
…mediate performance impact of the additive cost of all of this code, this impacts developer morale: imagine working for days to shave off 10% of your own code’s load time, only to see a giant block of third-party code added that dwarfs the impact of that painstaking effort. And then (if you work for a media site), seeing this same pattern repeat itself over and over again…
…stion about Airbnb is whether or not guests of color have an equal opportunity to use the platform. And the more people participate in this racism-within-the-platform discussion—the bigger that discussion gets — the more the other, messier, more complicated discussion about the structural impact of short term rentals gets shunted to the side.