The landlord is often not the same as the developer or construction company, and sound isolation works best when built in while the building is being constructed. Attempting to retrofit later is often less than satisfactory. So it is often not the landlord's fault, it was the developer or construction company that cut corners and used the thinnest, least sound isolating materials they could to keep their costs down.
Something I've seen with renovations is construction companies not understanding how to attenuate sound, and not bothering to learn or, even better, consult someone who knows.
Well meaning PMs read up on products and throw them at the problem and it's treated as a great success because there are no hard targets, just a general desire to reduce noise, and that happened.
Flagged stories get that way because some number of readers "flagged" them, presumably because they felt the story did not meet the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The ability to flag a story is given after reaching a certain karma level (I don't know the exact amount).
So the short answer: because the necessary number of readers clicked the 'flag' link. As to why they choose to do so, your guess is as good as any guess.
31 Karma and I believe it takes 4 people to flag a submission. If a user has 31 Karma they can also Vouch for a submission. [1] It can then get re-flagged.
This is an interesting goal, but we know the outcome. The local politicians, already drunk beyond belief on the property tax revenue stream, will simply find another way to satiate their thirst and simply tax out the same revenue stream from everyone via some other tax.
So in the end, you won't pay $3,000 [1] per year in property taxes, but you'll still be out $3,000 per year in other taxes elsewhere.
[1] that figure was quoted in the article for one person who was interviewed
What went wrong was Google (the old 'do no evil' Google) bought the ad network DoubleClick. The acquired DoubleClick side then took over old Google from the inside out such that what we have today is Doubleclick calling itself "google", no more 'do no evil' old Google anywhere, and all the evil that exists on the advertising side infesting everything they do.
WSJ 'gift links' often do not actually work. I don't know whether they have a "usage count" or a 'good for x time' expiration, but more often than not they don't work (beyond "gifting" a paywall).
It does, but unless the 'zip' archive creator being used makes use of the extensions for high resolution timestamps, the basic ZIP format retains only old MSDOS style timestamps (rounded to the closed two seconds). So one may lose some precision in ones timestamps when passing files through a zip archive.
That's correct. I think it is not hard to use the high resolution timestamps, but still they do not have the same precision as a UNIX tv_nsec value, which can be annoying if you want to preserve the _exact_ time that common Linux filesystems can store.
But, ads directly correspond to revenue stream, and a loss of ad "impressions" would result in a reduced revenue stream, so a "protect the advertising" response is not at all unusual to consider as a portion of their (eBay's) reasoning for this ban.
Given how hard they push sellers to purchase their "extra cost listing enhancements" (i.e., purchase to have your listings show in the "advertisement" spots) it appears that they may make a decent revenue stream from these advertising angles. An AI-agent could find listings without going through the advertising displays and as such cut into this revenue stream.
An AI-Agent browsing eBay for a "widget" for a given individual will also likely not be browsing eBay's advertising listings (sponsored and promoted listings [1]) which would potentially equate to a loss in ad revenue for eBay. So there is likely a "protect the advertising moat" aspect to their "ban" as well.
[1] Given how hard eBay pushes sellers to purchase the sponsored and promoted listing tiers (at an additional fee of course) implies they make some nice revenue stream from these advertisements.
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