I'm curious about this too. Amazon mistakenly sent me an echo 2 instead of a dot. They refunded me the cost of the dot, but apparently the echo serial number was reported lost/stolen in their system so it is unusable. They told me to just throw it out, but seems like a waste of perfectly good hardware.

Don't most licenses only require the source to be available when it ships to end users?

I guess we could nitpick over the word "after" but if they ship the first phones 8am and release the code at 1pm I think it still complies.

Yep. The issue is most markets is due to regulation. If hotels can't meet the price and availability needs in a market then the issue is the regulation. For temporary events that is understandable, but continued restraint on hotels makes no sense.

Which burdensome hotel regulations would you like to see removed?

You wouldn't mind if your next door neighbor was a seedy roach motel or a 10 story holiday inn? Somehow I doubt it.

10 story holiday inns are very professionally run, they have security etc.

Why do you think a hotel would be worse quality than residential?

I live in a mixed neighbourhood and many of my neighbours are already roach motels.

Franky, in all my travels I've never come across the proverbial roach motel, or anything totally run down.

My concern would not be the business or people - just parking. As long as there isn't a big parking lot, there's no reason why I couldn't be next to a short term residential unit, I don't think many people would have any problems at all.

So you want to regulate parking lots but not commercial and residential zoning? Makes sense.

I didn't say 'commercial' I said 'hotels'.

There's nary a difference between a hotel of a certain type, and residences. There are people living there.

'Parking lots' are massively different than any other kinds of space.

As long as the hotel fits the local aesthetic, i.e. only 5 stories high if the other buildings are, 1 story high if the others are ... then there's nothing wrong with them at all.

What about hotels with restaurants in them? Where shall the regulation start and stop?

'Where shall the regulation start and stop?"

Those decisions already have to be made. 'Regulations' already have to start and stop somewhere.

There are restaurants all up and down my street and people seem to get along fine.

My point is, you seem to be advocating regulation-free business development, while simultaneously proposing new regulations so businesses don't do what you don't like.

Ultimately the question is whether the market is constrained by supply or price. If the constrait is price, then hotels should be able to adjust and stop charging ridiculous default rates in urban areas. If the market is constrained by supply eventually it will be economically viable to build new units.

That's not to say that Airbnb should not be regulated similarly to hotels. Imo if you provide a nearly identical service you should follow the same regulations

Saying something is possible is a far cry from saying it is something "most" are planning.

I didn't say that. I agree that most tech workers are not (realistically, anyway) planning to retire in their 40s. Most in their 20s probably do not have concrete retirement plans.

The claim I was responding to is andrewprock's statement:

> Most tech workers who plan to retire by their 40s will be working into their 50s.

Which makes a specific claim about the specific subset of tech workers who are planning to retire in their 40s.

Grab the blade and flick it while holding the blade. The weight of the handle will pull it open (at least partially). That is enough to qualify under this law unfortunately.

631 representatives for ~82 million people

vs. 535 representatives for ~323 million people in the US

The arbitrary capping of the size of the House of Representatives to 435 members is one of the biggest issues I have with the structure of the US legislature.