I’ve placed my bets on the Phoenix metro.
- Very strong population growth
- No natural disasters to speak of
- Politically moderate in all the right ways
- Massive amounts of industrial $ coming in
- Water is less of a problem then many think
- Women of Scottsdale are among the hottest
There are fewer downsides than you’d expect for a tier 3 city in this vein, too. Only thing it’s missing is a great urban area but even DT Phoenix is still mostly fine.
Rich parts of San Diego also very solid, but Sacramento will eventually come for all you hold dear.
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I remember when I was first learning CSS the instructor told my class "If you're not sure what primary color to use, just use Dodger Blue".
The fact that it's a common / popular choice 100% lines up with how I understand these models to work.
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I am Autistic & do this with people I care about.
If I’m dating a girl I’ll set a daily reminder to text her. Similar but less frequent for other friends.
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Yep.
If you don’t own the real estate don’t start a restaurant.
The landlord has 100% of the leverage when the lease rolls.
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Do you hate your local McDonald’s Franchisee?
Have a “Pounder” delivered via the app! (Double quarter pounder with 2 extra patties)
It comes in at ~$11 - above the threshold for free delivery - and contains around $5 worth of 80% lean beef.
DoorDash (their delivery partner) charges $7 for a delivery.
Add in the 4% Franchise Royalty & the other ingredients and they’re losing > $2 every time you order!
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Gotta accept Taco Bell for what it is and stop asking it to be something it's not.
IT IS A GOOD THING that anyone can purchase ~750 calories of hot, tasty food for ~$2, even in manhattan.
We need cheap, convenient food, and sometimes that comes with tradeoffs.
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The anger & verbosity here is big Reddit energy, but the premise is sound.
If you picked / were assigned a seat, that seat is yours & you shouldn’t be shamed or bullied for exercising that right.
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Honestly? It reads as loser-posting more than fedposting to me.
What would a fed gain from posting this?
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Doing some research on the origins of sports after seeing this tweet & came across this series of gems on Wikipedia.
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If it’s not this, this is damn close.
Sitting in Pacific Beach SD right now. Just ate the finest pasta of my life for $15 and the weather could not be more perfect.
I need to get rich.
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In the event you're being serious, I'm pretty sure the subtext here is that anon was considering / planning su*cide.
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This is my first Christmas alone, if memory serves.
Money is tight & spirits are low, but like a campfire smouldering in a snowstorm, hope remains.
I knew my journey would be hard.
I’ve been through so much worse.
I’m not going to give up halfway through.
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This chart seems pretty politically motivated.
There are 8 parties that got more votes than the NDP in 2021 that weren’t included in this chart.
Ditto for the pirates - 5 parties got more votes than them.
Something tells me a smug pirate made this.
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Tooling around this evening, trying to find out what valuable trends I can suss out from Miami-Dade's property data.
For instance, I geocoded the address of every SFH that sold twice in the last year - basically "fix & flips".
Then made them into the "gentrification map" below.
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The answer to this question (Elves & Men ain’t what they were when Sauron was first defeated) hits uncomfortably close to home.
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Since nobody else has posted the correct answer, fascism is - first and foremost - an economic system that rounds to a market economy with heavy government intervention.
Barbie’s understanding of “fascism” is closer to the technical definition than how people use it today.
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“You can grow abundant food by planting & watering seeds from certain plants, like wheat.”
The vast majority of human history is hunters & gatherers barely scraping by.
Biggest possible impact is bootstrapping civilization.
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This map shows every single-family home in Miami-Dade with an assessed value of $10,000,000 or more.
1 thing you could do with this data:
Find the cell phone #'s associated with each address, then use them as a custom audience to target Twitter ads to (e.g.) pitch investments.
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Here's something a little different...
I have no business analyzing Real Estate, but I just saw a @moseskagan tweet about buying an FHA'd 4-plex as a cheat code to building wealth, so I decided to try underwriting a property with that strategy in mind.
Blunderwriting, Vol. 1 ⬇️
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There’s a continuing international incident because of what Japan did to keep its soldiers happy.
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Web notifications are somewhere between terrible & nonexistent on iOS which is often a huge deal.
Apple prefers it that way.
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They aren’t tax loopholes in any meaningful sense. That said, this change would put AMH & INVH - the two largest single-family REITs - out of business.
Being able to deduct interest & depreciation is a huge part of why real estate is so appealing.
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This would effectively force the sale of >50k homes currently owned by huge real estate investment trusts.
That moves the needle in a real way - especially because single-family is a lot less appealing to own at <50 units as opposed to 10,000.
Don’t sleep on this.
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Mohammed Ali doesn’t really seem like an obvious candidate for a Christian version of heaven either
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To be clear, I’m agreeing with the OP. I spend more than I should & it is causing me problems.
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My main takeaway here is that "Normal" YouTube videos lost a lot of market share in favor of short form vertical videos.
Lots of the biggest & oldest channels have a ton of hits from ~8 years ago then it falls off hard once TikTok started taking off.
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It’s conceivable that one or more of them has killed the others in a bid to survive longer.
Man that’s terrifying.
