Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by jazzyjackson on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:45AM
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Wait, what does a robot do once it rents a house?
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by yreg on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:56AM
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It sets up a workshop inside to build more robots.
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by rocqua on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:25AM
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Perhaps it takes 'pre-orderes'.
You want a place to stay, inform the bot "give me anything good in this area when available", pay the bot extra money, and then the bot goes out and hits the good rooms in the area the moment they become available.
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by birdyrooster on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:07AM
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Depends if its a member of the Church of Appliantology, let alone those miniature rubberized homo replicas.
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by cillian64 on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:52AM
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Dream of electric sheep?
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by pjc50 on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:08AM
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Sublet it to a human.
It's a market, so it's potentially susceptible to HFT and arbitrage bots like anything else.
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by smcl on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:17AM
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Sublet it? I mean it's possible that someone really dedicated writes a bot to reserve a room for themselves, but more likely it'd be done by someone who will list it somewhere else for an even higher fee.
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by aembleton on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:43AM
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Airbnb could just raise their prices by 10% if they detect a bot; that would be a way to take a cut of someone doing that. It would be really subtle too, so they wouldn't know that they'd been detected.
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding...
by throwaway2037 on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:25AM
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This sound like a great idea for Futurama (TV show) episode with Bender (the robot).