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When you have massive buildups with no hope of returns, it's a a bad financial decision and the public carries the debt burden.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's recorded weeks before his death. There's something special in his later performances.
Air quality has regressed though, because they shut down the nuclear power plant after Fukushima.
Otherwise, looks great!
Is it IMAP that's the concern?
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.
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.
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.
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.
*edited spelling
Also been using Heroku for some Elixir apps in production.
Shameless plug on a lightweight (~50 lines of code) Chrome extension I wrote called Tab Extract to attack the too-many-tabs-open problem from another angle:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-extract/iphchn...
Paleo is not necessarily low carb - usually about 20%~40% of calories are from carbs. Tubers like sweet potatoes are specifically recommended in paleo regimens.
The author is confusing Paleo with Atkins/ketogenic diets.
If you find the "theoretical/analytical" side of Zen interesting, look into Seung Sahn's teachings. I recommend the book Dropping Ashes on the Buddha. I've yet to come across more direct pointing that's in the form of text.
Citations please?