qdpb | 8 years ago | on: Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
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qdpb | 8 years ago | on: California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B
How many minutes before the flight do you usually arrive to the airport? If not 15, why?
qdpb | 8 years ago | on: Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System
The whole story is shockingly boring. It's like a counting cards except you don't even need to know probabilities.
qdpb | 8 years ago | on: Puerto Rico Tax Incentives for Startups and Freelancers
Wonderful to see people reinventing taxation from the first principles: "awesome country to live in, with great education and social security, but these are expensive countries, from a Tax perspective"
qdpb | 10 years ago | on: Inside Obama's stealth startup
It's not appropriate to use the word "confiscate" in this context. If you're not satisfied with the social contract of this country, you're free to leave and earn money elsewhere.
qdpb | 11 years ago | on: USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016
Perhaps an interesting way to interpret what you're saying is that SF is bad enough that people no longer want to move there since all their surplus income will be consumed by housing costs (valid concern!).
But new immigrant salaries are as good as american salaries in terms of how much they can push prices up; so hiring H1-B is essentially similar to a pay cut for people (same $$, higher housing costs); following this pay cut some existing engineers will leave.
In the end you just end up with replacing some old engineers with new ones through a costly lengthy process.
This is the kind of absurd logical games one has to play in order to not acknowledge basic economics of supply and demand.
qdpb | 11 years ago | on: USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016
If there is nowhere to house new engineers, why do companies apply for H1-B?
qdpb | 11 years ago | on: USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016
> let's be real, this country doesn't have nearly enough STEM professionals to meet demand
... at current salaries.
qdpb | 11 years ago | on: Why I’m Giving Up My Passport
Do you also have to pay "thousands" of dollars to accountants? This particular bit seems to be an exaggeration, as I would imagine any tax software should be able to deal with foreign income. And with only federal income to report, this should be cheap too.
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital: Capitalism vs Democracy
What is so good about growth if proceeds only go to the people who already have capital?
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox
Does he have any control over future development of javascript and how this future development will affect a wider community? I don't think he does.
But he is the CEO of the company, and what the company does going forward does depend on him a lot.
I think this is the key difference between boycotting the browser and boycotting the language.
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: Cross-Country Love: Help Fly NYC Women to SF
Alternatively, they could probably make all the dates happen at home by offering NYC men some of the money that would otherwise go towards the flight.
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014
Note that I'm criticizing this beliefs, and not the distribution of future probabilities. Of course company might be overvalued now at $250, and sure, it might hit $500 later.
But if you're certain it will be $500 in three years, you need some serious risk aversion (~2500bps) to think it's not worth buying it now at $250.
In other words, by saying it will grow to $500 you're expressing your view on value; this value is higher than price, so stock is undervalued.
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014
Is stock overvalued at $250 or is it going to be worth $500 within 3 years? It really can't be both.
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: San Francisco Startup ZenPayroll Raises $20M, Finds Novel Ways to Lure Workers
He absolutely can do whatever he wants. Just as long as he doesn't call it "taking some responsibility"*
*correction: as explained elsewhere, this is potentially a misquote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7265916
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: San Francisco Startup ZenPayroll Raises $20M, Finds Novel Ways to Lure Workers
> Mr. Reeves said he’s been “amazed at the changes” and has watched housing prices rise. Local companies should take some responsibility, he said.
And to take "some responsibility", he made it easier to push housing prices even higher by subsidizing already well-off employees?
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256..
I think that's what you would call a break in a pattern though. Of course, the infinite series will stay infinite.
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: Why I’ll Never Return to Singapore
TL;DR: the country is all right, just didn't like it that much
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: At Twitter
> I went home that day and realized that Twitter, and the ensuing social media explosion, would dramatically alter the landscape of not only what I do through my blog, but design, fashion, lifestyle, culture, everything.
Sounds about right.
qdpb | 12 years ago | on: Medium Sucks
There must be a name for a logical construct where you imagine an obscure explanation for a phenomenon, reject this explanation and then extrapolate this rejection to phenomenon itself.
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At a certain level promotion is not about just doing something well. Funnily enough, his plans now are to go do other things (presumably well) without a particular sense of direction and hope that it works out.