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Debt is not fundamentally bad. But the financing has to be justified by positive return, be it in the service itself that makes money back to pay off the debt, or as a public good,…

By racking up debt of epic proportions, with no return on investment in sight. All the while going into a demographic death spiral. Partly cause by the draconian 1-child policy, wh…

China benefited greatly from the US-led globalism order that's been going on since WWII. Another way of saying it is China took the most advantage. And it has gone way overboard in…

The "good thing" they did, is stopping their actions which causes millions to starve. Which lead to people getting themselves out of poverty.

They "eliminated" extreme poverty caused by communist control in the first place, by going to a capitalist system. There were tons of economic low-hanging fruits by building out la…

There's no free healthcare... Families are bankrupted by sickness in the family. If anyone did the "lifting", it's the global markets with their conditional entry into the WTO. Alm…

They weren't "lifted". They stopped their policies, lasseize faire, and the market took care of the rest. Now they're back at it again, impeding.

It brings me no joy to say this. Taiwan's numbers looks good on paper (until you dig further), but the reality on the pavement, or lackthereof, is dire. The noise, air, visual poll…

I recently spent 3 months in Tokyo and I have say, that the quality of life, service, food, consumer products, safety, air/noise pollution, are the best I've seen anywhere. It's es…

You folks ought to spend some time in Taiwan. I'm in Tokyo now, was in TW for a couple of years prior. Tokyo is extremely beautiful in comparison. (I'm Taiwanese Canadian)

I'd say practicing non-dualism à la Zen Buddhism helps a lot. In short it helps see through preconceived (or any form of) notions, such that one doesn't become attached, including …

Consecration: The Final Recordings It's recorded weeks before his death. There's something special in his later performances.

I’d actually recommend Taichung as well. Much more affordable than Taipei, and more spacious. Air quality has regressed though, because they shut down the nuclear power plant after…

Taipei is actually pretty OK. Other cities in Taiwan, not so much.

I have a 49” curved too! But it’s a UHD TV so it’s four 24” 1080p screen in one! Three/two portrait windows is great for reading, reducing scrolling.

It took way too long for me to realize that this isn't a product where one stores/sends famous words from smart people. Otherwise, looks great!

Seems that Apple encrypts Notes data in transit and on server https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 Is it IMAP that's the concern?

>macOS offers exposé for that purpose, but it is unfortunately not keyboard operable. Agree with this. Ctrl + ↑ triggers exposé. But the windows cannot be selected with the keyboar…

Don’t mean to sound defensive (I’m not American), and I mostly agree with you. But, from a non-European perspective, Europe doesn’t seem to be doing well? It seems the EU is slowly…

The setup is fantastic for me, and would be even better with 8K screens. I'm running at native resolution, so not doing the "sitting far away" option. "More screen space than you c…

Been waiting and looking forward to 8k. It would make a significant difference for me. I use a UHD/4k 40" TV as a monitor, running at native resolution. It's essentially four 1080p…

That’s a tough situation, I feel for you. Not implying this is the solution, but I’m curious if you’ve tried ketogenic diets/fasting? They induce mitochondrial biogenesis, and appe…

I've been using nanobox.io for a couple of new Elixir projects, am very satisfied so far. Using nanobox to deploy to Digital Ocean, but I believe they also support GCP. Also been u…