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Kaze404 commented on Ask HN: Digital nomad without leaving the US, why does it feel overlooked?    · Posted by u/djellybeans
soueuls · 3 years ago
It's not too nice to have to leave your country just to get peace of mind.

But yeah, overall it's pretty nice not to care about those things. You quickly realize, caring or not caring make very little difference (if any). And you also realize you can be a lot more useful by not embracing divisive rhetorics.

Kaze404 · 3 years ago
Sorry, I think I didn't express myself properly. My point was that the people involved in those movements unfortunately are not allowed to stop caring about them, as the problems they denounce won't magically go away.
Kaze404 commented on Ask HN: Digital nomad without leaving the US, why does it feel overlooked?    · Posted by u/djellybeans
immigrantheart · 3 years ago
Conservatives aren't a monolithic voting bloc, unlike what the media tells you.

There are conservatives who are okay with legal and high skilled/high paid immigration (which I am one). No one is stealing highly paid, trading, fintech, programming jobs, with above $200k/year salary here.

I can confidently say that ALL (100%) of conservatives, are not in favor of illegal immigration, and not in favor of low skilled immigration.

Some other points that conservatives are (some of these are libertarian, but conservatives and libertarian often have similar interests), which are aligned with me:

- Economy matters, bring back local jobs, bring back local manufacturing

- Small government, less government spending, less taxes for useless government spending, less wars, less meddling with other countries problem

- Personal freedom and responsibilities

- Self sufficiency

- No to unrestricted abortion

- No to stimulus checks

- No to constant lockdown

- No to UBI

- No to student loan forgiveness

- We can define what is a woman and what is a man

- No to defund the police

- All Lives Matter, including Asian and White lives

A lot of immigrants actually have the same interests aligned with conservatives, based on the points above.

I think immigrants know firsthand how it feels like to:

- Have incompetent government, corrupt government, corrupt media

- Have freeloaders everywhere taking advantage of the system, we are here to work, to make money, not to support those who don't

- Have violence on the street as a result of police have no teeth

- Asian immigrants, experience bias in not being hired/accepted into school, due to Affirmative Action and Diversity Inclusion practice. Asian immigrants on average, economically, actually less better than Blacks

So we don't want the countries where we immigrate to, to avoid the problems in the first place, to have the problems we want to avoid.

Immigrants also, prefer traditional gender/sex in society. Doesn't mean that woman can't be a plumber, sure they can. We just don't prefer gender fluidity/spectrum to be taught in schools to our children. The reason being, it introduces weakness to the population. Man should be strong, independent (not talking about toxic masculinity), and woman also have very important roles in society. Gender fluidity/spectrum contributes to confusion and undermines the future of the population. That's not to say we don't have trans in our society. We do, and we are okay with that, but they have to play by the rules of the majority. They can't go into man's bahtroom if they are born woman, and vice versa. They can't join woman's sports if they are born man. We are also not okay to make it normalized in school and getting shoved on it by the media.

Kaze404 · 3 years ago
There is way too much to unpack in this comment, so I'll just laser focus on how incredible it is that you somehow managed to rationalize "we are ok with trans people existing" and "they should live by the rules of the majority, not how they want to live" as two non-conflicting statements, when they are so very obviously contradictory. If there is a condition attached to a group of people existing, then you're not really ok with their existance.
Kaze404 commented on Ask HN: Digital nomad without leaving the US, why does it feel overlooked?    · Posted by u/djellybeans
immigrantheart · 3 years ago
I live in the USA now and filter out most politics from social media. Being an immigrant from a 3rd world country, I lean more conservative so I also don’t care about stuffs you mentioned above

Like, when I browse Reddit popular I automatically don’t read whitepeopletwitter, antiwork, murderedbyaoc, and the like.

I still stay here for the money though. I foresee one day exiting US and letting go of my GC if it becomes too much of a hassle to maintain and go back and build my home country. Currently am worried about the state of public education in the US. Too much wokeness for my taste. Ah maybe I have to go back sooner if I want to raise a child.

Private school in my home country does much more better job than public US education.

Kaze404 · 3 years ago
Out of curiosity, why does being an immigrant make you lean towards conservatism? You realize one of the biggest conservative talking points in the past 4 years is how immigrants are “stealing” their jobs?
Kaze404 commented on Ask HN: Digital nomad without leaving the US, why does it feel overlooked?    · Posted by u/djellybeans
soueuls · 3 years ago
I am not American but I have been a digital nomad for the past three years.

I am currently living in a nice duplex in a condo in Thailand. We have a big coworking with soundproof rooms for meetings, a 80m infinity pool on the rooftop, a good gym, surrounded by nice and cheap restaurants. Beaches almost everywhere and nice small islands to do diving.

I am paying 600$/month for the apartment. 250$ for the food. I haven't cooked anything for the past 6 months.

I am currently making roughly 50 times the local monthly salary.

