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by alephnan 5y ago
Forbidding people would only punish your normal ex-pats. The billionaires can just dock their yachts in international waters.
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by alephnan 5y ago
Foreign banks in nations with treaties with the United States require you to file a special form to the IRS when opening a bank account, furthermore they will report information on your bank account to the US government.
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by alephnan 5y ago
Cyprus gives you access to the EU while being a tax haven. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-g...
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by alephnan 5y ago
Yes, for every 10,000 millionaires we have a few Eric Schmidts. There are still hundreds of billionaires in the states, and they can still access tax havens regardless of renouncing citizenship.
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Hence, my point about the power-law / exponential distribution. Take the logarithm of the number of people who renounce citizenship and you will have the number of people with outsized influence.
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by alephnan 5y ago
> while simultaneously holding most of the influence. There are 20 million millionaires in the states. This is not even 10,000 people year over year with assets, not even net worth, over $2 million. This is a tiny fraction of the populat
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> an employee drinking beer at their desk in the morning What’s wrong with that ?
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by alephnan 5y ago
Singapore has 1/10th the population of South Korea, and 1/20th the population of Japan. Singapore has less than 1% of South Korea's land mass, which is 25% of Japan. It's not a fair comparison on the scale of the infrast
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by alephnan 5y ago
> I think Tokyo has this too but I agree. Yes, but it's not common. I live here. Maybe in certain wards that have more international residents, such as Minato.
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> The trains running in the subways are much newer, cleaner, and wider than the ones in NYC or Tokyo or Paris or London (based on my own observation). One of the complaints I had from my SK friend is that other subway platforms don&#x27
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by alephnan 5y ago
> South Korea has plenty of problems, social Social problems to what cultural viewpoint?
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> Tokyo largely feels like it was frozen in time. Economically, Japan has been in stagnation since the late 80s.
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by alephnan 5y ago
Wait. Korea was just updated to a developed country last month ?!?! > South Korea’s rise to a middle power status comes without much historical baggage In terms of technological, industrial and infrastructural innovation, SK has less &#x
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What’s not mentioned is companies collectively want to waste candidate’s time. If candidates have less time for interviews, they will have less offers/counter offers to use as leverage
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by alephnan 5y ago
I left a hedgefund interview loop for this reason. I finished the 7th on-site interview. After I left NYC and flew back home, they wanted a 8th ( phone screen ) interview because one the interviewers lost the results. On the one hand, this
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by alephnan 5y ago
> the concept of "Hey, maybe we can do things without x86 processors running Windows" is never discussed M1 running Mac OS X.
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What are examples of frivolous things ?
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There are many startups that double is size every year or even a matter of months. Derivative matters in the context of size
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by alephnan 5y ago
Seems like a massive waste of resources and hurting the planet, and also hurting the merchants
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You can be friends with old people too :p
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I'm curious why we don't see converted TV towers in the States.
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> health insurance but arranging it from overseas is very difficult due to bureaucracy, literacy etc. I’ve actually never heard of anyone I know in Vietnam having health insurance. Kind of a weird idea to me. Why can't you just keep
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by alephnan 5y ago
There's also a phenomenon where migrants are more likely to cling to their prototypical tradition than people who stay. For example, the Taiwanese use traditional Chinese whereas Mainland China use simplified Chinese. Or the orthodox J
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by alephnan 5y ago
> high standard of living And that's why I took a 60% salary cut to live in Japan. > low unemployment I don't think Japan having lower unemployment than other developed countries is an indicator that other countries are wors
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by alephnan 5y ago
> it is uncertain whether you can educationally get all people up to that level. Japan has one of the most educated populace. > use the humans for higher economic value tasks People are under-employed. There is also the social expecta
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by alephnan 5y ago
> I was both amazed at the organization I used to be impressed by the organization, but as I look at my shelves of Muji document filers, I realized the organization is necessary.
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by alephnan 5y ago
> even today it can cost between 2-8% just to remit funds Does this number include Remitly / Transferwise or referring to Western Union?
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by alephnan 5y ago
I'm curious how well this works for evaluating physicians
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by alephnan 5y ago
Yesterday I learned about the case of Michael P. Fay that left a strain on US-Singapore relations. Michael Fay was an American who was sentenced to caning by the Singaporean court. The United States felt this practice archaic. One of Singap
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by alephnan 5y ago
> Makes you wonder if there is a modern equivalent overzealous belief system in the west that has caused country after country to to fall into revolution and disarray. This is quite a profound point. Thank you!

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