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    Sidecar, Peche, Casamento’s (best in town but prob closed for August), Station 6, Clesi’s. All the spots by the lake (R&O, etc) and Mid-City (Mandina’s, Liuzza’s) etc are pretty family friendly.
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    If anyone is visiting soon, I’m really curious about Mr. Mao’s, which just opened in the old Dick & Jenny’s place (where I had an awful meal several days before it closed after Mardi Gras 2020). It’s gotten tons of press so far and all the cool kids in the NOLA food scene seem to be raving about it. Heading back for a week during Jazz Fest and this, Miss River and Seafood Sally are at the top of my list.
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    Definitely. Going to Greece and France soon so would really like some clarity here.
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    I think Nina Compton has really come into her own in the past two years as the next great New Orleanian chef. I think CL and BAB are more exciting than when they opened and hit one of them each trip.
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    That’s insane, but having made the reverse move from ATX to SF I’m familiar with the mindset. I don’t see the exodus to Austin stopping soon. The market for engineers is hot right now and that talent pool is pushing for remote work. The Bay Area ‘burbs exploded this past year, as did Seattle and Portland, two other favored destinations. So if I’m paying $1M to live in fucking Concord, suburban Austin would seem like a pretty logical choice for me. I will be interested to see how the inevitable COL pay adjustments will affect the market.
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    RIP Bunny Matthews.
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    Did you read one of the recent articles stating almost half of the homes in the San Francisco metropolitan area have ac? That includes Berkeley and Oakland, which generally are 10 degrees hotter and regularly hit the 80s-90s without the moderating protection of the ocean. AC is virtually nonexistent in SF and many other coastal towns in NorCal, so I imagine things must be pretty rough right now for people up north.
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    Have you ever lived in the PNW? Air conditioning is not common. 75 right now still probably feels terrible inside. I thought I could handle my first heatwave when I moved to San Francisco (about 5% of homes have AC) from Texas, but 80 degrees at 2 am made sleeping miserable.
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    Now that is how you do Monday in New Orleans.
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    He was Asian, and it was an Asian frat (I think we were in school at the same time). The cotton thing was KA and perhaps apocryphal, it was before our time. But really the biggest event of our time was the SAE pledge who fell off a balcony in towers. That impacted the university’s scrutiny on the Greek system for years. The southern frat thing is kind of a scene. It’s hard to explain. Basically just kids trying too hard to be the southern version of preppy. But as for the racism (which I found to be endemic), I think it’s best viewed as an expression of elitism and immature kids beginning to understand the significance of their socioeconomic backgrounds.
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    Yeah Ole Miss, Alabama etc were viewed as the apotheosis of fraternity culture when I was in 10 years ago. Doubt that’s changed.
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    No, they wouldn’t have time or the inclination to go through pledgeship. It’s very rare.
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    Domilise’s reopened indoors so would be a good lunch spot. Turkey and the Wolf as well. Sundays are great at Bacchanal.
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    It ain’t dere no mo’.
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    I was curious and pulled Amazon’s proxy. Bezos has never received equity compensation. I mean it makes sense, but I was still pretty surprised for a second. He takes a nominal $80k salary plus has company-paid security (which is standard), but has been living off his founder shares for twenty years. Damn.
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    I’d think it’s almost certain he signed off on it, and chuckled at the credit. I don’t care either way and find it funny as well, but there’s no way his people filed his return without his sign off.
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    Would a wealth tax regime also pick up private equity funds in which individuals are LPs? I imagine the valuation exercise for that would be a total mess.
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    That’s actually what I meant (I work on these frequently for clients from the corporate side and was thinking of “operations” in a different sense). I was simply making the point that Microsoft is not a monolithic entity but rather probably a hundred or so entities set up around the world to enable global operations, and tax efficiency and planning of course drive structure. As a corporate lawyer I don’t see anything wrong with that (why would one choose to be less efficient?), but that doesn’t mean I don’t support to concept of increasing corporate taxation either.
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    It is. Microsoft needs to set up foreign subs in foreign markets to do business. As with many companies, onshoring IP to Ireland has become the most tax efficient structure for non-US operations.
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    I feel like we glossed over the actual Facebook post he literally copied and pasted from.
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    June 15 has been the state’s targeted full reopening date and that train doesn’t seem to be stopping. The mask mandate will largely end but given how strict places are here in the Bay I’d bet quite a few places hold onto it for indoors.
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    No, you literally asserted, without any basis, that CRT curriculum legislation had passed, which was false. Or, you were being conceptually lazy with terminology and making dubious assertion not accepted by those knowledgeable of the subject. And I LOL’d because that basically sums up the article about the WA bill fight.
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    Lol.
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    Yes, I think those “other parents” are morons who watch too much Tucker, not concerned intellectuals with PhD’s.

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