I turn beer into software. To be honest I don't drink or code much anymore these days, but I'm trying to hold onto my youth.
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Property taxes are consumption taxes.
This is my answer to @peterthiel's question: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
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Congratulation to Zohran Mamdani for successfully lobbying to prevent the construction of close to 3,000 homes (around 1,000 of which would have been income restricted) in his home borough of Queens.
Despite eventual approval by the city, demands from Mamdani and other politicians pushed the project beyond what was financially possible so now it has officially been cancelled.
This evening, Community Board 1 will vote on #InnovationQNS.
I am in firm opposition to this proposal.
My opposition does not stem from its proposed density, nor any question of shadows—it is entirely because of the absolute paucity of affordable housing within this proposal.
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Twitter & Square employees should demand very large nominal raises this year to keep up with hyperinflation.
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Why do different floors of the new @Chase HQ have different lighting temperatures. Seems weird!
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Someone should write a bot that tries to work out how much sleep Elon gets each night based on his tweeting and posts the number every morning.
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This isn't about besmirching anyone's good name. It's about giving your readers a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works.
This isn't some tiny error. It's the like telling your readers that the sky is red or that diamonds are soft.
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Tried to take my kids to the @ZohranKMamdani scavenger hunt. Showed up to an hour long line with volunteers who couldn’t figure out how to speed up handing out postcards and got mad at me when I tried to take a picture of a QR code without waiting.
Fun idea. Very poorly executed. Trying not to see it as a metaphor for his future as mayor.
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Google: Stock down 28% since the beginning of 2022
Microsoft: Down 24%
Amazon: Down 36%
Meta: Down 56%
Twitter: Taken private and clearly down a ton
Salesforce: Down 36%
Say what you want about unions, but saying there is "no other reason" ignores reality.
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If he works hard and performs well as the President of Syria, he has a good shot of making a move to be President of a larger and more influential country in a few years.
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Why are all of these millionaires running around on a field kicking a ball when we still have real problems right here on earth?
Until we have inexpensive space travel available to the middle class, we should dispense with these frivolities.
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@devintoshea Are you stupid? Blackstone does not own a thirst of US housing stock. How could you possibly write that? You need to fix this and issue a correction.
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Of course that's your contention. You're a first year engineering manager. You just finished some human centric leadership guru, Rands prob'ly.
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Congratulations on writing a story that The Onion had already parodied 18 years ago! theonion.com/family-has-extr…
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In my experience most librarians bend over backwards to make it easy to check out books for kids. I've definitely used my wife's account. This particular librarian sounds....weird.
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People see "99%" and think "I'll be fine. Almost everyone will be fine." And then fail to multiply by 327 million.
Innumeracy is a never ending problem.
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Real estate prices in NYC are extremely high and vacancies are extremely low. The only way to get a handle on this problem is to legalize more housing construction so that supply can keep up with demand.
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We should also just require that leases be registered with the state just like a property deed. A clear system here wold protects both sides of the transaction.
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Gotta phase that in. Only require 1% of an architect at 141 and then 0.25% more for each additional square meter up to 220.
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It looks like the @nytimes did a stealth edit of the piece in question just removing the Ayala quote with no correction.
That's so messed up @ShaneGoldmacher @RuthIgielnik.
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Or it's an Apple box and it seems too nice to throw away, but you're really not sure what to do with it so it's just sits on a shelf forever for no particular purpose.
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The single most important thing that cities can do to fight climate change is to allow greater housing density so that people can live low CO2 emitting lifestyles instead of the high CO2 emitting lifestyles of the suburbs.
It's irresponsible of you to oppose such efforts.
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I'd be interested in reading an argument that the City Council will be effective at achieving those goals without it coming at the expense of housing construction.
Because right now it's hard to imagine that's the goal of many of these co-signers. Especially the more conservative ones, including the notorious NIMBY who represents me in District 1.
