Exactly! I used to travel a lot for work and talk to Uber drivers all over the country.
The immigrant ones had stories like "I own 3 of these cars, so 2 guys drive for me, and my daughter is in nursing school" or my favorite "I just got hired in Columbia University as a janitor so I can get my MBA there for free". While the Americans were just kinda resigned to driving the Uber.
Immigrants are self selecting - we are people who chose to make moves, get off our asses to make something of ourselves .so of course the idea of accreting valuable skills and assets is going to resonate with us.
I love immigrant stories! U know what we have in common as immigrants. We just love to work and make money, to see that our hands actually produce money that goes into our bank statement just brings joy. It is almost not about the money itself but the honor that we get knowing that people appreciate our service.
You probably can't imagine the kind of initiative it takes to leave where you are to start fresh somewhere else. THAT's the self-selection I am talking about.
My parents’ and their siblings and all of their extended family left their country to go to US and UK. But they all had homes and networks and a place to go back home if things went sideways. The collective wealth of their network is sufficient to provide its own safety net.
Contrast that to someone in the home country who might not have that network, and who landed a decent government job that affords enough to feed and shelter and educate family.
This person will not have the “initiative” to throw away a relatively sure future because they do not have the ability to count on friends/family to support them in case they fail.
There's a certain self selection in that people who are motivated and brave enough to move counties for a new life are the only ones you see. Back home there are also people who are resigned to their position (or getting money from the ones who have moved). Moving to a developed country from a developing one as someone unskilled takes a lot of effort and determination and luck (for skilled people to a certain extent too), so there's a survivorship bias here.
My family did not. US has chain immigration so all the family members come over (and did in my family). We still visit the second and third cousins in the home country.
But the point is there can be support from outside the government.
I’ve noticed immigrants to New Zealand are often highly motivated, work hard, and are well on their way to success.
i suspect that this is because there is a strong selection bias: it takes some serious effort and skill to be allowed to immigrate here (plus some luck maybe!).
Whether native or immigrant, rags to riches stories are almost always: a) incomplete (they leave out substantial advantages or good fortune); b) reek of survivorship bias (i.e. ignore the fact that for every success story there are dozens if not hundreds of them with poorer outcomes).
Yeah. I know HN doesn't like the social sciences, but people have actually studied social mobility and found how limited it is in the US and similar countries.
I agree! It's much harder to play in person due to the pandemic though.
There's a bonus though: each new physical deck and booster pack that you buy is also redeemable online, so you can buy a deck or two, redeem their codes in the online version, and immediately start playing them there.
Yes but that require buying cards. Sometimes I want to do it to make friends, but that would require a decent time and money investment. And while I saw few girls playing it at the university, I think it’s mostly kids playing, so it would be a bit weird too (in addition to being a visible foreigner).
You don't have to buy cards. In high school people were playing with cards printed at home, and put into card sleeves. I assume no on photoshopped their card to change the stats.
Store hates people playing with proxies. It’s obvious illegal in tournament. That would make me stick out even more. So no. But I’ll ask acquaintances around if some are playing the game.
There is both short term and long term capital gain taxes in the US. For some reason I was thinking you had to hold it for more than one year but apparently it's one. If you hold the asset for longer than a year the tax rate on it is either 0%, 15%, or 20% depending on your tax bracket
I think it is a disadvantage to write Rust on the frontend. Frontend code moves too much and quick prototyping/iteration is more important than memory control.
As for typing, just use TypeScript. It is really good enough already.
It's easy to run into untyped (or partially typed) dependencies (a massive pain to write) or in internal code which uses any/unknown somewhere (causing typing holes which allow for whatever inputs).
I love types but I can't trust TypeScript types to be valid, I've been bit too many times.
Rust (or any other really typed language) would be great if the solutions are mature enough. It's not just for memory control.
I haven't had many issues with it. My development cycle has normally involved getting the basic functionality of my program to work, then adding a UI layer over it with the GTK crate. In terms of how fast it is to prototype/iterate, I could very easily manipulate and edit the UI file in Glade, then rebuild the program in only a couple seconds to test the result.
>Frontend code moves too much and quick prototyping/iteration is more important than memory control.
You can have both, really: Rust makes a lot of compromises on it's debug builds, but it compiles lightning fast. As I said above, you can change your program and see how it looks in realtime by simply dropping "cargo run" into the shell. There's not much I can do for you here except tell you to see for yourself.
First time compilation is notoriously slow, since Rust has to compile your dependencies into object files, and to make "release" binary, it has to re-compile those same dependencies to make a statically linked and optimized executable. The actual debug process is fairly quick though, since it can just link the deps to a lazily compiled binary for debugging purposes.
