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by shell0x 8d ago
https://www.iras.gov.sg/taxes/individual-income-tax/basics-o... If you're well paid expat, it might not be the worst as well. You save so much on income tax in Singapore, but consumption is expensive. I'
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by shell0x 8d ago
That's a good call-out actually. I haven't thought of people with kids.
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by shell0x 8d ago
I said I never needed a car there :) I can get anywhere by cab in like < 30 mins so I never saw the need to have one. However there are plenty of ultra rich people living there and also many driving luxury cars. It's also a status s
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by shell0x 8d ago
A basic commuter car costs over S180,000( US135,000) due to a compulsory 10-year quota license (COE/certificate of entitlement) that alone costs S$100,000+, plus registration taxes scaling up to 320% of the car's base value. Total
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by shell0x 24d ago
Thanks, that’s what I’m currently using too.
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by shell0x 24d ago
Thanks, that’s a fair comment. I definitely have no marketing experience :)
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by shell0x 24d ago
Would you mind sharing your local Mac setup and which models you currently use and whether it’s GGUF or MLX? I’ve the hardware same specs.
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by shell0x 1mo ago
What would you do if you’re 30 years old now? As a platform engineer being based mainly out of Australia/Hong Kong, opportunities seem to be getting less unless targeting high frequency trading or banking. It seems like building a star
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by shell0x 4mo ago
Taobao and Temu are great. The quality is not always amazing, but the prices are low and many sellers even offer customisation. In Australia, the product selection is often limited, and a lot of local stores are just reselling Chinese-made
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by shell0x 4mo ago
Temu Ferrari
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by shell0x 4mo ago
I’m planning to take an iPad air on a trip and thought about getting a bluetooth keyboard too. What do people generally recommend for travel? I don’t plan to use it for extensive periods of times, mainly writing some emails/docs/n
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by shell0x 4mo ago
Good job paying that off. I’m sure Australia has benefits for some but without kids, not having grown up here, paying my own insurance and not driving I don’t really see it.
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by shell0x 4mo ago
They would be much worse off if they stay in their own country and they even get 1 day rest per week.
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by shell0x 4mo ago
I lived in Singapore and Hk before, don’t drive, work from home and countries are pretty much interchangeable. I left Germany for high taxes for a reason. I pay private medical so don’t benefit much from tax anyway. No kids, no car, paid of
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by shell0x 4mo ago
Taxes are a financial loss. I preferred living in Hong Kong and Singapore and do not enjoy living here honestly, but if you treat it as payment for my+partner’s backup citizenship, it seems more justifiable.
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by shell0x 4mo ago
You realize this is the standard in Asia right? They only cost like 2.5k a month which is pretty good value https://www.life.gov.sg/guides/domestic-helper https://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/services/
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by shell0x 4mo ago
I can get PR in Singapore through my partner, so no 60%. Company paid medical and everything so expat life and no responsibilities. And if I were ever have to have kids, you can’t hire a maid here sleeping at your apartment and you have to
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by shell0x 4mo ago
If you live in inner Sydney, the rent alone is $1350 pw and tax is ridiculous. I basically sold my stocks to have a down payment but then that got added on top of income. If i’d have stayed in HK, i’d have paid 0% for that. I just treat it
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by shell0x 4mo ago
I could as a German but my partner has a weaker passport so I’m just waiting till she got her australian passport
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by shell0x 4mo ago
The tax is already bad here, even without it. I paid $89,000 taxes just for the last financial year because stock gains are added up on top of the income and my partner doesn’t work and there’s no family support allowance here. I can apply
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by shell0x 4mo ago
Skilled people have O visas. The H1Bs are the ones you don’t want long-term.
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by shell0x 4mo ago
That makes sense to me. If you come on a non-immigrant visa, you can’t become a permanent resident easily. it’s a privilege, not a right. Other countries like the UAE also take a lot of foreign workers but do not want them become PRs or cit
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by shell0x 4mo ago
“Meta blocks Western propaganda from reaching the Middle East” would be a good title
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by shell0x 5mo ago
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by shell0x 5mo ago
refs/pull/1234/head is missing
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by shell0x 5mo ago
copilot review and copilot agent I’d assume. The API is flaky for me, pull requests don’t show up in the list anymore and webhooks are failing
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by shell0x 5mo ago
Yeah screw these people wasting police time and suppliers time. The cops should just start fining them.
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by shell0x 5mo ago
I bought a Mac Studio with 128gb RAM and M4 Max a year ago for local LLMs. 96gb memory doesn’t seem to be sufficient?
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by shell0x 5mo ago
My employer does that too and people don’t even read or review code anymore.
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by shell0x 5mo ago
Not just America, the whole West is in decline IMHO.Hong Kong is also done after the China security law. I’m planning to move back to Asia, where I lived for like a decade. The work culture is harder but it feels much safer, better food, mo

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