mahyarm

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by mahyarm 9y ago
Income tax load in Canada is pretty close to California / NYC, but your also paying for health insurance on top of the tax load. So living in Canada is cheaper than the USA for healthcare costs if your paying similar tax rates. It only
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Employee & investor liquidity, who are the majority stockholders of these kinds of companies. And the value of a stock does far better when something is profitable vs not. Past history shows it's usually a bad idea to be a public
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Profitability is usually a good idea before you IPO.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
The family was a wealthy merchant family in Iran before the revolution. They brought money and knowledge of how to become wealthy when they left. Look at other wealthy persians in LA and you see similar patterns.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
A lot of people use uber because parking is horrible at their destination and public transit doesn't work. If uber doesn't exist then they would of drove. How many cars is that one uber car replacing in that case?
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I would think twice about it although. GW501516 for example: 'was abandoned in 2007 because animal testing showed that the drug caused cancer to develop rapidly in several organs'
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by mahyarm 9y ago
America does not spend it's taxes wisely. You can live in Canada for a similar tax load as a lot of people in California, yet not have universal healthcare, drive on roads that are in horrible conditions, deal with a horrible DMV, see
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by mahyarm 9y ago
And there is a good chance that he might of not realized he was indirectly holding people up. I would feel horrible if I realized that.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I feel similar. If they provided a fully open phone where they worked closely with copperhead, it would be significantly more interesting. Make it dual compatible, work with copperhead/AOSP android and whatever they are trying to inven
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by mahyarm 9y ago
For me cruise control is just giving my gas pedal foot a break on long drives. I still have to constantly adjust the speed with my hands and the brake itself. I'm also steering and watching what I'm doing.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Monero should be treated like the beta software it is. There have been vulnerabilities in the past to remove anonymity and there will be in the future. I would at least give it 5 years & a lot more adoption to start trusting it somewh
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by mahyarm 9y ago
The actual payment networks like visa and mastercard charge very small amounts in most cases, something around %0.15 + $0.02. Most of the credit card fee is going to the issuing banks.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Doesn't mean you want to talk about him or listen about him 24x7, there are better things to do.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
It can actually be harder to hire people to work in the east bay at union city or fremont than palo alto sometimes. Tesla recently had a problem with it when they were trying to transfer eng offices from PA to fremont for example.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Yeah home offices do have the cabin fever effect. Stay home all day and night because thats where everything is.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I would prefer mandatory typing with a dev mode that makes it optional for speed. With optional typing, you end up with the third party ecosystem not having typing, which makes it hard to enforce type safety with a codebase that is fully t
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I've heard that Haskell also has a compile time problem. And swift does too. :(
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I'm not a backend dev, but it feels like something lambda is trying to partially address.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
So your saying that they don't lose money on new housing units, but gain it? If the city doesn't make enough money, then it become bankrupt. Roads, schools, sewers and police can't function properly anymore. The money has to
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by mahyarm 9y ago
For CA, those housing units are negatives on the budget because of prop 13. It doesn't really matter where they are built.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Prop 13 makes houses a net negative on city budgets, so there is a financial incentive for cities to reject new housing units, while encouraging development of hotels and commercial properties which are net positives. Prop 13 also induces p
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by mahyarm 9y ago
I would start by reducing it bit by bit and avoiding large voting blocks that would be hurt by the changes. - So for example, prop 13 would only apply if your above retirement age for example. (Avoiding old people) - Or prop 13 only applies
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by mahyarm 9y ago
How practical is react native for writing desktop / mobile apps from the same javascript codebase? I know the mainline has android / ios ux outputs and there are forks that have osx & windows outputs. How does it compare to e
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by mahyarm 9y ago
When uber, airbnb & amazon are not tech companies.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
There is a privacy engineering team at uber.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
It's a play on words about the pointy haired boss
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by mahyarm 9y ago
PL seems easier to get into and make useful things with, like a static analyzer that enforces some rule at a big co. From my perspective it seems like your need something PhD level to do useful things with it and get paid better than a stan
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by mahyarm 9y ago
All of this adblock tech works on domain blocking for the most part. If they wanted to, they could host the ads on the first party server and most ad blocking wouldn't work anymore. They haven't yet, so it hasn't gotten to t
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by mahyarm 9y ago
Facebook is a big pain in the ass to get to other than by car or some other motor vehicle. A lyft office in SOMA has a lot more options.
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by mahyarm 9y ago
You need about $250 minimum in credits to make a $12/day commute viable via lyft line. If they gave everyone $250/month in credits, I bet the parking issue would of reduced itself significantly.

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