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Haha, I did think about using the Korean word instead but just decided to go with the flow. East Asian culture is so intertwined, it's a pity we all have such a love-hate relationship with each other.

Sharing some Korean Yojijukugos (originating from China)

위록지마(謂鹿止馬) wii rok ji ma

To point at a deer and call it a horse. Used for suck ups who says agrees to things that are clearly not right.

읍참마속(泣斬馬謖) ub cham ma sok

To behead Ma Su (name) while crying. In the Romance of Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang had to behead his favourite general Ma Su as he wept because Ma Su ignored the given command resulting in losing the war. This is used when you have to be fair for the greater good.

There are also fake yojijukugos which were created on online forums. These are not based on Chinese characters but made by taking letters from Korean phrases. But they caught on because they kinda sound like real yojijikugos :D

내로남불 nae ro nam bul

Romance for me, but adultery for you. Used for people who are lenient to themselves but strict to others.

자강두천 ja gang doo cheon

Fight of two strong-sprited geniuses. Used when two strong characters butt head with each other.

Totally anecdotal but a lot of people seem to really struggle reading long paragraphs these days. So yeah it probably works for those people.

Have you looked at Obsidian? It offers paid sync service which hasn’t lost a file for me for the last year or so I’ve been using the sync service.

1.3 looks pretty good next to 0.78 :p

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/22/asia/south-korea-lowest-f...

I’m not Japanese nor have I lived here long enough to give good answers to your questions. But virtually all reactions in East Asia to Fukushima incident were short sighted knee jerk reactions. I was immensely frustrated that both Korea and Japan had shut down reactors and stopped new developments. Both countries are realising now that wasn’t such a good idea and yes it is too late.

Well yeah, I live in Japan and our energy bill doubled last month so I can see why people would want some nice stable supply of power.

Every time there is a post about AI, there are a fair amount of people commenting on the current status of AI. Yes I get that it look bad and needs heavy human interaction now, but what about in 1 year, or in 5 years? It's the acceleration of AI progress that we should all be worried about.

IIRC a website for a train company in Japan requires exactly 8 letters as password even now. I can’t remember which though.

> Because he was raised in a supportive, nurturing environment. Probably with grandparents and aunts/uncles to help take care of him.

> lack of stress

As an immigrant Asian child I can tell you usually we had none of these things.

What drove me and my friends was pressure. I knew what my parents gave up to give me this chance. I knew they probably wouldn’t have enough savings to ever retire without me helping them out later. I knew I didn’t want to disappoint them.

Why must countless Asian parents’ sacrifices and kids effort be swept away under DEI? Of course I get that it helps to create a society where no one would have to go such lengths to provide opportunity for their children. But man, it just rubs me the wrong way.

IIRC You can get rid of the switch delay using Yabai[1] but you will need to disable SIP which may be a no go if you have work assigned MacBook

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

I guess I'm "lucky" that I was born in a country who tops the OECD ranking for elderly poverty. Even though I moved to a country with an okay pension scheme, I've never counted on that to last. So I've been saving and investing as much as possible because, as you've said, I've "always known [I'm] screwed unless [I] can horde as much as possible in as little time as possible."

But I hate that I have this mindset. It’s useful to a degree but it’s almost become a compulsion for me. Incidentally, I think this is the main reason why my home country has the lowest birth rate in the world. I really wish we could all just, enjoy life without having to worry about poverty in the future.

(My home country is South Korea)

Phoenix/Elixir/Ecto seems to handle this really well. When you write a test in Phoenix, you can use `DataCase` which automatically creates sandboxed transactions [1] for each test. This makes writing integration tests a breeze.

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_sql/Ecto.Adapters.SQL.html#module-sq...

Yes. My conversation & listening skills were abysmal for various reasons. In my 20s I've tried very hard to become a better listener. This has led to:

1. meeting my wife

2. befriending great people

3. Probably a big factor getting my first engineering job

The "trick", at least for me, is to genuinely care about people when talking to them. It's tough at the start, just like trying to use atrophied muscles for the first time. For a while being caring absolutely drained me, but you do get better at it apparently.

I grimace whenever I think about the time where I went a bit ham on FP as a junior engineer. I genuinely feel sorry for whoever is maintaining that piece of code.

I remember having a discussion with a Japanese friend where he bemoaned Japan's failure to adapt to the new digital economy. I urged him to look on the brighter side. Despite the bubble crashing and (perceived) stagnation, Japan is still an economic powerhouse. I think Japan can only improve from here as younger generations takes over.

