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by hash872 6y ago
Sure, yeah, I wouldn't put 'I dare you to enforce' in writing. And paying a small amount is a good idea. I just think people on HN being unrealistic about how real estate law actually works is part of why these comments secti
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by hash872 6y ago
I mean, you could easily not pay the 'early termination fee', and dare the landlord to do something about it. Not advocating for skipping out on debts, but just from a practical point of view (having worked in the real estate indu
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by hash872 6y ago
>Hedge funds overall do not outperform index funds in the long run But the Medallion Fund does apparently, which is my point. How can they have 70+% returns year after year for decades in a world where EMH is true? Their existence seems
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by hash872 6y ago
How does the author explain the Renaissance Medallion Fund? Also (and I asked this in the last big HN discussion of EMH too), how can EMH co-exist with the existence of 'trading' as a profession? I don't mean day traders, I m
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by hash872 6y ago
Without pointing any specific fingers, people were pushing 'you should spend your 20s working 60-80 hours a week at a startup so you can get rich' really hard for a while there. It's only relatively recently that this is unde
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by hash872 6y ago
Not in any way defending day trading, but I think it's interesting that it's become such accepted wisdom about how bad it is- here on a website dedicated to startups. 90% of day traders lose money, what are the odds for startup fo
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by hash872 6y ago
I'd be interested to understand how this works in practice, especially small claims court (which is probably where many credit card debts end up at). From my understanding, small claims judgments are very tough to actually enforce, no
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by hash872 6y ago
Eh, I don't really agree with that. All the states really need are a paramilitary branch- the state police, local police, and maybe the local National Guard. You need rough men with guns to stop looting, bandits, etc.- and they'd
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by hash872 6y ago
If this helps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#M...
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by hash872 6y ago
I dunno, seems a little overly dramatic. Previous world powers didn't collapse, they just faded- Britain, Spain, Portugal, etc. This seems much more likely, especially as budget issues prevent the US from deploying the same overwhelmin
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by hash872 6y ago
I visited their Fort Hill compound in-person years ago. (It was in connection with a job I had at the time, we briefly had business with them). They're still a 'commune', when I entered the basement to speak with their office
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by hash872 6y ago
As a business owner & non-engineer who sometimes uses freelance software engineers like OP, it's fascinating to see so much pushback to the guy's hourly rate. On Hacker News! People are so hung up on how much the guy gets per
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by hash872 6y ago
I can't speak as to whether you should bring it up (I personally wouldn't), but- working in an industry that's adjacent to background checks, I find it very unlikely that this will come up. The US federal-state-county system
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by hash872 6y ago
> I negotiate all the time, and often even get companies to use my contract or at least incorporate many of my terms With what size companies? I am also self-employed, and also negotiate all the time, and also frequently get companies to
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by hash872 6y ago
Companies of that size are going to have standardized contracts and take it or leave it terms. 'Finance' (really procurement) does not have the time or bandwidth to sit there and negotiate terms & conditions with individual fr
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by hash872 7y ago
Big agree with this. Also there's no all-encompassing definition of 'healthcare' that will cover all categories, the way there is for groceries or cars or servers. As people get more disposable income to spend, they'll g
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by hash872 7y ago
I have seen City of God, but it was a long time ago and before I was seriously into BJJ. Have not seen Suburbia. The 'safety in planned suburbs' concept is utilized in so many countries though, literally all of South & Central
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by hash872 7y ago
But if you ever venture outside of the 10+ story apartment building.... Especially if the favela is, like, two doors down. People want to live in a neighborhood that's safe, not just a home enclosure- you're missing the 'neig
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by hash872 7y ago
>The worst part is the wealthy in developing nations also gravitate towards US style urban plans, because that is what is sold as 'high class' I think it's a bit more complicated than that. The urban cores of developing co
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by hash872 7y ago
That may be the point of the program, I'm saying I don't think it's a very good point. Owning is basically always more expensive than renting, there's taxes, insurance, endless maintenance etc. As I said in my original c
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by hash872 7y ago
Big disagree with this concept. If the article is accurate, it prevents Regina Daniels or any other beneficiaries from accumulating significant wealth in the the property, because resale (or presumably home equity loan) values are capped. S
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by hash872 7y ago
I think what you're missing is that the websites may be 100% in compliance with the ADA- the site owners simply can't risk the expense & uncertainty of a lawsuit, so they settle. It's (legal) extortion, the law is simply
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by hash872 7y ago
What are you advocating for here- an end to mortgages? Buildings are extremely expensive, and most purchasers need bank financing in order to buy one. They typically have a certain amount of skin in the game because lenders require them to
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by hash872 7y ago
Thanks for the response! 2 is my personal hobbyhorse right now, so I was probably overeager to tie something only kinda related back to it (I'm strongly against this idea that all of our technical/financial/cultural elites sh
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by hash872 7y ago
An entertaining, informative read, and I agree with 60+% of it. I'm still going to nitpick the stuff that I don't think is correct. Also I read the piece on his front page via HN last year, about how it's literally impossible
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by hash872 7y ago
If encryption keys are stored in a country where the company is required, by law or by force, to turn them over to authorities upon request then that should be noted. And yes that includes the US to a lesser degree. When people say 'th
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by hash872 7y ago
With the exception of trade shows, I call that 'marketing' though, that's an entirely different department. Everything else you've mentioned does not fall into the sales/BD category. Which is fine, I know some compa
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by hash872 7y ago
How do they generate business then, if not cold outreach? I don't mean it as a gotcha, I'm genuinely curious. I suppose you could say inbound leads, but I don't really believe that's a significant % of revenue, and anywa
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by hash872 7y ago
You seem to define all cold outreach whatsoever as 'spam', so of course you can choose to fit anything into that category. If people contacted you cold via other communications channels, it seems like you would define that as spam
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by hash872 7y ago
How do you propose that the salespeople, without whom your employer or employers would go bankrupt, reach out to new prospects? How would that work? Am genuinely curious. By definition it seems to involve cold outreach of some type

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