vadym909

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by vadym909 8y ago
Just for perspective, these jobs are a bit different than regular contracting or hourly jobs. Although the hourly rate seems high, often we exclude the travel time. Also the uneven demand. For example- On a rainy day, there might be 10 call
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by vadym909 9y ago
thats what he said. AMZN is better
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Where do you think its coming from now?
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by vadym909 9y ago
They use an Uber like model with gigsters to do deliveries which is why you encounter different people https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-delivery-driver-like-wo...
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by vadym909 9y ago
I've seen and paid employer health benefits bills- $15K-$24K is the range depending on the quality of healthplans. About 10-25% of this is what employees pay as their part of the premium normally, the rest is employer paid. Stingier co
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by vadym909 9y ago
Buy a 10 acre lot in a nimby area (Palo Alto Hiils/Atherton/Los Altos Hills) for $5M, Split it into 20 x 0.25 acres and sell it for $250K each to teachers, firefighters, police, retired army soldiers telling the buyers it is sold
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by vadym909 9y ago
Thanks for this. I had bought a couple of bitcoins in 2014 just for kicks and don't even remember signing up for Stellar- even though I recently bought some on the market. Saw this message and checked my email and lo and behold- You&#
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by vadym909 9y ago
Yup- Wanted to burn off some blackheads and a US skin specialist charged $175 to take off 1 using a Ultrasonic machine, went to Mexico and took off 20 for $5 using the same machine.
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by vadym909 9y ago
take the caltrain from south bay to SF and you'll see plenty of land that can be developed from warehouses to housing.
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by vadym909 9y ago
even if they just get rid of Prop 13 on rentals and passing the benefit to children- at least a future generation may have a chance to affordability in CA... "Thanks to a state proposition that took effect in 1986, known as the "p
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by vadym909 9y ago
The only thing I use Nextdoor for is to sell or buy something where i need to trust the other side. Or to discover a good plumber/electrician/etc. Not sure if its worth $1.5B considering Craiglist/Amazon/ClickCall/A
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by vadym909 9y ago
ofcourse it is talked about, but is a losing proposition as most homeowners wouldn't stand for it. Renters don't make up enough to oppose it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197... In
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by vadym909 9y ago
Too many Chinese buyers, rich businessmen, corrupt bureaucrats, made money speculating on Beijing real estate and middle class speculators with children planning to study in the US have flooded the housing market from Vancouver, Seattle to
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by vadym909 9y ago
With an average tenure of < 2 years at these companies now, subsidized housing may force people to stay in companies longer especially if they have families. I'm not sure they can recreate Kodak/Rochester type place as there ar
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by vadym909 9y ago
Why couldn't Ikea just use TaskRabbit for business when its customers ordered service. Why buy TaskRabbit and ruin it?
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by vadym909 9y ago
Don't know whether to be happy this happened or sad that it took so long!
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by vadym909 9y ago
and Apple is going to sit back and say "Oh Wow- Didn't see that coming"?. Don't bet on it- Apple will claim violation of their agreement.
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by vadym909 9y ago
About time for someone to start offering an insurance plan where all consultation is via facetime/video chat and expensive non-critical operations are done in Mexico or a ship parked in Int'l waters close to major cities on either
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by vadym909 9y ago
Just do it Justin. Make it cheaper for the public to fight their cases and be massively successful. If Uber and Airbnb can get away with it, so can you. If people paid attention to the naysayers nothing would ever change in the world.
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by vadym909 9y ago
If its only the score you want, cant you get that from creditkarma for free?
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by vadym909 9y ago
Did anyone tell the Arabs yet? Qatar wants to spend $200B to host a few week long soccer championship in 2022 http://gulfnews.com/business/economy/blockade-vexes-qatar-s-...
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by vadym909 9y ago
How can you be a tech company and expect to make tech company margins when all you do is aggregate demand, parking spots and valets to match them. Luxe making $3/hr x 200 valets and maybe a bit more on the parking arbitrage during peak
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by vadym909 9y ago
Agree. Atlanta is a great choice.
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by vadym909 9y ago
That is the loophole. Technically, it is possible to hire an outsourced firm to do the work if it is 100% turnkey outsourced and done outside of Apple. You often see this type of outsourcing happen with legal and creative type work. However
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by vadym909 9y ago
Good point - in the race to offer superb benefits to its best employees, companies made it harder for themselves to directly hire low skill and low pay employees. After all you can't afford to offer free massages and laundry to the guy
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by vadym909 9y ago
This problem happens when a leading company decides to use contractors to lower its cost. All other companies that are competing with it now have to do the same or they operate at a disadvantage. The workers then lose any leverage because t
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by vadym909 9y ago
The regulations already exist. Companies aren't allowed to classify contractors if they do work similar to a fulltime employee or what would be considered full-time work. Like work long term at the company site. The outsourcing happens
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by vadym909 9y ago
I wouldn't be so sure - Ola is a lot more popular in India and using Uber is usually a giveaway that you may not be familiar with the routes.
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by vadym909 9y ago
yup- he's bound to miss the next big strategic thing that everyone else can see, because that's the only thing he did at Expedia! C'mon dude
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by vadym909 9y ago
They're like McDonalds. Not fancy but consistent in getting you there, OK service and no attitude.

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