BBC: Today's Taipei is rich and hip, 20$ billion Tainan factory, Secret sauce

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Why does that matter? A lot of small countries are tax havens.

It’s not a tech city. There is no “tech”, just financial entities. Apple Ireland exists purely to avoid tax. The Macbook Pro or whatever shite is not designed or made there.

Lots of companies base their EU operations in Ireland because of low taxes. It is to the EU what HK and Singapore are to Asia.

This guy said Ireland is a software power

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that’s def part of it - taiwan firms aren’t willing to invest in it cuz you need a bit of patience to see the rewards. but also sw eng is kinda new and taiwan had forcefully hitched its wagon on physics/EE in the 60s, 70s, and 80s back when the kmt govt could do whatever it wanted. by the time sw was obviously going to be big in the 2000s, taiwan was already a democracy where it’s harder to do govt driven large-scale industrial planning. also a big thing is language - the strongest sw powers ar…

I do think it’s funny a lot of Americans think they don’t speak English in Ireland.

Also, at work we use Skillsoft (or is it Skillshare?), which is an Ireland-based company, for Python training.