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by richiezc 14y ago
disclosure: ex-Airbnb employee here The total airbnb fee on a stay is about 12% (lets assume 9% avg guest fee and 3% host fee). But roughly 3% goes to credit card processing fees and then you have to deal with paying out in countries like B
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by richiezc 14y ago
not part of their tech talk series, somewhat related to Airbnb in the sense that its hosted there and the organizer works at Airbnb
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by richiezc 14y ago
the 30" dells you see are the 3007, it just has a dual link DVI input and no OSD. All the newer models 3008 and 3011 have a plethora of inputs: 2x DVI 1x DP 1x HDMI 1x VGA etc
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by richiezc 14y ago
Congrats Brian! I remember when you told me about your idea at startup school. Heard you had left Airbnb and I suspected it was for this.
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by richiezc 14y ago
at least once? I have the same laptop and replaced the battery last year and also upgraded to a SSD. This made my old 2ghz C2D just as fast in everyday tasks at the i5 air I got from work. in other news I just ordered a new MBP Retina to re
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by richiezc 14y ago
sort of off topic but I used to work at LinkedIn and created the foil wrapped logo'd chocolates being photographed. we used them as a giveaway back at CES in 2010 in the blackberry booth. its cool that the images is offered under CC license
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by richiezc 15y ago
the 996 and the new 991 are all new designs, and not always for the better depending on your POV. 996: air cool -> water cool 991: hydraulic -> electric steering Even from a physical standpoint the 996 on are positively large compar
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by richiezc 15y ago
Are they really "sold out"? An employee told me they pre-sold 6,600ish, but i believe this includes people who reserved the cars with a $5K deposit, those who prepaid the entire amount, and those who out down a $40K deposit for the signatur
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by richiezc 15y ago
yea I did RSVP earlier as well, check your bulk/spam folder? good luck
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by richiezc 15y ago
hey what do you know, just got my acceptance email :) Yes, the link to RSVP is the same as last year (after unwrapping the mailchimp click tracking): http://news.ycombinator.com/susrsvp
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by richiezc 15y ago
same here, hope to receive the email soon. funny i've been checking all day as well, and searching on twitter occasionally...