The problem with stock markets outside the West is that most of the big important companies are owned privately and cannot be traded publicly

Asia has massive "chaebols", or rich family-owned giant companies who control large parts of their economy, often…

Are public markets where anyone can invest and vote in companies the reason for US wealth?

Is companies mostly being private everywhere else the reason why they're not as wealthy?

Any data on this?

Quoting Michael Bacarella (@mbacarella)

@levelsio some…

Murders in 🇲🇽 Tulum now on a monthly basis and also of foreigners and digital nomads

Hard to promote the "Tulum nomad community" when you risk literally getting shot through the head by drug lords

And it's a tiny town, just 50,000 ppl, insane murder rate…

The very cool @BrilliantMaps made a visual map of Luggage Losers data and put it on /r/dataisbeautiful now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1dsrupw/where_airlines_are_most_likely_to_lose_your/

Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

🗞️ Press coverage…

Any travel luggage insurance site I can link to and get % of $$$ for signups?

Would be nice to monetize 🧳💨 Luggage Losers on day 2

Quoting @levelsio (@levelsio)

The very cool @BrilliantMaps made a visual map of Luggage Losers data and put it on /r/dataisbeautiful…

The rise and fall of 🇵🇹 Lisbon (2020-2024)

Lisbon arrivals have now returned to the levels of 4 years ago, just before it started to explode and suddenly get popular with foreigners and tourists alike

Why? The government stopped the NHR program (to attract…

Austin house prices are falling

Because they immediately started building a massive amount of new homes

That's how an efficient real estate market is supposed to function

More people -> more houses

NIMBY = bad

Quoting Anton Panasenko (@apanasenko)
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Today @Wise CTO's @harshsinha invited me to their Austin, TX office

Wise moved here in 2022 when 🇺🇸 Austin became popular

They've created jobs for lots of people here and Austin is a good example of a place attracting people and companies from outside and…

This photo was taken in 1997 at the Great Wall of China. It shows Jack Ma (the founder of Alibaba) and Jerry Yang (the founder of Yahoo)

Two years before the picture was taken, in 1995, Jerry Yang had founded Yahoo and had become an internet sensation around…

I feel @arrington should buy back TechCrunch for $1 and make it great again

Quoting Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ (@arrington)

Hey @Cookie if you’re open to it we should have a conversation.

I feel @arrington should buy TechCrunch back for $1 and make it great again

Quoting Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ (@arrington)

Hey @Cookie if you’re open to it we should have a conversation.

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Most honest I've ever seen a Western CEO talk about China's rise and maybe a cultural moment where the narrative finally flips

Before: xenophobic political human rights spying arguments

Now: yeah they're extremely competitive right now and we can't lag…

✨ Added [ Change (last 7d ] column to http://luggagelosers.com to show if airlines are improving in the last 7 days:

In this case 🇵🇹 TAP Portugal and 🇺🇸 United are rising fast this week in losing more of people's luggage

While 🇨🇦 Air Canada and 🇬🇧 Jet2…

Went to @joerogan's comedy club yesterday!

🧳 http://LuggageLosers.com now feeds data into ✈️http://AirlineList.com

So you can filter on airlines that don't lose your luggage but also combine it with other stuff like safety, great service, free WiFi and for example mostly/only Airbus planes!

Quoting…

Telegram and X joining forces is my dream

Overnight it would become a social app with 1.7 billion users

Telegram and X are philosophically very close

Both are free speech platforms, both anti establishment, both ran by pragmatic leaders with a lean no…

🐶🐱 Updated [ Pets in cabin ] data so you can filter on airlines that allow you to bring your pet on http://airlinelist.com

I hate the idea of pets being in the cargo hold, better keep it w/ you in cabin

Cuz if a fire breaks out in cargo, they pump Halon…

Fucking Claude man 😂😂😂