Gordon Haff

@TheEconomist I've never particularly understood the desire for homes scattered all about. Even if you're very rich, there are lots of very nice hotels--though honestly those don't buy me much most of the time. I can go to museums. First class travel--sure--and getting private car transit.

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@RaisinsDEtre @billybinion Different priorities no doubt. I see more shows in London and have a subscription to a small theater in Cambridge MA. I go to museums, walk around. Maybe meet with friends. Might catch a couple shows but it's mostly more important to be near locations/restaurants/etc. in day.

@ghaff @billybinion My priorities are pretty just much cost and ability to get to the theater district. Still shows that there are plenty of decent and affordable choices.

One of the most predictable disasters in recent memory. NYC effectively banned short-term rentals like Airbnb—and now working-class people need to take out a second mortgage just to spend a weekend there. All in the name of ~helping.~ Total economic illiteracy.

@RaisinsDEtre @billybinion Probably wouldn't stay in FiDi. Yes, I can take subway but very little I'd do down that way. Usually stay in some of the lower/mid-end Marriott properties--Moxy/Aloft--(or Yotel) and they're not $500 but they're not cheap.

@ghaff @billybinion I stay at the Pod Hotel in mid town when I go to see shows. Rooms are very small but the hotel overall is nice. I've also stayed at the Hotel Indigo in FiDi and thought it was wonderful.

@RaisinsDEtre @billybinion I'm guessing we have different tastes of decent. I haven't seen $150 hotels in Manhattan since shortly after 9/11.

@billybinion This just isn't true though. I am very working-class, but I take regular trips to NYC to see theater and am always able to find decent hotels in Manhattan under $150 a night.

@nattywal @billybinion Boston/Cambridge have mostly gotten pretty expensive too. I've gotten very selective about going into town (Boston or Cambridge) for a night or two.

@billybinion Me and bf did trip in May. 2 nights in Boston 900$, 3 nights in Brooklyn 900$ and 2 nights in Chicago 330$. I actually found Boston to be wildly priced but the whole trip shows it’s getting harder and harder to travel cheaply as middle class. But I don’t trust Airbnb anyways

@HmmVryIntrstng @billybinion Midrange hotels and it's getting into that range with fees and taxes though. (Maybe more like $400.) I had a personal meeting in Manhattan in May; stayed one night instead of tacking on a couple extra. In November, going to go down to Manhattan for 5 days rather than longer.

@billybinion it doesn't cost $500 a night for a hotel room in nyc tho

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Great piece. I love Pat and did some work for him but in hindsight maybe he was too nice given bad hands. I really hope Tan can turn things around.

@mattwbaker That seems reasonably on target. We've already seen autonomous self-driving hopes deflate to a large degree. Seems reasonable to expect more and more AI long-term (to the point we don't maybe call them AI any longer). Probably more even longer term.

Spidey sense suggests we are going to see a momentum shift in tech in the next 2-3 quarters as the air comes out of AI speculation. Still very bullish on AI long term.

@RyanRadia @bendreyfuss I mostly hate hotels with deep tubs I want to use as showers. As you say a trade off.

@bendreyfuss Being able to shower in a dedicated shower seems better than having to use a bathtub with a showerhead. (But I acknowledge the tradeoff.)

A disturbing trend in apartment complex development is bathrooms that only have showers like this and no bathtub. Excuse me but I cannot live somewhere that has no bathtub. A life without baths is not a life I am willing to pay thousands of dollars a month for

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@ChachaMarquis @asymmetricinfo I don't but I have theater reservations that far out. If I were traveling I might consider (though I don't).

@asymmetricinfo something deeply pathetic about making dinner reservations two months out.

I mean, surely there are options between “New hand roll spot” and “foraging”?

@massameya There is admittedly more overhead on both sides with air (and with Amtrak you have the option of starting from the southern sububurbs), It would be nice if the Acela were 2x the speed as it's not really a practical trip by rail. Though the two main legs are.