iamacynic

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by iamacynic 9y ago
being a realtor is a sales job. the good ones know this - they don't care where the listings and the numbers come from, they do the footwork and hit the phones hard, to sellers, to agents, to bankers, to government agencies, to lawyer
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by iamacynic 9y ago
unhappy rich people.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
things are probably pretty calm at airbnb headquarters.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
a c-suite would get more than that, probably closer to 3 or 5%, and also a signing bonus, as well as performance bonuses, a huge options package, and a termination clause / parachute clause. hell, throw in a relocation package and a c
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by iamacynic 9y ago
haha, except you left out all the states that don't adhere to your hypothesis, like the ones that won the presidential election in 2016. kind of a big oversight.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
i'm constantly surprised at how many people in our industry have a problem with articulating their own desires / needs in general. i wouldn't be surprised if the same people asking HN how to get a higher salary are the ones h
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by iamacynic 9y ago
choose better people to work for. you are not a helpless victim.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
do you think your analysis applies to states like texas, virginia, arizona, north carolina, georgia, utah, etc? even the in-between states such as colorado and florida were doing fine before the blue takeover of 2005+. i've been to al
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by iamacynic 9y ago
for 2 weeks leading up to the election, nearly every single article on nytimes.com front page "above the fold" was like this. https://web.archive.org/web/20161101110545/http://www.nytime... ht
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by iamacynic 9y ago
that asset isn't liquid. who are you going to sell it to? a few of the other 200 people? do they have $35M to spend?
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by iamacynic 9y ago
a lot of high profile open source developers/projects are sponsored by commercial entities (redhat, intel, google, facebook, etc.), thereby eliminating the need for direct revenue generation by the contributors and maintainers.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
he's talking about amazon and other cloud providers classifying their money spent on infrastructure as capex, not their customers.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
individual and family plans aren't that expensive. have you actually priced it out? it's just a bill you get every month, like a car payment. just be sure to buy the new health insurance before the old one expires. this is abso
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by iamacynic 9y ago
not if you're the people who sell blood pressure medication...
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by iamacynic 9y ago
this is all correct and will not change until we reach a critical mass of devastating failures/breaches. until then, don't hold your breath. people learn their lessons the hard way.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
and of course, this is to amazon's benefit. the more concentrated their buying power, the more leverage they have over the vendor, the more profits they can squeeze from the entire supply chain, because shit rolls downhill. most vendo
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by iamacynic 9y ago
i wish you godspeed in your quest to control what other people say on the internet.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
yes, it seems to me people starting businesses in this space are trying to solve the wrong problem. do we really need yet another really cool small home concept that will never be purchased or installed by anyone? the market needs a servic
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by iamacynic 9y ago
the trick is to finely calibrate your bullshit meter through life experiences. what people tend to respect innately is a genuinely nice person who can instantly turn into a no-holds-barred asshole if bad intentions are detected.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
wait... you're literally living next door to him yet you think he's operating on some next-level of success compared to you? do you rent his guest house or something?
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by iamacynic 9y ago
i said good looking and good fitting. of course most people don't wear clothes that fit or look good. the person i replied to mentioned he looks 'sloppy' in t-shirt and jeans. i'm pointing out the fact that you're
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by iamacynic 9y ago
thrifting isn't exactly fringe these days, even among yuppies and rich fashionable young people. the problem is it takes a lot of time, because finding the right fit becomes the real challenge.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
the dirty secret of jeans and t-shirts is: the good looking and good fitting jeans and t-shirts are pretty damn expensive. and those band t-shirts, if authentic, probably are too. it has become a fashion category in and of itself, complet
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by iamacynic 9y ago
i think that if someone makes you dress a certain way, it's going to be tough to enjoy it. if you do it on your own, as a passion or just to differentiate yourself from others, it can be fun and even relieve stress.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
ex is a good way to script in-place text edits using the commands you're familiar with in vim. just be careful.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
it's per se.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
when you find a pair you like, buy as many as you can.
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by iamacynic 9y ago
of course there's a third option, one that small businesses are opting for en masse: pay for a well-known 3rd party to run a simple remote vulnerability scan, pass the results (full of false positives and just plain wrong information)
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by iamacynic 9y ago
> 80% about sales, the other 20% is the thing you sell uhm, well i would put it at more like 33% sales and marketing, 33% R&D&O, and 33% other stuff like HR/finance/administration/etc. and 1% glamour and glory li
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by iamacynic 9y ago
well, north korea still has to sell all that coal it pulls out of the ground using slave labor.

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