’re likely not paying a hotel tax (assuming your area has one).

Good. I may not like the idea of a $450/night room in the Hilton downtown, but I dislike paying extortionate rent even less due to these AirBnB “hotelier” landlords popping up. Never mind the safety regulations (or lackthereof) on AirBnB rooms, as well as consumer protection.