Being this deracinated while still having a last name spelled in Pinying is likely due to the FOB generation’s intentional cultural erasure. Actually admiring effort by him to be assed to try reading his ancestor’s memoir
my grandfather wrote a memoir that I couldn't read
after he passed, I tried to learn Chinese but progress was slow
this year, I translated it with AI and designed a bilingual edition. it turned out way better than I could have imagined
This is what annihilation looks like: China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry was reduced to zero overnight. Complete collapse. No chance of survival.
@quorumcaller Nonstarter comparison. NW China topographically is the opposite of Pacific NW where timber is abundant. The Xi’an station would also be incredibly disorienting and claustrophobic had it adopted more intimate interior design given the insane amount of passengers, less is more here
If it wasn't obvious before, these penalty shootouts pretty much exemplified how much striking skills have deteriorated in football, just absolute abominations
I thought this was obvious but apparently it's not obvious to everyone.
Accumulating wealth is only valuable to the extent that it allows you to realize your other, more meaningful goals.
Valuing wealth for its own sake is a sign of a diseased soul.
@robbezdjian@larpcapitalwc I'm just eyeballing the Sept chain and fwd is ~$30, this annualizes to ~15% stock loan yield; divide it by the current borrow rate of 113% you get the implied utilization of ~13%. The current utilization is ~15%, so already priced in
@Ksidiii@EQDerivatives RILA flow has been monstrous and FLEX options would take a meaningful chunk of that if they could offer more flexibility on the collaterals (corporates) and settlement (deferred premiums) side of things