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by Lucadg 15y ago
we have this embedded in the "recommended" order, which is the default one given on the first search results. It's an algorithm which considers a few paramaters and gives points. These points are reduced according to the number of hours whi
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Ask HN: How to incentivate owners to keep availability calendars updated?
4 points by Lucadg 15y ago|8 comments
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by Lucadg 15y ago
right, only registered users who have spent at least 3 nights. If we let others do it, spammers will do it too.
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Help with Ratings feature: how to limit spam?
1 points by Lucadg 15y ago|2 comments
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How effective is are rating websites antispam?
1 points by Lucadg 15y ago|0 comments
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by Lucadg 15y ago
They have the incentive but they probably fail to recognize this as a threat. Usually until it's too late. We have seen this over and over in history and it may even be positive as it provides a chance for power shifts.
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by Lucadg 15y ago
Do you think that legal issues can be too big to be dealt with? Maybe once a good lawyer has prepared a template then all could use it, as with NDAs, Privacy Policy and so on. As for practical issues, they are proportional to the amount pa
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Ask HN: is asking HN readers for funding a good idea?
1 points by Lucadg 15y ago|3 comments
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by Lucadg 15y ago
ok, my fault. I said "a line" and failed to mention "a line of at least 100 people". It's fine to queue for good deals, or products you are passionate about but these guys were going to wait at least one hour to get some low quality ice cre
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by Lucadg 15y ago
ok, thanks for the explanation! Actually I imagined there was a good reason. Now it won't hunt me anymore :) > It is just that it is the cheapest western food restaurant the young can afford in Orchard Rd Ok, I see. Anyway, it was a ver
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by Lucadg 15y ago
yep, their filter works :) but my point was not "queueing for ice-cream" rather "queueing for shitty industrial ice-cream". I would queue hours for good ice cream. I mean, they were driven there by some sick marketing effort, brain washed
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by Lucadg 15y ago
yes but hellbanned guy does not know it, which makes it completely different. The "government" is not acting transparently here, so it's not democratic. Anyway, my proposition is not applicable to most situations, it's just an ideal one.
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by Lucadg 15y ago
A few years back I was at Singapore's airport and I saw, along many other signs forbidding most human activities one which still haunts me at night. There was this symbol of a person reading and the text was: no studying. Then one day while
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by Lucadg 15y ago
Other users should simply stop answering to the bad guys. It works like hellbanning but it's more acceptable. I have seen this working in some of my forums. Trouble is "legitimate" users have a bad habit of keeping the conversation alive, s
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by Lucadg 15y ago
Bangkok, Buenos Aires or Sydney are not Schengen neither but they don't require a visa for airport transit. That's just politicians covering their assess in case some terrorist blows up a plane on transit flight.
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by Lucadg 15y ago
Some countries still think they are the centre of the world and that people would do anything to get there (like applying for a bloody business visa for a conference). It's not like that anymore, wake up. The world is full of opportunities
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by Lucadg 15y ago
I traveled for years doing business everywhere in the world and I always did it on a tourist visa: US, Australia, Europe, China, Turkey, South America even Russia (notoriously bureaucratic for these things)... anywhere. And all the people I
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by Lucadg 15y ago
I feel for you. I am Italian and my wife is Thai. Just to change planes in London on the way to Mexico, she should have applied for a Visa or... "go and hope the immigration officer in London let her trough". This is actually stated, with o
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Thoughts on the Airbnb/Craiglist issue and how we will grow(adormo.com)
1 points by Lucadg 15y ago|0 comments
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by Lucadg 15y ago
This is from 9 months ago "OK, I've finally had it with this company. I post some properties on craigslist from time to time, and I get tons of spam and scammers, but one that really sticks in my craw is airbnb.com I have emailed them more
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by Lucadg 15y ago
I lead a group of guys trying make money online with the rental business, so they can travel. Each one is responsible for an area and it's hard to get new owners and apartments, believe me, but we never resorted to spamming. Instead we cont
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by Lucadg 15y ago
I am not sure what to think of it but when De Bernardinis said “the scientific community tells me there is no danger, because there is an ongoing discharge of energy. The situation looks favorable”, it occurs to me that "there is no danger"
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by Lucadg 15y ago
Any action going into the direction of "hiding" what I do online will be seen as hiding something and will rise suspicions. While "balancing" seems harder to spot, because it all goes under the "normal traffic" category. I don't know if the
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Ask HN: automated random browsing against profiling?
5 points by Lucadg 15y ago|3 comments
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by Lucadg 15y ago
I have been living the lifestyle business for more than 10 years now. Here in HN I feel a bit ashamed of: - not having raised millions - not having made millions - my small company staying small for so long. but who cares? What I wanted was
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by Lucadg 15y ago
as for the part "if you work hard you can leave your job and travel the world and live a great life", I can only agree. I did it 10 years ago and I'm still on the road. And as PG said: it's mostly determination. You've got to believe it eve
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It’s a spider web in the web(adormo.com)
1 points by Lucadg 16y ago|0 comments
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by Lucadg 16y ago
Here it is :) http://www.adormo.com/blog/marketing/how-adormo-was-funded-b...
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How Adormo was funded by its future customers(adormo.com)
2 points by Lucadg 16y ago|0 comments
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by Lucadg 16y ago
Something similar happened to chouchsurfing. At the beginning it was a small community with a high level of trust and people knew what it was about, and behaved accordingly. Then it grew too much and you find all kind of users, many who ju

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