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Re: Assuredly – Live with People You Trust

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Post by cableshaft »

supercoder wrote: post #5

Assuming there is an actual need here, the biggest problem with this business is there's probably going to be very little repeat business. Customer acquisition costs vs lifetime value will kill em.

That's the same reason why it's so hard for online dating apps to get VC funding. If it's actually effective at finding long-term matches for people, then it will have to keep churning through new customers.

Re: Assuredly – Live with People You Trust

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Post by mironathetin »

holdenc wrote: post #23

As someone with a life-long obsession with bathroom neatness (I've been driven to violence by roommates who don't respect my toilet paper roll orientation rules) it's comforting to know I can find a sane person to live with.

Sheldons should live alone!

Re: Assuredly – Live with People You Trust

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Post by nilkn »

coldtea wrote: post #16
saiya-jin wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe you misused the words, but are you talking about renting whole HOUSE in largest city & capital of a western europe country? Places like that I've been, normal people (not on minimal wage, rather average salaries) cannot afford renting a proper house in the city even if they give out full single salary. Edge if the city yes, but anything usable in the city - nope.

Depends which Western European country you mean. In lots of countries you can rent a "whole house" (whole appartment I mean) quite easily in the city if you're employeed and not on minimum wage. In Berlin, for example, rents have been notoriously low (something like €500 would get you an appartment: http://berlin.en.craigslist.de/search/apa ), but also in many other cities. Also in some cities the "city center" or pa…

I believe the poster above is simply confused about the usage of the word "house". At least in the US, my experience has been that "house" is usually synonymous with "detached single family home." Pretty typical American example:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Small_Si...

The next step down is a townhouse:

http://media.point2.com/p2a/htmltext/a2c4/c0e3/62d9/4e6d5930...

These are all but nonexistent outside of cities in the US, though.

Re: Assuredly – Live with People You Trust

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Post by jevgeni »

coldtea wrote: post #13
jevgeni wrote: post #12

How did the "hacking" world go from "Let's organize and make accessible all of the world's information." to "Let's make a couple of phone calls to people you don't know" ?

Didn't it start from ""Let's make a couple of phone calls to people you don't know" (and/or "people you know")? Back when it was still called "phreaking". "Let's organize and make accessible all of the world's information" sounds like Xanadu's, Google's or a librarian's goal, not the "hacking worlds" in general...

Good point. :)

I've meant "hacking" in the (yet again) bastardized sense - the tech start-up scene.

It just seems to me that the scale, or the grand vision of new tech start ups has been incredibly mundane lately. I often imagine myself listening to a pitch presentation that goes something like this:

Hi, everybody, I'm Clarc McSugarHill and we are going to disrupt the market of buying fedoras online.

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