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4mo ago
Or just facilitate some sort of remote work arrangement with occasional site visits for that much.
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6mo ago
I'm white and far enough off the beaten tourist track that I've literally been questioned about why I'm going where I'm going by Grab Drivers a few times. I wouldn't say I get stared at perse but have had like Mamak workers come and be very curious a few times. The family's super accommodating, which helps. Generally everybody KL-adjacent will have some English, though I'm not a huge fan of KL itself (It's fine but generic SEA capital).
Food is great, my main personal limitation is I can't really train my preferred combat sports since I'm 99th percentile for size in the West.
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8mo ago
So long as you're not obnoxious about it there's nil incentive for them.
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8mo ago
Also surely decent delta of 'significant health event which disqualifies him from the presidency without actually killing him'
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4mo ago
He did seem to have better days during the campaign. Obviously a question if that was an 'average day' and the better days were the 99th percentile ones, but also a presidential debate probably not the best place for a person in his situaation.
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5mo ago
I had no particular knowledge of the case coming into the article, felt it was weird that it was a female/male duo perpetrating (especially when the article had the female party be very hands on with the violence and whatnot) then it dawned on me.
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5mo ago
Also like 10,000 fairly durable easily stored items a lot easier to get around an embargo than millions of liters of oil
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6mo ago
Do they specifically need the PHD? Like I don't know details but unless they're expecting the Lawyers to have done novel research into pharmaceuticals that feels like overkill to acquaint themselves with the industry.
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6mo ago
Yeah. I was raised in a family with pleasant pet dogs and I'm broadly pro-dog, but having been to parts of the world where dogs are either working animals or mangy strays I can understand why there's an aversion.
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6mo ago
I like dogs but I perfectly understand why people would not like dogs, and therefore my dogs remain in classically dog-appropriate spaces. Also insane when people try to equivocate this issue with children/babies when one is a stage of development that literally everybody went through.
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8mo ago
From memory Trump got to like 60-70% chance to win in betting markets.
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8mo ago
They could just have had a somewhat flawed process that happened to align with the final consensus last time. These things are such tiny sample sizes.
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10mo ago
Still there are going to be grey areas where you have retained enough mental faculties to not be 'gone' but you are still nonetheless a burden in the utility scale.
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10mo ago
My wear and tear on the structure and the aging waterheater and whatnot are round off errors in the property value.
Exactly. Amount of people I know who renovate and then try to claim that the 5% appreciation in their house's value in the time it took them is value added instead of just underlying market fluctuations is insane to me
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5mo ago
I feel like the 'solo queue' experience in a 5v5 game is almost perfectly calibrated to give the right ratio of controlling your own destiny and being able to blame your teammates in order to be addictive. If it's 1v1 and you suck, you suck and you get handled and you likely drop the game (Common issue for fighting games). If it's large team v team, it's hard to really get attached to the win/loss element since you're likely not capable of doing enough to single-handedly swing things.
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5mo ago
Even if hardware becomes significantly cheaper, I am not sure that it would become economically competitive at things like fruit-picking any time in the near future. It's just really cheap to hire a third world indentured servant to pick the fruit, rather than buying a robot. Now the Uber drivers and so on, sure. I feel bad for them and I hope that they are planning post-AI careers. Self-driving cars are still limited in some ways, and there is no way I would trust one to drive me 100 miles on the highway, but at least now they can usually roam a city effectively. But there are many jobs where it's hard for me to imagine AI becoming economically competitive against humans any time in the near future.
Ironically I'd probably trust an AI car more on the highway than in an urban area. Higher speed, but far less complexity and random variables compared to a Pedestrian & Obstacle rich area.
