I imagine having a baked-in method for users with disposable income to avoid seeing any ads isn't exactly an attractive feature for potential advertisers.
It certainly has it's ups and downs. It's nice having smaller communities as it really helps having more congenial conversations, but I do miss the larger user base sometimes, since it ensures more coverage of a given topic.
This simply means it's a question of how far do the values of these buildings need to fall before it is economically viable to perform these massive conversions. Government could certainly incentivize these conversions. Too bad it seems most governments don't care about alleviating the various housing crises.
Per the article, it seems that the main barrier here is that it is currently not economically worthwhile to convert these buildings, as the conversions require massive changes to the buildings themselves. If the value of these properties fall enough, however, it could easily become an attractive proposition for these buildings. A continued push for work from home can hopefully damage these property values enough to make it feasible.
Hopefully we can see some phones come to market without gobs of adhesive holding them together. It'd be great if I could actually open my phone with just a screwdriver. I truly don't mind seeing screws on my device, especially since it almost instantly gets tossed into a case anyways.
These AI searches are really what I wanted AskJeeves to be way back in the day.