Also, as I get older, I seem to appreciate traditions and things not totally being driven by efficiency. Those "menial" jobs may not be strictly necessary but I love interacting with actual people.

I've been using iOS's built in timer that stops whatever is playing in x min as a custom "pomodoro". Music helps me get into flow state and later when it is time for me to take a break, it stops playing to gently remind me. Unlike alarms, it doesn't break my flow state. Afterwards I write down how long I've worked.

I do agree with you that those companies should have prepared for the hike but I also remember Powell saying “inflation is transitory” :p

Yea they have claims to it but they may not have the first position. The property owner may have got a mortgage, or have used it for a collateral in another loan.

You are supposed to look at the existing interests in the property before signing a Jeonse but not everyone does that. Besides there are fraud schemes that involves property owner going into debt just before you sign which is pretty bonkers.

You do get a collateral with Jeonse. You will have claim to the property under the insolvency law.

Of course there might be competing claims that may take precedence. Usually mortgage or prior loans. So you are supposed to do research on the property before signing a jeonse. There are also insurances for Jeonse as well.

Having said this, I still agree that Jeonse is crazy. I think South Korea is due for a huge painful recession when the housing, construction and capital market collapses due to Jeonse domino and the Legoland fiasco.

My two cents is that it feels like you've had an answer to an extreme question, but that answer had more extreme questions that needed to be answered like;

- If your company were to suddenly lose all B2C revenue (without the benefit of increasing your rate of adoption), what would happen? Would your company survive? If not, what would need to be done for your company to survive with only B2B revenue? (More sales training? more enterprise features? resource cuts? or more aggressive growth to fulfill client requirements? etc)

- Compared to those things you said you've needed, how important would be the increased rate of adoption from making your B2C free of charge?

High-risk high-return problems are never easy, but I guess asking these different extreme questions lets you find some low hanging fruits to high-returns or get a plan going to make those moves less risky.

Ah thanks for that. That makes sense! I'll also check out FastMail. Thanks for the recommendation :)

I’m not sure what you mean by “what’s the line” but if it means “what’s the alternative”:

First start using personal domain so that when I switch away I can do it without having to update all contact details. I’ve already been doing this.

Then after some research, switch to a paid email provider. I’m thinking of ProtonMail or Zoho at the moment but I need to look into it more.

It’s going to be painful because I used to use Google OAuth whenever it was available in the past. But I would like to start having my eggs in different baskets.

EDIT: re: "whats the line"

There is no concrete line. It's mostly me getting old enough to worry about not losing access to a lot of services on algorithms' whim and I keep seeing these posts on HN (Google or not). I know the chance of it happening is slim, but I think the damage would be big enough to diversify away.

I do find it ridiculous that getting Google support has gotten to a point where people need to post for help on a forum in which they are hinted to go to another community and look for a person who has “in” with a team.

I really should move off Gmail.

Thank you for your kind words! Health is definitely one of my top priorities. I've also reduced my costs a lot this year in preparation as well.

This year, I've been doing financially well but has been feeling unfulfilled. Next year, I'd like to be "richer in everything else" instead, as you've said :)

Make less money. I want to be ramen-profitable with my side projects so I can take a year or two off working for various personal projects. I have savings but rather not burn through them if possible.

Ah my bad! Luckily I haven’t ran into one of those yet and I’m hoping I never will :p

You probably already know but I found patch-package [1] to be crucial when relying on minor npm packages. It’s so freeing to be able to just fix it on your end and move on (and also raise a PR against the package)

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package

Because you said:

> debt costs will adjust accordingly and pass on to wealthy still

Let’s think about some the factors that may influence this imaginary debt cost:

- whether asset is an appreciating asset - risk management strategy of the bank - whether account manager wants to have competitive terms so that the wealthy customer won’t find a better deal And so on.

How is this not a mystery cost? Sure the bank in some distant future might some tax when it decides to liquidate it. But by that time, the assets would have been in pools for such a long time that we’d never know exactly how much “tax” was paid.

I’m not going to say I know the solution to this problem because I honestly don’t think there is a way to fix this. Tax avoidance will always be there.

So we get to pay 40%+ tax on our income on a yearly basis while they get to pay a mystery amount that may or may not be factored into debt costs that can also be deferred for a while? Yeah that sounds fair.