FBI and Homeland Security need this to be a miracle, so Terrorist don't figure out that you could do the same thing with a bomb, and not have to even get on the plane.
Terrorists may not act the way you expect. Some may be perfectly willing to destroy a flight without destroying themselves. For those terrorists, the wheel well may very well come in handy as an unsecured location to stash a bomb that will be protected from the elements.
I don't doubt that the reduction of lead in our environment has reduced the amount of mental illness. But I also think changes to truancy laws in the US in the 70s helped, advancements in psychotherapies, and drugs for the treatment of mental illness helped. Identification of treatments for ADD and ADHD helped.
Changes in the economy helped, we had more women in the workforce which meant we had more ability for families to survive father's unemployment.
Wider adoption of TV meant people became more aware of crime, and criminals were easier to catch.
So yes, lead removal was probably a contributor, but I think it was bigger than that.
The Corporate Leadership shapes culture through their actions, and the tolerance of others actions.
If you have no walls on your office before taking money, and move to a corner office with a close door after, you change the culture.
If you work flex hours and let the staff do so, then change, the culture changes.
If you hire guys who wear cut-offs and have unkempt beards, but later switch to only those who are straight laced you change the culture.
Amazon everyone used to have a Door with saw horse legs for a desk. That changed along the way. And the culture changed.
You can't keep the Garage culture, when you move to a skyscraper, but you can keep hints of it if the executive team works hard to make sure it happens.
>Amazon everyone used to have a Door with saw horse legs for a desk.
No, door desks are still present at Amazon. Ironically, Amazon is large enough now that outfitting every employee with a door desk is in fact more expensive than ordering conventional desks in bulk. But they stick with the door desks because it's a good way of transmitting the frugal culture.
I don't live in my AirBNB's. I don't want to be friends with all of the people who stay at my places. I am running hotels where maid service is your responsibility, or you can pay an additional fee.
I have really nice places. They are cheaper than hotels, and you get way more space. I would love to stay at their equivalents in other places. But I don't want to make friends with all the people who stay at my places, or the places I might stay.
If AirBNB is going to work, it needs to be looking at ways to be more like TimeShares that you buy on a moment's notice, and less like a couch surfing site.
It needs to be mainstream, not more hippy.
Yes, it needed that hippy core to get started, but to really grow it has to transition from the hippy core to mainstream. You can't be a $10B company with a target audience that is only people who all want to be friends. That may be sad, but it is the truth of business.
I think he meant culture of the workplace. It would have been interesting if he would have described the core components of the workplace and what character traits the average airBnB employee possesses.
It sounds like you need to be using Hyatt or DoubleTree's online franchised timeshare offering. What, there is none?
Then be thankful that the culture you hate has created something you value. You sound like the complaints that Google doesn't offer phone support, just correct software and a knowledge base.
If you want to deal with a traditional, huge, corporate juggernaut, feel free to check out their offerings. Let us know if you find anything.
The difference is Google mostly works. And yes I hate that Google has lousy support.
AirBNB's corporate culture is based on the idea that nobody will care because the users would do it for free but it is nice to get paid.
When you raise 500M on a 10B valuation, people start to care more that your stuff works. If you get a moldy muffin at a bake sale you say, "no big deal that was a nice guy". If you get a moldy muffin at Starbucks you get a lawyer.
I am now a "Starbucks Franchisee" and so people expect more. I am also betting big on AirBNB with multiple properties, so I need them to do their part.
As to the "dig" that I should be using Hyatt or Doubletree to do this... I expect I will soon. You don't expect them to stay out of the market do you? I expect Expedia to be in the space in the next 3 years as the legality of running a hotel (and that's what I do) gets shaken out in NYC and SF.
Well, you are clearly doing more than they communicate to you. I read you as being a franchisee in a franchise program that doesn't exist. Do they actively support buying apartments to lease out using Airbnb?
So while I understand that you are already using them, that you see that they've raised money, and that you expect more from their franchise program than non-existence - indeed, you've set your stake down and established yourself in it - it strikes me as less than fair that you would show this level of entitlement toward a non-existent program.
It's a bit like complaining to a bakery that your customers no longer wake up to the nice fresh smell of croissants in your apartment upstairs from them, now that the bakery get their croissants delivered from another baking location. Well, okay. But that's not their model.
This is what your tone sounds like to me:
"Dear airbnb: I've taken it upon myself to set up as a franchisee in your non-existent franchise program. And as an airbnb franchise owner, boy am I pissed. Your level of support for what I'm doing is appalling. Orders of magnitude worse than what I would get from a program that exists. As a $10B company, you cannot afford to stop supporting what I'm doing. It's a travesty. Make no mistake, I am upset and fully intend to abandon you and start using your competition - just as soon as it starts existing. Your days are numbered."
I understand that you think they should go in the direction of supporting you (which may not even be legal!) but I would seriously consider the level of entitlement you show when making these requests. At the end of the day, you're not entitled to be a franchisee if they don't have a franchise program.
When you look at the "rent a castle" or many of the featured locations it is clear I am not a minority. It was this change that made them a $10b valuation company instead of being what ever valuation all the other couch surf websites are.
