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by objclxt 12y ago
A large number of listings are full time hotels. One host who has twenty rooms on AirBnB is clearly going to have more listings than one host rented out their spare bedroom. And if you can't see why this is a problem, maybe you shoul
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by objclxt 12y ago
Oh, for the love of... There are two sides to AirBnB. On the one hand, you have people who have a spare room and want to make a bit of money out of it. AirBnB is great for them: that's its raison d'être. The site disrupts the horr
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by objclxt 12y ago
> They do seem to be betting the vendor install channel will continue to be the dominant channel in the future In many places it will be. Want to buy a Nest in the UK? Guess what, you can't install it yourself: Nest will send a co
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by objclxt 12y ago
Action extensions can declare their support for any UTI (uniform type identifier), so yes - apps can effectively define their own actions. There is an 'Apple-controlled set' in the sense that the item being provided must have a UT
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by objclxt 12y ago
I have seen this argument before: what you're missing is that pediatric cancer, terrible as it is, is far rarer than other cancer types. Pediatric cancer is exceptionally rare. The ACS figures[1] for this year estimate 1,350 childhood
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Dyson's prototype AR headset that never was(designweek.co.uk)
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by objclxt 12y ago
> Also, if this is self-employment (which it sounds like it is) then the drivers can deduct $0.56 per mile they drive from their taxes. You deduct it from your reported income , not your taxes . This is a fairly important distinction
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by objclxt 12y ago
And probably can under-report tips [...] Beats working for a Boston IT company where you make about 100-120K a year but get taxed like crazy By that logic you could just become an IT contractor and under-report your income. I would not ne
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by objclxt 12y ago
> Curious that I feel that brainpower would have been more amply available in the streets of Shenzhen than New York ...although perhaps not at 4AM, which is when you went? Not to play down the fact you had a pretty rough time of it, bu
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by objclxt 12y ago
Lots of companies - you've filed the lawsuit, so the press is going to pick it up anyway. You might as well issue a statement at the same time.
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by objclxt 12y ago
id Software, the subsidiary in question, is based in Texas. Oculus also has an office there (although not their main one). Obviously ZeniMax are going to pick the venue that they think they have the best chance of winning at, but in this ca
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by objclxt 12y ago
> And that's fine, because in a free-market economy we will always have alternatives You seem to believe that a free-market economy offers alternatives to those who'd don't want to see advertising, but that simply isn&#x
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by objclxt 12y ago
^ This. Google Wallet uses the same underlying technology as EMV. The only difference is the commands are being sent wirelessly (by NFC) rather than a direct physical connection between EMV chip and terminal.
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by objclxt 12y ago
If you go by the content and style of comments on both, I think they're perfect for each other...I'm sure I'm not the only one with that sentiment.
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by objclxt 12y ago
The question isn't whether people will game - the question is whether eSports will continue to grow as it does now. Being a gamer and being into eSports aren't one and the same. I play a lot of games, I don't watch a lot of e
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by objclxt 12y ago
...a publicly traded company like Google is not going to comment on acquisition rumors, for many, many reasons. Variety normally has good sources - if they're reporting it, a deal is almost certainly being discussed. Maybe it won'
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by objclxt 12y ago
> 4) It's amazing that people just say banks deem adult content as risky, and just accept that this is ok. That's because it is risky. No question. Adult services have a higher rate of charge-backs and fraudulently obtained
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by objclxt 12y ago
...well, if you actually read the TOS that they linked to you'd see it's right there under "Prohibited Activities". As WePay says, this is mainly to comply with payment gateway rules (adult services have a far, far hig
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by objclxt 12y ago
You are making an assumption that VCs believe all their investments will turn a profit, which in most cases isn't true. You invest in fifty startups, twenty lose money, twenty break even, ten make stonking, huge amounts of profit that
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by objclxt 12y ago
Not quite. Spouses of people who are working in America on a H1-B visa and have applied for a green card or extended their visa are allowed to work themselves. That is a much smaller pool than people on H-1B visas.
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by objclxt 12y ago
> transportation will get cheaper and faster (no more 8-10 hours driving limit bs) Why do you say that? Somebody is still going to need to be awake at the controls, at least for the first few decades of self driving tech. There's
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by objclxt 12y ago
I feel for the guy, and freelancer.com seem to have terrible, appalling customer service. But this brings up another point, which is that freelancing often isn't a good way to get money quickly. You can't live paycheck to paycheck
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by objclxt 12y ago
> for a payment of 4 figures I doubt litigation is a realistic method of obtaining payment. This is what the small claims courts are for - although it is unclear whether Freelancer.com have any kind of presence in the US, which in this
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by objclxt 12y ago
> I doubt it is easy to displace the systems these schools are using today ...which is pretty much why the players in this space who are finding success are companies like Clever (clever.com), who let schools keep their existing SIS&
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by objclxt 12y ago
I think Square and Stripe can easily co-exist - the more pressing issue, as far as I can see it, is Square's model won't scale very well at all to EMV ('chip and PIN') cards, which severely limits their market. Square&
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by objclxt 12y ago
...or a more strategic "cut prices to lock people into our service, and then up the prices". Uber cuts the prices of UberX to attract traffic away from Lyft, Sidecar, etc, and then raises prices and relies on people not having the
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by objclxt 13y ago
No, it's not. ACH (which standard for 'automated clearing house') is just a bank transfer - and a slow one at that. Direct Debits in the UK are distinct to bank transfers because they're guaranteed by the bank - you can
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Alas with the extremely slow state of regulatory changes, many people that could be already saved nowadays using these techniques are just ending up dead. I think the article touches upon this, but it's a little more nuanced tha
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by objclxt 13y ago
> They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge. Is this no different to selling out in minutes though? Besides, hotels already know a) the dates of Google IO
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by objclxt 13y ago
> What possible reason could Facebook have to purchase a company so far removed from its core competency? I would imagine Facebook feels under pressure to build up a core hardware engineering team. It's pretty clear that embedded

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