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“None” wasn’t an option.
They are not equally bad. If you’re gonna dodge the question, why bother replying?
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Growing up autistic is hard. So many of my ASD peers are dead or living without hope. I certainly was for a while.
Seeing Elon goddamn Musk standing in front of a crowd of millions unashamed & upfront about his Asperger’s...
I’m never going to forget it.
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Not much to add but thought this was a compelling graphic... it shows how the NBA has progressively figured out the best way to play the game.
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This is the best pizza I’ve had in NYC.
My last day here is a helluva time to find out.
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You’re mistaken - the pope that died recently wasn’t in office. No need to replace one until Francis dies or retires.
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Oldest Gen Z member here. (and am 6'6")
We've been taught that respectfully asserting yourself is a crime.
Had to unlearn that lie over the last year or so, and I'm still not great at it.
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I make $165k base & am definitely struggling more than I should. My GF makes less than half that & does pretty much fine.
Definitely a skill issue.
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You’ve probably got me there - I think I’m playing the “stereotypical American” here and forgetting that the English-speaking internet isn’t entirely American.
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A thousand undifferentiated consumer fintechs screamed out in terror, and were silenced.
Apple is gonna be worth $10T in no time. Owning the platform that ~every rich person uses to interact with the internet makes their moat unassailable.
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Today marks three months since I started my new venture capital job in NYC.
Three big lessons I've learned:
- Work can be really fun if you're doing interesting stuff with a great team.
- The pizza here truly *is* better.
- If you can move to Manhattan in your 20's, do it!
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0-400k in 12 months. What a ride.
It all began on Twitter - with you guys.
Thank you so much for showing me that a better life is possible.
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“Company wards off unionizing by treating their employees well” sounds like a win for everyone except the union bosses, right?
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Week 1 In Phoenix, AZ…
I feel a zillion times healthier here than I ever did in New York.
I’ve been able to stick to a really healthy diet & cook ~all of my meals.
I went for a *run* today. Not just a short one either. I haven’t gone for a run in years!
This is my new home.
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The atomic age was wild about this stuff.
Almost as crazy: the “Davy Crockett” nuclear infantry weapon, which inspired Fallout’s “Fat Man”
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The real violation is demonetizing someone’s tweet by saying “yeah he is telling the truth” in a community note!
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Spent half an hour this morning making a map of every vacant residential lot in Miami-Dade that is owned by a natural person. (N = 606)
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki were the two Japanese cities with the most Christians circa 1945.
I’m not implying anything, but it’s interesting to think about.
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My parents were each the first really successful people in their families. They never heard this & I didn’t either. Gotta break the cycle.
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Got some really dreadful news about my sister (& best friend)’s health today.
She’s fought cancer for more than a decade - and it’s been a long & heart-rending grind the whole way.
Please pray for her, & for my parents… and hold your loved ones extra close tonight.
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My Life In 5 Bullet Points:
- 127 IQ & socially disabled kid
- Parents hired people to kidnap me at 14 years old
- Lived in the wilderness for 4 months, then a treatment center for 4 years
- Learned to code starting at 21
- Got a job on Wall Street. Lost it.
The rest? TBD!
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Somehow ML/AI feels underhyped.
It’s going to change almost everything… and I don’t hear much about it outside Twitter.
Crypto, on the other hand, changed next to nothing and got tons of airtime for nearly a decade.
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I spent my Sunday morning putting together a database of public records.
Why? It lets me run queries like "Owner-occupied single family homes that haven't sold in the last 30 years".
It costs 80¢ to send a letter, so I can afford a ton of them if I source just 1 screaming deal.
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Pal, I’m glad you feel free to speak like that.
There are certain words I don’t want the algo to flag me for or come up when my name is searched on Twitter.
Anonymous accounts have a different set of incentives. I suspect we agree on a lot, but you have less at stake.
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Riding a train from Newark into NYC to start the third act of my life.
I worked for peanuts for years to learn a worthy trade. Took chances that mostly didn’t pay off & kept my head up in spite of the odds. Made many precious friends & a few regrettable enemies.
I’ve arrived.
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Simple - "in come"s the money, the "out goes" the expenses and what's left is cashflow /sarcasm
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Even if someone was offering me a first-class seat so they could sit with their family in coach, I’m still well within my rights to just say “no”.
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Built a neat little software tool over the weekend that I'm going to be launching on Thursday for the low price of free!
Search Fund / EtA twitter, get ready... You're gonna love this.
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This is ... roughly what I was expecting?
I don't remember anyone claiming Azure was at parity with AWS. 1/2 is probably on the high end of what I would've thought.
I'm not the expert here but this doesn't sound like a disaster.
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Nick is wrong on this. I use a GPT-3 tool called GitHub Copilot that writes a substantial amount of my code for me & lets me work as much as 2x faster.
It’s already a game-changer & will become moreso as the tech improves.
I do not see the use case for chatGTP.
Way overhyped. Not useful beyond chuckles. Will not change the way any of us live.
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Finally someone who understands budgeting thank god I found you.
My wax obsession left me on the brink of homelessness.
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