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6mo ago
Yeah but once you're in charge of such a large organism it's just as much macroeconomic trends and the work of 1000s of random cogs than it is straight up 'Guy A is a great CEO since company did well, Guy B is bad CEO since company did poorly' when they're likely unable to meaningfully steer the ship. My personal experience with Indian skilled immigrants is that the main advantage they have over other groups is being superduper willing and proficient at 'playing the corporate game'. Aggressively gaming KPIs, driving to tick every box and get every possible ingroup referral when applying for roles and generally showing a great savvy at the game of bureaucracy. I was kind of amazed in University seeing how my overseas Indian friends would go about applying for graduateships/internships versus people from other cultures, in how it was systematized and how collaborative a front there seemed to be even from Indians of vastly different geographic origins.
Like corporate entryism is mostly bullshit fugazi busywork for HR so I'm not against the hustle, but I think that relentless targeting of the rules of engagement is the main reason for Indian success as immigrants. Moreso than 'brilliance at the task at hand' and like should it particularly offend me that some person who is a 9.5/10 at leetcode and resume optimization but a 6/10 coder gets the Google graduateship over a 7/10 coder who didn't ruthlessly squeeze out every edge to get their butt on the seat when the job's likely to be pointless floundering busywork anyways?
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10mo ago
Yeah but the tribe that's generally pro-abortion also tends to be pro public healthcare spending and bottomless purse spending on life extension for the elderly and/or their pets.
Which is the confusing issue here since based on all other Blue Tribe beliefs you'd think they'd really be the pro-lifers and vice-versa for the Conservatives. The whole script gets flipped essentially for this one issue.
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10mo ago
Medical expenditure on squeezing out those last few years far greater than the cost of just being elderly, though. Not only is the person not being productive, suddenly they've got a raft of major intervention surgeries and therapies.
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10mo ago
China cultural exports is also a weird one since there's such an international sinosphere that there's plenty of stuff that has been adapted from regional Chinese markets (Cantopop, Hokkien Dramas from Taiwan etc) for broader adaption across the Chinese sphere without really making a blip on anglos.
I've got a Malaysian-Chinese partner and thus probably consume more Sino content than most people. I've enjoyed some of the modern output (Yolo was actually really fun as a boxing movie but also riddled with a bunch of weird diversions from the standard Western tropes that I found fascinating as a culture study).
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4mo ago
I thought the Malaysia one was considered probably a suicide now?
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6mo ago
My wife's originally from a part of Malaysia just outside of Kuala Lumpur (and plugging into her upper middle class Chinese family network makes the financial/cultural shift way more manageable than if I was proverbially fresh off the plane). Having spent a decent amount of time throughout SEA & other digital nomad hubs (Vietnam, Bali, Dubai, Bangkok, Singapore etc), I think Malaysia's prettymuch the perfect mid-point in terms of expenses, development and cultural vibes. Main issue I could see with Malaysia, ignoring the local economy, is the lack of a night life, which isn't really an issue for me with a young family.
My wife and I are both fortunate to have fairly niche skillsets/equity in remote-friendly companies that let us continue to earn international Western rates with reasonably strong job security, but interacting with my wife's younger siblings I can see the difficulties of being a fresh 20-something in Malaysia, especially if you are not Malay. Entry-level/customer service jobs in Selangor pay like 700-1k USD a month. My wife got out through a generous international scholarship which led her into her current role through a fairly circuitous path.
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10mo ago
Also the rise of social casinos/sweepstakes site are an additional layer of hilarity in that they circumvent the actual laws around online gambling and they're available in far more states consequentially.
Essentially the model being that if you deposit into Chumba Casino (Billions of USD a year in revenue), you're buying coins which can then be used on slot games and then at the end of play you swap those back into real money. Which circumvents the whole structure around 'real money' gaming, which is an insane loophole even as an industry participant.
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10mo ago
Yeah, knowing that there's something valuable over the Americas and roughly how far you've got to go/what the weather dynamics are would likely make the process simpler.
Personally I'd rather take longer on the Train (assuming no random homeless enemy encounters) than driving for a commute at a reasonable ratio, since the former means I can use my various devices and don't have to deal with parking/the continued existence of my vehicle when returning home
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