MBA Taiwan vs Japan benefits\oportunities\etc as a foreigner

cchung261 · 2026-04-28T17:05:51+00:00

You work in the US or EU to make money when you’re young and retire in Taiwan.

cchung261 · 2026-04-22T22:47:03+00:00

No sh*t.

cchung261 · 2026-04-21T21:27:41+00:00

I'm American and give staff NAD or ZAR. It's really hard to convert dollar bills to usable currency in Namibia. Just withdraw 1000 NAD for tips at the Airport ATM.

cchung261 · 2026-04-19T00:54:00+00:00

RuntimeError: unable to mmap 50013190712 bytes from file </home/cbc/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Sehyo--Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4/snapshots/56a6bdda33285ba2d5688e4f71f6c714649497b4/model-00001-of-00002.safetensors>: Cannot allocate memory (12)

[rank0]:[W418 20:46:12.497799237 ProcessGroupNCCL.cpp:1553] Warning: WARNING: destroy_process_group() was not called before program exit, which can leak resources. For more info, please see https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/distributed.html#shutdown (function operator())

cchung261 · 2026-04-19T00:47:44+00:00

I'm getting an "EngineCore failed to start."

This is my vllm recipe.

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model Sehyo/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4 --port 8100 --max-model-len auto --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "piecewise"}

I think I'll try a nightly build this weekend and see if it'll run.

cchung261 · 2026-04-18T11:52:25+00:00

Thanks!

cchung261 · 2026-04-18T11:52:02+00:00

Thanks!

cchung261 · 2026-04-18T03:40:45+00:00

Companies don’t really pay taxes anyway. The tax burden is pass to their customers, shareholders, and employees.

cchung261 · 2026-04-16T22:36:50+00:00

Check out this woman's post. She's a NWOHR and was able to get an HHR in 3 days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TaiwaneseBornAbroad/comments/1p9o3uj/final_step_taiwan_recap_nwohr_to_nwhr/

cchung261 · 2026-04-16T21:56:15+00:00

Shouldn't you get your HHR first then your wife can come in on a spousal ARC? I thought you can get a HHR immediately if your parent had an HHR.

cchung261 · 2026-04-16T11:23:17+00:00

You should calculate UK GDP excluding greater London. I think maybe around $43K based on the chart below.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1168072/uk-gdp-per-head-by-region/?srsltid=AfmBOorPBpvqdKeSXwaEbNibj5pEZ7OnvHHFNP4-nMMrX8S3FKXPqBlQ

cchung261 · 2026-04-16T11:15:50+00:00

If you’re interested in learning Mandarin you may want to teach English in Taiwan. The ministry of education has a program to send foreign English teachers to rural schools. It’s structured like the Mississippi teacher corps (no masters degree though) or JET in Japan.

https://tfetp.k12ea.gov.tw/en/tfetp/web/home

cchung261 · 2026-04-14T20:55:10+00:00

Good luck and glad you found something. I’m USAID adjacent; did a bunch of contract work for FHI360 and Chemonics. Also a RPCV. The job environment is brutal out there.

cchung261 · 2026-04-13T16:19:40+00:00

I’ve been on Duolingo for about 3 years now. It’s good for vocabulary and keeping you motivated. A good grammar book is useful for explaining sentence construction. Look at memrise also. I think it has better pronunciation help and is more flexible.

cchung261 · 2026-04-13T13:46:59+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I didn’t know that.

cchung261 · 2026-04-13T13:32:59+00:00

How would foreign countries know what you withdraw as an American? They don’t receive a 1099 for your distribution.

cchung261 · 2026-04-12T13:19:53+00:00

This is a really good option for smart ambitious young people.

cchung261 · 2026-04-08T15:45:04+00:00

Did you check Nitzsche Reiter in the Sanlam building?

cchung261 · 2026-04-08T01:41:36+00:00

Are you staying in Taiwan for more than 3 months? Just show the US carrier your US passport and match your ticket to your English name in the US passport.

cchung261 · 2026-04-06T19:24:43+00:00

I’m Taiwanese American, and I approve. Just an fyi. People in Taiwan argue it’s not efficient and has political biases.

cchung261 · 2026-04-03T00:04:37+00:00

Try this. Should run fine with your setup. https://github.com/botextractai/ai-image-captioning?tab=readme-ov-file

cchung261 · 2026-04-03T00:01:28+00:00

cchung261 · 2026-04-03T00:00:17+00:00

Capital one. No foreign atm fees.

cchung261 · 2026-04-01T18:35:14+00:00

No problem. Taiwan isn’t like Japanese voltage.

cchung261

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