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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:28:42 JST clacke

   No air conditioning all day!

   If you want to visit #HongKong, around now is the perfect time of year to do it.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:28:47 JST Sick Sun

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     @clacke I am in Dubai or I would
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:35:38 JST Sick Sun

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     @clacke I am helping a friend with something.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:35:39 JST clacke

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     @sun Is that a cryptocurrency conference?
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:38:16 JST clacke

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     @sim 19 years ago a cute and fun HK girl started texting me on ICQ. Now I work at a bank.

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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:38:17 JST sim

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     @sun @clacke How do you end up in places like Dubai or Hong Kong? I literally don't know. Is this some techbro thing?
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 14:38:47 JST Sick Sun

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     @sim @clacke it's pretty complicated.
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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 21:01:47 JST sim

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     @clacke @sun Wow. A man really will do anything for a woman.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 23:55:39 JST clacke

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     @sim If it's for a reason like that, they're more finance hubs than tech hubs. It's difficult to find cool nerds in Hong Kong.

     If you want to go on a nerd pilgrimage you're better off going to Berlin or Portland, Oregon.

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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 23:55:40 JST sim

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     @sun @clacke Sounds like it. I wondered if these were like technology hubs, that if you are really into it then you make pilgrimages to these places.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 23:55:57 JST Sick Sun

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     @clacke @sim there are literally no hackerspaces in Miami, it really sucks.
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     iceloops (iceloops@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 23:56:42 JST iceloops

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     @sun @clacke @sim I wish I had money I would build one
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 00:17:18 JST hypolite

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     @sim @clacke I moved from France to New York for one, stayed for another 🤷♂️
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 00:17:21 JST Sick Sun

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     @sim @clacke not enough hackers
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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 00:17:22 JST sim

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     @sun @clacke What happened to them?
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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:30:55 JST sim

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     @clacke @sun That's a shame that it is difficult find the cool nerds there. But I suppose it would make sense to go there for the funding opportunities.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:30:55 JST clacke

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     @sim A guy I contracted for wrote an article about "outsourcing yourself", about his theory that it makes sense to move here.

     If you live small enough, living in HK is cheap compared to Stockholm, New York or San Francisco. Everything except the rent is cheaper. But those places are far easier places to find someone who has a programmer mindset and who knows a language other than Java, Python and JavaScript. So maybe find them there and move them here.

     In the end though, that guy moved to New York. For the kind of product he was building, I think he had an easier time finding investors there. Here it's pretty much all fintech, and he was more fin-adjacent.

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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 22:26:59 JST sim

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     @clacke @sun I hope he has had some success with his venture there. I suppose it all depends on what you are trying to do and what is within your capabilities. It often takes a risk-taking mind to get things done.
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