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The way cities go about targeting airbnb only exacerbates the problem -- they make it harder for tenants to host guests to offset their rental cost -- and thus incentivize property owners to take rental units off the market in favor of the more lucrative option of making them short-term airbnb units instead.

Cities should be allowing people to host in their primary residences, whether owned property or as rental tenants, if anyone is allowed to host short term paying guests at all.

If airbnb made it harder for property owners to list units on airbnb that weren't their primary residence, while on the other hand allowing renters to offset high rental costs by hosting guests at their primary residence on occasion, i see it as a win-win.

The protections major cities give landlords who wish to prevent their rental tenants from hosting on airbnb seem unreasonable until you realize that hoteliers and landlords have more impact on city policies on these things.
You can default on properties.. like Trump did.
People often wonder what the point of tenure is. Well this is it. Those authors need to not back down, and call attention to this. If they're tenured researchers or professors, they should be able to make publications like this without fear or retaliation from the school or industry.
"you piss in the pool wherever you go, please stay away from our pool."

Several people mentioned something to this effect. Nobody makes clear what they are referring to. Is this just about gentrification?
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These aren't critics. These are scientists. Changing their results to suit corporate interests is a fire-able offense, and they are honor-bound to not retract unless the truth of their results are in question.

Giving overly generous Yelp reviews is fine, who cares? Publishing "generous" science as fact is morally wrong.
This is great. Would be interested to integrate with an e-signing service. Configuring standard forms for e-signing is also a scourge.

Any competitors to this? NDA reads clean...
from my anecdotal experience, Every AirBnB is like an Ikea vomited all over everything.
> In Barcelona, it used to cost €250 (£221) for a short-term rental permit. Now that such permits are no longer being issued, they change hands for up to €80,000.

So, this is the same thing as the taxi market: with an inelastic supply, the price of a medallion in some cities was worth more than a house. And if you're familiar with taxis pre-Uber, you can bet the permit holders will start neglecting the properties to the point that noone wants to use the service anymore.
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I don't particularly agree with the OP but I hope you realize that mass/weight has a clear 0 point, whereas time modulus one day does not.
Very poorly written. It doesn't even mention price, and it gives mileage in per-gallon terms that are meaningless for hydrogen.
I hate things that want you to sign up for a free trial without showing what pricing will be after the trial is up. Not willing to to register and start giving out the number to people only to find out the cost is completely unreasonable. Transparency please.
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As many have said, once you introduce sea water and its accompanying corrosion, along with biofouling, “relatively simple” things become a lot more challenging.

Not to say there haven’t been massively successful drifter studies conducted by oceanographers, though the per unit cost is well more than $200. One of the largest fleets is the Argo[1] float system, with nearly 4000 floats in operation in the world ocean.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(oceanography)
There are lots of "math game" apps for elementary school students that are available on iOS but not MacOS/Windows.
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The problem with AirBnB is not AirBnB. It's hotel regulation.

What ABnB has demonstrated is that there is a vastly underserved market for regular travellers, who have no interest in 'having their sheets changed every day' - rather, they just want a decent and convenient space - and they can't afford the $250/night for a boring room 'corporate' rate.

If hotels and their regulations were efficient - then AirBnB would only be used what is was kind of meant for: either sharing/hosting - or - renting out fairly 'special' places that just don't fit regular criteria.

Most AirBnB stays are a matter of price and convenience.

The fact that I can stay in cities, in a decent place for less than 1/2 the cost of a hotel is what makes me hate AirBnB less than hotels and city regulators.

Something is deeply wrong with the hotel and regulatory areas there or else AirBnB wouldn't be a huge-huge thing.

A commenter below about a building that seemed to be AirBnBers ... think for a moment how even more efficient it would be if the whole dam thing were just a hotel, with a maid staff that only cleaned and changed the sheets between stays and could provide keys/keycodes. As it stands, even AirBnB is not near real 'cost efficiency' because there's so much 'little overhead' with each rental.

Not only should that building be a hotel but it should be cheaper than AirBnB! In fact, if markets were reasonably competitive AirBnB should generally be more expensive.

I understand that individual patrons don't have nearly the safety and regulatory expenses ... but it doesn't add up.

