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babaganoosh89··on McClatchy upgrades CEO’s housing stipend to $35K a month amid buyouts
This happens because the IRS has a $1 million limit on executive salaries for tax deduction purposes. All these other forms of payments just help get around that.
babaganoosh89··on McClatchy upgrades CEO’s housing stipend to $35K a month amid buyouts
It’s because the IRS has a $1 million limit on executive pay for tax deduction purposes. So all this stuff just helps get around that.
babaganoosh89··on AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income
You should compare AWS's pricing vs dedicated providers, it's near a 3x difference compared to OVH last time I looked.
babaganoosh89··on Americans got 26.3B robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017
I use WideProtect on iOS to block any calls with that match my area code + first 3 digits. It's been working pretty well for over a year.
babaganoosh89··on Ask HN: Discipline but no focus, how to fix?
Are you tired? Personally caffeine helps me when I really can't focus.
babaganoosh89··on Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
Quotes are because it's probably legal what they're doing.
babaganoosh89··on What If Google Doesn't Reward White Hat SEO?
Seems like the amount of affiliate links is the issue. I guess it's hard for search engines to tell the difference between spammy review sites made for affiliate links and the author's site.
babaganoosh89··on Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
DoorDash does the same thing of “stealing” tips. Either you should tip in cash or not at all.
babaganoosh89··on Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool
Cool, can anyone tell how it compares to Datagrip by jetbrains?
babaganoosh89··on Two creators are not always better than one
It's a filtering mechanism and also 2+ founders working for a company below market wages is more valuable than 1 founder working for below market wages.
babaganoosh89··on Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost
Seems more like a tax distribution problem than anything else. Casino revenues went down $69 million, but video gambling revenue went up $270 million. Seems like a good deal tax wise.
babaganoosh89··on AlaSQL.js – JavaScript SQL Database for Browser and Node.js
Does this use web workers to access the db? Otherwise I'd worry about queries blocking the main thread, especially as the database gets larger.
babaganoosh89··on Startups Rejecting Venture Capital
FAANG tends to pay ~300k for senior engineers. For 400k you usually need to get lucky with stock appreciation.
babaganoosh89··on Show HN: Selenium-like user flow testing, but with a nicer interface
Is the preview frame an iframe? What if your site uses iframe busting?
babaganoosh89··on Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
Overall pretty good list. For the node.js side, Sequelize is old and was never that great. Check out TypeORM: https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm
babaganoosh89··on India: All computers now under govt. watch
Sounds like you are compelled to assist authorities in decrypting your messages if they ask you. “Failing to do (so) will invite seven-year imprisonment and fine.”
babaganoosh89··on Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy
That could be a use case for Bitcoin's lightning network or other cryptocurrencies with low fees.
babaganoosh89··on The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted
Not really, short-term interest rates are set by the fed and long-term interest rates are determined by bond investors betting what the avg interest rate will be over that time period. So when the yield curve inverts, investors are betting that the fed will have to cut rates in the future (because of a recession or other reasons), making the long-term interest rates lower than the current short-term rates.
babaganoosh89··on Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offerings
There was nothing NSFW in there, I was very disappointed.
babaganoosh89··on Ask HN: Self-taught devs, what are the best cheap resources for learning webdev?
App Academy's online curriculum would be a good place to start, I can't speak to curriculum itself but App Academy grads have usually been solid in my experience: https://open.appacademy.io/
babaganoosh89··on The Sex Recession
Because they’re financially stressed and can’t afford kids.
babaganoosh89··on Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site
Those are the good reviews, they give details about what to expect. I have no problem with good food, bad service places.
babaganoosh89··on A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
How much can you get off by calling hotels? Maybe 10-20% off Expedia prices?
babaganoosh89··on The American Nightmare: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, 10 Years Later
They have recourse loans in many states here too, only California and some other states have non-recourse mortgage loans.
babaganoosh89··on No Amount of Alcohol Use Is Safe, Analysis of Studies Finds
Multi-million? More like hundreds of billions.

https://www.statista.com/topics/1709/alcoholic-beverages/

babaganoosh89··on New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performance
I hope this gets Google Cloud to expand their burstable offering.
babaganoosh89··on Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher
Can you implement a captcha somewhere? Or figure a way to obfuscate your html if that’s what he’s scraping. Something that can scramble the css class names each build.
babaganoosh89··on Greyston Bakery hires on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked
+1 to contract work. Could start your own projects which would also help build out your portfolio.
babaganoosh89··on DoorDash Valuation Nearly Triples to $4B in Six Months
Yeah that second part is how it works according to people on the doordash subreddit.
babaganoosh89··on DoorDash Valuation Nearly Triples to $4B in Six Months
Don’t forget in most cases the tips don’t actually go to the drivers. Doordash may guarantee the driver will make $7 for a delivery, then if you tip anything under $7 doordash will just pocket it. Seems like a good business model.
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