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@Zac_Pundi China also has probably the worst venture landscape with a lot of founders being liable to the raised capital if they don't exit within a certain time period or similar.

"Singapore has no startups because everything is too convenient" Bro China has the most convenient payment and utility payment systems on earth. That clearly didn't stop them. The real problem: Singapore's system is so well-designed that the rational move for a smart person is to never leave it. NUS → DBS → $10K/month by 30. The expected value genuinely beats startup odds. Smartest locals I know "try" startup for one year — after thinking about it for three. Meanwhile US/China founders just jump. And if Grab started in SG instead of Malaysia, you think MOT wouldn't have shut it down before Series A? It's not convenience. It's a system optimized for comfort, and a culture that counts the odds before jumping.

@Linahuaa Not saying the west is any better with affirmative action or legacy admission and similar bullshit like that however.

Obviously it's not super simple but this is generally the way Chinese elite go to top unis. This or they go through the whole education system through an affiliated school like tsinghua one. Ofc you can't be retarded and still have to be quite intelligent. It's not pure connection. But it's certainly much easier than going through gaokao.

A Tsinghua professor sent his three kids to America to study. Not because he thinks American education is better, but because his three children weren't as smart as him, and not able to get into Tsinghua (regression to the mean nerfing IQ of his kids) Of course, if rich Chinese people's kids could get into Tsinghua or Peking, all parents would prefer that over any Western school. Chinese top unis are the ultimate big brain street-cred. However, the reality is that you can't buy your way into these schools, you can't grind your way in- you have to be born with a 140+ IQ and still work your ass off. So most rich parents have no choice but to send their kids to a top 20 US school.

I mean tbh kind of a feature of a government which can afford to employ and offer an interesting position to ambitious individuals. A lot of people would take a pay cut if they would think their job would have big impact but they would still we comfortable. People generally idealized government positions compared to entrepreneurship.But if the gov sucks too much they just decide to grind companies. But maybe it's just my European bubble.

it's a fact that Singapore has a stunted entrepreneurial culture compared to its Asian peers. it's probably the worst part of the SG system that tech Twitter totally misses while they fawn over viral LKY clips every other week

@khandelwalinnit @arian_ghashghai Wait what? Anyone sucessful?

@arian_ghashghai Damascus actually has one of the most interesting startup and VC community

The VC-class will not like this as their job is, in effect, to condense and stack-rank founders with as much control over the external factors as possible (i.e. put everyone in the same arena) But this is totally sound advice as most new startups will have a hiring advantage in smaller hubs. My favorite example is Zurich-based startups hiring from ETH Zurich (where they have an edge), which imo is a better technical university (i.e. great talent pool) than anything we have the US

@VeteranGamerUK @elormkdaniel This, I had a few phones over the years that survived multiple falls and arguably survived long enough for their lifetime. I had huawei p20 for about 5-6 years and changed it because it broke after 5. Fell so many times.

@elormkdaniel I might argue that needing the case is the real design problem.

Most transparent phone cases are made from a plastic called Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU). Manufacturers use TPU because it’s flexible, shock-absorbing, cheap to produce, and good at protecting phones from drops. It’s a very practical material. But TPU has a weakness: it naturally oxidizes over time. When the case is exposed to UV light, heat, oxygen, and oils from your hands, chemical reactions slowly happen in the polymer chains. These reactions change the way the material absorbs and reflects light, which is what causes the yellow or brown tint you eventually see. Even if you kept the case perfectly clean, it would still slowly yellow because the process happens inside the material itself. Manufacturers do try to slow this down. Many cases include UV stabilizers and anti-oxidation additives, but these only delay the reaction; they don’t stop it completely. Another material that stays clear longer is Polycarbonate, which is used in harder transparent cases. Polycarbonate resists yellowing better, but it has its own trade-offs: it’s more rigid, cracks easier under impact, and doesn’t absorb shocks as well as TPU. So companies usually combine materials: a polycarbonate back for clarity and TPU edges for drop protection. Ironically, the part that usually turns yellow first is the TPU bumper around the edges. In other words, it’s not that engineers “can’t” make anti-yellow transparent cases. They can but those materials would either be more expensive, more brittle, or worse at protecting your phone.

@astafandrey @Ivanof4DC @SandyofCthulhu Yeah but don't they still have phones though?

@Ivanof4DC @SandyofCthulhu Tbf cell phone data and much of economic activity could be explained by income inequality. Chinese countryside is POOR. Like, REALLY poor. So much of activity that we see is from city folks

It is literally probably a change in the way they counted births. Any change in Chinese demographics is so heavily politicized within their byzantine bureaucracy that we really can't tell what's actually going on. Imagine you are Xi Jinping. You want to know how your economy is going so you call in the experts. Your Township administrators ask their factories how things are going. Every factory wants to sound good, so "morale is high! Everything's great!" Your County administrators ask the Townships how it's going. The Townships want to sound like great managers, so they boost their numbers by a little bit to sound better. The Prefectures ask the Counties. The Counties want to sound good too, so they boost THEIR numbers just a bit. The Provinces ask the Prefectures, and the same thing happens. The Prefectures are all reporting they're the best Prefecture. The Chinese cabinet is told by the Provinces how awesome is the Chinese economy. Now you, Xi Jinping, are no fool. And you KNOW beyond the shadow of a doubt that the real numbers have been fiddled with five times on the way up to you. So what ARE the real numbers? You have no way of knowing. All you know is that they are worse than what you're shown, but not so much worse that it can't be concealed. Imagine running a command economy with that type of feedback. No wonder when Xi Jinping uncovers actual gross corruption (water in his rockets, former Ministers taking $40 million in bribes, etc.) he goes nuts and people get killed or imprisoned for life. All he can do is flail, because every single level underneath him lies to him. I'd feel sorry for him if he wasn't a repressive monster who murders Uighurs and Tibetans.

