Presumably Airbnb is paying for the stays. The hosts are doing a nice thing too I guess, but it's also not too different from regular business, since they're, y'know, getting paid.
I don’t know the details of this program - but in the past Airbnb has asked hosts to “donate” their space for special causes - like medical workers during early Covid.
In that case it was definitely the hosts making donations, not Airbnb.
As that page says: "it's the total revenue since 2011."
After discounting cost of goods, operations, and taxes, $1k is not something to just write off so easily. There should've been more planning, although parent comment isn't quite the right idea.
This is minimum. It should apply to people with no experience, in training, or living in the middle of no where. There is no reason to live in an expensive city if you can make the exact same amount of money in a cheap city.
Nextgrid, though at the moment it's still a work in progress (building an entire telco core network from scratch by yourself takes a looooong time), but in the meantime you can get the numbers from my carrier partner directly: https://aa.net.uk/telecoms.html
Those are UK mobile numbers, with SIP for voice and webhooks for texts, and all lookup tools I've found recognise their numbers as "Three" (a mobile carrier in the UK) mobile numbers.
I am not actually sure how those guys interconnect to Three, it could even be literally a bunch of GSM modems with real SIMs in it. My long-term plan is to get rid of the middleman and become a carrier myself (get a number range allocated by OFCOM, UK's telco regulator) and offer both SIMs and API-driven numbers (with no way of distinguishing which is which from the outside).
Not at the moment no. I might look into it before launch but to be honest nowadays there is very little business case for MMS so I’m not sure it’s worth the investment.
Too bad they didn't continue its development. Probably choosing a different GUI than TK would have helped to spark more people's interest in the project. There's a huge need for an alternative OS on Android phones, but most of the people who would benefit from it don't know that, so that need doesn't translate to actual demand.
I don't see Tk as being a problem. Rio, however, and the continued reliance upon 3-button mice, dates both Plan9 and Inferno and makes it quite hard to use them on laptops with trackpads.
The pain of developing it was one reason I didn't do much with Hellaphone after that summer. Other reasons: lack of funding and no spare phone to use if I wanted to develop it on my own time.
