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by geomark 7y ago
I've been thinking about this quite a bit, but coming from a different angle. I've been helping at my kid's school with coding clubs for primary students. When teachers are recruiting for the coding club they always mention t
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by geomark 7y ago
There is/was one in Khao Yai. I stopped there once. It was a freaking food truck selling 400 baht hamburgers.
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by geomark 7y ago
In Thailand (only) they now have durian pizza. Which disturbs me a lot more than I think it should. https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/ooh-eww-pizza-company-thail...
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by geomark 7y ago
I always considered earthquake insurance a waste of money. The premiums are high and deductibles are quite high so a quake would have to be very strong to do enough damage that cost of repair was more than the deductible. And if that was th
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by geomark 7y ago
I used that same method throughout college. I think I might have read about it somewhere.
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by geomark 7y ago
There have been quite a few stories about how many people in Venezuela have been using it to escape the devastation of their currency. So there might be some price-affecting demand there.
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by geomark 7y ago
Potatoes have a pretty high glycemic index and glycemic load compared to whole wheat and oatmeal.
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by geomark 7y ago
That's even more amazing.
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by geomark 7y ago
It was indeed logic. A pair of MACs, a pair of ALUs, big chunk of on-chip memory and a big ol' mess of wires to interconnect them all. Heavily pipelined. For use in signal processing applications where latency wasn't really a conc
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by geomark 7y ago
My experience at a big defense contractor was like that. Huge spectrum of work. Fortunately I got to work on some very cool cutting edge (at the time) technology. We were developing wafer scale integration, doing things like inter-reticle s
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by geomark 7y ago
"A non-technical manager managing technical people" is Dilbert in real life and is so common it's practically a meme.
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by geomark 7y ago
We do a club at my kid's school called What's Inside. It is modeled after the popular YouTube channel by the same name. But we don't simply smash stuff open like they do on that channel. We give the kids some tools and let th
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by geomark 7y ago
Yeah. My kid in Year 4 (Grade 3) has been doing this with his classmates. They fake their on-screen scores on TT Rockstars (a times tables game) and other shenanigans. So they might not be impressed if they have already discovered it.
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by geomark 7y ago
That's a very accurate description of how it is where I live. But at the end you call it a terrible win-win for everyone. If it's a win-win for everyone how can it also be terrible?
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by geomark 7y ago
This. Low completion rate of those who enrolled for free is, in a way, actually a positive indicator because it shows a lot more people getting a chance to "taste" a subject. Many decide it isn't for them or they learned what
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by geomark 7y ago
Isn't it the people insisting on taking a share who are the ones employing violence? If the people being asked to share say no then armed men show up.
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by geomark 7y ago
I've been to about half of those destinations quite a long time ago. My young adulthood memories now ruined by seeing what has happened to them.
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by geomark 7y ago
Chinese brands also have about 50% of the market in Thailand, followed by Samsung and then Apple. Not as big as India, but annual sales of around 20 million units is still a decent chunk of change.
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by geomark 7y ago
I've been using MailboxForwarding.com for several years. $15 per month gets you 50 items received and 15 scanned. They also offer additional services like parcel storage/forwarding and check depositing. Been solid since I have bee
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by geomark 7y ago
That's pretty funny. Similarly in Thailand, the Thai language has gender-specific pronouns and speech patterns. LGBT people are very out in Thailand and many LGBT foreigners attracted to the country as a result. So when a foreigner who
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by geomark 7y ago
Sure, the school is not going to overpower the influence of parents and the rest of society. But the program does help normalise discussing feelings and relationships, at least in some settings, like especially amongst the kids. Which is
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by geomark 7y ago
I think those translated articles and satellite photos were just used as cover for western spook agencies' real agenda, which was constant budget increases to fund their pet programs and line the pockets of cronies (just like the war a
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by geomark 7y ago
I was around for a lot of that. It was utter BS. Right up until when the Soviet Union fell apart the US gov and all its spook agencies were constantly screaming warnings of a Soviet breakout that would surely wipe us out. I was working at a
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by geomark 7y ago
I agree that this is a key difference between limited time UBI experiments and actual UBI.
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by geomark 7y ago
Russians? I think you have already been influenced by news more than you wish :p
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by geomark 7y ago
It's true what you say about educators wanting to make themselves look good. But that doesn't detract from the program that I have seen. They do things like have the kids make posters about what is important to them in different r
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by geomark 7y ago
"I also think it's weird that everyone has to learn these (and other lesson) themselves in their 20s/30s/40s/whenever " I have also wondered about this. And recently was surprised that my kid's school has
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by geomark 7y ago
Same here. Multiple other brands have high failure rates in a short amount of time. In my case I think it is because of the poor quality mains power which suffers frequent spikes and outages during storms. Philips seems more robust to those
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by geomark 7y ago
Fork and spoon throughout most of Thailand unless you are eating noodle soup. Pad thai, pad si ew, mii korat are common noodle dishes that aren't soups and it is always fork and spoon.
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by geomark 7y ago
Yep. In my case add friends on Line, buy subway tix, pay at 7-11 and many other places. You can also receive payments to your own QR code.

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