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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, returns in the form societal benefit as a result of the service.

When you have massive buildups with no hope of returns, it's a a bad financial decision and the public carries the debt burden.

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, which attempted to fix the pronatalist policies of Mao.

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 taking advantage. So the backlash is expected and necessary.

Part of fixing things involve doing things that seem like it's destroying the order that the US created itself.

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 large infrastructure projects, which corruption happily siphoned off of.

The ROI of these infra projects have been gone for a while, yet they continued. Also it's been stealing intellectual property, trade dumping, exporting deflation. Soaking up the manufacturing oxygen of everyone else through subsidies, elite capture, then using the leverage gained and veiled threats against others to force them to yield resources, market access and political control.

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. Almost all the conditions are still not met and reneged on.

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 pollution are as bad as it was from 30 years ago, maybe worse. Traffic is bad, and salary to cost of living is extreme.

Japan's numbers look bad. But its quality of life is one of the best in the world.

Has there been progress in infrastructure/housing in Taiwan? Sure, in small areas, such as new housing developments, where all the capital sits, extracting rent or sitting empty, contributing nothing.

We need to do better, raise our standards. Otherwise we're going to get left behind even further.

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 especially pleasing given that the prices are very low in comparison to other world-class cities. I did, however, witness prices rising during the time I was there.

It's hard to see how Tokyo might have been stagnating given the quality of life I witnessed. It saddens me to say this but, I'd visit Taiwan to see what economic stagnation looks like - it feels like time-traveling back to the 90's.

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 to the notion of becoming unattached itself.

It points outs that the separation of our individual self from others can be seen as illusory, that we're all deeply connected. Sure my left arm is weaker than my right, but that doesn't make it "less important", and in fact thinking in such a way is preposterous. But might be useful in another context such as left/right balance for fitness.

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 Fukushima.

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 keyboard, unlike Ctrl + ↓, which triggers exposé(?) within the current app, and one can select a window using arrow keys.

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 disintegrating, and the monetary union isn’t working. Also the political landscape seems to be in turmoil as well.

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 can actually see" - This is somewhat true. There's an upper limit to the size where it becomes impractical for most use cases. I'd say that limit is 40"~55", and mitigated somewhat by curved screens.

It's not too different from having a large quantity of screens you'd see at say, a trading desk, but all conveniently in one screen.

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 20" screens in one. The pixel density is pretty good, but not "retina"/high DPI level.

Things can be a bit too small as I sit further from the screen than a regular monitor.

With 8k, it'll be four 4k 20" screens in one.

I'd be able to go to a larger screen without sacrificing much on pixel density. I would no longer have to zoom in on certain websites and can just get a larger screen.

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 appear to affect immunity positively.

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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 using Heroku for some Elixir apps in production.

Curious, so are you running as a sole proprietor? Wouldn’t it be eligible for the small business deduction?

Very nice.

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