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In the first instance, it sounds more like the FAA was using some keyword based resume screening software (not uncommon) and a member from the HR dept leaked the configuration to their advocacy org.
Def sketchy but not really accurate to say "the FAA gave."
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Here's a fun one. 311 for an obscured plate today. NYPD showed up in like 5 minutes. Yay!
But they said they couldn't write a ticket for a NJ plate that was parked and not driving. Boo!
What's the law here? What can I do to make this go better next time? @GershKuntzman @jehiah
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The dude had Campfire in the palm of his hand, but pissed it all away and let Slack take the market and build a $10B company. He could have been a Billionaire but he fucked it up. And now he’s on Twitter ranting about how VC is bad.
It’s fucking hilarious.
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The city council pointing out that getting housing built can involve almost 3 years of regulatory hurdles and then complaining about people trying to fix that is absurd.
You created this system! You've failed to fix it. So now the people will be taking away your people to prevent much needed housing construction.
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What sorts of housing would you hope to block in the future by keeping the power to do this in the hands of the City Council?
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You're free to make whatever arguments you want, but you've gotta base them on real facts.
Lying to your readers by telling them that Blackstone owns 50 million homes (a completely absurd number that is something like 1,000x the real number) is a complete failure of journalism.
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Publishing the names of people who have been given major responsibilities at the federal government isn't doxxing.
C'mon.
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I don't think writing out every possible concession from developers is the most important opportunity. We have a massive, massive housing shortage. That's the real problem.
We need a building boom like the city hasn't seen in 75 years. It seems like the council cares more about holding on to the power to prevent construction than doing everything it can to enable it. Bums me out, especially from folks like you who have been good on the issue.
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Pro life protestors have routinely harassed women (and worse) and doctors at abortion clinics for 50 years and their free speech rights were upheld by SCOTUS. Hard to see this as any different from that.
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The man in this video is Andrew Heiberger. He founded Citi Habitats which he eventually sold for millions of dollars. He's now the CEO of a real estate development company.
I dunno how rich he is exactly, but a quick google reveals that he has owned several homes worth over 10 million dollars.
Charging incredibly rich people a toll to drive less than a mile is a great idea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew…
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.@TheStalwart used the phrase “McKinsey American” yesterday to describe a certain type of person (in this case Mayor Pete) somewhere on the prep school -> ivy -> consulting -> finance track and it’s my new favorite phrase.
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Ah, here we go: The cab line at SFO from today.
cash.me/$harryh will work fine for payment. Thanks in advance!
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Hi everyone. @alicetiara & I would like to introduce Ramona Colette Marwick. Born yesterday at 3:58pm. She's a 9 pound chunker and curious about everything around her.
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I remember reading a pretty good sci-fi short story a long time ago about time travelers who competed to see who could create the biggest historical changes with the smallest interventions.
Just for funsies.
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Who hasn't walked into whole foods and accidentally spent more than they meant to? Same thing happened to Bezos I guess.
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I just don't believe that the best way to build a school/park/early childhood center is to squeeze every last penny out of new entrants to a community vs using the broad base of taxes that everyone in the community pays to fund these basic government functions.
The former chokes housing development. The latter does not.
And look at your co-signers! I *know* that a lot of them see choking that housing development as a feature not a bug. Signing on with Marte and Paladino and Vernikov who all voted against COY? C'mon.
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New schools and parks are great, but they aren't the #1 problem in the city.
Since April 2020, the under 5 population in NYC has fallen by 18%. 18% in 5 years! That's happening because raising a family in NYC is too expensive. And it's too expensive because of housing.
Good governing is about prioritizing. Until the population of kids is rising instead of falling blocking housing is just wrong.
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I think the dude here handled it quite well. He gave it a shot trying to talk to the old guy, but within 20 seconds he had broken the window and was just doing what he had to do.
And he didn't get mad, and was about as nice and polite to the guy as he could possibly be.
A+ job really.
