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@rohindhar Data and methodology here: datastream.substack.com/p/why-do-duple…

@rohindhar Full tenancy for duplexes cost 44% of the sale price

Have heard a bunch of instances lately where homeowners in San Francisco struggled get the price they wanted to sell their home. They got decent offers but not as high as they were expecting So they rented it out instead an an unheard of high rental price in a few days At the same time, once you have a tenant in there becomes pretty much impossible to sell unless you'll accept a heavily discounted price Know of another instance where someone couldn't sell their home at the price they wanted because it had a tenant in there. And the tenant was paying almost $50K in rent per month!

@zachtratar Either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain...

Fascinating how quickly Uber went from “regulators are slowing down technological progress! Transportation must flow like water!” to “We must stop tech! Regulate to keep the ride sharing industry the same and stop price drops!”

@krishnanrohit @alz_zyd_ OpenAI is one constipated engineer away from releasing AGI

@alz_zyd_ You get paid on value not on labour so the plumber in the US literally might be 100x more productive than the other guy

Random: I feel like there's an issue with GDP measurement and non-tradables. The plumber in the US does literally the same job as the plumber in a third world country, but gets paid like 100x more for the same job because he plumbs for OpenAI engineers and the other guy doesn't

If you forced everyone with a "disability" to wear a patch that said "I'm disabled" on campus to reap the benefits - I'm sure the disability rate would go down

One of only negative marks on The Wire was it's complete portrayal of hopelessness and destruction from "the system". Now that it's being corrected in the right direction, we should be seeing this awesomeness distributed through media!

This is a great petition to do a sequel to The Wire that is more uplifting and brings actual hope to the people that watch it

@rob_olsthoorn @steipetes This will interrupt my doomscrolling though

What’s the last video you watched that was worth your time? I got tired of the “clickbait” educational videos and spent 15 minutes creating a chrome extension that gates access to every video until you read the summary, using @steipetes summarize CLI. Bring your own key instead of paying for another SaaS copy/paste prompt below

@F_Edits This is what happens when you try to become a professional soccer player but there’s only 11 spots

The winner of every Round of 16 game so far has been the country with the highest unemployment rate for men aged 15-24

@RichardHanania Lower income inequality is important factor though to maintain a healthy economy and make sure that the masses don't rise against the elites and cause civil wars and strife no?

Paul Krugman on the US versus Europe: “Yes, Europeans have smaller houses and cars than Americans do. Many of them also, as everyone has lately become aware, lack air conditioning. But they have much more economic security than most Americans, lower economic inequality, longer life expectancy, and more leisure time.” I like including "lower economic inequality” on the plus side for Europe. They might roast alive because of lack of air conditioning, but they can die knowing that there isn’t an upper class that is too comfortable. This reflects a sick value system.

@zachtratar The man is 100% running for president in 2028

I’m a capitalist and all of these people claiming that Mamdani’s speech is against all capitalism are putting words into his mouth. So if anyone talked about inequality that’s automatically “denigrating wealth and innovation”? You see the massive logical jump here?

@JayinKyiv @grok what happened and what does this mean?

Still getting little coverage, the Russian bond market imploding.

@sdamico It’s all about price per sq/ft for housing now because you could fit like five 20 something year old YC founders into that space

Pretty sure this complex (alchemy in haight / hayes) was renting 2BRs for like ~$5K 2-3 years ago SF rents are going vertical. Also: there’s basically zero inventory in lower haight right now.

@elenablades @sdamico SF has apartment brokers now?

@sdamico My clients were ready to sign and it jumped from 7.5 to this price. This happened 2 weeks ago, they didn’t bother to respect the fact that they had toured the apt when it was 7.5k and were ready to apply two days after.

@NateSilver538 the steel man case for why Raman surged is because the DSA candidate has surged in almost every late-mail ballot race in the last four years

@grok @Anc_Aesthetics @grok Why are people calling it a "Democrat slush fund" and can you dive deeper into the documented waste and non-core spending? Like what is defined as documented waste.

The UNAIDS table matches official data: new HIV infections and AIDS deaths have declined substantially since 2010 thanks to scaled treatment and prevention. PEPFAR played a major role in those gains, supporting ~20M+ on ART and saving an estimated 25M+ lives historically. The SA weekly deaths chart shows no clear excess mortality spike after 2025 funding pauses/cuts (US covered only ~17% of SA's HIV response anyway). Effects can lag. Rattner's projections rely on models assuming major reversals from disrupted services. They capture plausible long-term risks but often overestimate short-term real-world impacts when countries adapt or core treatment continues via waivers/domestic funds. Targeted HIV aid had high, measurable returns. Broader USAID had documented waste and non-core spending. Sustainable wins require local capacity, not open-ended external checks. Real data beats pure projections either way.

@Anc_Aesthetics @grok what's going on here? Who is right?

And some Gen-Z personal finance delusion I guess

The real story here is that because of rent control and SF's housing laws - she can't find a 1 bedroom apartment for $5K/month even though she's already living in a 3 bedroom place that's under the same price

@emmymrtin They must have been very picky

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.