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by Lucadg 8y ago
Food in Italy is of extremely good quality and variety. I live in Bulgaria and fruits and vegetables are exceptional and extremely cheap. If you refer to supermarket food I may agree.
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by Lucadg 8y ago
Couldn't agree more. I had been travelling and backpacking for 8 years when Airbnb came along. To me my website was just a booking platform. Then I realised I could have done something huge. Oh no wait,I did, I traveled full time for 8
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by Lucadg 8y ago
Last time I was in Rome I had exactly the same impression. I even saw a discarded air conditioning unit at the feet of an ancient wall and it felt like I was in some dirty outskirts. I turned the corner and there was the Colossuem. Some It
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by Lucadg 8y ago
The Eastern Bloc was a big bloc. Some countries are completely changed, some not that much.
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by Lucadg 8y ago
last time I was in Macedonia I saw a man pulling a big plough by hand. No horse or tractor. Unrelated, I know.
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by Lucadg 9y ago
Everything which makes life easier to people who move a lot has potential because people will move more and more. Good idea
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Ask HN: How do you deal with an excess of opportunities?
2 points by Lucadg 10y ago|3 comments
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by Lucadg 10y ago
Could you suggest a good one for Android? Most in Play Store ask these permissions
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by Lucadg 10y ago
Here in Bangkok when I wait for the sky train I find myself trying to avoid advertisement. I end up looking at people or at the sky (I stopped the data plan to avoid being dragger to my phone). There is basically advertisement everywhere, p
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by Lucadg 10y ago
Why ad blocker apps require so many permissions as my photos, camera and microphone?
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by Lucadg 10y ago
Every country is a platform. When it attracts the best users it succeeds. When it doesn't, or even worse rejects them, it's bound to fail.
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by Lucadg 10y ago
I read it as a teenager and keeps coming back to me in many ways. Suggested read for adults.
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by Lucadg 10y ago
thanks, I checked them out and they seem to be interesting
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Ask HN: Is there a marketplace for small working businesses?
2 points by Lucadg 10y ago|3 comments
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by Lucadg 10y ago
I also think that both capitalism (or better, consumerism) and government (with its need for control) actively push us to isolate yourselves. A divided society is easier to sell to and to control. So, while we need to actively find and nurt
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by Lucadg 10y ago
yes, I'd be annoyed for sure. Imagine that it's a well known fact that italians in the US always complain about the espresso because it's too watery (this is pretty likely actually). The owner kicks me out saying "I&#x27
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by Lucadg 10y ago
no because that would make it a racial discrimination. Ours was more a cultural one.
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by Lucadg 10y ago
A few years later I worked in Benidorm and I know what you mean :) Only it turns out those Germans in the camping were a different sort: zero problems, ever. I'm sure we would have been told to refuse Germans if they had been noisy&#x2
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by Lucadg 10y ago
I think the decision to pre-filter was based on the fact that kicking someone out was extremely difficult. Police had to be involved or some really bad thing had to happen. So the approach "ok we let anyone in, these are the rules, if
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by Lucadg 10y ago
I wonder which right should prevail in general: a) the right to host people I like and don't host people I dislike in my home b) the right to be what I want and be accepted everywhere. Again, I guess A should probably prevail and the I
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by Lucadg 10y ago
> Nobody is going to admit to discrimination, even if they do agree, people will come up with alternative reasons for not allowing the people they do not wish to stay in their private homes, so nothing will change but Airbnb will look go
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by Lucadg 10y ago
I used to work in a camping site in Northern Italy many years ago. We were openly told not to accept people from the south of Italy as they statistically were more noisy. I didn't like it but it actually made sense. It just wasn't
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by Lucadg 10y ago
same in Italy. Nobody wants to rent long term anymore and lose the apartment to someone who can't pay but can stay for a year or two. I personally met owners who had to pay gas, electricity and water to a tenant who didn't pay ren
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by Lucadg 10y ago
rencently Airbnb introduced Smart Prices. It's an optional automated system which allows the host to accept prices suggested by Airbnb's algorithm. They prices are usually very low and I have the feeling they'll make it less
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Storing information forever in drops of water [video](bbc.com)
20 points by Lucadg 11y ago|2 comments
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by Lucadg 11y ago
I found that the Airbnb Price Tips feature works pretty well in mature markets but not in new locations. In some apartments we manage in Kenya for instance, there are two apartments which are exactly the same. One has no reviews and the sug
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by Lucadg 11y ago
I don't like to be the "I told you so" guy. But I told you so. I wrote this a couple of years ago: "All Eggs in One Airbnb" http://www.adormo.com/blog/marketing/all-the-eggs-in-one-air...
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by Lucadg 11y ago
In the meantime you may upload your apartments in Housetrip, Wimdu, Booking.com, Homeaway and so on. None is as good and smooth as Airbnb but they work. When hopefully Airbnb reopens your account, keep these portals too, so you don't h
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by Lucadg 11y ago
> what was the experience like? life changing, in a good way. > What were you able to do? Travel for 10 years instead of the planned one. On the way I created vacation rentals booking site, like Airbnb, (in 2001) and that financed my
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by Lucadg 12y ago
this may be true in some cities and for some top hosts, but for the rest of vacation rentals owners Airbnb is just another provider. It's an extremely fragmented space.

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