Many Airbnbs I've stayed in will just have a key under a house plant or doormat. The key can be a little tricky to find that way but for a lower cost listing it's totally fine (by me).
I suspect that's the sort of practice they're trying to parse out for this Plus offering.
I've even stayed at one where they just didn't even offer a key and left the front door unlocked... Granted it was a house in the suburbs, but what about security from previous guests?
I've never understood that. I grew up in seemingly safe neighborhoods in suburban New Jersey and semi-rural Maryland, but leaving our door unlocked (even while we're at home) was unthinkable.
In our exceedingly rural area, doors are left unlocked very often. Not everyone, of course, and not all the time (most of the people I know do lock their doors at night or when they're on vacation, but otherwise leave them open). You're not crazy for doing it.
If someone wants to get in to steal something, they're going to get it done. That could mean a broken window, a broken door, or it could mean nothing broken at all. There's no-one within listening distance to hear a window break, so they're not going to get caught that way. But, your neighbors know your cars, and the sense of community commonly leads to a quick "hey there's a brown Buick outside your house, is that you guys?" call/text. There aren't very many "drive-by" robberies; houses are so far apart and all it takes is one person who sees a suspiciously slow driving car, or a car visiting multiple driveways, to call the police. Oh, and if you thought no one was home and you're wrong, there's a great chance they're armed, and they saw the car you used to get there. And the police are never busy, so they'll be there in minutes.
That seems a pretty common pattern for the semi-rural New England area I live in as well. I lock the house at night or if I'm headed out for an extended period but I don't really worry about it. If the house is all opened up on a summer day I'm not going to shut everything up if I'm going out for a bit and certainly not if I'm around my property somewhere.
During the time that you were home, but it was not immediately obvious from the outside - how many times have you had someone walk up to your door, and try the doorknob?
If the answer is never, then having your doors locked hasn't meaningfully increased your security (Only the perception thereof.)
While I agree with you on many of these, [most] politics is about incremental change, and it is messy. The perfect cannot be the enemy of the good here. This website and project is a terrific idea.
"Composite endpoint of cardiac arrest or acute mortality was significantly reduced, and FFA levels were lower, consistent with the proposed FFA link to arrhythmias"
..."an artificial neural network for machine vision (whatever that is)"...
It's hard to take seriously an article that so unabashedly flaunts its own ignorance. Especially when the answer to this rhetorical question could be found with a five second Google search.
There are legitimate arguments to be had about Google's current strategy. But this piece is not part of them! He doesn't even really seem to assess any of the allegedly ill advised Google projects he lists...instead he makes fun of the names.
It's important to know one's rights, but I think that's by no means the best we can do. For starters, we can support organizations like the Equal Justice Initiative (http://www.eji.org) or the author of TFA's org, Equal Justice Under Law (http://equaljusticeunderlaw.org) that are working to both defend indigent defendants and fundamentally reform the criminal justice system.
Beyond that, I think that there is a lot of opportunity to advocate around these issues on the state and local level right now. Whatever you think of bodycams for police, you have to admit that in light of recent events they're going to become dramaticaly more common. That's just one example of how a crisis can provide a great opportunity for advocacy, and ultimately change. That's not to say that we will be able to make fundamental change quickly on this very difficult issue. But it is to say that there are paths forward, and I would invite people who care to dive in.
They also had RAM drives you could buy. The point then as now is that increasing the "high performance" working set space of a program, increases the amount of transactional data that can be "in flight" during an operation, and that increases the overall size of the data set you can work with.
I've been waiting for these boards to come down in price for about 4 years now. I started talking with Intel about them early on (we used their XM-25 SSDs because it was a price point for flash that was "enough" better than spinning rust that it made sense) and they insisted on trying to sell us the same flash chips on a PCIe card for 10x the dollars, I (and many others apparently) refused to pay that. Sure if you have a 'cost is no object' data base or something but for a large internet working set where revenue differences are measured in cents per thousand transactions? Not so much. I know one company that went so far as to design and build their own PCIe Flash card. I have heard it did great stuff for them.
[1] LIM - Lotus-Intel-Microsoft spec for extended memory on IBM PC compatible machines.
There is already a standard for doing exactly that: passing through ATA commands wrapped in SCSI. This can come in handy when a SATA drive sits behind some bridge that speaks SCSI.
