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If that analogy (sensible, imo) is too much for you then pretend he was talking about GetAround.

by pbreit 10y ago

tedmiston 10y ago
To substitute a p2p car sharing service in place of car rental agency completely changes the meaning... Driving a vehicle (your own or renting someone else's) is an activity requiring a license for the agency to validate. I'm unaware of any place in the world requiring a license to sleep and eat breakfast.
- mangeletti 10y ago
  It's the hosts they're talking about, not the guests, which would need licenses. I'm fairly sure you have to have a license to serve breakfast as a business. You also have to be inspected by the health department. Same goes for running a hotel. That stuff all costs money, and it's not up to a private business (AirBnB) to determine how to enforce such laws, even though their existence does change the landscape.
  - tedmiston 10y ago
    It seems my phrasing was unclear. With "to sleep and eat breakfast", my intent was: a customer to sleep somewhere and eat breakfast there (as the end user), not for a business to serve that customer. I made this point to the article's literal analogy of the car rental agency's need to validate a consumer to drive a car (as the end user). There is no license needed to sleep and breakfast.
    - mangeletti 10y ago
      You're phrasing was clear. The person making the analogy was comparing the drivers to the hosts.
- dap 10y ago
  > I'm unaware of any place in the world requiring a license to sleep and eat breakfast. This was the third Google hit for "are hotels licensed": http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/Servicesthatrequirealicense-Publiclodging.html http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/Servicesthatrequirea... Restaurants, too: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/eh/Food/Permits/default.asp https://www.sfdph.org/dph/eh/Food/Permits/default.asp Anyway, it's a completely bogus assumption that licensing is only about ensuring competence.
  - tedmiston 10y ago
    I said [of the guest]: "to sleep and eat breakfast" Not [of the host]: to provide a place to sleep and serve breakfast. The article's analogy uses rental agency <--> customer.

If that analogy (sensible, imo) is too much for you then pretend he was talking about GetAround.

by pbreit 10y ago

If that analogy (sensible, imo) is too much for you then pretend he was talking about GetAround.

To substitute a p2p car sharing service in place of car rental agency completely changes the meaning... Driving a vehicle (your own or renting someone else's) is an activity requiring a license for the agency to validate. I'm unaware of any place in the world requiring a license to sleep and eat breakfast.

mangeletti 10y ago
It's the hosts they're talking about, not the guests, which would need licenses. I'm fairly sure you have to have a license to serve breakfast as a business. You also have to be inspected by the health department. Same goes for running a hotel. That stuff all costs money, and it's not up to a private business (AirBnB) to determine how to enforce such laws, even though their existence does change the landscape.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  It seems my phrasing was unclear. With "to sleep and eat breakfast", my intent was: a customer to sleep somewhere and eat breakfast there (as the end user), not for a business to serve that customer. I made this point to the article's literal analogy of the car rental agency's need to validate a consumer to drive a car (as the end user). There is no license needed to sleep and breakfast.
  - mangeletti 10y ago
    You're phrasing was clear. The person making the analogy was comparing the drivers to the hosts.
dap 10y ago
> I'm unaware of any place in the world requiring a license to sleep and eat breakfast. This was the third Google hit for "are hotels licensed": http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/Servicesthatrequirealicense-Publiclodging.html http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/hr/Servicesthatrequirea... Restaurants, too: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/eh/Food/Permits/default.asp https://www.sfdph.org/dph/eh/Food/Permits/default.asp Anyway, it's a completely bogus assumption that licensing is only about ensuring competence.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  I said [of the guest]: "to sleep and eat breakfast" Not [of the host]: to provide a place to sleep and serve breakfast. The article's analogy uses rental agency <--> customer.