City regulators and hotel operators need to figure out a slightly different model.
Agree. Related thought: the influence of lawyers in tech firms - witness the draconian EULAs users are 'forced' to accept with a false binary choice of accept or not - and the role that corporate law staff have had in software development, by effectively limiting the rights of users.

It seems to me that many technology firms copy-and-paste the soul of EULAs to protect themselves (against the worse cases that may arise) with little thought about the effect these long list of restrictions cause. It often seems it cascaded from Microsoft's use of EULAs from Windows 95, Office 95 and onwards, because it was the norm to consumers in that 'monopoly' environment.

The role of lawyers in suppressing ideas, choices and debate - be it in healthcare (the USA dermatology sector as per the OP article) or in technology - the Hacker News set - warrants further debate.

Especially if ethics are to play a greater role in the future of technology - as seems to be the general consensus of forward-thinking governments and progressive technologists.
Ultimately the question is whether the market is constrained by supply or price. If the constrait is price, then hotels should be able to adjust and stop charging ridiculous default rates in urban areas. If the market is constrained by supply eventually it will be economically viable to build new units.

That's not to say that Airbnb should not be regulated similarly to hotels. Imo if you provide a nearly identical service you should follow the same regulations
Stop paying your mortgage, and the bank will eventually take your house. But they can't take anything else, no matter how much you owe. In many other countries, this is not the case.
If it had any "impression" of what a face was, you would never see the results that occurred in [1]. My point is the algorithm has no impression of what a "face" is at all. It seems like this was given prototype pictures with scoring attributes, and mapped those into some sort of gradient, completely independent of any notion of "face".
Maybe I'm dense, but I'm failing to see any real problem here. Certainly none that would warrant government infringing on private property rights.
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I have no proof they are involved, but my wife and I both had a visit to a dermatologist last year. Both of us were then recommended for excisions. She was 29, I was 28.

Everything came back pretty much normal.

We were sent to this fern after a friend went there. He also had an excision. Also under 30.

Now, we feel pretty much like we were played. Maybe this is relevant to this issue.
Hah, that's fascinating. A direct end-run around it in a way that you wouldn't think to regulate.
I feel like Pinterest is a better platform for these type of queries.
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Just want to point out that in high-demand urban areas, this proposal would still be expected to cause rents to increase. The amount you can charge for rent is fundamentally limited by the income of your potential renters, but now it becomes income of potential renters plus the amount they could expect to earn by sharing the property out on Airbnb.

It's similar to what happened with low interest rates before the housing boom and bust. You'd expect low interest rates would make housing cheaper for buyers, but it also had the effect of causing house prices to rise because now there were more people who could afford to bid on the same housing stock.
Thanks for pointing this out. I personally overlooked it. I added it right below the header for now -- maybe it'll move if I can figure out better placement for it.
> Since this article was written, the iPad has gained a number of excellent programming tools

That's true, and good, but misses the point. In the smalltalk world (and Lisp machine worlds of PARC and MIT) everything running in the machine (above the microcode layer) was inspectable, breakpoint able, and modifiable.

While on the iPad everything is, as the article says, opaque and unmodifiable, unless its your own app.

note: I worked on Lispms at MIT (and other places) and on D-machine Interlisp at PARC (and other places)
It must be great to have enough money that you can afford to care about whether your home fixtures have local character.
Funny you should mention! This is my third attempt at "The NDA Problem".

Attempt 1: Very modern, plain-language NDA. Much easier to read and follow. Substantively better. No uptake.

Attempt 2: Suite of NDAs for various use cases, integrated with e-signature, filing, attorney approval, the works. That was rxnda.com. Lots of positive feedback. Not much actual use.

Attempt 3: Canting Tribe. Zero code. All about the network effects. Much, much simpler.

I've tried to make the PDF copy of the form as easy to set up in place-the-blanks e-sig services as possible, with [bracketed instructions] to make clear what goes where. I would be very interested in an e-sig service that allowed me to preconfigure a template with the latest terms, for other people to use. I'd be very interested in ways to put metadata or other hints for setting up e-sig into any of the various formats the site publishes.

I used to have a list of companies offering something close to rxnda.com: NDA plus e-sig. I don't have it with me now. But I'm not aware of any other attempt at voluntary standardization of a general-purpose NDA. Several large companies with leverage have published their standard NDAs, or even set up e-sig portals, as Google has. But I'm not aware of any such forms offered for general use, between other companies.

