MADRID (AP) — Spain has ordered Airbnb to block more than 65,000 holiday listings on its platform for having violated rules, the Consumer Rights Ministry said Monday.
The ministry said that many of the 65,935 Airbnb listings it had ordered to be withdrawn did not include their license number or specify whether the owner was an individual or a company. Others listed numbers that didn’t match what authorities had.
Spain is grappling with a housing affordability crisis that has spurred government action against short-term rental companies.
those numbers are awfully close to 16 bit unsigned int max (65535). suspicious.
What does this mean
It means humans seek out patterns and similarities even when there are none going so far as to perceive was isn’t even there.
In this instance it’s simply that the number in this article/legal action is close by a few hundred to a number that is a common number found in computing due to how electronic computation works.
Pareidolia
https://www.xkcd.com/1551/