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3 members of the @MTA board have spoken out today in favor of implementing congestion pricing on schedule.
That kinda seems like a big deal since the board would have to agree to the delay?
@StreetsblogNYC @MaraGay @TweetBenMax @ChristRobbins
“It needs to happen, it needs to happen in NYC, it needs to happen now.” NYC Deputy Mayor and @MTA board member @MeeraCJoshi on congestion pricing at @TransAlt benefit
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Congestion pricing has been in the works since 2007. It was passed into law in 2019. Tens of millions of dollars have been spend on studies. Equipment has literally been installed.
For you to do this 25 days before implementation is unconscionable and undemocratic.
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Assuming that they are misunderstanding it instead of willfully misrepresenting things is a charitable interpretation of what is going on.
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And here is her AirBnB. An ADU, despite the fact that @livableca (which she founded) has opposed every ADU bill @Scott_Wiener has authored. She really is a cartoon villian. airbnb.com/rooms/2403963
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13yo trick-or-treater asked me if I could dab. Told him I was too old for that and he said "You're never too old to be lit." Wise words.
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The study used the "free version of ChatGPT, which is based on GPT-3.5." Which is a pretty important point that you should probably note in your summary.
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The population density of LA is is about 8,500 people per square mile.
The population density of Paris is over 50,000 people per square mile.
Hard to see how LA qualifies as "overflowing" when you look at the data.
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I don't like people that speed and cheat on tolls. I realize that makes me a little weird.
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This is awesome! It's the middle of the day! What is wrong with you? Why do you hate NYC so much? Just quit your job and go live in the suburbs which you would clearly like better.
When was the last time you had a real conversation with someone under the age of 40?
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It's worth noting that a lot of poorly designed buildings come from insane building codes and city run design review processes.
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No penalty at all for the driver by the way. The police chalked it up to inexperience and called it a day.
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Ya, saw that.
A good correction quotes the original content, explains how it was wrong and informs the reader with correct data.
This is not a good correction. But it's better than nothing.
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Loved this paragraph.
I think Abundance, in its best form, should be seen as a bipartisan call for both parties to spend less time pandering to their crazy fringes and more time building shit people want.
I agree that, politically speaking, this in an uphill battle. But it's a fight worth fighting. Even incremental successes will still be worthwhile even if we don't quite get to the moon as a state.
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To be fair, I don't think it's so much that men are disproportionately sought out as victims, it's more that they are putting themselves in riskier situations at much higher rates.
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Yes, and that does give me some optimism. In my gut I don't really believe that he will change all that much though. We'll see.
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Housing isn't cheaper in Texas than it is in California because people in Texas aren't agnostic about power.
It's because Texas has less restrictive zoning laws so it's easier for builders to meet demand.
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That dude is literally apartment hunting right now, finding that process to be insanely expensive, and he's still in some sort of vibes-based "building more homes is bad" headspace. Hard to understand.
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One of the things that we have learned about codifying IZ requirements into law is that it makes it very easy for politicians to unleash rhetoric about how the legal standard should be seen as a floor to being negotiations.
It's one of the many problems with IZ laws.
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Free college for anyone making under $100k/yr would be among the most progressive policies ever enacted by the US government, and much of left leaning twitter is outraged by the idea. We live in wild times. On twitter at least.
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This is, in fact, basically how it works. But there is more than two weeks lag on the data which is why there are revisions before all the data comes in.
Let's talk a little about the claims of "manipulation" here because I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about how this works.
The BLS employment data comes from surveys designed to offer a timely, though imperfect, snapshot of labor market conditions. By nature, surveys involve estimation and are subject to revision as more comprehensive data becomes available.
The most accurate and complete employment data comes from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), which is based on actual payroll tax filings submitted by virtually all employers to state unemployment insurance programs. This dataset covers over 95% of all U.S. wage and salary jobs. However, it lags by 5–8 months because:
- Employers have up to 90 days to report,
- States must compile and transmit data to the BLS,
- And the BLS conducts quality control and processing before publication.
