ARobotics

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by ARobotics 14y ago
Actually, the above rephrasing is wrong and completely changes the meaning. The original author wasn't saying poor people have less clutter he was saying they have more, but for a reason. Maybe this wording is clearer: The reason poor peo
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by ARobotics 14y ago
It's too late for me to edit my original post now, but for posterity - airbnb contacted me and resolved the issue. The final customer service rep I spoke to was friendly and helpful, and they refunded the 3% listing/service fee as amends f
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by ARobotics 14y ago
And if I weren't upset with it, someone else on the internet would be calling me stupid and telling me I deserved it when my identity was stolen or some account was compromised because I was sending things over unencrypted email. Some days
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by ARobotics 14y ago
Your comments always make me smile Thomas, you seem like the real life embodiment of the "Lawful Neutral" alignment, always following the letter of each rule. My lease allows subletting, but there may be a provision which I'm not following
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by ARobotics 14y ago
It's not about anonymity - they have a verified phone number and email address, they have my address and name. My payment is in the form of a check sent to the address being rented, paid to the name on the account. When I created the acco
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by ARobotics 14y ago
It's more the principle of requiring additional information after a reservation has been booked instead of being up-front about it, and sending it over unencrypted email. The biggest issue is that I responded to their original email within
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How airbnb lost me as a customer
78 points by ARobotics 14y ago|67 comments
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by ARobotics 14y ago
Great post. One thing that wasn't clear to me - how did your pricing changes affect existing customers? Did former "basic" accounts get automatically changed to "Freelancer" and start getting billed the extra $10 the next month? If so, how
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by ARobotics 14y ago
I know the title here is the same as the article, but why the heck did sophos choose "Texas college" for the something done by the University of Texas? I assumed from the title it was done by some small school somewhere in Texas, not UT.
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Health Insurance for Austin bootstrappers?
1 points by ARobotics 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: 60 days of employment before health insurance?
4 points by ARobotics 15y ago|7 comments
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by ARobotics 15y ago
Add me to your other reality too. I have never heard of anyone being judged negatively for being laid off. Just about everyone understands that there may be great people laid off when an entire division/product/org gets cut or a company s
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by ARobotics 15y ago
Random hypothesis: Risk. In 1999 dot coms were making everyone rich and would continue to do so forever. Everyone was getting funded, going public, growing. It didn't appear working at a tech startup was a risky endeavor likely to leave y
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by ARobotics 16y ago
You may be underestimating how many small bits of 'fake' are common. A facebook profile is much more accurately described as "how someone wants themselves to be seen" rather than how they are in reality. Some of it is self-censorship, som
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by ARobotics 16y ago
I'm veering slightly off topic here but something in this post fascinated me... Are you sincere in your claim that you were genuinely confused because of the its vs it's mix up in the original post? I had always assumed people pointing it
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by ARobotics 17y ago
The results are in line with other studies though. National Instruments, Google, and Apple all rank in the Fortune 100 best places to work every year. It's not surprising that they top this list as well.
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by ARobotics 18y ago
A typical day for me is entirely in front of a computer screen, but has over the past year occasionally involved physical work actually putting together a robot. I can attest, some time away from the PC doing mechanical work can be nice.