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by randomacct3847 8y ago
When I look at Airbnbs in SF, NY etc they are regularly more expensive than hotels with none of the benefits of a hotel. Why should a city prioritize the needs of landlords and visitors over most of their constituents? Would love to see the
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
It depends on the market, and in its most mature markets the company has worked with cities to make it legal and regulated. Uber has a tiny prescence in Asia at this point outside India having sold most of their biz to Grab. The biggest tur
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Uber and Airbnb are completely different beasts. At least rideshare benefits both residents and visitors alike and taxis are universally hated for high rates and fees. How does Airbnb benefits residents of a city outside of landlords/s
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Uber was for awhile, but would argue now it’s become mostly regulated...drivers have to get the right TIC licenses, airports have official signage for rideshare. Airbnb to me still feels like the Wild Wild West (Uber circa 2013) and they ta
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
It’s crazy to me that Airbnb is this massive company that derives most of their revenue from illegal services. What other multi-billion dollar co is remotely comparable? Agree last thing I want to deal with is this feeling I’m not supposed
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Tesla alledges Zoox stole trade secrets(engadget.com)
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Having worked in tech for a few years in non-tech roles (analytics, product) I was looking for a code bootcamp because I didn’t want to look back and regret not deeply learning in a way that I felt like I could not do with self study alone.
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
First thing that comes to mind is the new wave of fintech apps for pay/bill management (like Earnin) that take in your entire bank feed in exchange for spotting you before your next payday...
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
I think this has become outdated. From my experience FAANGs are largely filled with people who are risk-adverse, which is why it makes sense to me that the next gen of startups will come from alumni of successful unicorns given the risk-see
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Bloomberg: Larry Page personally approved $150m payout to Andy Rubin(twitter.com)
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
LinkedIn
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
China does that
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Honestly I think this is partially why Blue Apron failed...they overestimated how many people desire variety in dinner choices. Someone build a blue apron except for ingredients for weekly meal prep.
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
I don’t know what the terms are or how much the CEO/founder has. Assuming a 2x liquidation preference there would be $240m left after investors take their share. If the CEO has 5% then that’s $12m.
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
I still to this day scratch my head over how we’ve normalized sleeping in another stranger’s bed, as as hosts have normalized complete strangers touching our stuff and having sex in our beds. It’s wild.
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
I really think Tesla will fail, and worry what that will do to the stock market and/or tech industry. Things don’t add up over there, and pain will be unleashed sooner or later.
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
It’s fine 95% of the time. If you are booking an Airbnb same day as check in it’s going to have to be an instant booking, which is a fraction of the Airbnbs available. If you’re a biz traveler and your flight is delayed or getting in late t
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Check out Sonder
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Yes, not necessarily novel either. Some Hilton and Marriott hotels have “digital keys” that you’re granted through their app once you check in on the app to unlock your room.
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
I’m referring to their last valuation of $400m in 2017. The company hasn’t hockeysticked since then, by any measure (e.g. App Store rank), so I think we can deduce the sale price was likely well below $1b, maybe 500m at very best but guessi
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Hm not sure if it’s much cause for celebration for the HT team...they raised $130m and probably sold at max their last valuation. Employees aren’t going to make out with much and unclear if anyone is getting let go. Every OTA does last minu
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
pretty interesting. My hypothesis is that there’s a large cohort of people (myself included) who hesitate to use airbnb because there is still a real issue of inconsistency with back and forth with host, key hand off, etc that people who ar
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Ask HN: Should bootstrappers keep mostly cash?
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Resetting by fasting is nothing like taking antibiotics https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
The state of nutrition science is so poor. But intuitively eating unprocessed foods that are not made with artificial or chemical anything (including artificial sweeteners) is probably a good start. Fasting is probably another good way to r
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U.S. deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide hit highest level since 1999(usatoday.com)
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
It’s a sad joke. If the gov’t wants to fix drug prices then figure out how to stop companies from gaming the system like this.
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Ok - but just isolating the active part of the drug makes it patentable. Still ridiculous given how cheap Ketamine is.
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Actually I just read that Esketamine is patented while Ketamine is not, even though it’s essentially the same thing. So JNJ can charge these ridiculous prices because they changed one small thing about the drug so they could slapped a paten
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by randomacct3847 8y ago
Interesting that there doesn’t seem to be a therapy component to the treatment...meaning you’re just going to a clinic to sort of watch over you as you take it. The price of $3k for 8 doses is so high compared to regular ketamine. I wonder

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