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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Let me explain my point of view - it’s not about giving money to Google but showing the business that there’s a viable monetization strategy that isn’t locking down content or fighting ad blockers.

    Let’s say there is no Youtube premium and everyone has an adblocker then google has no choice but to fight ad blocking harder or lock down the content because Youtube starts to bleed money. Now some lazy people pay for Premium and we have this little golden mean where everyone can kinda use the platform kinda freely which is a pretty good compromise if you ask me.









  • Here are some contemporary finance hacks that I use all the time:

    • take advantage VC funded ventures. These businesses are there to capture market and will bleed money on acquiring customers. However you need to be flexible and ready to pack your bags when the services starts to need to make money so don’t get locked in.
    • live 1-2 generations behind on tech. The difference is almost neglible but older tech is more stable and much cheaper while also often have all of the software updates backported.
    • look for refurbished deals. There’s a lot of great tech that is acquired from big businesses and refurbished for resale like laptops, furniture, chairs etc.
    • shop local. No matter how much you educate yourself on best value, the local value is very likely to be better especially when you consider local support like warranty. So don’t import best headphones on the planet, buy the best headphones in your area.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldHow many eggs do you eat in a week?
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    Around 12.

    Eggs are incredible nutrition value and I’d still pay 12$ for 12 eggs. In fact I do splurge on local market eggs that come from free range chickens and here they are around 5$ for 12 which is double the factory price but still and an incredible steal.

    That’s why the great American egg whine of 2024 is so confusing. Min wage in the US is still like 24++ eggs an hour which is an insane thing to complain about. Y’all need financial literacy not cheaper eggs.









  • No it’s not and it’s incredibly easy to verify so I don’t understand why would you just lie. US salaries are incredibly high so very few countries can actually compare and coast China definitely doesn’t.

    I can speak from experience in tech sector how incredibly tiny Shenzen salaries are even today compared to everything else as I get recruitment offers almost every week. 60k/year is basically peak salary you can get as a senior software dev compared to 100-300k in US.

    Here one source says avg annual income in Shenzen is 24,000 USD vs for example Denver of 94,157 USD — 4 times higher and that’s Denver not San Francisco which would be the mirror of Shenzen.

    I’m not an american or chinese but I know how to read data and it’s pretty fucking clear here.


    • Taiwan GDP per capita: 36,000 USD > 12,500 USD of China
    • World Happiness Report Taiwan places 27th > 64th of China

    Do you want me to keep going?

    The difference between the two is that China’s people democracy is an objectively superior system to bourgeois dictatorships they have in India and Taiwan.

    And how do you determine that? By feeling the vibes? There are way to many variables to attribute all success to a single one. It’s just not scientifically testable. I’d like to point you to this brilliant economic nobel prize award of this year that did use science to prove the effectiveness of political systems in a way. This is sort of scientific proof we need to really understand the value of these political systems but until we have evidence like that or a time machine we might as well be yelling at clouds here.