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Tom Slee
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Tom Slee's personal blog at tomslee.net covers economics, politics and culture. Since 2013, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-08-31
- Airbnb Stories2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-23
- Some obvious things about Internet reputation systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-30
What Hacker News says?
I've read some interesting writing on the topic: - http://tomslee.net/2013/08/why-the-sharing-economy-isnt.html - http://www.fastcompany.com/3042248/the-gig-economy-wont-last...
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on “Magic”Submitted Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t as a story · 196 points
HN discussionThat's a concern as old as search engines themselves. https://tomslee.net/2008/03/mr-googles-guid.html
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on “Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi”Submitted Should the Apache Foundation stop hosting NSA-sponsored code? as a story · 51 points
HN discussionThanks for the feedback! The reason we have leaderboards on the homepage in the first place is to quickly answer the question, "Is anyone actually making a living here?" I looked at Flattr and could not for the life of me answer that question. Now that the matter is established, I agree that it's time to change the homepage. I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074 . Re: Storie…
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on “Gittip, Year Two”Submitted Why the “Open Data Movement” is a Joke as a story · 26 points
HN discussionhttp://thenewinquiry.com/essays/in-praise-of-fake-reviews/ http://tomslee.net/2013/09/some-obvious-things-about-interne...
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on “Uber Tests 30% Fee, Its Highest Yet”Submitted The shape of Airbnb’s business as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI suspect users of these sites are fully aware what kind of a bad deal these websites are. If you are in a situation where you cannot be fully employed or start your own business, they seem like your best hope. These websites are exploitative because they can hold the livelihood of people on already shaky ground hostage. Since the clients on these websites know that the users may be somewhat desperate, they can driv…
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on “Freelancer.com is destroying my life”Submitted Some obvious things about Internet reputation systems as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttp://tomslee.net/2008/03/mr-googles-guid.html It also works better on mobile.
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on “Mr. Google's Guidebook (2008)”Submitted Why the Sharing Economy Isn’t as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYup. It started with the campaign touting the positive effects on the NYC economy, now it's the "let's pull some heartstrings" video. For those who missed it, I've outlined my experience with AirBnB (as a non-host in a building with hosts) last week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7923849 (top comment) For anyone defending AirBnB here's a nice list of things to read before you do so: http://www.sfchronicle.co…
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on “Airbnb Political Campaign [video]”Submitted Stallman on Openness as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Canada should de-activate Uber as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Airbnb Hid the Facts in New York City as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airbnb and Gentrification as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uber Drivers Earning $90K/year? More Evidence Needed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case of the power drill as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No True Airbnb Host… as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airbnb Stories as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing Economy Startup Generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted This Week in the Sharing Economy: The Move to Professionalism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airbnb Business in New York, Revisited as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uber: (Getting Over)^3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Volkswagen, IoT, the NSA and open source software: a quick note as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The People’s Platform: Who are No Logo’s Children? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing economy and informal economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airbnb Stories as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Degrees of Omidyar as a story · 1 points
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