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@Amitp55

Entrepreneur/Angel Investor - Long $RDW $TSLA $SpaceX

New Jersey เข้าร่วม Eylül 2009
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Brivael Le Pogam
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·
AOC vient d’accuser Airbnb d’être responsable de la crise du logement américain. C’est exactement comme accuser le thermomètre d’être responsable de la fièvre. Le niveau d’inversion causale est tel qu’on se demande si elle ment ou si elle ne comprend vraiment rien à l’économie qu’elle prétend réguler. Reprenons calmement. La crise du logement aux États-Unis (et en France, et partout en Occident) a une cause unique, parfaitement documentée par 60 ans de littérature économique : la pénurie d’offre, créée par la régulation publique. Quand l’offre de logements est artificiellement bloquée par les zonages restrictifs, les permis impossibles à obtenir, les normes empilées, les contrôles de loyers, et les protections excessives qui rendent louer plus risqué que de garder vide, le résultat mathématique est une explosion des prix. Pas à cause d’Airbnb. À cause des élus comme AOC. San Francisco est le cas d’école. Entre 2010 et 2020, la ville a créé environ 50 000 emplois pour chaque 10 000 logements autorisés. Le prix médian d’une maison y a dépassé 1.5 million de dollars. Pas parce que des “billionaires” achètent tout. Parce que la ville interdit littéralement de construire. New York, le district même d’AOC, c’est pire. Les règles de zonage de 1961 sont encore largement en vigueur. Le rent control bloque la rotation du parc. Les permis de construction prennent en moyenne 5 ans. Résultat : un loyer médian à Manhattan qui dépasse 4500$ et des jeunes qui partent en Floride ou au Texas. Pendant ce temps, Houston, qui n’a presque pas de zonage, construit massivement et reste l’une des grandes villes américaines les plus accessibles. Tokyo, qui a libéralisé son marché du logement en 2002, a vu ses loyers stagner pendant que ceux de Paris, Londres, et New York doublaient. Ce n’est pas une opinion. C’est un fait observable. Anecdote personnelle. Quand je suis arrivé à San Francisco pour Y Combinator l’an dernier, trouver un logement a été l’une des expériences les plus surréalistes de ma vie. Des studios à 4000$ par mois, des listes d’attente de 6 mois, des landlords qui demandent 3 mois de caution plus du “key money”, des annonces avec 40 candidats en 24 heures. Pas parce que la ville manque physiquement d’espace. Parce qu’il est interdit d’y construire. Et qui défend ces régulations ? Exactement les gens comme AOC. Ceux qui veulent “protéger” les locataires en gelant le marché, qui finit par les exclure complètement. Maintenant, la partie sur Airbnb est une inversion totale. Airbnb ne crée pas la pénurie. Airbnb existe parce que la pénurie existe. Quand louer en longue durée devient juridiquement et fiscalement absurde (procédures d’expulsion de 18 mois, plafonnements de loyers, taxes punitives sur les revenus locatifs), les propriétaires basculent rationnellement vers la location courte durée. Airbnb est le symptôme, pas la cause. Voulez-vous que les propriétaires reviennent au long terme ? Simplifiez le code locatif, raccourcissez les procédures, supprimez les contrôles de loyers, et la location longue durée redeviendra plus rentable que le tourisme. Le marché s’autorégule, à condition qu’on cesse de l’étrangler. Sur le lobbying, la lecture d’AOC est inversée également. Pourquoi Airbnb dépense-t-il en lobbying ? Parce que la régulation existe et menace son existence à chaque mandat. Dans un marché libre, personne ne ferait de lobbying parce qu’il n’y aurait rien à arracher aux politiques. Le lobbying est l’enfant naturel de l’État interventionniste. Plus l’État régule, plus le lobbying devient rentable. Plus le lobbying devient rentable, plus les grandes entreprises s’installent confortablement dans la rente réglementaire. Plus elles s’installent, plus les nouveaux entrants sont écrasés. C’est exactement l’inverse du capitalisme. C’est du corporatisme étatique. Et c’est AOC qui le crée, pas qui le combat. Sur le mythe des “millions d’évictions à cause d’Airbnb”, les chiffres sont disponibles. Les études sérieuses (Barron, Kung, Proserpio 2021) estiment l’impact d’Airbnb sur les loyers à entre 0.4% et 1.5% selon les marchés. Le zonage restrictif et le rent control, c’est entre 30% et 50% du prix dans les grandes villes (Glaeser, Gyourko). Airbnb est statistiquement du bruit comparé à la régulation. AOC veut nous faire croire qu’un sous-locataire à Bushwick est viré de chez lui parce qu’un cadre de Goldman a réservé un Airbnb. La réalité, c’est qu’il est viré parce que sa ville n’a pas autorisé la construction d’un seul immeuble dans son quartier en 30 ans, alors que la demande explosait. Le pattern politique est toujours le même. La gauche progressiste crée le problème par excès de régulation, puis désigne un bouc émissaire privé pour expliquer le résultat, puis utilise ce bouc émissaire pour justifier encore plus de régulation. Boucle fermée. Toujours la même. L’addiction à la régulation a un nom en économie : le syndrome de l’homme au marteau. Quand votre seul outil est l’État, chaque problème ressemble à un problème étatique. AOC ne peut littéralement pas envisager qu’un problème puisse être résolu par moins d’État, parce que sa carrière entière repose sur la prémisse inverse. La vérité est inconfortable mais simple. Si vous voulez vraiment aider les locataires, les jeunes, les familles modestes, vous voulez plus de logements. Plus de logements veut dire moins de zonage, moins de permis, moins de normes empilées, moins de contrôles de loyers. C’est-à-dire l’exact opposé du programme d’AOC. Le marché du logement n’est pas cassé par excès de liberté. Il est cassé par excès d’intervention. Et les premiers payeurs sont précisément les pauvres qu’AOC prétend défendre. Si vous voulez vraiment le bien des pauvres, arrêtez de toucher au marché. Le marché se régule toujours. Ce qui ne se régule jamais, c’est l’arrogance des gens qui n’ont rien construit et qui pensent savoir mieux que des centaines de millions d’individus comment allouer un toit. Airbnb n’est pas le problème. AOC l’est.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