Because of this lag, the BLS publishes more frequent data via the monthly surveys, which are less precise but provide a much-needed near-term signal. Over time, the survey data is benchmarked to the QCEW, improving its accuracy and aligning the two series.
Claims of "manipulation" misunderstand how decentralized the data process is. The QCEW is compiled from state-administered records, not centrally dictated figures. For manipulation to occur, it would require coordination across 50 independent state labor departments—an implausible scenario given the structure and oversight involved.
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Your son's temp tag wasn't expired. It was fraudulently doctored to show an fake expiration date.
Why did he do that?
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For those that are not aware, Lever News was founded by David Sirota, so it kind of makes sense they would post something like this that doesn't really make any sense.
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Following on @lawindsor’s reporting, I have additional evidence that @christopherrufo was an Ashley Madison user in 2014.
Whoever created the account in question did so from Topanga, CA where Chris used to live. The birthday on the account also nearly matches Chris's.
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This effect can be magnified where a kid might be in the 99th percentile among their immediate peers but then only the 92nd percentile in the US as a whole.
There are ~25k high school valedictorians every year. Some of them are in for eye opening experiences when their worlds expand.
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It's completely unreasonable want to make 10s of thousands of people wait in their cars for longer every day to hold on to fake jobs.
C'mon!
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How did you 9yo learn about imaginary numbers?
My 10yo does.....not know about such things.
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Something around half of the Mississippi state budget comes in for form of federal money. Over $10B a year.
The state is in the top 5 for ratio of incoming federal money to outgoing federal taxes.
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I would say Tokyo and Paris. London has a lot of the same problems as NYC + Brexit. Dubai is too artificial.
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To their credit, it looks like they figured out that they should punt on the whole line idea and just let people snap pics en masse. Progress!
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Michael Storper is a notable supporter of the right wing segregationist organization Livable California. Just be aware of who you're cheering on here.
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People put these covers on to speed and not get caught by cameras and to cheat on tolls.
I don't hate my neighbor, but I hate this behavior.
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If Mamdani ends up illegally firing Adams appointed members of the RGB and then staffing the board with people he hand picks to ignore the board's statutory requirement to consider costs, he'll be creating the strongest possible case for the 6-3 conservative SCOTUS to issue cert on a rent stabilization case.
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And two: You spent a thousand hours reading books and blog posts trying to get an education that’s only available by doing the job.
Now get to work.
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Central Bank debt != National Debt.
Argentina's national debt is around $450B or 85%ish of GDP. As a comparison, US national debt is currently around 120% of GDP.
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How much did you pay for a place to live in NYC when you first moved here? How much would a similar place cost now?
This is the real problem facing young artists in NYC. Blocking housing construction makes this problem worse.
Please reconsider your point of view on this one.
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All he had to do was not hide his sign and yell at me when I was trying to take a picture of the QR code so I didn't have to stand in a 1k person long line with two young children in the hot sun.
I didn't ask him to do a thing. I don't think that's entitlement.
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After a year of weightlifting, I squatted my weight today. I know that’s not a huge achievement or anything, but as someone who spent most of his adult life as a hunched over his desk workaholic, I’m feeling pretty good about myself. 💪
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This essay does a pretty great job of proving @besttrousers right.
You can't just drop a bunch of Americans from the sample when you are talking about how 60% of Americans are living! That's ludicrous!
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"Gen Z has 86% less purchasing power than Boomers did in their 20s" <--- This is not true. You are a liar. And you should feel bad about that.
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FWIW, I am nearly certain that $10M is the total matching funds received by the Adams Campaign and that likely only a small fraction of that was matching on illegal contributions.
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Local community boards and individual NIMBY city council members block housing in NYC. Have you ever been to one of these meetings? It's not billionaires. It's people complaining about parking.
How are you so out of touch?
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