mahyarm

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by mahyarm 10y ago
not china is pretty obvious, you don't need much more.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
These agreements usually go far further than removing tariff, business establishment and labour barriers.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Malaysia is not the Philippines. Manila is in the Philippines.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
If somewhere like SF will adopt it although, they will have to make their rent control at least follow inflation. Sub inflation %0.5 rental limit increases are a bit crazy. Even %2/yr is relatively low.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
There are many places in the world that have close to none in property taxes. You just a flat rate city services / council tax. Property tax was partially created to incentivize the usage of unused land to reduce the externality of
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I'm really surprised that this was implemented into law. I remember suggesting it on twitter without hearing anyone say it before a couple of years ago. But I'm guessing what happened is other places might have similar laws.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Well with a gov't power monopoly, they can do things like check power and water utility usage. You can also look at tax return address records for the BC income tax part. Driver license / BCID / immigration records are anothe
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I have no idea, since I'm an iOS dev, not a web dev. We've seen a lot of these coding exercises btw, but the ones I've done have been onsite, so there is no way someone could of spent more than 2 hours on something. Usually
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I'm a non american who is talking on the internet who has no power over this stuff. Feinstien came to mind because she in long term and I saw her stance in the Snowden issue. There are probably plenty of senators and congresscritters
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Work on accelerating the price drop of solar and general energy storage. There is still a lot of progress to be made in things like making the tooling cheaper for things that are not silicon. The fact if a large developed nation supports cl
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You also get people like Feinstein[1] because of the lack of term limits. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein#Mass_surveill...
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by mahyarm 10y ago
How about the random Canadian going shopping, or french tourist? The US border is already enough of a hard ass as it is.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
We only expect you to make what is possible in 2 hours, and we've seen a bunch of similar exercises. It doesn't have to be poor quality, just basic. Usually the UX isn't expected to look nice at all either.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
This is the coding exercise/homework interview. A bunch of place do this in some form or another, usually without paying the person, and as part of a series of interviews on an interview day. I myself don't like homework questions
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Being on visa makes this payment thing harder unfortunately. Maybe the charity idea might work for those people.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Income taxes are about even with California in Ontario & BC, except you're not paying $500/employee/month for a healthcare plan, so in the end you might call it cheaper as far as tax load goes. The costs of everything alt
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I would look at how much memory it consumes. It takes about 2-3gb on my large 300kloc project.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Democratic voters always say something similar to some degree when a republican president (and only president) gets voted in.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
When I was interviewing in vancouver and seattle, the seattle offer was about double. Housing and everything else cost less and the income tax rate was lower. Back then the currencies were even. Now they are not, so its an even better i
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Thing is you can move to pretty much any western state or large city and not have to deal with most of that. Portland, Seattle, SF, LA, LV, etc.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
As a Canadian who moved away, I must warn you that Canada has a form of dutch disease. Resource extraction investments have a much better risk/return ratio, so the pay doesn't even approach US levels. Thus software doesn't
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by mahyarm 10y ago
What do you do if firebase dies like parse and stackmob? This quora answer makes a pretty persuasive argument as to why you shouldn't rely on these platforms: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Parse-shutting-down/answe
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You can do 19 months with 19 days with a 4 or 5 day holiday time in between. That way the number of months are equal to the number of days.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Some segments know they can't be naked about their greed, so they use vague emotional terms. They usually mention it in offhand sentences. The built in incentives make sure they naturally arise wherever you go.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Most local buyers cannot afford the multi millions required to buy, the rental equivalent was much cheaper per month and they knew it was a volatile market going in. It's like getting angry at the central bank for raising interest r
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Unoccupied property taxes? You want to really disincentivize using housing as a bank account and instead incentivize housing as a business.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
When vancouver adopted a %15 non-resident house purchase tax, prices and demand dropped a lot. Maybe nz wants to adopt something similar, combined with singapore's for citizen public house purchase program.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
So people getting money from paying roomates, doing private lessons (personal training, music, etc), therapy, working remotely, etc have no business of doing so in their home too?
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Could you do the manhattan project over 15 years without a leak? Time is a factor in these things. And I don't think necessarily the people on the project would think what they are working on as 'abusive' per say. Compared t
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Protobuf have a binary size bloat issue compared to JSON. JSON wins for similar reasons why HTTP 1.1 won. It's a human readable, simple format and performant enough the majority of development cases. Human readable makes debugging ea

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