How did you end up in Taipei, and how are things there on the tech front?
Tech here seems more hardware oriented than I normally am, but beyond that, I don't know much yet. Taipei helps me study Chinese which is useful because 我的中文不好，但我每天学，住在这里让我沉浸其中。
You study simplified Chinese in Taipei?
My studies go back years, my residence here only weeks. I'm fixing the gaps in my education, but slowly.
Re:Tokyo and Hong Kong in 2018
by shanghaiaway on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:15PM
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He meant that he's surprised that you're learning the language using the simplified type system instead of the traditional one which is used in Taiwan.
The author says 99% of things written are unavailable to him -- and I'm sure it's even more of the spoken word around him. If you subtract out 99% of communication, and all the deep relationships and casual understandings that make a community, yeah, I guess every place starts looking the same.
But boy howdy, that stuff is really valuable to some people, and not just people with nothing else going on in their lives.