Why not hire a salesman to do the online dating for you until they have managed to get a date offline?
I think most people absolutely suck at being original or appealing in texting. Going through tinder or any dating app makes you see the worst of humanity. Scams, lot of them. Catfishers. Kids pulling prank and laughing at desperate middle-aged men. Exaggerations, too high expectations. It makes you compare with others. It makes you desperate. Just avoid it.
Better to be honest about having a representative / mediator than catfishing or pretending to be someone you're not to try and "win" the game, especially if you suck at it.
I mean, people don't really know themselves or what they look for, generally speaking.
Having a majordome to manage your phone and online presence is quite fancy, I’d date, assuming of course the pictures and information given are genuine.
> The tax will levy an extra 0.1% to 0.6% on gross receipts made in San Francisco for companies whose highest paid executive makes 100 times or more its median worker’s salary. The amount levied will increase in 0.1% brackets proportionally to the pay ratio. A company whose highest paid employee earns 200 times more than its median San Francisco worker will get a extra 0.2% charge on its gross receipts. For companies whose CEO makes 300 more, the charge jumps to 0.3% and son on. The tax caps at 0.6%, and only companies with gross receipts over $1.17 million will be targeted.
> Under the measure, gross receipts and CEO compensation will include money made from stock options, bonuses, tax refunds, and property, a caveat seen by many as a way to target the tech sector where CEOs are often compensated in non-salaried bonuses. Tech is expected to account for 17% of the tax revenues, according to an estimate by the city’s chief economist, while retail and financial firms are expected to account for 23% of the revenues each.
> The CEO tax is expected to generate between $60 million to $140 million per year.
Doesn't seem that big in comparison to what SF annual budget is.
> Proposed legislation would raise the Transfer Tax rate on properties in
the city that sell for more than $10 million. For properties selling for
between $10 million and $25 million, the rate would rise from 2.75% to
5.5%. For properties selling for over $25 million, the rate would rise
from 3% to 6%.
I'd also be surprised if it brings in anywhere near the quoted amount since the SF supervisors have proven themselves incapable of considering second order effects such as companies contracting out their low-pay roles or simply leaving SF.
Pretty hard to claim this when Visa decided to massively expand their Global HQ in San Francisco after Prop C passed.
The pandemic has thrown things in a wrench, but prior to the pandemic, San Francisco businesses were constrained only by commercial real estate. There was literally no space left to put any new businesses.
We've been collecting Prop C revenues since March 2019, and they are exactly as forecast.
this is a tax on high pay roles, so I don't understand your concern. Also I hope and pray that it would cause companies to move, that is essentially working towards the same goal.
Two economists walk down a road and they see a twenty dollar bill lying on the side-walk. One of them asks “is that a twenty dollar bill?” Then the other one answers “It can’t be, because someone would have picked it up already,” and they keep walking.
>Doesn't seem that big in comparison to what SF annual budget is.
There are no singled-out pockets that you can tap into and make up SF annual budget. It's all about cumulating a lot fo long-tail small pockets + 1-2 large pockets.
I tried to look up the actual bill, but it doesn't provide any information on how stock options are valued [0]
I am curious how you would determine what the fair value of a stock option is when it is granted. Assume the option's strike price is for the current stock price. Theoretically, that stock option has a current value of "0" (assuming that it is non-transferrable so we don't have to worry about market price)
That stock option is expected to increase in value if the stock price increases (which then aligns the CEO's salary with shareholder value). So in five years, those stock options might be worth millions of dollars. But would you then say the CEO got paid millions of dollars five years ago? But the stock options when they were granted were 0 - they increased in value when they were the property of the CEO. If the CEO bought artwork 5 years ago and the value increased 10x in 5 years, would you also add that to his taxable income?
I am sure there are ways to value these options. But I can't find the details in this bill. Do you know how it might work?
I have no idea how far fetched this is, but there are clearly ways to price options given current share price, the stock price, expiry, etc. Black-Scholes comes to mind, but I am not an expert at this and don't know how reasonable of a valuation you could get this way. Just pointing out that there exists a mathematical framework for option valuation, which is presumably what Wall Street uses as the basis for pricing call/puts on the open market.
Seems like the solution is directly compensate your CEOs very little and outsource executive services to a third party company that aggregates CEO compensation as a "contracted entity". This company will mostly be paying CEOs, so its median employee salary will be relatively high.
Also depending on how this is structured, disregarded entities still consolidate to the individual so the measure could be flipped to be measured at the (trust ignored) individual level and it would still work.
Be careful. That can also be actively harmful as people copy paste years old code from stackoverflow and don't know that it is already doable via primitives language provide.
Example, all the answers that tell you to import jquery.
A new Standard is issued every third year. C++11 and C++20 had numerous big improvements that seriously improved the whole coding experience. C++14 and C++17 had few wholly new features, but relaxed many restrictions. C++23 will not be a big release, although probably it will get "reflection", making it easier to write and to use serializer/deserializer libraries, and a comprehensive networking library.
Most people pick up the new features a little at a time by reading blog posts or watching conference presentation videos. An hour or two a week, over as many weeks as you need, gets you up to speed fast enough.
You should use cloudfront, cloudflare or some similar service. They take care of caching your assets as well and I think are more trustworthy than some random caching plugin on wordpress.
Edit: I see you mentioning cloudfront on your blog post, what problems did you encounter when using it with wordpress?
Also, any reason for not using sanic, strapi or any of the headless CMS and building from scratch?
For Cloudfront, I eventually got it working. The difficult part was figuring out how to get Wordpress to serve the site when it received the request from Cloudfront. By default, it turned into a weird redirect loop.
I eventually solved it by futzing with all the options.
Re why I didn't use Strapi/the others? Once I switched to node / markdown, I told myself I'd fit in a real CMS, but never got that far researching it. However, I like the options you mentioned. Thanks for sharing!
But I will agree with fpip. India has so many fundamental problems that will require serious government and public change.
My state will not have enough drinking water for 30%+ of its population by 2030. Prices of food will go up as ground water becomes non existent. How do you think that will impact people?
Educated people are fleeing the country. They are willing to take any jobs to get out before it's too late.
I think most people absolutely suck at being original or appealing in texting. Going through tinder or any dating app makes you see the worst of humanity. Scams, lot of them. Catfishers. Kids pulling prank and laughing at desperate middle-aged men. Exaggerations, too high expectations. It makes you compare with others. It makes you desperate. Just avoid it.