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by gottorf 3y ago
Not just work culture; in my opinion, Taiwan is culturally closer to a Chinese-speaking Japan than an extension of mainland China.
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by gottorf 3y ago
You're right, my mistake.
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by gottorf 3y ago
You're absolutely right! My mistake.
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by gottorf 3y ago
I believe the ninety-nine before the decimal point counts as two of the nines, but I'm sure different people word that differently.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Yours for only $135k (starting)! Supposedly it's designed for eight nines (99.999999%, or ~30 seconds of downtime a year) and a MTBF in the decades. I'm curious if at that point, assuming it lives up to it, if other factors outsid
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by gottorf 3y ago
> some dude flailing an open fire door back and forth all day to get a little bit of fresh air in That's hilarious (probably for you as well, in hindsight). Do you feel comfortable naming and shaming this DC, so we know to avoid it?
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by gottorf 3y ago
> But it takes millions to create such movements Such movements are harder to take root in cultures that empower the individual and limit the authority of those in power to direct the lives of millions.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> The people who run most businesses would be perfectly happy delivering nothing at all and bringing in a profit. To be fair, to the degree that your statement is true, then I think most people who are employed by businesses would be per
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by gottorf 3y ago
Who instead should be capable of doing such a thing?
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by gottorf 3y ago
According to this source[0], the bottom 50% of income earners who paid 2.32% of all federal personal income taxes collected in 2020 comprised 10.18% of the share of income. So yes, it is more. [0]: https://www.ntu.org/founda
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by gottorf 3y ago
This hypothesis presupposes the "manna from heaven" concept of wealth, which isn't how it works. Wealth is what people want[0]. There isn't a real limit to what people want, so there's no real limit to what wealth c
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by gottorf 3y ago
> run by a democratic system where the voters are shareholders The more shares you hold, the greater your voice, when it comes to corporate governance. It's not at all the same as the typical idea of democracy as "one person, o
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by gottorf 3y ago
> primarily using progressive taxation It's all well and good to take away from the rich, but where does that tax money, once taken away, end up? You're saying it should be redistributed to those making less money, but what&#x2
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by gottorf 3y ago
If we're just airing what we think about taxation, I think people with low incomes should pay more than they do currently in taxes, so that everyone feels like they have skin in the game. People generally don't take as much care o
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by gottorf 3y ago
> If people were capped to $5 billion Bezos's net worth is basically just the number of shares of Amazon he holds times the price per share that the market arrived at (and continues to arrive at, changing every minute of every day).
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by gottorf 3y ago
> They purport to, yes, but for most of them, when you dig into the details In other words: POSIWID, or "the purpose of a system is what it does" (and not what it purports to do, because anyone can purport to do anything).
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Which is why price signals are one of the dumbest of all possible ways of managing resources. They're a political non-solution to a physical problem. Au contraire; distorting or ignoring price signals is the dumbest of all possibl
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by gottorf 3y ago
I fail to see the relation between people participating in an economy based on a voluntary exchange of goods and services and slavery.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> It seems likely that the only way to become a billionaire is through worker exploitation, collusion, cheating the system through tax evation and asset laundering, etc. What workers did J.K. Rowling exploit to become a billionaire? Did
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by gottorf 3y ago
Perhaps, but perhaps also less presumptuous than anybody who thinks they have an innate right to go to Japan on whatever terms they please.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Just a reminder to all homeowners that the other extreme is also bad; you can't just wire-tape two Romex cables together in an attic and call it a day!
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by gottorf 3y ago
On the other hand, if you meet any of those criteria, perhaps it's not the best use of your resources to be a digital nomad in Japan.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> move towards central planning where you can allocate more intelligently My understanding is that there's a lot of historical evidence to suggest that central planning would do the opposite of better allocating resources. Besides,
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by gottorf 3y ago
> wage growth actually outpaced inflation Other sources paint a different picture; real median personal income is flat[0] (really, within $60 a year), and real median household income is lower[1], compared to pre-pandemic. [0]: https:&#
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by gottorf 3y ago
> The recent bout of inflation is less about monetary policy than about the supply side The fiscal side[0] is probably more to blame than the supply-chain restrictions. Aggregate demand was kept turbocharged since Covid through deficit s
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by gottorf 3y ago
What wealthy customer is going to sue the local ISP over pricing? It's far more likely that garden-variety economic factors are the cause. Imagine: poorer neighborhoods are less profitable (if nothing else, because more people sign up
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by gottorf 3y ago
I'm not justifying higher prices; I'm justifying different prices. There seemed to be an implication that some people wanted higher prices in poorer neighborhoods just to stick it to the poor in wording like this: > You’re argu
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by gottorf 3y ago
> the whole point of the concept of “structural racism” was that mustache-twirling racists aren’t required for modern laws and policies to have a targeted, negative effect on specific minorities You cannot have a targeted negative effect
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by gottorf 3y ago
To assume that those who disagree with you is doing so on the basis of wanting to inflict pain on lower-income people is both intellectually lazy as well as in violation of the HN guidelines, which ask you[0] to follow the principle of char
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by gottorf 3y ago
> tragedy of the commons style issues, like free bathrooms in SF being destroyed or otherwise used improperly This is only incidentally tragedy of the commons, which refers to publicly-accessible things that if individual actors rational

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