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by muzz 9y ago
if they only increased it twice, then that's not due to rent control, which allowed for 8% each year (recently changed to 5%)
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by muzz 9y ago
How exactly do you get a rent controlled steal in San Jose? Those 8% annual increases add up (multiply up) very quickly.
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by muzz 9y ago
Mountain View only adopted rent control very recently, and only for apartments that existed before 1995. Not sure if anyone pointed this out, but this problem of labor mobility exists for all of those who own their home as well.
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by muzz 9y ago
So you're saying the director could have stood his ground against the cajun navy person
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by muzz 9y ago
You didn't cite any statue; your use of "constituted" was as a regular verb ie not referring to the capital-c Consitution. Therefore, your comment appears to be an opinion
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by muzz 9y ago
“I had to beat the hell out of the nursing-home director” and "Do what you have to do... We’ll deal with the consequences later" sound like vigilantism to me
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by muzz 9y ago
Snark aside, you rightly allude to housing as an investment rather than an expense. Even those who bought post-2010 are still up by varying amounts, although those amounts are all likely 6 figures given the median home prices and recent inc
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Proposed Tax Reform Stands to Impact Equity and Performance-Based Compensation(fenwick.com)
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by muzz 9y ago
Because voting is a Constitutionally guaranteed right, not a privilege
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The Future of Luxe(medium.com)
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Google Builds China Workforce to Develop Artificial Intelligence(wsj.com)
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At $45B Price, SoftBank Talks Enflame Uber Tensions(theinformation.com)
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by muzz 9y ago
I think so. Also engineers in Google India used to start at level 2
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by muzz 9y ago
Just to be clear, sounds like you are referring to the company that was acquired (not Google, whose stock is liquid). Few startups have Early Exercise of stock options. For those that do, if one has the cash to do the exercise and the wil
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by muzz 9y ago
Likely due to state law, ie Prop 13
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by muzz 9y ago
My experience is that it isn't, because of the performance review process. If someone could "optimize" their evaluation-- including peer evaluation, evaluation from other teams, stack ranking, etc-- then I guess they could w
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by muzz 9y ago
Like I said, risky/dumb things
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by muzz 9y ago
Also by "they'll let you stay indefinitely" you mean there is no expectation of any further promotion. If someone starts slacking, that would theoretically show up in perf
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by muzz 9y ago
Yes, but: 1) promotions are not particularly easy. they are approved by committee, ie not because a manager happens to favor an employee 2) Senior SWE itself is an Individual Contributor role (some say the optimal level if one wants to rema
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by muzz 9y ago
Yes and moreover, engineers are expected to have an upward trajectory until they reach senior level. Edit: I'm not sure what happens these days if someone doesn't get promoted in a timely manner.
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by muzz 9y ago
Not sure how "She owed a big chunk of money in taxes thanks to that stock". One has to do really risky/dumb things with stock options to get into that scenario
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Trump’s Policies Are Sending Precious Startup Jobs to Canada(wired.com)
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Why This Is Indian IT Industry’s Kodak Moment(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Zenefits has to pay millions in unpaid overtime after investigation(bizjournals.com)
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Conviva nabs $40M for AI-based video analytics, now valued around $300M(techcrunch.com)
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Macron unveils tech initiatives aimed at making France a ‘startup nation’(ft.com)
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Canada launches visa program for hiring specialized foreign talent(theglobeandmail.com)
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Google’s Plan to Engineer the Next Silicon Valleys(backchannel.com)
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by muzz 10y ago
He does offer some keen insights, but like everyone there is a mix of odd things in there. For example, he was a Benghazi truther and somewhat of a conspiracy theorist a few years ago.
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by muzz 10y ago
true but that valuation was from last year they just had a whopping 45% layoff, so highly doubt the current value is anything near that at least Conrad was able to sell high

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