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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Random land outside of the middle of urban centers isn't that valuable, especially when population isn't growing. What is someone going to do, hold onto it for decades and hope someone buys it from them at a 10x markup and be enou
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
One wonderful thing about Japan is that houses are as much of an investment as toothbrushes. The minute someone uses it, its value drops immensely. 10 years is old but still somewhat livable and generally cheap. Once you get past 20 years,
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Macs are a small market, but Apple definitely sets trends. Once they adopt a technology, people "know" it works and it's safe to switch. If servers can run on cheap ARM hardware that uses less electricity and runs far cooler
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I lived in the PNW and loved that I could take a bus just about anywhere. It was a big draw for me. If it was a hellscape dominated by 26 lane highways and hours of traffic to get anywhere like many parts of the US, I never would've bo
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Plenty of professionals take business trips and present and share their work. It's not unusual to want to carry your work computer home, to a hotel, or to a conference and have enough power to comfortably continue working on it.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Yeah, I've tried switching to other search engines a few times, but one domain where a lot of them really lack is non-English results. Google has increasingly turned to garbage these past few years. But searching anything non-English o
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
That doesn't mean they're currently homeless. Being a Target employee also self-selects for low-wage demographics. Let's say the average target employee is in the bottom 20% of income (likely lower, maybe slightly higher, but
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I think you're responding to the wrong post. I said none of whatever you're aimlessly rambling about.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Seems like we're reverting to an old class divide. Aristocrats who get paid for having money, and peasants working the fields and told there's no money with which to pay them. People might end up finding a solution by looking at h
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
As well as endless newsletter signups in a century where nobody checks their email.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Takayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Fuji, Tokyo, and Nagoya were most definitely full of tourists. Kyoto and Takayama in particular were probably half tourists by population 2 years ago. Those towns are virtually ghost towns now that Chinese tourists a
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
What's truly wild to think about is how eagerly and relatively easily humans completely shaped nature to our desires until recently, and now an uncomfortably large number of people today think any obvious harm being done to the planet
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Those are tourist-heavy towns. They're actively cleaned up to keep tourists wanting to come. It's very different in locations where tourists aren't common, especially post-covid.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
There's science proving that covering your mouth to prevent spread of germs and getting vaccinated doesn't work? That's a bold claim. I'd like to see your science. Signed, person living in a country with almost no ongoin
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I don’t mean to bust your bubble, but I live in a town in Japan with basically no foreigners, but there’s plenty of litter and it’s gotten substantially worse since COVID started and the few foreigners that were here all left. Beaches are a
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
You give your money to X in order to facilitate buying Y. Y is a potential investment opportunity that promises explosive growth. X promises that your money is backed by cash, so there's nothing to lose. People give their money to X an
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I’m 100% against having a ruling upper class and hard labor lower class, especially one determined by nationality. It’s disgusting and something we left behind in the 19th century until international capitalism reinvented it.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Tether takes a bunch of money to facilitate users converting to Bitcoin or other currencies. The maintainers of Tether keep sucking up real money, minting Tether that they claim is backed by cash (real currency), but the real cash backing g
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Keep in mind that the original Ponzi scheme ran for quite a while and even had the media defending it as a great investment. Tether (and most crypto) seems like someone copied Ponzi's original scheme 1:1. Put in some money, transfer it
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Nobody has a switch to just turn off all power in the Philippines either. That wasn't the point. The point is that it's a massive energy waste that grew the same exact way a cancer does--out of virtually nowhere and uncontrollably
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
America, India, and China? Those are fully functioning, massive economies that power the entire world and have people commuting, working, eating, farming, manufacturing, and doing all the normal processes that life entails. Are you saying w
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
So Bitcoin uses more energy than an entire country of 110 million people (the Philippines). That's absolutely nuts. If you said you could reduce an entire country's CO2 emissions to zero overnight, and you had a valid plan to do s
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I hear this a lot. It sounds nice. Yet trying to set up crypto as a person in a developed country in 2021 is kind of a pain in the ass. It's not too hard to exchange between types of crypto, but getting real money that I can buy a pizz