There wasn't but consider the context: at the time YouTube was an almost purely piracy platform most likely the biggest on the planet if quantified in IP dollar value - yet was magically not shut down by the government. How unfair to the competition is that? Remember that other piracy based sites were raided in that era. But when Google started acquiring it, it was very quickly above the law. YouTube should not exist.
- fair use was also sot as permissive in that era! Web 2.0 coerced a legal shift -
Can someone explain why it isn't disingenuous to look at Euros?
Firstly, euros cost now as much as they did three years ago. So that is clearly a price that can be reached with any number of causes. Then, UK pounds cost only what they did last September. And other world currencies? Values vs the dollar are all over the map, up, down, and nearly unchanged. No clear trend at all.
I had heard a good way to check the absolute value of dollars is to google USDX. Guess what? It's not particularly low, well within the normal range of ups and downs.
Not the whole market at the high end either, I have very little trouble getting any pair of Balmain, Versace, and Rick Owens sneaker I want - I have several dozen pairs of all three brands
Strategy at the high end is to price correctly but astronomically so almost no one can afford them, then offer seasonal sales to sell the less popular colorways or styles off to the aspirational upper poor.
Nike/Adidas is like the polar opposite, intentionally underprice so demand is frantic and there is a lot of action for middle men, then over the years try to steal back as much of the middle men profit as possible
There's a whole ecosystem for used nike shoes. https://www.youtube.com/@Ramitheicon gets over 500k each video and he's got a physical storefront where he trades cash to kids for their used nike shoes. There's so much hype for these shoes from NBA players, tik tok, instagram, and youtube.
"we want to be able to hang somewhere" ...just saying because I'm sorry I can't contain myself: This is exactly the use case Airbnb doesn't solve. I fly half-way across the world to meet my parents on vacation and almost without fail the only Airbnb I can find (or all the ones I can find) have a strict rule against guests. Hence I can't have my parents over 10 minutes to drink tea because if the owner, big brother, finds out I'll lose my entire remaining month of rent and be forcibly expelled. In Europe this is not joke, often a loss of $2000+
I truly hate Airbnb. Luckily since my parents only stay a week they can afford to stay in a hotel. Invariable we "hang out" with me sitting at the foot of their bed.
These "rules" become extremely oppressive when your home most of the year is an Airbnb room like me. This is why I use Booking or local corporate owned platfroms instead whenever possible
Camera's don't have to be hidden to prevent guests. It is allowed and becoming very common to have cameras at entrances and becoming common to restrict guests during the day as well as overnight.
I have never run into this alleged issue. In fact, we have several times booked AirBnB homes in the town of my youth and hosted Thanksgiving Dinner for my elderly mom and siblings who are themselves visiting and staying in AirBnB's. Yes, we asked the hosts before booking if we could cook and host a Thanksgiving Dinner and received their OK.
I truly love AirBnB and have stayed in them in most all my business and pleasure travels to Europe, Canada, Israel and across the USA.
Was the $.99 price point really invented at a point in history before sales taxes came to be established? Round prices have never been convenient because it always come out to $1.07 1.08 1.09 something like that with a mix of state and local tax added
Plenty of places in the world (most/all of Europe at least) include tax in the .99 price. If I go to the check out to buy something that is priced at £9.99, I will pay £9.99 as the 20% is already accounted for.
I don't think we can draw any conclusion from that campaign because multiple variables were changed simultaneously
The biggest ones in my mind, the ones my family had always played: they got rid of the game playing involved in buying during sales windows. This eliminated both the urgency to buy and the fun of feeling you were getting a deal other people weren't (this is all from memory I'm afraid)
When you eat at a sit down restaurant, part of the service is not forcing you to walk to the register up front to pay. Hence you leave your card with the waiter and they disappear with it for up to 15 minutes to process the payment at the terminal.
This is also their opportunity to copy your magnetic strip and/or add a tip without your permission. (Though the latter only happened to me once, I guess the former may have happened a few times over the years it's hard to know.)
For what it’s worth, everywhere else in the world they just bring a small hand held terminal over to your table and you just insert or tap your card yourself.
In europe they bring the pos to your table once done with your custom. Although in the uk table service is uncommon and people queue up at the till to order. No one checks the name as it would be a waste of time anyway.
Doesn't strike me as wise. Your phone is always on you, if you have a biometrics killswitch you're better off than repeatedly entering your password, day in and day out, in public locations where a highly motivated actor WILL be able to figure out your password with mere binoculars and two or three observations.
This is why I hate when I get a 1Password prompt to reenter my nonbio password at inopportune times in a public place. My keystrokes can be secretly filmed from a distance. When I gain access to passwords that I copy and paste by fingerprint, the forcible theft of my machine puts me at near 0 risk. (My preferred way to login while in public.)
You are not leaving fingerprints on your device? Btw. there have been successful unlocks of biometric sensors using photographs of fingers, so you better wear gloves all the time.
It is annoying that Windows keeps Qwerty for it while Mac uses Dvorak. If it was just consistent (I constantly switch machines) it would be easy to handle and entirely subconscious by now...
But I start typing the wrong layout every time and lose a few seconds mentally reorienting myself.
I don't use Windows so I don't have an definitive answer for you but it seems possible to have Dvorak+Pinyin. This is 6 years old so I don't know if the latest versions of Windows work the same way
- fair use was also sot as permissive in that era! Web 2.0 coerced a legal shift -