precisely, every single one of these reports is PR to pump Airbnb
> Long-term stays, or stays for 28 nights or longer, were 18% of total gross nights booked, a decline from the previous quarter, when they accounted for 21% of total nights booked.
translation: this hypocrisy is hurting my business that monetizes remote work
> Long-term stays, or stays for 28 nights or longer, were 18% of total gross nights booked, a decline from the previous quarter, when they accounted for 21% of total nights booked.
This guys opinion is meaningless. Any coverage of his statements should be seen as corporate PR trying to drive more bookings, to boost their 10% “platform fee” revenues.
>- DNS-level adblocking, to make app usage bearable
it's possible with AdGuard Pro and similar apps on iOS, although it's obviously not possible to run these apps with root privileges, like AfWall and others.
The saying is simply the idea that someone can have a mental impression of something, and it defines how they see that something, regardless of the truth.
It doesn’t seem that controversial to me and certainly isn’t literal.
Modi is corrupt. The guy does not have the interest of the country at heart, he just cares about the Ambanis and increasing the wealth of his political allies.
He was complicit in the Gujurat riots ethnic cleansing[0]
Demonetization was a scheme to enrich his billionaire friends and party[0].
There's a lot more, and being the PM he hasn't allowed the media to question him. He only appears in staged interviews singing his praises or speeches.
Even if that were true(which it's not), that's not a good defense of Modi.
"Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain."
> in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain
You’re quoting Wikipedia [1]; see the “definition and scales” section. Personal gain in this context is contrasted with political gain. Using state power to openly reward boosters is not corruption, though it might be an abuse of power. Using state power to illegally use violence as a political tactic, similarly, is not corruption. It’s authoritarianism, possibly fascism.
It’s important for the word to have meaning, particularly in India, where overexpanding corruption to mean anything one doesn’t like could be particularly corrosive.
The word is commonly used to mean abuse of power, The original usage of the word in this conversation clearly meant that usage of the word:
> Modi is corrupt. The guy does not have the interest of the country at heart, he just cares about the Ambanis and increasing the wealth of his political allies.
Deciding whether Modi is corrupt or not based on technical differences between political gains and personal gains seems purely motivated to keep his image "squeaky clean".
He’s surrounded by corruption. There is no evidence he is corrupt. There is a difference there in terms of to whom the personal gains accrue. He seems to play India’s corrupt oligarchs for political, not personal, gain. That’s hugely problematic. But it does not make him corrupt per se.
Chinese manufacturing still dominates and they produce most of the routers and modems out there. If we can’t trust routers from China then virtually the entire world is compromised.
imagine the intricate profiles Facebook has built on everyone, especially when it's siphoning data regularly from apps which are opened. This goes for all dating apps to any page with a "like" button, or a FB conversion scripts, to whatever data companies pump to FB to do ad-targeting (phone numbers, emails)
> Long-term stays, or stays for 28 nights or longer, were 18% of total gross nights booked, a decline from the previous quarter, when they accounted for 21% of total nights booked.
via airbnb's latest earnings report from last week https://www.marketwatch.com/story/airbnb-stock-falls-sharply...