I would not be surprised to learn of prior attempts, or approaches vaguely close to mine. Frankly, I don't care who solves this problem, or how, as long as it's solved. Canting Tribe is the best I have. I believe it can work, but I can't make it work alone.
> Everyone likes to be super stimulated.
>> by vapid and shallow experiences

GP does not deny being super stimulatable. Just not by a beautiful face. Once AI reaches the level that it can be an intellectual mentor people like GP maybe sucked into infinite pointless learning just for the kick of it.

It’s already happening without AI (I read HN for mostly pointless stimulation; there is much more fascinating knowledge on the internet than you can understand in your lifetime)
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I'm assuming the limitation is in the smartnic, and perhaps a different driver is tuned differently.
Preface: I dont actually have a set opinion yet on whether Airbnb is net good/bad.

How much of this is regulation thats around to protect the society that the hotel is operating in? Changing those sheets everyday isn't just for having clean smelling sheets, but to prevent pests such as bed bugs in some localities. For instance there's probably tons of people whod jump on doctors/dentists who lower the price by not cleaning all their tools properly, but we have regulations requiring it because it can create an epidemic that causes negative externalities to the wider community.

I think I'd have less of a problem with Airbnb if there was any sort of enforcement of health laws or putting effort into not supporting people who sign leases saying they won't do Airbnb but do it anyway.

Having a lower price just shows that is the most efficient use of scarce resources in that specific situation, it does not show that it's good for society.
You only get to understand what a massive role Google plays in the like/click/view generating ecosystem when you spend time in a modern digital publishing/advertising/marketing firm. It's like watching a huge cattle auction where peoples views/clicks etc are being traded 24*7.
What is the value that private equity and/or VC are adding to dermatology? I guess what I'm asking is, why would the physicians be interested in sharing some portion of their income with these non-physicians?

Medicine, like other guild professions like law, dentistry, and accounting, is an enterprise which seems to naturally fit the partnership model instead.
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Yep. The issue is most markets is due to regulation. If hotels can't meet the price and availability needs in a market then the issue is the regulation. For temporary events that is understandable, but continued restraint on hotels makes no sense.
I always find work arounds or just write more code. I feel like it's annoying sometimee but when reading code I feel blessed that generics are not supported.
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He meant CBD. In paris this is la defense. Which is not a very nice place to live.
> The BEAM isn't good at general purpose computing. It's not particularly efficient at performing calculations or using memory.

BEAM languages are fine, easily faster than Python, Ruby, PHP, and competitive with v8 in many cases. Furthermore anyone doing serious data processing in a web service uses a work queue, which can be serviced (if you so choose) by workers written in any language you like.
I fail to see what exactly are the claimed problems here. The article contains unproven claims like:

Rents for residents are being driven up, in Barcelona as well as Berlin, New York and elsewhere.

Rents have been going up everywhere because of the real estate market moves, not AirBnB. It's disingenuous to throw it on AirBnB.

In Barcelona, it used to cost €250 (£221) for a short-term rental permit. Now that such permits are no longer being issued, they change hands for up to €80,000.

This is the problem Barcelona government created by artificially limiting the supply just like NYC did with taxi medallions. What do you expect?

AirBnB is the good thing and its great to see these brave startups going up against government sponsored monopoly on artificially limiting taxi and hotel ownerships only to small group of rich people. These oligarchies exploit poorest people to generate passive income for the rich. In ideal world, people would vote out government passing such laws but their lobbiests have perfected the art to sweep these laws under the rug. AirBnB allows to utilize spare capacity available in the already dense city that is doing no work at optimal pricing.

Anyway, there is absolutely no other claims or proof or data I see in this article. I wouldn't be surprised at all if these articles are sponsored by the hotel lobby.
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Airbnb is freaking amazing for travelers. I think it cometely changed the game for world exchanges. It's one of the few companies that I truly believe made the world a better place.
Putting one more bag of trash on the trash pile without the whole trash pile falling over is a satisfying feeling for sure.

And sometimes when it comes to this I feel bad and somewhat guilty. But I can't restructure the whole trash pile and orders and budget constraints and all that, so it just has to keep growing and we shore it up where we can until it starts collapsing around the base and then maybe we can admit it was a trash pile all along and try to do better next time.
I think this is way oversimplifying things. Hotels and apartments are zoned differently and regulated and managed differently. There are negative externalities in apartment buildings for AirBNB hosts that are paid for by their neighbors. Zoning is designed (often poorly!) to do this on a neighborhood level, but not at all to do so on a building by building or apartment by apartment level.

