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Out of curiosity, are holiday rentals the major issue?
They can be, especially in Europe where a lot of the hotspots for tourism are in our near the historic cores of cities. It gets made worse as historic ordinances limit construction of taller buildings which could accommodate increased tourism or there is rent control for housing but no equivalent limit for hotel stays.
Overtourism is a documented problem which can drastically change the character of a place.
That seems to be SOP for Uber. They flat out say that you may be recorded on rides, presumably for safety reasons.
Yeah, I wouldn’t consider this a sign of recession. Instead, it is the confluence of various structural changes in the industry.
Because the industry was forced to work in a distributed manner, it has removed the location premium in a lot of salaries. Companies are firing high cost of living areas and hiring in lower cost of living areas.
Outside of cost of living, total supply for developers has increased significantly.
The return on investment for software development has either dropped or are starting to be included in more decisions. This is leading to development budgets getting slashed.
Well, if you don’t need programmers to work in place place at the corporate headquarters, you can hire them anywhere.
There was a scene in a 70’s movie that James Cameron worked on that needed a computer animated tracking shot of a city. They couldn’t afford the computer time, so they put reflective tape on black painted blocks and manipulated the lighting levels to make it look like the shot was from a computer.
Maybe do more of that.
It is probably not looking for movies as big as Avatar.
A24 has been killing it recently with its small movie strategy, making a lot of bets on small movies that don’t break the bank.
If this was over a generation ago with how movies used to get released, I’d agree with you.
However, it feels like part of the fun of seeing something in a theater is that you’re watching something with others and you could watch it alone within a few months. With what I’ve read about RRR or the Taylor Swift Eras movie release, maybe theaters should let some screenings being audience participatory because there is more enjoyment with treating the movie as something to interact with instead of passively watch.
After all, you can passively watch a movie at home.
Outside of making a mess or trashing the place, I think movie theaters need to allow patrons to do more when watching a movie. The movie is going to go direct to video in a month anyway, why not let movie goers have fun?
It depends on the mess, but kids movies are always messy and theaters have the staff on hand to clean those kinds of movies, or can increase staff if necessary.
It is likely that the EU is dropping bourbon taxes because US barrels are very important to wineries and distilleries in the EU.
Also, many wine regions in the USA are in liberal states, so this could be the EU trying to target their tarrifs.
This is why the Cod Wars happened, so I’m not surprised.
Or Clooney’s character in Up In The Air ends up retiring in Florida, making him a very eligible bachelor.
Android is open source except for Google Play Services. Other major companies attempted to gain market share in Android but couldn’t because of the power of Google’s monopoly.
I don’t see how a consortium fixes this.
Why the fuck would they delete the content?
The studio owns the content outright, so streaming rights costs should be nothing.
The beginning of the EU started to keep France from trying to invade the Saarland again.
This is a reason why there is a push for an EU military. Right now, there isn’t a functional EU body which can launch the nukes.
I’ve read estimates that, given the technology needed for production, a country like Japan could develop a functioning nuclear device within a month.
I feel like part of the problem is that management wants staff that can do a wide range of tasks when it ends up creating a staff that can’t specialize in a small group of tasks.
I’ve seen plenty of times where people can operate well as a cog on a big machine, but fall apart when they have to work in roles that require a variety of skillsets. Larger engineering companies can typically create enough work for people to specialize in smaller tasks than smaller engineering companies.
They don’t want to federate.
I mentioned increased density as a reason why landowners may choose vacation rental over housing. The total habitable building supply can’t increase and it becomes more profitable to be a hotel than an apartment building.
I feel a problem for Europe is that most of their tourism centers are centered in old cultural centers. For instance, Amsterdam became a major party city in its historic downtown. In contrast, American cities like Miami and Las Vegas were built from scratch to serve that function.