Interesting Links for 06-09-2023

[andrewducker]

1. The End of Airbnb in New York

(tags:housing newyork GoodNews )

2. The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction

(tags:NorthKorea society scifi )

3. Stalker found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes

(tags:stalking location japan )

4. Study of over 80,000 UK couples finds that in love opposites don't actually attract

(tags:relationships psychology )

5. "AI took my job, literally"—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to glitchy AI translator

(tags:ai translation jobs OhForFucksSake )

6. Misinformation about contraception on social media may be contributing to Scotland's record high abortion figures

(tags:disinformation contraception Scotland abortion OhForFucksSake )

7. The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained

(tags:gravity research space )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

1 The only part of this I don't like is making people be present when renting.

[calimac]

1) So, as the article points out, this is a blow both to people renting who want, e.g., a place to put their whole family, and to people offering the rentals who want, e.g. to make a little extra money off their apartment when they're out of town for the weekend.

And why is that being done? Because of people on both sides who abuse the privilege, who look for loopholes to be obnoxious or rapacious. They've spoiled it for everybody.

This is called "the tragedy of the commons." It's popular these days to say that the tragedy of the commons does not exist, but it happens all the time, and this is an example.

[simont]

#4 reminds me of an extremely annoying opinion piece I read a couple of decades ago about geeks looking for partners.

Its premise was: if you come home from work, or out of your study, saying "Honey, I just did the most amazing hack!", would you prefer (a) a partner who says "that's nice dear" and puts your dinner down in front of you, or (b) a partner who says "Ooh, what was it? Wait, how did that even work? Show me in more detail ... " and two hours later you're still both enthusing over it and have sent out for pizza. Its conclusion was: you should prefer (a).

This annoyed me because it seemed self-evidently bollocks. It annoyed me because, unlike my phrasing here, it was conventionally gender-stereotyped rather than gender-independent. And it annoyed me most of all by neglecting all the other possibilities! For example, surely another quite plausible option is a partner who is also obsessively geeky but about something else, so that you don't exactly share each other's specific enthusiasm, but are sympathetic toward the general behaviour patterns of geekhood, because you have them too. Plus each of you has something to do when the other one is off doing their thing.

This article at least sounds as if it would have disagreed with that one, which is a start :-)

[hairyears]

(3) If I recall correctly, waving for the camera can disclose a usable fingerprint and palm print to a high-end (100 megapixel) phone camera.