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by dbot 3y ago
I was an early Airbnb adopter, but haven't used it in years...curious what types of travel people use Airbnb for these days? For business, I would never use it - I need reliability, consistency, and a staff on hand if anything comes up
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by dbot 5y ago
I've had Wavians for a couple years. In our lake community, we get compliments about our gas cans. It's amazing how people respond when you build something well.
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by dbot 7y ago
NetDocuments | https://www.netdocuments.com . | UX Director | Salt Lake City (Lehi), UT | Full time | Onsite NetDocuments is a leading, secure cloud-based document management and collaboration solution that's been serving th
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by dbot 8y ago
Startups win on creating efficiency: saving time and/or money. Compare that to a hobby, almost the entire point of which is to consume time and money... Wedding planning feels more analogous to a hobby. My wife and I enjoyed the time w
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by dbot 8y ago
Safari's autosuggest of the numeric code from 2FA text messages is outstanding. I don't hear anyone talk about this feature, but I could never live without it. I use 2FA for every website possible and this makes it easy.
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by dbot 8y ago
I just bought one because Apple didn't refresh the MBP. It is nice - maybe I need to get used to it, but it's not a MBP. Continuity between my phone for everything - iMessage, clipboard, wifi networks - is something you begin to m
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by dbot 9y ago
As an Atlanta resident, I find it a terrible place to visit but a great place to live. Great cities have (1) cool places to visit; and (2) lots of hidden gems - parks, restaurants, etc. - that take years to discover. Atlanta lacks the first
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by dbot 9y ago
My guess is that Amazon will want to effectively "own" whatever city it selects. Not only will they get incentives from government, but they'll want to have primary influence over the business and educational communities. So
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by dbot 9y ago
I joined for about six months and dropped them last week. Third shipment in a row with missing ingredients. On the plus side, it put me in the regular habit of cooking together with my wife. We love many of the recipes, which are freely ava
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Ask HN: How would you reform domain registration/renewal?
1 points by dbot 9y ago|0 comments
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by dbot 9y ago
Please take a moment to notice how horribly unfriendly a deposition transcript is. Thousands of these documents are produced every day, in a proprietary format that is antiquated and near impossible to work with. The PDF is unusable given t
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by dbot 9y ago
Related, there's an iOS app called Mealboard which lets you plan out recipes for the week/month/etc. We've started using it all the time, mostly because it has an amazing in-app browser that scrapes web recipes and store
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by dbot 9y ago
Cooking involves 3 steps: (1) recipe selection, (2) ingredient acquisition, and (3) cooking. Blue Apron takes care of the first two, which I don't enjoy, and let's me do (3), which I very much enjoy. A grocery store doesn't s
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by dbot 9y ago
Uber needs to focus on customer loyalty - having a base of loyal customers means they can engage in licensing deals with the true automakers. How to build loyalty? Create a rewards/milage program similar to airlines. Most business trav
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by dbot 9y ago
Most DMSes utilize a "check-in/check-out" process, meaning that only one person can work the document. Others can work on "copies," but there is no way to sync their changes back into the main document stored in the
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by dbot 9y ago
Non-competes are tricky: they essentially try to extend trade secret protections to information that people know (which is hard to track), instead of information that's written down (which is easy to track, see Waymo). It seems most pe
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by dbot 9y ago
Same. As an example of how Google enriches lives, my mom (age 66) just sent an amazing video of photos and video clips from the first year of my son's life, set to an amazing score. Google made that for her automatically, without promp
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by dbot 9y ago
Agreed - I watch everything over Xbox since it streams audio to my headphones. Finding apps consistently took me weeks to figure out. The other problem is that there is no unified control scheme for streaming apps. In theory, you are giving
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by dbot 9y ago
I was in Charleston this weekend. On East Bay Street, I was connected to a driver who was 11 minutes away and had another fare. I canceled immediately and tried Lyft. After agreeing to a 450% surcharge, it reported a 12 minute wait with the
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by dbot 9y ago
Uber reached its current success with a first mover advantage. But I think the real reason is that everyone building self-driving cars today - including the big car manufacturers - will have little interest in selling to Uber. They will be
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by dbot 10y ago
There is a reason that safeguards like attorney-client, priest-penitent, and spousal privilege exist. For most of civilization, these are the people with whom we entrust our deepest secrets. Society doesn't work if these relationships
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by dbot 10y ago
How do you avoid the issue that home cleaning companies encountered? Namely, once they use your service to create a relationship, the customer can contact the mechanic directly and cut you out?
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by dbot 10y ago
Exactly this. You are just abstracting the decision about "truth" to another set of observers. Every crowdsourced news aggregation site faces the same challenge, too. Digg had serious vote manipulation problems. Reddit's &#x2
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by dbot 10y ago
Getting in front a jury means surviving summary judgment. A good contract is designed to allow any disputes be resolved at the summary judgment stage. It's been a while since I've looked at the enforceability of clickwrap class-ac
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by dbot 10y ago
I've seen similar logos pop up during commercials - this seems directly related to that marketing effort. Still, I wonder who would rush to get out their phone and open up Shazam, just to learn more about this product/service? It&
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by dbot 10y ago
To see if there is interest. I believe HN has a rule that a "Show HN" can't be just a landing page. This is just a landing page without the "Show HN."
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by dbot 10y ago
Not justifying the behavior in any way, but the reason is that almost every car rental agency has certain quotas for extra coverage, upsells, etc. that they must meet every week. The pressure to meet these are enormous, which can lead to th
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by dbot 10y ago
One major social network that rarely gets mentioned is NextDoor. Unfortunately, they've just begun doing ads, too, and I already hate it. It's disappointing because they have such a natural starting base for generating revenue: co
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by dbot 10y ago
If you are a large purchaser, you can almost always get a better deal opting out than letting the class lawyers represent you. With your own attorneys, you can negotiate cheaper fees and more creative settlement arrangements, like discounts
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by dbot 10y ago
Hmmm...are you mostly using the private room or entire home/apt? I've found that if you are looking for just a private room, you can get a deal. But then you are also in a stranger's house, which as a 30-something I'm no

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