Mostly working with my clients, doing some small charity works on the weekend and using all the facilities to get back in shape.

And more importantly, I am living with peace of mine. Nobody is annoying me with insane politics. I don't care about BLM, don't care about feminism, don't care about MGTOW, don't care about gender theory, don't care about white privilege, don't care about whether men can get pregnant or not.

I just try to be useful for the society around me, I feel a little bit bad about not paying taxes here, so I do my best to do some charity and helped a few local businesses with tech.

But overall, I am doing it 30% for economic reasons and 70% for political reasons. It feels good to meet with normal hardworking people.

Oh, and Thai people are really the nicest people as long as you respect them and try to make the effort of understanding their way of life.

Kaze404 · 3 years ago
Must be nice to be able to not care about those things.
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yellowapple · 3 years ago
Y'all sure you don't have Sims 2 and Sims 3 mixed up? Sims 3 is rated Platinum on AppDB / Gold on ProtonDB (and I've ran it on Proton on multiple machines and distros without issue), whereas Sims 2 had a Garbage rating on AppDB for the longest time (apparently the Origin version is Silver now, but still).
Kaze404 · 3 years ago
I am most definitely talking about Sims 2. I play the Origin version through Lutris, from when they gave it away for free.
Kaze404 commented on One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car   spiegel.de/panorama/ein-t... · Posted by u/h2000
josephcsible · 3 years ago
I'm much happier to put up with the expense, bureaucracy, and overhead of owning a car than I would be if every trip, every day of my life took 20 minutes longer (and for a lot of places I go, 20 minutes is an underestimate). If you'd choose the opposite, that's fine, but don't do things like banning cars that would restrict my choice. That's just as unfair as banning public transit would be.
Kaze404 · 3 years ago
We're in agreement then. My ideal world is one where we have cities designed for public transportation (including walking), which would eliminate or at the very least reduce the current problems those methods of transportation currently have for everyone, while the current system provides somewhat efficient transportation but only for those who can afford it. I think spending money and human resources into improving cars instead of public transportation just exacerbates that problem, so it just frustrates me on a personal level to see that this is the direction we're headed to.
Kaze404 commented on One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car   spiegel.de/panorama/ein-t... · Posted by u/h2000
efitz · 3 years ago
If you like public transportation, then I’m delighted. I hate it and don’t want it forced on me. I think that ultimately autonomous cars are likely to replace much of public transportation, or at least be a large part of such a system.
Kaze404 · 3 years ago
The problem is we're currently living in the opposite situation, one which is so normalized most people don't even realize it. We have entire cities built around and for cars instead of people, with public transportation treated as an afterthought and just walking to places not even considered as a possibility. I wouldn't want to force public transportation on people either, but pretending the alternative of forcing cars on everyone else is better, desirable or not current isn't productive.
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copperx · 3 years ago
I want to believe there's no path from the HN vertex to the 4chan one.
Kaze404 · 3 years ago
It wasn't even 30 minutes ago that I read someone defending a nuclear war as it would (paraphrasing) "solve the problem of overpopulation while also taking down some commies".
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Kaze404 · 3 years ago
I like the regex example, but the others wouldn't pass code review from me, unfortunately. Reducing a couple lines isn't worth the code being less obvious.
Kaze404 commented on One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car   spiegel.de/panorama/ein-t... · Posted by u/h2000
efitz · 3 years ago
Serious question: will we demand perfection from autonomous cars before we allow them out of “test” status?

How many autonomous miles without an accident will be sufficient to prove safety?

I am not diminishing this tragedy; I can only imagine the grief of the families involved and my heart goes out to them.

I am also NOT making the “have to break a few eggs to make an omelette“ argument; clearly something went wrong and I look forward to understanding what led to this accident so we can avoid it in the future. The article left out lots of facts like whether the car was truly autonomous; whether it was in autonomous mode; whether it had been approved for that; whether the driver failed to supervise it appropriately, etc.

Note that the Concorde had a perfect safety record and was the safest (statistically) commercial airframe until it’s one and only accident, after which is was the least safe airframe [1] by passenger deaths per air mile.

I own a Tesla and love it but the autopilot function is not even close to ready for autonomous driving, in my opinion. I love autopilot and use it every time I drive but it has trouble with even simple problems like two lanes merging down into one and the center line disappearing. I don’t have direct experience with other autonomous cars and am aware of the criticisms of Tesla’s non LIDAR approach.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/07/30/w...

Kaze404 · 3 years ago
The reason why I'm against self driving cars is simply the fact that they're cars at all. I sincerely have no idea why we are collectively spending so much time and resources to avoid the solution we've had for years: public transportation. I would much rather live in a world where I have to deal with the minor inconvenience that is waiting 20 minutes for a train to arrive but get to my destination cheaply and easily than all the insane beaurocracy and overhead that comes with cars existing at all.

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