There are other services for furnished short term rentals. Few of those let you do 3 day rentals. I am on some of the ones that allow 1 week rentals. So there is competition in that space, and has been pre-airbnb.
So yes, they have a "franchise" this analogy is falling down because they are more like Amazon and I am more like one of the providers who lists on them. Or, Ebay listing my car for me.
When Amazon, or Ebay have support issues, or performance issues, or "image" issues it effects those "self entitled" sellers who are trying to make a living on their platform.
And yes, just as ebay and amazon if you don't do a good job the providers of what is sold will leave.
Some of what you've written makes sense, but you can't appeal to their $10b valuation for why they should support what you're doing more explicitly. They have a certain approach they're doing, and this only supports you implicitly. You can't take it but complain they're not doing something different, just like Google Search users can't complain about a lack of phone support. (And Google is a $363B company.)
I actually didn't mean "self-entitled" in a general way (like, about your personality), or anything - rather just entitlement about something in this particular relationship. For example, the same level of entitlement that you show might be absolutely fine when you deal with Starbucks, for example. (If I read correctly that you're a starbucks franchise owner). It's just that you're showing this particular entitlement about airbnb, and there is nothing to justify it, as they don't operate the same way or make the same sort of promises about their relationship with you.
Anyway it wouldn't hurt to ask nicely, saying, pretty-please, wouldn't you consider doing something different/ more explicit, better business support than what you're doing now, for this and this reason. They might not want to do that - then don't use their business. I wouldn't operate an eBay store for example, because of the terrible things some eBay store operators say about eBay and their policies. I just wouldn't use it as a business front.
I think if you don't want airbnb to just ignore you, you should consider playing at their level, with constructive feedback about what to do and how to do it, and if they don't want to do that - then to make a hard decision about whether you want to do business on their terms, or make a living somewhere else.
You can't get them to change their behavior by starting to behave as though they already promised to do that or set the relationship up like that. They aren't DoubleTree opening a franchise program. It's just a different sort of organization.
One bit refers to it having exactly one bit of what could be called "architecture state" or "datapath", that is the second channel of lower 74C374 going from input to A0 of program store. "Instruction" has two phases and result of first phase determines what will happen next by means of this one bit (by changing which pointer to next instruction will be read from memory).
That all makes it a one instruction set CPU (and since there is only one possible instruction it need not be stored in the program).
But the 1 bit is a reference to memory, it has an address space os 2^1 (Q1 and Q2 on the 4099 output register file) and a word size of 1, which as you point out allows you to store only a binary state.
All encryption is breakable. You aren't choosing an unpickable lock, you are picking how good of a thief it will take to rob you.
A 4096 bit encryption might make it really expensive to attack you, but those old numbers about "it would take a computer 40,000 years to crack" don't matter much in a world where that just means you spin up 160k instances in the cloud for 3 months.
That's a Dollar amount that makes cracking YOUR bank account not worth doing. But if it were the Nuclear launch codes for Russia's arsenal it would not be undoable.
A. The rate of Keys per second on both are way low, and B, you don't have to test every combination, Certain combinations will tell you that whole chunks of possibilities are not possible.
In truth most of the time you can narrow the potentials to 1% of the total possible to determine a range for the right answer pretty quickly.
Granted if it was as slow as 77 Billion years .7 billion years is still a long time. But no, these numbers are orders of orders of magnitude wrong.
Raise your hand if you bought an "upgradable" mother board in the 286 and 386 days.... Do you still have it?
I have a computer that still uses some of the same screws that my 486 used. For a long time I kept the original hard disk spinning even though I didn't store stuff on it... But when IDE connectors went away I stopped bothering with keeping it for nostalgia.
Even my case is no longer compatible, the power supply stopped being compatible long ago.
Some of this is "advancements" some of it is just that manufactures want to sell you new stuff.
Houses are about the only thing that are modular and you can say you will only need to buy one... The house I grew up in is nearly 200 years old. So far it hasn't needed to be replaced to do incompatibility.
High. VHF AC to DC conversion isn't in many devices because it is actually hard to get it to not cause issues with everything else on the same transformer (not even breaker).
Also you notice they use a lighter wire than most laptop power supplies would and no ferro loop at the end to reduce the noise to the device.
Maybe I missed it, but I don't think I saw a UL approval on the device. I also don't think there is enough room in the case to have a thermal cut out, and a fuse/breaker. Which you really need on a power supply.
I'd love to be wrong on all this. I hate carrying a brick (though mine is about the size of half a deck of cards).
The real thing for size is the transformer and other magnetics, which decrease with frequency, hence why this uses VHF frequencies. Output filters can also be made smaller at higher frequencies, and Ken Shirriff's iPhone charger teardown above shows a small ferrite ring _inside_ the charger case for high frequencies.
UL Approval is probably under on the "Production Timeline" (2/3rds down) under "Submit for initial regulatory certification (4 months)", which is set to begin now (Apr-May).
As for the wire thickness, it doesn't seem that much thinner than my Macbook Charger, which is also 65W. The production timeline on the kickstarter leaves them time to change to a thicker one.
The big question of course, is the feasibility of the VHF AC-DC conversion. FINsix have a paper (http://finsix.com/assets/files/FINsix_Tech.pdf) but its not very long or detailed, and I don't know enough to criticise it if it was.
