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by kspaans 10y ago
Are you saying that tenants who names weren't on the rent-control leases were living in the apartments? Forgive me, because I just moved to SF, but that doesn't sound legal to me.
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by kspaans 10y ago
I wonder how many people would accept a compromise of this: they vote to reduce building and density, but at the same time agree that their asset appreciation will go mostly to the city (via cap gains or land value taxes), rather than thems
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by kspaans 10y ago
How long had the tenants been in those apartments? I'm just curious how costs rose faster than rents, since property taxes are pretty low. Was the high cost of labour for maintenance a big part of it?
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by kspaans 10y ago
I bike to the Bayshore Caltrain station every morning and at the North end of the station they have started construction for something. There is a retaining wall put up and various heavy machinery moving earth around. And further up Geneva
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by kspaans 10y ago
How does the process for American workers coming to Canada on NAFTA work permits compare to the opposite (TN status in US)? I've recently entered the US on a TN, but I've also experienced applying for a Tier-2 General visa to work
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by kspaans 10y ago
Alternatively you could remove the mortgage interest tax credit and/or tax the imputed rent that homeowners earn. That could cool the market, at least if you could apply it selectively to overheated markets.
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by kspaans 10y ago
The province of Ontario has rent controls and I never heard of it as an issue in the ~7 years I was renting there. I guess it helps that most towns don't have market rents growing way faster than inflation.
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by kspaans 10y ago
How can anyone take the western media seriously on this issue? Duterte is well known for being a loudmouth, and you can _tell_ from the quotes that he's joking most of the time. Yet they breathlessly cover this as if everything he says
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by kspaans 10y ago
I'm in a new apartment building (I'm the first tenant in my unit) on Ocean Ave about a 10 min walk from Balboa Park. There are still a handful of units in this building of about 30 units that are unoccupied, almost a year after c
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by kspaans 10y ago
Deadweight loss: Developers want to build places that people would benefit from renting, but they don't, because it's illegal to charge rates that would make them money. Is this because rent control would drag down marke
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Leading Banks Set to Pull Out of UK Early Next Year(theguardian.com)
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by kspaans 10y ago
IMO, it's rational economic thinking (if perhaps a little selfish): 90% of your net worth is in a single asset (either due to poor financial planning on your part, or because one asset has ballooned in value), so you will use your muni
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by kspaans 10y ago
Fascinating! I just moved to SF so I didn't know that. I assume you're referring to Prop 13? My understanding is that it's about property taxes, not land taxes. Possibly there is some legal wiggle room in there? Anyway, looks
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Financial Literacy Is Still Abysmal Everywhere(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by kspaans 10y ago|0 comments
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Rockefeller gave away money for no return. Can we say the same of today’s barons(theguardian.com)
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by kspaans 10y ago
You mean Liberals, not Labour! Though I agree the party colours and platform and orientation are largely similar to the UK Labour Party.
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by kspaans 10y ago
Yup, and the same thing happened in London, UK. Simplified history: The Royal Mail (USPS equivalent) used to have a monopoly on mail and small parcels. They charged a flat fee to mail/ship to anywhere in the country. Then other courier
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by kspaans 10y ago
NPR had an excellent blog post about this last year: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/20/313131559/how-f... Doesn't show tech salaries, but instead avg income adjusted for cost of
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by kspaans 10y ago
Interesting idea about a progessive consumption tax. But would it be more costly to collect than income tax? Not to suggest that it isn't worth the cost: consider sales tax vs VAT. VAT is more expensive to collect but harder for busine
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by kspaans 10y ago
In my unprofessional opinion you need to know at least two things to get an idea of whether or not you will owe taxes when you exercise: 1) the strike price you pay to exercise your options, 2) the current fair market value (FMV) of the sto
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by kspaans 10y ago
In my experience, many companies are looking to hire "right now", and are unlikely to spend resources interviewing someone for a job in 9 months' time. However , any silence or rejection you get right now isn't a reason
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by kspaans 10y ago
Even my hometown in very rural Northern Ontario (New Liskeard, ON) has had a regional WISP for over 10 years ( http://www.parolink.net/ ). From what I remember, the trickiest part for them is many homes were surrounded by tre
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by kspaans 10y ago
Maybe the extension could check the info on the SSL certificates (if available) if the domain is registered through a proxy?
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by kspaans 10y ago
When run against www.ssa.gov it says "something seems to be wrong" LOL
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by kspaans 10y ago
How does making it easier to incorporate a business make it easier to evade taxes than, say, it is for an individual to do under-the-table services/consulting and not pay income tax?
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by kspaans 10y ago
Are you saying you don't have enough cash to exercise your options and looking for someone to loan you money? Otherwise, just mail a cashier's cheque to your CEO/CFO/VPF/etc.
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by kspaans 10y ago
Seems high, that's what you're paying for private coverage? (I'm basing off my experience in Ontario, I know other provinces are bound to be different, Québec especially.) Or did you get that number by looking at your income
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by kspaans 10y ago
Is that like saying that payroll taxes that your employer pays would go into your salary instead too?
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by kspaans 10y ago
In California I'm paying 3.4% of my gross pay for a high-deductible health plan covering myself and my spouse. EDIT: that's for health, vision, and dental.
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by kspaans 10y ago
You could find out who they raised from (hopefully they told you/would tell you), and then ask the VC for a confirmation.

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