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vproman commented on Coinbase employees petition to remove execs web.archive.org/web/20220... · Posted by u/shh-shhh

jjulius · 3 years ago

>Second, if you have no confidence in the execs or CEO of a company then why are you working at that company? Quit and find a company to work at that you believe in!

This comment is really, really tone-deaf. People can believe strongly in the vision and mission of a company while also feeling strongly that upper leadership is steering it in the wrong direction and/or making decisions that negatively impact the company's mission.

vproman · 3 years ago

Doesn’t this go both ways? If executives no longer believe in their employees, the executives can leave?

vproman commented on California Approves Statewide Rent Control nytimes.com/2019/09/11/bu... · Posted by u/dawhizkid

closeparen · 6 years ago

Many landlords are not paperclip maximizers. REITs are, but small time families often charge below-market rents to the long term tenants they personally like or can’t be bothered to replace. They feel comfortable doing this because they can always revert to market rate later. With that long-term optionality going away, some will revert to market rate or as close as legally possible right now.

vproman · 6 years ago

You can still revert to market rate if your tenant leaves. As a landlord who values consistent occupancy over maximizing profit, I am fine with this. And I agree with above comment, if you are raising rent 7% every year then you or your prop manager lowballed your rent, that’s not the fault of rent control.

vproman commented on California Approves Statewide Rent Control nytimes.com/2019/09/11/bu... · Posted by u/dawhizkid

rudolph9 · 6 years ago

In Oregon rent control was applied in a very targeted way to encourage new building such as exemption for the first fifteen years after a building is constructed and rezoning of a massive number of lots to allow multi tenet housing.

Did the California laws include anything to encourage additional housing to be built?

vproman · 6 years ago

AB 1482 also only applies to properties over 15 years old.

vproman commented on Criticizing Google got me fired washingtonpost.com/news/p... · Posted by u/pyrophane

vproman · 8 years ago

People seem to be confusing free speech (expression without interference by government) with the ability to say whatever you want without consequence. The pushback from the executive chairman is no less a form of free expression than the writings of the author. This doesn't mean I'm in favor of increasingly large corporations, but this article undermines the argument against massive corporations by presenting a motive that is easily dismissed.

vproman commented on Don't Be a Stanford Asshole 48hillsonline.org/2015/01... · Posted by u/kqr2

lnanek2 · 11 years ago

I really don't agree with this guy at all. This makes no sense at all:

> Don’t ever move into an apartment, TIC, condo, or house that has been cleared by an eviction

So landlords should be forced to rent to people forever who can't pay? That makes no sense. It is just stealing the property from the property owner.

I know a lot of landlords and they hate doing evictions, because the tenants aren't paying their rent the entire time they are being evicted. The ones I know often say to the judge, I don't want money back from this person (which is generally impossible anyway because the person is poor), I just want to be able to rent my property to someone who can pay. Landlords with a lot of property have to do this regularly.

vproman · 11 years ago

Take into account that at one time these people could pay their rent and now, because of gentrification, they can't. A person too poor to afford a home and has been renting the same place for decades is getting evicted because the wealthy moved in next door.

vproman commented on Salary negotiations for techies (2011) jacquesmattheij.com/Salar... · Posted by u/pmoriarty

vproman · 11 years ago

The most important salary negotiation tip: DON'T TELL THEM HOW MUCH YOU ARE CURRENTLY BEING PAID OR GIVE THEM A RANGE.

Recruiters always ask this up front and INSIST that they must know. I have NEVER been denied the opportunity to interview for refusing to give a number upfront.

If you're applying at a company, it means you've done at least a little research on what they should be expected to pay and you see somewhere around that range as acceptable. You don't have to tell them that you've researched their rates and find them acceptable, because that too would be like giving them a range, instead the research is simply to avoid wasting your time. You wouldn't want to interview for a job that pays the position with compensation worth at most $60k when you're already making at least $100k.

This way, you have an advantage: you know roughly how much they pay but they have almost no idea how much (i.e. how little) you will accept as compensation. Best case scenario, they offer you MORE than what your research said they would, and you negotiate a little more on top of it and accept, assuming you actually like the job. Even if they say no to your counter offer, you're still ahead. Worst case scenario, they offer you less, they say no to your counter offers, and you have to decline. Either your research was wrong or they were lowballing you, either way you've got multiple other interviews in process (right?) so move on. If you find your research is repeatedly off the mark, find better sources.

No matter what, don't give them a number. Make them give you a number first and negotiate from there.

vproman commented on GoFundMe Tops Kickstarter as World’s #1 Crowdfunding Platform gofundme.com/2015/01/13/g... · Posted by u/billclerico

vproman · 11 years ago

Curious to see some of the roots of GoFundMe? Check out Fanbox, previously known as the startup SMS.ac. That's where the founders of GFM worked before they moved on to their current, highly successful venture. I imagine that's where the startup bug bit them and they learned the value of being the middleman for transactions while leveraging social networks. SMS.ac was a middleman for SMS billing and a social network, generating text messages that were sent to users and receiving a share of the text charge from the cellular carriers. I worked with them there, crazy but good times.

vproman commented on Hamburg is burying the Autobahn and putting parks on top vox.com/2015/1/9/7520805/... · Posted by u/dthal

vproman · 11 years ago

A bit like Teralta Park over I-15 in City Heights, San Diego. CalTrans was supposed to have 3 - 4 covers over the freeway, with parks, shopping and housing over it, but only one cover was completed. http://sandiegofreepress.org/2013/08/i-15-in-city-heights-ho...

vproman commented on Google Strikes an Upbeat Note with FCC on Title II blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014... · Posted by u/zastrowm

greggyb · 11 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not believe that the FCC would need congressional approval to do anything proposed in the parent article or what I've mentioned. They are a regulatory commission that designs and implements regulation.

I may be wrong on that, and if I am a good primer (from anyone or just link) would be nice.

vproman · 11 years ago

See the 1996 Telecom Act. It explicitly laid out the classifications the FCC can use: telecom, broadcast, cable and information service. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_199...

Per the courts, the FCC does not have the authority to create a new classification, only Congress can do that. The FCC must apply one of the classifications to ISPs and regulate them according to that classification per the 1996 act. The FCC currently classifies ISPs as information services, and information services can discriminate because they offer a service that requires a greater level of control in order to function.

Also see the court case where the FCC attempted to apply special regulations to the ISPs, and the courts shot the FCC's special regulations down: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications_Inc._v...

vproman commented on Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In paulgraham.com/95.html... · Posted by u/gpoort

vproman · 11 years ago

If depressing compensation isn't a goal of tech companies, than why the collusion between many of the large tech companies via their anti-poaching agreements? Compensate them with the benefits, environment and challenges that will keep them, instead of colluding to prevent their mobility through a free market.

Also, if "natural born, exceptional" programmers are so rare, would you not have to invite 999 "competent" programmers, of which we supposedly need no more of, in order to get that 1 "exceptional" programmer which Graham claims we desperately need? So to get thousands of exceptional programmers, how many competent programmers would have to be invited into the workforce as well?