(For the record, I was very intentional writing "Japanese-run". It could well be the goofiest Scandinavian-owned company, and still be a hellhole to work at in Japan if the top management and most people are Japanese. Nothing against Japanese people -- I'm married to one -- but I know the business culture intimately)
That's a very broad question. But cheaper than any major Western metro area at the moment. And metro areas out of Tokyo with good quality of life like Nagoya, even cheaper.
As long as you don't have to work for a Japanese-run company there, Japan has the best quality of life in a developed country right now.
HK used to be awesome. Not so much anymore, indeed. Tokyo has always been and remains awesome -- and right now it's cheap for anyone operating in EUR or USD (or BTC).
I keep trying, and failing. In the past 15+ years I think the only games with a story I have finished are GTA V, Skyrim, the Dragon Age series and the Witcher III. And non-story games, like turn based strategy games have ended up being boring.
On the other hand, most every week I meet with the same group of friends from more than 30 years ago, and we play board games.
I was already speaking "badly" about Saylor before it was Nostr-cool to do it. 
You would accept it, but wouldn't give it. I.e., getting paid in BTC is smart. Paying in BTC not so much. That's why it doesn't make a good currency, even though it's good money.
Henry George already observed this paradox in the 19th century, before fiat, central banking and the corporatist state were invented.
How was it possible that Enlightenment and Industrialization brought objevtively worse living conditions to the masses in places like the UK or even the then-new Western frontier of the US, compared to pre-industrial ones?
My point being, there are fundamental and deeper sociopolitical reasons for this debacle.
Bitcoin solves part of the problem, but without solving the rest (the State, and the wrong approach to taxation and property rights), it will not be enough. nostr:note1sf6l92fe2kd96h83wcwuw8zkcx6yqnj0w4w2tftd50yccrm29a6qk7y7sr
Of course, of the US-made up main characters of the Netflix adaptation of the 3 Body... the Spanish-American on had to be called "Salazar. It was either that or "Valdez" (pronounced and spelled all wrong)...
This is really occupying my mind A LOT lately.
Btw, the guest flounders when the host brings up the Tragedy of the Commons ("Companies will pollute", "But muh community!"), as it usually happens with the mainstream Chicago libertarian people.
Thankfully, there was a libertarian during the turn of the century who completely solved this question, from within libertarianism and based on strictly libertarian principles: Henry George.
George has the honor to have been very harshly criticized both by Marx and by Rothbard. And if you want to read something fascinatingly unsettling, read Rothbard's critique of George. Because it is unexpectedly dishonest and shoddy - which has historically been a large stain on Rothbard's reputation. There have been many subsequent georgist critiques of the critique, if you're ever interested in the debate.
Who's the host? His voice is identical to the guy from the Honest Outlaw Youtube channel.
I must have a very healthy list of follows because this is the first reference I catch. Which makes me think that indeed, the freedom to self-curate one's feed works as intended and is superior to any form of third-party "moderation" (i.e.: censorship).
(You meant "demeaning", not "deeming")
What I can't understand is how these piece of shit banks can simply refuse to do a perfectly legal transaction. Binance, for example, is operating legally in the EU. There is no legal basis to block any sort of transaction to or from them. How the fuck are these people allowed to do this, with complete impunity?
Not just La Caixa. BBVA as well. Probably being a cartel, the others too. The two I'm mentioning not just block SEPA transfers to exchanges, they won't even allow card payments to exchanges.
Wise, which used to be my solution to that problem, no longer allows SEPA transfers either, but at least they do card payments.
To me it's very obvious that they're doing this just as a warm-up for them to start to offer their own paper BTC scams (which they will misrepresent as "safe products").
Very soon the only real option to buy real BTC will be Bisq, which I love but has a lot of associated inconvenient points.
To be honest I expected a more based answer along the lines of: "I don't give a fuck" 😂
Strong contradictory feelings regarding Dune 2.
I get it, movies, books, adaptations, streamlining, Dune being a really tough one... It's good and tries to be faithful, like the first one. But the sacrifices made...
Five, to download and validate the whole thing, yes. Based on what I'd been reading, I was expecting a longer time tbh.
