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fibbery··on Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
Except most technology made today is not designed for longevity. Tech that requires an internet connection to a working server to function even though that has nothing to do with it's core purpose (see https://mobile.twitter.com/internetofshit)
fibbery··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?
Stress eating? I bet fewer people are dieting right now than last year.
fibbery··on No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)
Buy nothing group in your area!
fibbery··on “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
"Why doesn't the seller pay for one up front and share the results with interested buyers?"

In the Bay Area they do. No one makes offers with an inspection contingency because it's so competitive but often the seller will already have done an inspection that they share with potential buyers

fibbery··on Ask HN: I have $1M cash in my bank. How can I stretch it so I can retire?
Really? At current interest rates that's like $5k a year.
fibbery··on It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
According to the footnote they don't view it as good or bad it's just a thought experiment.
fibbery··on Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
An old Android tablet or phone with the app Dormi does great, too. The best part is that it doesn't make any noise until there's sustained noise detected in the baby room. It also alerts if it loses connectivity and can be snoozed at 10 minute intervals.
fibbery··on Show HN: Online Activities for Remote Teams
A bit of UI design feedback - the single capital letters in the how it works section are confusing. It seemed to imply that "FHC" was a meaningful acronym. Might want to reconsider that choice.
fibbery··on Show HN: A dead-simple personal knowledge manager
Quick note, there's a typo in the first paragraph. "Writting good notes takes some experience"
fibbery··on After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories
> it's as if your children have died.

Or you did.

fibbery··on Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August
Thanks for your response! I'm super excited to hear that some of those features are in development.

Regarding the "separate property" problem, I agree it is a bit tough to tackle however there's one way to distinguish it: does the property have a separate, legal address? A basement suite or a guest house does not, a condo or apartment in a 4-plex does. Airbnb could require hosts to provide those details in order to be counted under the "have the whole place to yourself" category.

Another way I was thinking you could do it is to add a higher level of grouping to the property type menu (the one that has "townhouse", "cabin" etc.) And clarify which of those types should be considered standalone and which are more guesthousey. Those categories currently feel super arbitrary, so they could use more structure regardless.

fibbery··on Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projects
Probably not too many blue collar users interested in building a SaaS product, though.
fibbery··on Show HN: Tweek – Fast to-do weekly calendar app
I like it.

Some ideas for you:

- a toggle to hide completed tasks

- going into a menu to delete is too cumbersome. what if on drag a trash target appeared (margins of the screen? bottom right) and then dragging to there deleted it? with a recycle bin view to get the deleted tasks back if desired.

fibbery··on Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August
Not the person you replied to, but here's my list of gripes/wishlist for airbnb

- I want to see prices listed as total price, not price before fees which add 30%-50% on top of the listed price

- I want to select properties where there is no one else on the property grounds. Airbnb allows people to claim "Separate property" for somebody's basement suite where you're sure to encounter the host/other residents

- I want the pool/hot tub checkboxes to be limited to private pool or hot tub, and to not include results where the property has some membership to a shared pool in a HOA or whatever

- I want the ability to search for keywords, such as "backyard" or "creek"

- I want to be able to exclude certain hosts from results. In some cities the same host runs multiple properties and they all have bad reviews. I want to hide their properties.

- I want to be able to easily flag or report listings that are abusing the search terms - claiming a living room as a bedroom, for example

- I want to be able to search for properties by driving distance from a location

fibbery··on Helping people spot the spoofs: a URL experiment
Wouldn't this get annoying when you go to select part of the URL? Hovering changes the text shown so you end up selecting different text than you wanted.
fibbery··on The Next Phase of the Retail Apocalypse: Stores Reborn as E-Commerce Warehouses
I bought two pairs of sunglasses from Amazon recently. Different brands, different pictures, different price. Ended up with two pairs of the exact same glasses...
fibbery··on Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011)
Google photos!
fibbery··on A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)
Probably the doctor has no readily accessible way to hang a patient upside down and wouldn't want the legal liability of doing so anyway.
fibbery··on Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants
* { font-family: monospace !important; }

done!

fibbery··on Cities of the World Where You Don’t Need AC or Heat, Mapped
I don't think I had either in Santa Barbara.
fibbery··on The Remote Work Report by Zapier
Wonder how they sourced their survey respondants.
fibbery··on Show HN: Time Door – A time series analysis API
Heads up that there's a typo: "Algortihmic variety"
fibbery··on The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018)
Huh. I would have termed "emotional labor" as doing the work to maintain harmony of relationships within and outside of the home. Like being the person responsible for setting up family events, sending cards, remembering birthdays etc. Also in parenting being the more present parent. While the need to be household manager is more "mental load" like are we out of laundry soap or when is the kid's next doctor appointment. But apparently those uses aren't really accurate.
fibbery··on ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days
Cow?
fibbery··on The Awkward but Essential Art of Office Chitchat
Are extroverts supposed to work on it too?
fibbery··on Panera losing nearly all workers in fast-food turnover crisis
Fast food owners: let's mechanize all processes and take away all agency from our workers so they're easily replaceable!

Also fast food owners: none of our workers enjoy their jobs and leave after a few months why is that

fibbery··on Ring has partnered with 400 police forces
Smaller iot manufacturers like... Amazon
fibbery··on YouTube Just Demonetized Anti-Vax Channels
Shingles is caused by the chicken pox virus.
fibbery··on 'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand
I can't wait to pick a different Bay Bridge
fibbery··on Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines
no ban on emotional support peacocks?
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