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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:35 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   No air conditioning all day!

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

   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:30 UTC hypolite

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     @sim @clacke I moved from France to New York for one, stayed for another 🤷♂️
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:33 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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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.

     @sun

   • sim@shitposter.world's status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:33 UTC sim

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     @clacke @sun Wow. A man really will do anything for a woman.
   • sim@shitposter.world's status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:34 UTC 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?
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:35 UTC Angry Sun

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     @clacke I am in Dubai or I would
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:39 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • sim

     @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.

     @sun

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:40 UTC Angry Sun

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     @sim @clacke it's pretty complicated.
   • sim@shitposter.world's status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 15:16:40 UTC 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.
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 20:24:15 UTC Angry Sun

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     @clacke @sim there are literally no hackerspaces in Miami, it really sucks.
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 20:24:16 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • sim

     @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.

     @sun

   • sim@shitposter.world's status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 20:24:17 UTC 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.
   • sim@shitposter.world's status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 13:26:21 UTC 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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   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 20:47:53 UTC Angry Sun

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     @sim @clacke not enough hackers
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   • sim@shitposter.world's status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 20:47:54 UTC sim

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     @sun @clacke What happened to them?