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by gbronner 5y ago
Rent control...
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by gbronner 5y ago
You can slow walk them if necessary, but if the vacancy happens in the last few months of a lease, it is usually better to break the lease and move on
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by gbronner 5y ago
I don't use brokers, but rent control enshrines them. More housing->fewer brokers, so join open ny
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by gbronner 5y ago
As a small ll I absolutely do not want this in my building. I negotiate lease break fees into my leases; if a tenant is unhappy, I'd rather charge them an appropriate amount rather than have them hire a broker whose sole goal is to fi
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by gbronner 5y ago
Two words: rent control. The long term tenants have leases that will be very valuable if the hotel recovers. Owners can't kick them out, but have no real desire to appease them, as they pay almost nothing.
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by gbronner 5y ago
The Geo metro had similar specs. It got 55hp from 3 cylinders, but also lacked a tach. 200 lbs lighter, but the wheels were smaller. I got mine up to about 90mph on a long downhill section of interstate, but wouldn't want to race anyt
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by gbronner 5y ago
The issue isn’t so much that Americans have become less religious, it is that many fewer of them were raised in homes that had at least one religious parent. the experience of practicing a religion, even if you don’t believe it, tends to p
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by gbronner 5y ago
Wait until rent control hits
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by gbronner 5y ago
Seems to be cryptoransoms
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by gbronner 5y ago
Same thing exists in NYC wrt to rent controlled coops
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by gbronner 5y ago
I went to a school with no letter grades, and skipped a year. Our school used to copy the nyt crossword puzzle, and it was considered ok to work on it in lieu of paying attention. Some teachers would simply tell me not to bother showing up
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by gbronner 5y ago
She wore ridiculous scarves and draped them over the car body where they could get tangled in the wheel spokes. John dos passos made fun of her for it
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by gbronner 5y ago
One theory is that Ryan Cohen's lockup expires around then, and they will have reported earnings. Rc is not accepting payment from the firm, so he'll be free to sell his stake then
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by gbronner 5y ago
Sf rent control increases are 60% of cpi. If you expect higher inflation and higher taxes, might as well buy apartments and take them for personal use
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by gbronner 5y ago
Historians' opinions about this have changed over time -- the generation of people who experienced it felt that a land invasion of Japan would be ruinous, and would kill a million US men. To that effect, the US tried firebombing cities
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by gbronner 6y ago
There's a ton of empty office space in NYC that is leased but unused, and unlikely to clear the sublease market. There are a lot of parents of all races who feel that they'd prefer their kids to focus on more traditional academic
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by gbronner 6y ago
CEOs used to get more explicit perks. I've seen an entire airport devoted to getting the mail so that the CEO could work from a company owned lodge in the mountains in the summer. This was not compensation.
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by gbronner 6y ago
This will turn out badly. Corporate landlords won't be able to lobby quite so fiercely against new construction, upzoning and rent controls. Otoh, their cost of capital is lower, and they are more efficient managers than individual ho
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by gbronner 6y ago
Can we pull Pamela out of retirement? Sco did entire stock offerings to fund this and still ran out of money
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by gbronner 6y ago
So the relatively affordable apartments go to those with the best tech skills... Gotta love rent controls. This is exactly like SF in 2000
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by gbronner 6y ago
We'd have to build a lot more ships and containers and burn a lot more fuel. Consumer prices would be higher, and some products wouldn't be on shelves
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by gbronner 6y ago
It filters for people who have * taken a 'real' CS class * understand the choices that library implementations make * have probably had to deal with large dynamic data sets and runtime optimization. Most of the questions are predi
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by gbronner 6y ago
PowerPoint jockeying isn't mind work. You need them to be there, do the work, and not complain because everyone is on a crazy tight deadline and everyone is tired. Unfortunately, you can't split the work between people as the comm
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by gbronner 6y ago
I've been asked to explain the following in c++ [](){}(); This doesn't test your programming skills either
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by gbronner 6y ago
Rather cheap life lesson... Hopefully he made it all back on the magazine story.
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by gbronner 6y ago
This is the explicit aim of prediction markets: to incentivize people with real knowledge to place bets, implicitly leaking information
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by gbronner 6y ago
Curious how griddy customers behaved vs other customers. This morning so be a tool to manage the grid going forward
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by gbronner 6y ago
Charging your tesla is going to cost $200.
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by gbronner 6y ago
NYC office worker making 100k gross: Taxes: 34k Rent $30k Commute $2.5k Lunches/snacks $4k Clothes $2k Which leaves 27.5k for fun (or 401k contributions) Move this person to work remotely from Texas and you get: Taxes: 25k Rent 18k Lun
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by gbronner 6y ago
This is fairly common in the financial services industry. It protects you as well as them. In my experience, it covers 'directed' accounts -- ones where you make the decisions. If your robo advisor (or a mutual fund) buys your co

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