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Genuine question: do you have any links you could share regarding the "emulsifiers as detergent" claim? I assume this mainly refers to chemical emulsifiers and not those that are naturally-occuring (like in eggs or garlic).


The theory goes something like this: In a recession investors tend to have a "flight to quality", which usually means buying more government bonds, which pushes their interest rates lower. REITs tend to have relatively higher yields, so in comparison to government bonds, REITs become more attractive and their prices go up as well.

In 2008 all real estate valuations were crushed due to the nature of the crisis, but real estate has historically been a pretty stable asset class in recessionary environments.


Right, perhaps real estate won't be such a focal point of the next recession (beyond a few bubble areas).

So in terms of recession proof REITs - commercial or residential?


Careful on some of those ETFs. Even the residential one is only 50% residential, (its nearly a third health care.) And the global one is 15% residential (its second biggest sector behind retail, and ahead of office, diversified, industrial, specialized, health care, hotel and resort.)

They are more diversified than their names may imply. You may end up with odd overlaps if you dont look at their underlying sector breakdowns.


I tend to agree with you, but Seattle is in a state with 0% income tax, so just because the city’s taxes are rising doesn’t mean they’re net higher than other large cities.


Yes, and Texas also has no state income tax. Both are friendly places to small business.


Which I think is the answer to the puzzle: the job and housing markets matter a lot more than the tax situation.


It seems like this thread proved the opposite of the point you were trying to make -- that Americans are indeed migrating to states with no state income tax?


It hasn't "proved" anything, it's just two cherry picked examples


Texas is not friendly to small business. Small businesses require customers. Texas has a lot of poor people, who typically don't shop. Seattle has a lot of well off people with disposable income. If there are no customers, low taxes don't mean much.


Not relevant to an online tech startup. Also not even true since TX is a very large state with plenty of wealthy people.


Genuinely curious - how do Facebook and Bloomberg compete?


For viewer time and attention I guess. As mentioned by another poster FB stock is up about 50% on the year, the earnings are up a similar amount. I'm skeptical 2017 was that bad for them.


Nitpick - calls are for upside. Puts provide downside protection.


Sorry, you're right -- typo. Put is what I wanted to write. Long day!


There's also realtor.com, which is the official site of the National Association of Realtors.


Very interesting, thanks! Out of curiosity, how soon is "soon" for the expanded data? If you're able to say whether it will be this/next quarter, or this/next year that would be interesting.


What really ended up helping me was getting a pair of Gunnar glasses. Plus, you may be able to get them through a health savings account if you're in the states. A bunch of colleagues now also use Gunnars (or similar) and all have had an improvement in eye strain/pain.

I also use f.lux as well as using saline eye drops at the beginning and end of the day.


My issue is f.lux does not work for multiple monitors - it only dimmed one of them. I could not find any alternative when I looked.


When I lived in London in the late 2000s, dev salaries were shockingly low relative to what we saw in the states both before and after living in the UK.


And most of the rest of Europe is lower than London still.


Congrats on shipping! Quick question, maybe I missed it on your homepage: How do you track what ingredients a user has on hand? Does the user enter each one by hand, by barcode, etc?


Thanks :) and for now by hand. Working on a much quicker way to do this.


Cool, good luck! Also, not sure if this is by design or not, but the header bar (with the about and pricing links) doesn't show up until I've scrolled down past the main splash image. I'm on IE11 and Win10.


It's by design. Thanks for the look out though.


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