@pegobry_en Maybe if you're retarded or paid by Russia. Culturally Europe and US is much more closer. And despite its negatives US is generally actually respecting Europe, unlike Russian gov which views the world with supremacist imperialist lens.

The irony with all this is that the reason there’s a rift between Europe and Russia is because of US policy. Europe-Russia is a much more natural alliance in many ways than Europe-US. This shit is so tiresome

@esha_hq Love it the same but I think if you're just spontaneous, open minded and slightly self aware, those moments don't need to be that rare.

i love those moments in life when you catch yourself in a moment. when you feel "wow how lucky am i that this is my life" or "is this really happening to me?" my theory is that this feeling is why we love film. we almost never get to watch a life from the outside. we're always too close and too in it to do so. and those moments where we're living and watching ourselves live at the same time are pretty rare. but when we watch someone exist, make choices, get hurt, love, fail and succeed, it becomes impossible to ignore the weight of life, the beauty of just existing. we just have to be far enough to see it. ugh i love life

@levelsio I can't reply to any now. Spam sucks but ig it'll be harder to use x now :'(

Okay and who of you couldn't reply to this? Please please only if you couldn't okay?

@EleonoraFall Ok so they should learn ancient Greek and Latin?

If your children have a choice, choose for them a foreign language that grants them access to great western thinkers, choose with that in mind and not based on how many speakers of that language live on earth. It’s quality of exchange and thought that matters not quantity. Have them learn German or French, Ancient Greek or Latin. Forget about Spanish or Arabic. It isn’t going to make them stand out on the market, it’s saturated anyway.

@idiot_onthe_net Insane ratio lol

@MyLatinLife Huh why, just like work for 10years and retire with any above slightly average wage in US

Forget a "working holiday" in Australia If I was 17 or 18 years old in the USA, here's what I would do: 1. Move to Europe and start working towards a European passport. Probably Ireland or Portugal, any country that's 5 years to citizenship. 2. Leave Europe at age 23 with dual citizenship. P.s. College Education in Europe is basically free. But make sure your visa type isn't a student visa. Those often don't lead to citizenship. Get the right visa type.

@Linahuaa Huh why did u have tinder in a relationship

When I was 18, I once got like 1200 Tinder matches in one day! I didn't meet anyone cuz I was in a relationship, but it was an interesting scientific experiment.

Being poor in 2010s Berlin was so peak! Even Alex Karp loved it. As a student, the government would give you ~€500 for free, which covered the rent for a nice room and 2 kebabs per day, which would provide the necessary calories to keep partying. German tapwater is top tier and free. As long as your parents gave you a another $300 pocket money you were Gucci as fuck! Live like a king. Eat like a king. Party like it's 1999. Berlin Tinder was a crazy meat market.

@enggirlfriend A friend had like ankle surgery or smth and was disqualified for like half a year?

@enggirlfriend Extremely strict health exams and shit imo

i’ve never seen an obese plane pilot. why?

@vxunderground Cuckposting ngl

> be employee > work at Atlassian > 10am > get promotion > celebrate on LinkedIn > new career milestone > overwhelming joy and pride > 2pm > get email > position promoted to being cut > laid off > promoted and laid off in same day

It used to be illegal to do autopsies. There was a ban on human dissection. Medical science stagnated for centuries until some renegades said fuck it and paid grave robbers to learn how the human body worked. Imagine how many lives could have been saved if we didn't adhere to those ethical laws for centuries? Millions by now. These luddites are hellbent on slowing down the velocity of technological progress. They want a 100-page document before you can save your own dog. They are cancer manifest, mutations in our system that have outlived their usefulness and turned immortal, killing us. Ethics is why Europe is flooded with migrants instead of nuclear power. Ethics is their excuse for regulating themselves out of the AI race. Ethics is why Canada is putting depressed 20-year-olds to sleep. All in the name of ethics. Fuck ethics. Fuck regulations. Fuck your moral high ground bottlenecking my progress. Fuck these safetyists deciding which risks are OK for you to take. Accelerate.

@DerekJGrossman Except unlike gulf states Singapore military is actually good

I’m now in Singapore, and I just can’t stop thinking about the uncomfortable parallels between here and Dubai. Both are very modern and considered business and tourism friendly. But both are in dangerous neighborhoods, along strategic choke points, whether the Strait of Hormuz or Strait of Malacca. Whoever controls these channels is of utmost importance during crisis or war. Meanwhile, Iran retaliated against UAE for its US military support, and I can’t guarantee China while invading Taiwan wouldn’t do the same against Singapore for its logistical and maintenance support of US military assets.