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I think the analogy of tofu is that it is the “cheese” of Chinese people. This analogy captures a bit of variety found in both cheese and tofu.
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Professor at top university like MIT should automatically come with green card.
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“Live” experience through VR is going to be big. There will be a point at which the VR experience will be better than the “nosebleeds” (they may already be). At that point this really expands the audience for live shows. Webcam experiences
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Article is easy to dismiss Google's / big tech's recent achievements, but totally ignores the significant fraction of conference papers (e.g. NeurIPS) that come from these big tech companies.
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Assuming the author is familiar with the tech industry, this author seems to be engaging in dishonest arguments to portray tech as "bullshit". The writing is subtle to avoid interpreting the 6-hour focused work survey, but writes
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Bach is definitely the greatest achiever in music of all time. His fame also took a long time to establish. He was well known during his life but nothing like the mythical legend he is now today.
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Not being able to buy a $1 2023 product does not mean the poorest of the poor in 2023 would be richer than the richest in olden times. Rockefeller and Carnegie were (and still is) absolutely richer than most people today even though they w
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Seems like these issues can be solved with a lucrative offer: 1. Get a full time nanny. 2. Buy a home at a desirable neighbourhood.
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It’s similar to asking whether students need to go to university to learn a subject when everything there is to learn is available at the touch of a keystroke. Technically not needed, but turns out it is really beneficial to be with likemin
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Can you compare safety concerns and overall quality with other major cities in the world? Hard to judge an international city using only American standards.
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Another useful technique in understanding a topic is to find is to simple (but nontrivial) examples and make sure one can solve them fully and easily. Then slowly add complexity from that example to gain insight to more challenging cases.
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The transistor or vaccine argument is a poor argument because no one during Victorian era was able to purchase that. One looks instead relative to other countries in the same time frame, to ask if a country is richer or poorer. In this case
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Can you elaborate on why you think colonialism is not profitable? The English and Dutch seemed to have benefited tremendously from their overseas colonies. Eg estimate is 45 trillion wealth transfer from India to England https:/&#x2F
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I’ll add that the average German in a major city like Berlin can be housed within walking distance to a local bakery, grocery, school/day care, and work. For Americans, long commute times from their presumably bigger homes is common..
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If this lifestyle involves having two kids or more, then Germany wins hands down
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Difficult to compare usa vd European countries due to size differences. Better to compare individual states vs European countries. How does California compare with Norway Is better than usa vs Norway.
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Good to see some R programmers around despite the dominance of python in data science these days.
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Another perk to consider are companies that offer on site day care. Really a game changer knowing your day care is handled.
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Here is house to gold ratio: trend is surprisingly cyclicle https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-estate-gold-ratio/
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When you buy car, fly planes, or shop at Amazon, you do not get a discount for living in a low cost of living area. So the bigger number matters because many products are the same price ecerywhere in the world.
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You could, but then that would be bad analysis. A more reasonable approach is a linear model.
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There was some story once that a quality handmade tailored suit costs about the same amount of gold centuries ago compared to today. Would love to see this fact checked.
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Schools, restaurants, and infrastructure like public transport are better in big city than small.
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True if you save zero or negative percent of your earnings. If you always save 10 percent of your earnings, then clearly the multiplier works in your favour.
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To be more precise : wages in big cities are high. Most “things” are made in low cost of living / low wage areas. Therefore, paying a local to cook for you is expensive. Buying a kitchen knife made by someone in a low cost of living ar
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That first 2014 article on Bay Area housing is more relevant than ever 10 years later. amazing. https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
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Buy a textbook and do the exercises at the end of chapters…
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Omg a one time payment for software? What is this the 90s. So refreshing.
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Immigrants can vote with their feet. They need to get out of Europe to show them how much (or not) immigration benefits the region. If you’re a refugee though this doesn’t apply obviously. The example of uk losing a lot of European “immigra
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Adobe subscriptions are ridiculous. I only wanted to use it for one month. Ended up paying for a year. Figma has been much more pleasant. I fear the worst now that Adobe bought Figma.

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