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by jazzyk 10y ago
The US is segregated with ghettos in NY, Chicago, Detroit, etc. But I was making a point about Sweden. If you checked the blog I referred to, entitled "Police: Yes, there ARE No-Go Zones in Sweden" you would learn that there are
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Nevada? Quite libertarian-voting in recent elections.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
True, Sweden is clean and has no homelessness issues. But it is now quite segregated (not unlike France with its banlieus) full of not-homeless, but, unfortunately, un-assimilated population. A blog written by an American living in Sweden (
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Does the CEO pay? The founders don't get to pay the compamy, they usually don't invest cash (in angel/VC-funded startups). With some luck/skill the company gets sold/aqui-hired and the investors can get their money
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Per Quora, the highest tech executive position (CTO) pays in the lower $200Ks (non-founder, up to $75M): https://www.quora.com/What-would-a-CTO-compensation-equity-b... Per CIO magazine (2015), CTOs make up to $220K, direct
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Maybe I am a total loser, but I am not aware of any companies which "routinely" pay $300K for technical positions, not even at the Director level, in the Boston area.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Most founders (at least in the software area) provide a lot of sweat equity, but almost never any cash. Also, early startup employees are persuaded to accept below-market salaries and work a lot of overtime, exactly like the founders, witho
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Instead of downvoting, please check the median salary for a PRINCIPAL software engineer on Glassdoor (it is self-reported, I believe) - it is 140K, nationally. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/principal-software-engin
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>Top companies are routinely paying $200k-300k these days Yup, all four of them - Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix. </sarcasm>
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by jazzyk 10y ago
But they are exposed! In case of financial trouble (very common at startups), who gets to be laid off first, the CEO or the developer? Also, rank-and-file employees are typically scape-goated in legal proceedings, example: finance people go
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>Once people are on this track it's seldom they fall off completely. Yup, and it applies to both genders. I have seen idiots running their companies into the ground only to re-surface a few years later at another company, as CEOs, b
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Whether obtained as Discount or Fed Funds, the money allows the bank to loan out more money, because it increases the bank's reserve, no?
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Artificially setting the fed funds rate at 0.25- 0.50% is essentially giving money for almost free. That rate was even lower before last fall.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
But then, banks would need to solicit deposits from savers (the horror!), which would cause interest rates to go up, and the whole current economy based on debt could possibly collapse...
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by jazzyk 10y ago
To the audience in the US: NOT coming to a theater near you. :-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Clean, modern taxi, polite driver? In Boston, MA? You must be kidding, sir. Before Uber, every cab I took was smelly, the cars were late 1970s models, sour drivers, etc. Cabs have gotten a lot better, thanks to Uber.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>I want to be the kind of CEO who answers emails from strangers six or seven levels down from herself at 1 AM on a Sunday morning Perhaps she should have gotten a good night sleep and be refreshed to come up with a viable strategy for th
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by jazzyk 10y ago
She was consoled with ~$200M for not having had a chance.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
1. Being a good Product Manager does not a CEO make. 2. Her poaching Google stars? She hired and, 15 months later fired, Henrique De Castro, whose "severance package, estimated to be more than $60 million, was one of the largest golden
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>Tech workers are the American elites Apparently I did not get the memo. </sarcasm>
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by jazzyk 10y ago
With the net worth equal to the GDP of a sizable country, does he need to worry about saving a few thousand here or there? Also, free country and all, taking advantage of that special rate is still rather unsettling.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>Yahoo's shareholders decided to hire Marissa It was the Board of Directors who hired her, the shareholders are asked to approve (essentially a rubberstamp) She was far, far from a zero-risk hire. She had only worked for one company
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by jazzyk 10y ago
This case shows how simplistic it is to measure an executive's success by stock price alone. Instead of competitiveness and productivity seeking, we get pump and dump: - pump the stock price up (workforce reductions, stock buybacks, me
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by jazzyk 10y ago
But she did not deliver. The stock price did well because of the BABA ownership, she had nothing to do with it. Looking at all the actual performance, Yahoo has been sliding in web search, page views, ad sales, spent a lot of money on faile
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Not every US-based software engineer has the fortune to work/live in Sillicon Valley ;-)
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Absolutely disgusting. But, sadly, not uncommon: http://fortune.com/2016/07/25/ceo-pay-total-shareholder-retu... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12162323
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The "lets keep buying companies and see what works out" strategy is a "pretty commendable job trying"? A 10-year old who knows how to play Monopoly could come up with it. For much less money. If you sell yourself as a sa
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>"his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the US" He asked that immigration from certain countries be temporarily halted, to introduce a proper vetting process. Your highly emotional reasoning (I am "apologising for
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>It's not fun and games at this point. History will judge us. And your pro-Trump comments will be on record forever Wow. Take a deep breath and tone down your hysteria a bit: 1. How does adding context to a comment taken out of cont
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by jazzyk 10y ago
You (and many other people) tend to omit one very important detail: he called for a temporary ban, "until we figure out what the hell is going on". This was said in context of the refugee crisis in Europe.

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