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by xwolfi 3y ago
You may misunderstand how the "entire world" thinks about it. I'm French and live in Hong Kong so I'm exposed to a lot of European and Asian real estate experience, have friends with everything from a villa in Vietnam to
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Normally yes: in France we also have 30y fixed-rate mortgages (in fact, nobody sane would do variable: there's no upside except for the bank). If the rate gets way lower, you can pay the advance repayment fee and reborrow, so the bank
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Marrying is a government assurance that your assets will be distributed to the person you signed the marriage contract with upon your death, nothing much more. The government MUST accept it, it s the ONLY value of marriage: it is not an &q
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I was born and raised in France. At 26, I emigrated to China, been 9 years. How much do you think I have to conform vs being myself ? It s not that they re mean in refusing to accept my Frenchness, it's that they cant even care, and if
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by xwolfi 3y ago
It takes a lot of effort, actually. For instance, Im a minority in my current country: cant speak the language well (Chinese), cant write nor read much, dont look like them at all, work in high level jobs they cant relate to for the most pa
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I hesitate. I do see your point, but I find it maybe short sighted: see, pleasing other is self-serving, the more you please them the more they adapt to you. There is an advantage in making others enjoy your existence more, and if we'r
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by xwolfi 3y ago
You know these people who can recite dozens of gun specs, know which bullet pierce which material at which velocity etc, in your country ? It's part of your culture because you discuss guns all the time, well in France, we do the same
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by xwolfi 3y ago
To be honest, I was born and spent my first 23 years in Normandy, never quite could enjoy the real Camembert. I prefer the supermaket ones with less aggressive taste. Ofc I moved to China and now all I can eat is Brie.
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Im French, and when I was 16, I went to New York and was traumatized by the border checks on both ends opening all my luggages in front of everyone (and every other French person had to do it) to make sure I wasnt carrying frigging supermar
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In China we feel safer, strangely. Social media is very policed, reported message are auto scored and disappear quickly even if it does reduce offensive-yet-legal discussion (but is it that bad?). Social media companies are actually terrifi
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Hot air, like most discussion online, especially when children and sex are involved.
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Conformance is an advantage, a way to progress and get what you need or want. I feel weird reading people saying that it would be wrong to try to help people with trouble conforming, conform: what would be the alternative ? Realistically, t
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Depends: I m probably the opposite of someone with autism: I love chatting with strangers, I can dance with girls in clubs until 8am on a whim at the despair of my gf, I m very chatty in general and overshare. I suffer strongly when I see o
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I work in a giant investment bank with hundreds of people who can answer across all time zones. We still f up, we still don't always know where problems lie and we still sometimes can spend hours on a simple DoS. You'll only get b
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Some might, many I think you're dreaming: but that's a market to study. End of the day, americans might want to use their money for more important things than origin of manufacture, and they'd be smart to throw the paper mone
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Especially when you can sell for more something made in France, Italy, Japan or Germany. I think the "made in" chauvinism is a hard sell if it's the USA, especially to US customer: doesn't feel exotic and isn't chea
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by xwolfi 3y ago
What if the ingest system wrongly feeds your blockchain with faulty records? They are saved permanently, sure, but are they correct ? It s like saying that because you kidnapped a bitcoin millionaire and took his key, the blockchain allowin
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But then, by which mean did you "ask yourself the same" ? Or is it that you cannot imagine a conversation ?
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In France we had this big plan to swap batteries near instantly at the charging station, like we did with horses 300 years ago (but it's an old idea since electrical batteries were used to power vehicles everywhere), and tested it in I
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Yeah but petrol cars weren't serviced as well as now when they started (arguably with a much longer range per much faster "charge", maybe). EVs are probably going to be a good idea, it'll just take time. Imagine in 1995
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by xwolfi 3y ago
You're very wrong ! The suffering of the victim matters more than the ability of the culprit to act within a certain legal budget. If someone found a small, legal "act committed = no fine" way to victimize someone to the poin
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But I mean, even my dad died of a motorcycle accident... maybe this dude just did too ?
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When Cathie Wood was asked by Bloomberg, she called 21Shares staff who replied they have cold wallets. She didnt reply "oh ofc we're insured"... 21Shares staff didnt either... Expect a shitstorm in case of hack (or lost keys)
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Imagine you were leveraged long ETF news, then the fake news started then descended in liquidation,your long leverage has been closed and you have no more money to buy now. That fake news cleaned up a lot of leveraged bets up and down.
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It's hot air all the way down !
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None of these ring a bell here in China. My Indian friends are probably unaffected by Carl Icahn, yet the problem is present there too. Social media is an artifact of the internet spreading, it will fade away or we'll adapt to it, but
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Verizon/Comcast don't even exist here, and I live between India and China, almost half of humanity. Are you talking in hyper-local terms ? Peering exist everywhere, and at scale you have to pay, yes.
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It's like saying communism isnt the problem, but that it s how every single group attempted to implement it that should be blamed. Sure, maybe, but if nobody ever can implement the theoretical utopia, maybe we should talk of things hum
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Probably because there's a very low value in building message streaming framework once you've done the basics: how do you come to, say, a trading broker and say "your order management system could be just as fast with my othe
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Even funnier is that there is no Social Credit System in China, not the way you think there is. There is no record of small offences by the billion and a half Chinese, we're barely even able to maintain proper records in general, let a

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