This is regulatory arbitrage for sure by AirBNB and hosts. The answer (theoretically) would be to more granularly undersrand the costs and benefits to all parties and redistribute appropriately. Unfortunately, neither the public or private sector is incentivized to solve this fairly - “competition” won’t solve it. Seems like a case where regulation would be the answer - it’s just unlikely any single city will solve it well, much less all of them.
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But while computers rapidly increased in power, the tools that programmers used to program them developed relatively conservatively. It is easy to imagine a world where those tools developed along with the computers, until programming itself became so easy that the average user would feel comfortable doing it.

It's nice to imagine. But is it so easy to imagine?
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"Having a lower price just shows that is the most efficient use of scarce resources in that specific situation"

No, it's not 'specific'. The 'rent' marketing clearing price for a locale is a function of a vast array of economic inputs. That's the whole point of free markets, and why it's difficult to dictate terms around it.

The fact that there is a vast influx of AirBnBers in so many areas is not a small things, it's really quite apparent that the artificial controls set by zoning are far more constrictive than we ever thought - and they should be loosened. There are all sorts of external surpluses lost when markets are not efficient.

Also - I fundamentally doubt that people are just 'getting sick' because of AirBnB and 'not having their sheets changed every day'. I just don't believe it's an issue. FYI hotels have stopped changing sheets every day as well, they usually say 'to preserve water' which is BS - it's cost - but they generally do make the bed and clean every day which is unnecessary.

I would probably ban AirBnB for anything but special kinds of places, and maybe not allow it in residential buildings, at least allow building owners/coops to enforce it.

And then also be far more lax with hotel zoning and regulations as well.

Every city wants more 'tourism' until they get tourists and they get pissed off. Well, those tourists bring in tons of cash.

Every city wants business to invest and 'high tech' jobs until the locals complain about 'Google values' and 'home prices'.

The market for both hotels and taxis is just too vastly distorted - and we all lose - especially consumers who would only be able to afford 1/2 as much travel otherwise.

There should be a lot more hotels and taxis.
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Socialiat drivel.

When a platform connects landlords and renters efficiently such that extra money flows into economy from extra tourism.... is bad?

You know what their "solution" is?

Guess...

It is to raise taxes on landlords and residents, and line the pockets of politicians further in the name of them "paying their fair share"
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> Windows's ecosystem need developers more than ever

When will MS stop taking money away from the developers by making Visual Studio priced with hefty charges?

I still can't believe they're just making a barrier to entry by charging people who are going to help their ecosystem better and bigger.
Medicine is a market for lemons, so reputation/brand is important. Many good doctors are full up on patients, but if they can convince you that an unknown doctor in their practice is just as good/under their supervision, they can pocket some of those gains.

This doesn't really require private equity, but PE is providing a way to get a lump sum for this to doctors, and milking that cash cow.

There is also a growing remote/virtual dermatology sector which can see gains from technology, but I doubt PE is involved.
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> Airbnb is a parasitic monster that squats over cities and hoovers up vast sums of money through its slimy proboscis.

I wonder whether the author would still have a problem if AirBnB were a nonprofit (e.g. took 0% of the cut). That would reveal whether his real argument is against AirBnB's profits, or that having an open short-term market is harmful ipso facto (but when who play the colorful part of the monster? probably the landlord-traveller duo?).
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This isn't discussed much, but the healthcare provider industry has traditionally been a major sector of interest for private equity. Hospital companies like HCA, dental clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, etc.

Healthcare providers are attractive to private equity 1) because of stable, non-cyclical cash flow, 2) benefits to scale (ie better negotiating leverage with payers), 3) ability to easily increase revenue at small clinics by "optimizing" billing (ie use more lucrative codes for the same procedure) and practice management (optimizing procedure mix and scheduling) and 4) regulatory protection -- local monopolies enjoy durable economic advantages and often are politically entrenched as healthcare providers are major employers

These factors aren't limited to private equity backed healthcare, though. Even non-profits take advantage of these things (sutter health in the bay area is an example). If you're looking for why US healthcare is so expensive, this isn't a bad place to start