Thursday, 17 December 2015

Dog brothers promise to stop fighting, but only for a treat

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Dog brothers, human brothers: essentially the same creature

In a video posted by Kyoot Animals, two Dachshunds, believed to be brothers, are engaged in a brutal tug-of-war. Nothing — not their own's commands, not their very own suffering — stops them from participating in combat. Their end, it seems, is guaranteed.

Only when the owner steps to offer a "treat" do the dogs declare an official ceasefire. Not every war ends in such a beautiful a peace treat(y).

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Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Airbnb forces humans to travel to special one-day office to see its housing data

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NEW YORK CITY — "Have him call Peter when he gets here and we'll show him the data."

With that message emailed to my editor, I was cast out on the rainy streets of New York in search of Airbnb's long-awaited treasure trove of data shedding light on the usage habits, financial impact and maybe, just maybe, the legality of its thousands of apartment listings throughout the five boroughs

Airbnb agreed to release The Data, as it will henceforth be known, on Tuesday after a pledge last month to work "collaboratively" rather than combatively with cities (forget about that whole "army" thing) by paying its fair share of taxes and disclosing more information about its customers to help policymakers Read more...

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