Your argument is completely shallow and void of reason..
> You can't, for example, run a tannery in your apartment
Why not? Whats your argument?
>What's more, as a resident (and especially if I were an owner) I wouldn't want my building being a de facto hotel.
If I owned a building then I set the rules/laws. This is about property rights, not about what you think is right or wrong. If I want to turn my home into a transient hotel then I should have the right to do so. Existing residents should abide by my rules under the current terms of their lease.
>Imagine the scenario if an AirBnBer does this with say a cigarette?
And what if an existing resident did that? Whats your point?
You completely leave out any actual reasoning to support your statements. A very shallow argument.
>> You can't, for example, run a tannery in your apartment
> Why not?
Because tanning hides requires strong acid and a bunch of other chemicals and it will stink up the building and probably break some kind of regulation for residential spaces. If you happen to be a tanner and you disagree with it, pretend he said "Nuclear reactor" or "shooting range".
He is talking about when you own an apartment, not the whole building.
And even when you own a building you still don't get to "set the rules/laws". There are tons of laws about what you can, and what you cannot do with and in your building. And in some areas, like e.g. Santa Fe IIRC, there can even be rules about what your building should look like.
Given those, starting your response with "your argument is completely shallow and void of reason.." is certainly ironic.
It was less an argument than a statement of fact. These are the laws.
If you want to argue what fundamental rights should or shouldn't be afforded to a property owner, HN probably isn't the place. This stuff has a long and complicated political history, which I humbly encourage you to learn more about.
Laws which are not set in stone. The point is that services like Airbnb can be the impetus for changing the law to make more sense for modern times. When these laws were created, something like Airbnb was impossible, so how can you think they took the concept into account when crafting them?
I think the tannery comment was a statement of fact: there are laws against using residential spaces for business purposes. If you own a building, you set the rules, but not the laws. Again, this is not a moral statement, but a recognition of how things work.
Owning a building and an apartment are different things. If you own an apartment or condo, you are bound by the home owner's association rules, which can be pretty limiting.
Michael, judging from your comments on HN and your blog, you need to give it a rest. Either that or do something substantial to validate yourself. Who are you?
What, one has to accomplish "something substantial" and "validate themselves" now, in order to have an opinion?
Sounds like bullshit to me. If anything, we should encourage less focus on accomplishment, less hero worship, and less celebrity-fetish nonsense. An argument should stand or fall on its merits, not the fame of the speaker. And sometimes an opinion is just an opinion, and not something that needs to be picked over like this was a high-school debate club.
The problem is he vigorously asserts that his positions are fact, based on his experiences in the finance and tech industries. Newcomers to the tech world read these posts and assume it must be true when in fact these statements are just one person's opinion based on a handful of experiences.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion. If you're going to argue from experience however, you have to have compelling experiences to argue from.
Newcomers to the tech world read these posts and assume it must be true when in fact these statements are just one person's opinion based on a handful of experiences.
Then shame on them. One shouldn't assume anything is true, just because somebody argues their position vigorously. If people are actually doing what you describe (which I doubt, to be honest), then they need to develop better filters.
If you're going to argue from experience however, you have to have compelling experiences to argue from.
Bunk. All of our experiences are compelling in their own way, and everyone should share their experience and opinions. The onus is on the receiver to parse, filter, analyze, synthesize, etc. and form whatever conclusions - if any - they might form.
The only good thing i've seen obtained from an MBA is connections. If you don't go to a school that can provide a wealth of that (really just the ivy-league MBA programs from what i've seen) then its a waste of your time and money.
Get real-world experience, it counts for more. Especially when i'm the one doing the hiring.
I think you might be underestimating the knowledge/skills gained from an MBA. A lot of non-MBA folk don't move up very fast in organizations (in business roles I suppose), one reason I think is because they don't completely understand how to manage people, I suppose you could learn it on the job, but it would be a lot easier and more structured if done through an MBA program. Now that doesn't mean everyone should go get one, but I do think it helps to a certain degree. I'm not just talking about it from a startup perspective, but just a company/managing people perspective. A lot of the bigger tech companies Microsoft/Google/Amazon etc do tend to hire a lot of MBA's each year though.
While I disagree that people should be discriminated based on ethnicity, I do think that a lot of asians who fit the bill as high GPA and high SAT are not doing themselves any favors by just sitting on those qualifications. In my professional experience working with a lot of early high-achievers (asian or not) they tend not to do that great in the professional world: lack of innovation, lack of creativity, willingness to only follow- not lead. Many also seem to get burned out by the time they start their career and start to show lack of discipline.
I think theres a lot of value in looking beyond that GPA/SAT. We don't want a lot of identical personalities on a campus nor in the workplace. High GPA/SAT does not necessarily breed the innovation and creativity that makes this country strong (how's China doing on that front?).
Lets make the conversation about that. Thats really what this should be about.