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Garry Tan
Garry Tan@garrytan·
Journalism is journalism not political activism, but a lot of people in the profession seem to have forgotten
Garrett Langley@glangley

“Snitching ass startup.” That’s what a reporter called us when we started @Flock_Safety. I framed it. Hard work on important issues comes with scrutiny. If it helps more people learn about the dynamics of crime, good. If it helps deliver justice to victims, solve more than a million crimes a year and aid the safe return of more than 10,000 missing people last year alone, great. In 2019 San Francisco voted to restrict use of safety tech by first responders. It was hailed as a victory. Crime rose drastically. By 2024, Flock was brought in to serve. Major crimes fell by 44%. Austin went another way. Its homicide rate is +36% its pre-pandemic baseline, per the Council on Criminal Justice. In Dallas, our support aided a -32% decline in homicide and its lowest violent crime rate in a decade. In Pasadena, with Flock support, overall-crime clearance is 35%. The national average is 20-25%. That outcome? Our "snitching-ass startup” is proud to serve.

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William Meijer
William Meijer@williameijer·
An extreme commitment to the truth makes relationships acutely dysfunctional but systems chronically functional (think Elon Musk). An extreme commitment to kindness makes relationships acutely functional but systems chronically dysfunctional (think Sweden, UK)
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers@Buccaneers·
You'll never guess Rueben Bain Jr.'s favorite villain... 😏
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Amit@Amitp55·
@JCAllenNFL K Scott... Only player to go get
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JC Allen
JC Allen@JCAllenNFL·
Bucs Fans who are you hoping the team selects in the second round?
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Space Investor
Space Investor@SpaceInvestor_D·
$RDW The market still has no clue how big VLEO is about to become. This shift will reshape ISR and comms much faster than people expect. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the big defense primes spark a wave of consolidation and strategic joint ventures to secure their piece of this new orbit over the next 12 to 24 months.
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@JCAllenNFL He would absolutely be a huge upgrade in the secondary. Plays with so much energy and can do so many different things. If Tampa can get him somehow he will be an excellent player for the next DC Tampa gets
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@cybrtrkguy Luckily mine is being replaced today, even though they haven't started working on it. Kind of nuts that this many trucks need to get it replaced all around the same time
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Palantir
Palantir@PalantirTech·
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@LandonTengwall And get the TE involved to help open things up...
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This is a good thing .. too much content allowed for extremely subpar content to be made/written etc by people who probably should not have.. and quality of stories, work, product etc has gone down since the peak of 90s early 2000s. Outside of a few hits most things made for modern audiences are forgettable
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Hollywood studios are making significantly fewer movies and TV shows, resulting in a 30% drop in the industry’s employment from a late-2022 peak 🎬 on.wsj.com/4lZlnA4
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@Jason I don't even know what was said here
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This conference is my favorite season of the year
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country
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@gregauman Things won't be the same without Mike that's for sure. Will forever be missed in Tampa
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Greg Auman
Greg Auman@gregauman·
A message from Mike Evans to Bucs fans: “Forever grateful.”
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@SawyerMerritt I don't think Android phones have this yet
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Sawyer Merritt
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
𝕏 just officially launched the For You timeline filter that allows you to only see posts about topics that you are interested in. You can select multiple topics. Tap the drop down menu button on “For You” at the top of your timeline to access it.
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@avidseries @Noahpinion Nothing actually wrong with that, high performing, actually inspire to be American.. it's what we should want here...
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
When these people use the word "replaced" they mean "having to live in the same country as anyone who isn't white". Their movement is destined to fail.
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@DirtyTesLa Why does it need to make 90 deg turns, when a human takes a more curved turning movement Mad Max changes lanes way too unnecessarily and speed should be the bigger priority over changing lanes only to change back 2 seconds later
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@JohnnyLCKai seeing it on Broadway end of March...
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Johnny Lawrence ( Parody)
Johnny Lawrence ( Parody)@JohnnyLCKai·
The Lost Boys wins 🥇 Clockwork Orange got boatraced but that doesn’t mean it’s not extremely unique and creative as hell. Risks like that in filmmaking are going to capture a segment of the audience and turn off a small amount. Lost Boys is a movie that almost everyone loves and it’s great to watch over and over. #JohnnyLawrenceMovieMadness
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This is #JohnnyLawrenceMovieMadness 128 films in one tournament across all genres and eras that lets you decide which will be number one🎬🏆 There is a poll in the thread for you to vote and please remember to share these so we get more people involved. We’ve got an epic 80s vampire movie with an oiled up saxophone player taking on a movie that is a lot of things and very stylized and goes in some wild directions. (#54 Seed) The Lost Boys VS (#75 Seed) Clockwork Orange #Follow #Share #Vote #Movie #Tournament #Poll #TheLostBoys #ClockworkOrange #Films #Movies #Film #Repost #Trending

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