alephnan

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by alephnan 5y ago
Sometimes it’s not about the money. As for prestige, that depends on which social circle you’re in or what street creds matters to you. In some ways, working for a big tech conglomerate can be seen as being a sellout in more artistic circle
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Could it be the Japanese have a different taste palette and good American food actually tastes too rich for them ?
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> Strange Nights, and Some Days Too: Why You’ll Love Japan, for About a Year"[2]. Thanks for this. Sounds about right. I'm approaching the 1 year mark, still love Japan, still think it's better than America even though I m
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> supports one of the best healthcare systems in the world. Japanese people have the highest hygiene and intelligence on the matter. They have to be, they've been densely populated for centuries. However, there were new articles of
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I would not say it's Tokyo as a whole that is thoughtful. It's the individual designer which was thoughtful. Where Tokyo/Japan aided is by being receptive and giving the designer autonomy.
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Japan and Tokyo works because people "make themselves small". Whether that is wearing your backpack on the front on the subway, wearing a mask, sharing communal spaces, or not shilling dogecoin. Most foreigners grow contemptuous o
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He was a class or so above me in university and, being a public university, it was competitive to get into courses. There were more student interest than class availability, so slots filled up quick. Students also squatted spots for their b
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I noticed a peculiar 'Sec-CH-UA-Platform' that Chrome was sending. Indeed, the W3C draft and other documentation about this on the internet point back to Google being the promoting of this header. I have a cynical view that this b
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W3C User-Agent Client Hints ( SEC-CH-UA-* HTTP Headers)(wicg.github.io)
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When they lie, do they say they are a non-white model minority ?
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Ask HN: What would you change about the AWS, Azure or GCP Web UI?
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> charging developers who in turn typically charge the consumers. It’s like Visa, restaurants will charge all customers including cash paying ones more too. So the Visa card holder, isn’t incentivized not to use it.
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Spacebook
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As you say, it's an ice cube, not a water cube, so yes.
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Are YC Offers Negotiable?
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by alephnan 5y ago
> What could we not know about water? It’s wet! It’s not. Things that have water on them are wet, water is not.
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Government payments and certain civilian contracts have to be settled on legal tender. Utilities, hospitals, have to accept it as payment. Taxation purposes.
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> Think VS code that is fast, beautiful, & programmable But I think VS code are already those things
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Or maybe educational rates affect how honest people in these surveys
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Second Largest Mortgage Lender to Accept Bitcoin(cnbc.com)
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Google maps which descended from Google Earth provides a map of Earth as seen from a satellite. Museums might want a control of their experience without having to collaborate with Google. Or, Fantastical maps for video game or nerdlore.
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by alephnan 5y ago
> You have a duty not to comply. If you're making income in America, you owe US tax taxes. If you are a permanent resident of the United States, you owe US taxes. Whether the IRS is using mafia tactics or not, what you are describin
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by alephnan 5y ago
This title would be less click-baity if it was 'People renouncing their citizenship are wealthy' because I don't think poor people can afford to. That says nothing about whether poor people are more or less interested in doin
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> Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi told reporters Page had applied for a medical exemption Is the healthcare system in New Zealand better than the states?
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> It's no different than ireland (same % taxation), are they both tax havens? Any country can be a tax haven if you're not already living there and rich enough to negotiate special terms. Greece and Cyprus offers citizenship-by
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by alephnan 5y ago
> "barely middle class". Inflation. Being a millionaire or having a six figure salaries used to have much more weight during the 80s. Pretty much any senior level engineer at FANG can be a millionaire if they saved, but they c
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by alephnan 5y ago
You are assuming 100% of these people are moving to countries with lower taxes. That's simply not true. In fact, countries that have high standard of living usually have equal or higher taxes than the states. Contrary to what you may a
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There's this idea floating around in this thread that people get rich, then get richer in and then leave to evade taxes. If optimizing for money really was people's intention, it's much more optimal to leave before you become
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> So you have to find a job and a house in Cyprus I think Eric Schmidt can afford that > you know that you pay taxes on the country you live & work in Yes, I know this. I live abroad. Yes, every country has taxes. The tax rates ar
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by alephnan 5y ago
Being upset about this is like feeling Roth accounts are unfair.

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