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by monting 8mo ago
Debt is not fundamentally bad. But the financing has to be justified by positive return, be it in the service itself that makes money back to pay off the debt, or as a public good, returns in the form societal benefit as a result of the ser
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by monting 8mo ago
By racking up debt of epic proportions, with no return on investment in sight. All the while going into a demographic death spiral. Partly cause by the draconian 1-child policy, which attempted to fix the pronatalist policies of Mao.
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by monting 8mo ago
China benefited greatly from the US-led globalism order that's been going on since WWII. Another way of saying it is China took the most advantage. And it has gone way overboard in taking advantage. So the backlash is expected and nece
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by monting 8mo ago
The "good thing" they did, is stopping their actions which causes millions to starve. Which lead to people getting themselves out of poverty.
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by monting 8mo ago
They "eliminated" extreme poverty caused by communist control in the first place, by going to a capitalist system. There were tons of economic low-hanging fruits by building out large infrastructure projects, which corruption happ
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by monting 3y ago
There's no free healthcare... Families are bankrupted by sickness in the family. If anyone did the "lifting", it's the global markets with their conditional entry into the WTO. Almost all the conditions are still not met
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by monting 3y ago
They weren't "lifted". They stopped their policies, lasseize faire, and the market took care of the rest. Now they're back at it again, impeding.
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by monting 4y ago
It brings me no joy to say this. Taiwan's numbers looks good on paper (until you dig further), but the reality on the pavement, or lackthereof, is dire. The noise, air, visual pollution are as bad as it was from 30 years ago, maybe wor
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by monting 4y ago
I recently spent 3 months in Tokyo and I have say, that the quality of life, service, food, consumer products, safety, air/noise pollution, are the best I've seen anywhere. It's especially pleasing given that the prices are v
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by monting 4y ago
You folks ought to spend some time in Taiwan. I'm in Tokyo now, was in TW for a couple of years prior. Tokyo is extremely beautiful in comparison. (I'm Taiwanese Canadian)
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by monting 4y ago
I'd say practicing non-dualism à la Zen Buddhism helps a lot. In short it helps see through preconceived (or any form of) notions, such that one doesn't become attached, including to the notion of becoming unattached itself. It po
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by monting 6y ago
Consecration: The Final Recordings It's recorded weeks before his death. There's something special in his later performances.
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by monting 6y ago
I’d actually recommend Taichung as well. Much more affordable than Taipei, and more spacious. Air quality has regressed though, because they shut down the nuclear power plant after Fukushima.
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by monting 6y ago
Taipei is actually pretty OK. Other cities in Taiwan, not so much.
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by monting 6y ago
I have a 49” curved too! But it’s a UHD TV so it’s four 24” 1080p screen in one! Three/two portrait windows is great for reading, reducing scrolling.
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by monting 6y ago
It took way too long for me to realize that this isn't a product where one stores/sends famous words from smart people. Otherwise, looks great!
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China and Huawei propose reinvention of the internet(ft.com)
14 points by monting 6y ago|2 comments
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by monting 7y ago
Seems that Apple encrypts Notes data in transit and on server https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 Is it IMAP that's the concern?
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by monting 7y ago
>macOS offers exposé for that purpose, but it is unfortunately not keyboard operable. Agree with this. Ctrl + ↑ triggers exposé. But the windows cannot be selected with the keyboard, unlike Ctrl + ↓, which triggers exposé(?) within the c
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Flutter 1.2 Launch(developers.googleblog.com)
9 points by monting 8y ago|0 comments
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by monting 8y ago
Don’t mean to sound defensive (I’m not American), and I mostly agree with you. But, from a non-European perspective, Europe doesn’t seem to be doing well? It seems the EU is slowly disintegrating, and the monetary union isn’t working. Also
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by monting 8y ago
The setup is fantastic for me, and would be even better with 8K screens. I'm running at native resolution, so not doing the "sitting far away" option. "More screen space than you can actually see" - This is somewhat
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by monting 8y ago
Been waiting and looking forward to 8k. It would make a significant difference for me. I use a UHD/4k 40" TV as a monitor, running at native resolution. It's essentially four 1080p 20" screens in one. The pixel density i
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by monting 8y ago
That’s a tough situation, I feel for you. Not implying this is the solution, but I’m curious if you’ve tried ketogenic diets/fasting? They induce mitochondrial biogenesis, and appear to affect immunity positively. *edited spelling
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by monting 8y ago
I've been using nanobox.io for a couple of new Elixir projects, am very satisfied so far. Using nanobox to deploy to Digital Ocean, but I believe they also support GCP. Also been using Heroku for some Elixir apps in production.
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by monting 9y ago
Curious, so are you running as a sole proprietor? Wouldn’t it be eligible for the small business deduction?
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by monting 11y ago
Very nice. Shameless plug on a lightweight (~50 lines of code) Chrome extension I wrote called Tab Extract to attack the too-many-tabs-open problem from another angle: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-
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Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits(blogs.wsj.com)
6 points by monting 11y ago|0 comments
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SlackWithUs – a curated list of 30+ regional startup-focused slack communities(slackwithus.com)
9 points by monting 11y ago|2 comments
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Startup Community Slack Channel for Toronto(startup6ix.com)
2 points by monting 11y ago|0 comments

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