mahyarm

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811.
by mahyarm 10y ago
But if someone happens to be the best and being the best is valuable then why not reward them?
812.
by mahyarm 10y ago
So what is his new company that he is starting?
813.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Also there is a communication synchronization issue. If people have overlapping patchy schedules where people are not available for questions, talks or whatever, it slows the company down. By having a consistent core hours where everyone
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Vancouver has developed a lot of condos actually and has significantly less barriers to developing them than the SF bay area. It has gotten to a point where condo prices have stabilized relatively to SFH prices. 1 big problem with the cond
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by mahyarm 10y ago
That is a residency problem that immigration and canadian income tax has systems to deal with that. And if they somehow get around all of those controls, it would only apply to one house, so it would limit the financial scope of it.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I think it's to prevent the unoccupied house bank account. You could make an exemption for your official registered home address. That way if you own more than one house, the unoccupancy tax creates an incentive to put the locked up s
817.
by mahyarm 10y ago
Have a large condo with 3-5 rooms. Maybe they would share a bedroom!
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You would need a new passport for that to work, and it increases barriers to doing so. In any large scale endeavor it's often about decreasing the number, changing the balanace vs. reducing it to zero. And it's often a ratchet,
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You didn't need to purchase a house to do that. You can rent houses in victoria. Buying a house doesn't mean you'll keep it if economic bad times hit.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
They are also adding that, but the city has to legislate it: "The B.C. Liberal government will also introduce legislation this week that will allow the City of Vancouver to impose a tax on vacant homes; and follow through on an earlier
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Now all this needs is a few good third party audits, verifiable builds and it's the holy grail of encrypted communications!
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by mahyarm 10y ago
The entire internet industry and tools saves a lot of money and energy itself. Some of what people used to travel by car or airplane to do, now is done over far more energy and time efficient internet connections. Large amounts of paper h
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by mahyarm 10y ago
So you will let perfect get in the way of better?
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by mahyarm 10y ago
No because you have to account for peak usage and have the capacity for it. There will be car savings, but the math wont be as simple as you say it is.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Sorry that was a typo. I meant HHVM and Hack http://hhvm.com/
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You also open source if it's in your best interest for something to become the 'standard'. In google there is a regret that they didn't open source a lot of stuff, because it ends up being reproduced outside of google in
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Haskell has compile time problems when used in real project (tm) codebase scales and is hard to predict memory or cpu usage due to it's lazy nature sometimes. I have no idea if elm is any better in that case, but both things make me sc
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Also known as supply vs demand... Bay area is infamous for many housing supply constraints in regulations. As far as loans increasing the demand side, banks can be pretty strict with %20 down payment restrictions. Which is why once house
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Heh, you should see the current housing bubble that rages through out china today. The large amounts of fraud, the huge amounts of capital flight, the government backed credit bubbles.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
These are the options: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/eligibility.asp
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by mahyarm 10y ago
In SF, house prices and rent are pretty close. In Vancouver they are disconnected. Equivalent rent can be about half or lower of what the mortgage would cost. Even though the average house is about $4 million now. The bigger problem is t
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by mahyarm 10y ago
If you expect you can reliably turn off your phone (7 seconds) before you get in a search situation, then use a full password instead of a numeric pin, then touch ID is a great balance of convenience and security. TouchID also prevents sho
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You start a company with a few small people in germany somewhere. You quickly realize that because of investment money and running a company, that running it in germany isn't that great and you move the company to the USA. It happens m
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I have. The basic issues with most options is will the %90 best case scenario of this risky reward mechanism beat working at FaceGooSoft by a significant margin? My %90 best case would be something like IPOing at $1 billion. If the startu
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Well ESO fund has been around for 3 years-ish. VCs also do this ad-hoc sometimes too with employees. I think other older engineers have known this to be a 'problem' too for many years.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
I've heard in practice it's near impossible to fire badly performing employees in Germany as a result, even if you're a small company. Or firing a bad employee becomes very expensive which is even worse for small companies.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
So what does the USAF do when they find a crack? If they do rebuilds it sounds like it takes a lot more time to do the same fix.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Cost of some goods are smaller, but the big chunk goods in the USA have been going up a lot: Healthcare, Education and Housing.
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by mahyarm 10y ago
You have to make the metric visible then. Put a "average web request size", "average time to load webpage", "average time to load in region X". Show how speed = $$$ & bring up how google saving microsecon
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by mahyarm 10y ago
Feels like remaking unix

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