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by itake 10mo ago
I know several people that got cleaned out in IPOs partially due to how taxes work on no-liquidity (lockout) periods. If you IPO'd at $10 ($3 goes to the tax man), and when you can finally sell it 6mo later and stock is only worth abou
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by itake 10mo ago
> I'm not aware of any other country that taxes them like My home's property taxes operate this way. The county calculates the current value of my home and charges me a % of that in taxes every year.
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by itake 10mo ago
Rent control is just the renter’s version of “got mine! Let’s pull that ladder up.” Look wha happened to rent prices in Argentina when they removed rent control.
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by itake 10mo ago
Probably a step in the right direction. But if you can hire someone abroad for 20% of the cost of an American worker, then instead of replacing one American with five workers, you replace them with four.
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by itake 10mo ago
Overseas labor spend their salary overseas and pay no US taxes. still not the samething.
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by itake 10mo ago
The 100k fee on new applicants? drop in the ocean. The h1b people spend (most) of their salary in the USA and pay US income taxes. Whereas overseas labor spend their salary over seas and pay no US taxes.
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by itake 10mo ago
yep. Trump added tariffs on physical goods, but there are no taxes on service imports.
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by itake 11mo ago
The feat, from the perspective you describe, isn't that remarkable. Humanity has tons of projects that meet these exact standards throughout our history: > We built something meant to work for decades, knowing the people who launche
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by itake 11mo ago
That is basically my life. I've visited almost every country in the region this year (+ China and Japan) on a tourist visa. The problem for me personally is this life is stressful on relationships, health, and personal productivity. Sp
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by itake 11mo ago
True. I forgot about Filipino food. Filipino bbq pig was good tho
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by itake 11mo ago
U.S. cities have noise laws. I don’t think Tokyo is considered loud. Yes, temples blasting prayers.
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by itake 11mo ago
Same as Vietnam: No dominate written language at the time of European Colonialization.
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by itake 11mo ago
Vietnam. source: I've been to almost every country in SEA at least 3x. (Brunei was once, never went to Timor-Leste). Check the forex changes and rent prices if you don't believe me. Harder to factor in is visa costs. Vietnam, you
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by itake 11mo ago
> not too polluted Are we talking about the same Bangkok? I'm talking about the Bangkok in Thailand where they literally shut down the schools due to air pollution being so bad [0]. What Bangkok are you referring to? Malaysia is way
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by itake 11mo ago
and air
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by itake 11mo ago
Air quality is terrible. AQI does not lie. It's even worse when you're sitting on the back of a motorbike 6ft away from 10 other gas powered bikes. There is slow adoption of electric vehicles, but still very low adoption rate (lik
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by itake 11mo ago
The teh tarik tea (served in a glass mug! paper cups don't count) is my favorite drink right now. Also Malaysian Indian food is one of my favorite foods (especially the sweet roti).
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by itake 11mo ago
haha, I have not.
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by itake 11mo ago
I spent a month in Jakarta earlier this year and wasn't impressed. Traffic was terrible. I almost missed my flight due to taking a bike over a car, but then it started pouring rain and I had to huddle under a bridge while I waited for
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by itake 11mo ago
I think your numbers match what my cousin shared. In both my conversations with my cousin and in the reddit post, it is unclear if reported salaries are take-home or don't include the OT and bonuses, but I don't get your point? My
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by itake 11mo ago
That is not what I heard from my cousin at TSMC. The OT gives the workers a “living wage”. Most of his coworkers charge OT every week of the year. He admitted, even with their OT and bonuses, he probably makes more than them w2 salaries. Bu
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by itake 11mo ago
its not that the USA can't produce semi-conductors. Its that semi-conductor production, at TSMC's scale (both in terms of number of units, yield rates, and depth) currently requires highly skilled workers to work a lot of their ho
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by itake 11mo ago
yeah, overtime. My cousin is an engineer at TSMC (who worked both in Tainin and now in Arizona) and is w-2 exempt.
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by itake 11mo ago
Perhaps if the US workers earned OT like TW workers do, the "culture" gap would shrink.
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by itake 11mo ago
> What is the winter that is coming? This is not a fair question. The roaring 20s had no idea The Great Depression was coming. Most people didn't see the 2008 crash happening. Ukraine signed agreements with Russia to not be attacked
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by itake 11mo ago
> This is a natural consequence of being an industrially advanced country though. Ok, but then compare the GDP of the USA vs Europe as millennials enter the workforce. Entering the 2008 crisis, USA and Europe were neck in neck. Now, the
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by itake 11mo ago
The standard of living in China is bad for most people. IMHO, they need to expand in order to provide the same lifestyle as offered in the USA. This has the energy of "Why are we building rockets to the moon, when there are homeless pe
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by itake 11mo ago
I think your data agrees with OP, you're just misunderstanding it. Yes, richer countries work few hours and richer countries also see modest GDP growth. Cambodia's GDP growth is over +5% YoY, whereas Switzerland (and the rest of E
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by itake 11mo ago
yeah, I'd like to see hard data on uptimes / reliability between these 2 services before declaring that big = bad and small = good. FlyIO (and Digital Ocean) had horrible up-time when they first got started. In the last 6-12 month

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