If the rentals number in the search results is correct, Boulder, CO has 1,864 listings on Airbnb. The population is somewhere around 104,000 people, with around 42,000 households.
That is insane.
Not sure how many hotel rooms there are, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's about 1/3rd the number of Airbnb listings.
Don't bother watching it. TLDR; Sergey stands awkwardly on stage for 5 minutes, telling you how isolating it is to whip out your cellphone. With Glass you can keep your head up, something he cannot seem to demonstrate himself - choosing instead to come across as isolated from the audience, distracted, and unprepared. 2 million people have watched this for some reason.
I've got a Roku HD (model 2500X) and just did some measurements:
Starting up: 3.5W
Sitting idly on menu screen: 3.15W
Sitting idly on screen saver: 3.3W
Streaming Arrested Development: 3.45W
Also worth noting that when not in use, it goes to screen saver mode. It never actually powers down at all.
So basically, it uses the same amount no matter what you're doing with it. And really ironic that the screen saver uses more power than the menu screen. I guess the appearance of saving power is more important?
I've heard over and over that Boulder (county, which is around 300,000 people) is #1 in the country for software jobs per capita - but unfortunately I don't have a tangible source for that.
Corporations get taxed ~15% + 14% hotel tax.
Individuals get taxed ~30% already on their Airbnb income (plus Airbnb charges the guest 6%-12% and the host 3%).
If they're going to charge 14% hotel tax to people renting out rooms on Airbnb, wouldn't it be more fair to tax that income at the corporate rate instead of the individual rate?
(Yes, I understand the taxes go to different places in each scenario. But from the "take home" perspective of the person/entity doing all the work here, hosts on Airbnb are already having their transaction taxed significantly more than any hotel chain).
Blocking any spam that contains a link is helpful, for sure, but doesn't get everything. Every few months I see waves of comments like: "Really graet article. We need more people like you in the world."
Each comment has exactly one pair of transposed letters. There is no product being pitched, and no url (we don't display or link to email address either). It's baffling.
It blew my mind when I learned about d-pad patents for video game consoles. Ever wonder why Playstation had to use that awkward combination of 4 arrow-like things pointing towards each other? Patents.
I don't understand why people think it's fair to criticize a move like this without offering a plausible alternative that will sustain the business. Sure, letting other people build on it got them to where they are today, but where exactly is that? With massive infrastructure and engineering costs, but little income.
Twitter doesn't owe anybody anything. We owe them. If they don't find a way to monetize, then everyone loses.
In a support email, someone demanded that we refund his money because our app was a piece of crap. The app has always been free. I told him this and he retorted that he had jail broken his phone, and doesn't pay for apps.
I'm sure there is a market for this, but that saddens the non-consumer in me (that someone would feel as though they can't wear the same piece of clothing more than once).
Interestingly, a lot of people who were making a living from online poker WERE paying taxes on that money. Come April 15th, the IRS doesn't care how you got it.