Hacker News: iamacynic

New comment by iamacynic in "“Stop Zillow”"

iamacynic — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:49:59 +0000

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 lawyers, to engineers, to appraisers, to everyone involved, which can sometimes be wasted time, in order to get their clients into successful deals first, meaning FAST.

when i was buying my place my realtor was sending me links from zillow, redfin, his MLS, his agency's private listings, even fucking craigslist, everything. he would send me stuff on weekends, after hours, even midnight. i culled the list down and he spent time setting up a viewing on every single one i asked for. the more listings the better, in his eyes. i referred him to 2 of my friends, both of whom bought places through him also.

New comment by iamacynic in "Training Your Brain to Be (and Stay) Happy"

iamacynic — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:02:25 +0000

unhappy rich people.

New comment by iamacynic in "Barcelona cracks down on Airbnb rentals with illegal apartment squads"

iamacynic — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:25:56 +0000

things are probably pretty calm at airbnb headquarters.

New comment by iamacynic in "TLDR Stock Options"

iamacynic — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:07:47 +0000

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 credit card for entertaining customers and partners also.

New comment by iamacynic in "WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United States Climate Alliance"

iamacynic — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:59:50 +0000

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.

New comment by iamacynic in "No politics please, we're hackers, too busy to improve the world"

iamacynic — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:54:57 +0000

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 hitting 'flag' on individual posts they don't like. you can't just push a button and get what you want in life.

New comment by iamacynic in "On the Unhappiness of Software Developers"

iamacynic — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:46:21 +0000

choose better people to work for. you are not a helpless victim.

New comment by iamacynic in "WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United States Climate Alliance"

iamacynic — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 23:49:00 +0000

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 all of these places in the last 10 years and they're all doing more than fine.

it seems to me only a handful of states over-whelmingly tied to particularly depressed sectors of the economy are the ones losing their people and tax revenue. and a lot of those were blue states just 5 years ago!

New comment by iamacynic in "The New York Times Is Eliminating Its Public Editor Role"

iamacynic — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:52:34 +0000

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...

https://web.archive.org/web/20161115000000*/nytimes.com

New comment by iamacynic in "Brave raises $35M in 1 min with ICO"

iamacynic — Wed, 31 May 2017 16:55:50 +0000

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?

New comment by iamacynic in "Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize?"

iamacynic — Tue, 30 May 2017 16:43:49 +0000

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.

New comment by iamacynic in "Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes"

iamacynic — Mon, 29 May 2017 23:23:29 +0000

he's talking about amazon and other cloud providers classifying their money spent on infrastructure as capex, not their customers.

New comment by iamacynic in "Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?"

iamacynic — Mon, 29 May 2017 14:00:14 +0000

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 absolutely critical.

New comment by iamacynic in "Our understanding of the way the body handles salt may be wrong"

iamacynic — Sun, 28 May 2017 04:04:18 +0000

not if you're the people who sell blood pressure medication...

New comment by iamacynic in "British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash"

iamacynic — Sun, 28 May 2017 00:25:15 +0000

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.

New comment by iamacynic in "“Markets Today Are Not What We Believe” – The Façade of Competition"

iamacynic — Fri, 26 May 2017 16:52:56 +0000

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 vendors of course will dive head-first into this arrangement with their eyes wide open, because most of them don't think long-term, they want that revenue now cost-be-damned, and quite frankly they're just not as good as the executives running amazon.

see: walmart from 10 years ago. wonder how many of those nice folks made the move from arkansas to seattle recently...

New comment by iamacynic in "Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore"

iamacynic — Fri, 26 May 2017 14:51:15 +0000

i wish you godspeed in your quest to control what other people say on the internet.

New comment by iamacynic in "Jumpstarting the Market for Accessory Dwelling Units"

iamacynic — Fri, 26 May 2017 14:29:11 +0000

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 service that will undertake the arduous and confusing task of navigating the political process of actually installing and inhabiting a small home in a place anyone would want to live. but i guess photos of that product don't look cool in an architectural digest.

New comment by iamacynic in "Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)"

iamacynic — Thu, 25 May 2017 18:30:26 +0000

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.

New comment by iamacynic in "Wondering What Happened to Your Class Valedictorian? Not Much, Research Shows"

iamacynic — Wed, 24 May 2017 23:12:02 +0000

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?