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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?
Harry Heymann 🥑
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Harry Heymann 🥑
@harryh
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.
- 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 otherThis 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.
- Twitter & Square employees should demand very large nominal raises this year to keep up with hyperinflation.Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening.
- Replying to @vsbuffalo and @jessesingalSomeone 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.
- Replying to @devintoshea and @jacobinThis 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.
- 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
- Replying to @odannyboyGoogle: 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.
- Replying to @buccocapitalIf 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.
- Replying to @micsolanaI have an important update from Micah’s LinkedIn page:
- 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.
- Replying to @jacobin@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.
