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Ever hear the parable about the man in the arena?

  It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points 
  out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds 
  could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who 
  is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and 
  sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes 
  up short again and again, because there is no effort 
  without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great 
  enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a 
  worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the 
  triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he 
  fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his 
  place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who 
  knew neither victory nor defeat.

                                       -- Teddy Roosevelt
Great to know that the potential for fraud "doesn't concern you that much". You'll post your comment and they'll still be here with the responsibility of running the company, without the ability to airily handwave away the issue.

Great to know also that you're interested in the legalities of the insurance. I guess they should have included citations to case law in a blog post.

  > it turns out that when someone tries to verify it with 
  SFPD, the suspect isn't in custody (because they've been 
  extradited to another community)?
And how exactly is that under their control?

Some people are never satisfied. You appear to be one of them.



The potential for fraud doesn't concern me because Airbnb will clearly get an insurance company to run this program white-label, and they have whole departments designed to find and fight fraud. Based on the profits in the sector, it seems like they do a pretty good job of it.

As for the veracity of their line about someone being in custody with the SFPD, I stand corrected - my mistake. The last stuff that came to the top of my head was based off EJ's post on 28 July. A few searches reveal that the day after that post went up, the SFPD announced they had arrested someone.


"Airbnb will clearly get an insurance company to run this program white-label" <-- its not known if they can get an insurance policy for such a disparate group of people at a price that allows them to run with a profit


they aren't using an insurance company, they are paying for it out of pocket.


That is a great quote, even if it does feel like some bizarre entry in a comma/run-on-sentence contest.


It looks a little strange written as it was designed to be spoken.




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