The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords

Re:The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords by Balgair on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @11:59AM (#10540495)

Come on, you got to give a better source than that. If you tell us to basically google it, that's not a source, that's an assignment. Nor is telling us that a comment is a source. You have to give us at least an article or link to even pretend you are sourcing something.

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Re:The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:07PM (#10540567)

I'm not asking to Google it, I'm asking to type it into the Hacker News search bar, which fetches the results from this site, and sorting them by popularity. Me giving a list would amount to just copy-pasting headings from those results.

But ok, random issues from the top of my head:

- sabotaging competition, hiring people to do this, facilitating mass cancellation of rides by providing them with burner iPhones and credit cards

- blatantly breaking local taxi regulations

- employee/contractor issues and related tax issues

- Uber management declaring they'll set up a fund to ruin a journalist's life because the latter dared to voice criticism about the company

- God's Eye view and privacy issues

- encouraging drivers without proper insurance

- tricking drivers into (and helping them) getting loans for a new car, and then (after a year or two) adjusting payment rates so that they basically stay locked in Uber

All of them discussed at length on HN, most of them covered on the first page of search results.

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Re:The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords by Balgair on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @06:06PM (#10543317)

Then link to them! copypasting the results, though easy to search, is just as easy for you to do too. Save the reader the effort. The web is a god-send because of links and that ease of info transfer. This is not print where I know I have to look it up.

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