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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…

unhappy rich people.

things are probably pretty calm at airbnb headquarters.

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 / parachu…

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.

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…

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

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 f…

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.…

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?

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 …

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

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 ins…

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

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…

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…

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

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 …

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-hold…

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?

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 …

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 re…