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by geomark 7y ago
I worked for my dad a couple summers when I was a teenager. He was a contractor doing wood frame construction in southern California. I never heard him swear so much as when the plans called for something that was next to impossible to buil
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by geomark 7y ago
But only the variety of flavors the platform decides you should get to choose from. See the problem?
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by geomark 7y ago
Yes, it was mostly this. The sharp credentialed engineers could design, model and simulate complex systems like nobody's business. But, of course, models are never quite exact representations of the real world, especially when it comes
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by geomark 7y ago
My dad was a carpenter. He always said "Make money with your brain, not your back." He knew.
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by geomark 7y ago
Somewhat different experience: I was a hiring manager at a large tech company where we needed mostly hardware engineers. Company was very big on credentials, so we always recruited from top unis. We had just a handful of "partial-degre
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by geomark 7y ago
And Bangkok: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/216240...
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by geomark 8y ago
Does Free Tax USA handle US expats who don't have a US mailing address? Some years ago TuboTax did not support electronic filing so I was forced to print out the tax return and send it via a third world postal service. Not a good feeli
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by geomark 8y ago
Perhaps you are exaggerating a little. As a middle manager, I had to go to some of those trainings. We did not have to write essays but we did have to answer multiple choice tests with questions that were so loaded we couldn't help but
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by geomark 8y ago
That's interesting. I think I saw that on the YouTube channel called Ants Canada. So some fungi do kill living things. Added: That means some of the answers on the sample Singapore Science tests are not really correct.
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by geomark 8y ago
Totally off topic, but plants and fungi don't eat other life. Plants make their own food using waste products from animals. Fungi use dead and decaying matter for food. Even more off topic, the only reason I feel the need to comment is
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by geomark 8y ago
Is that a U.S. thing, having to see an optometrist? I did not need glasses when I lived in the U.S. But now living in a developing country my experience is similar to yours. Multiple eye glass shops in the shopping malls will check your eye
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by geomark 8y ago
Too bad i'm starting to be too old I am rather thankful that I'm starting to be too old for this bs.
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by geomark 8y ago
Didn't read the article, but the engine doesn't provide 250 hp while parked and idling, that's for sure. Certainly it is inefficient compared to an engine sized to provide 2 hp but that's not the same as running it at ma
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by geomark 8y ago
Do you have any examples? I might have adopted one of those methods but don't remember where my style came from. Edit: Found examples on Wikipedia. That's not how I write. I guess mine is less cursive-y and more print-y.
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by geomark 8y ago
Seems like that might solve the problem then. Lower fertility leading to decrease in population and less pollution. Only being slightly sarcastic.
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by geomark 8y ago
That's the way I took it as well. And it is true in some places. When I first moved to the Los Angeles area long ago it was quite smoggy. But look at it now http://aqicn.org/city/los-angeles/ (all green = aqi
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by geomark 8y ago
Aren't ravens the birds with the Spy-vs-Spy behaviors?
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by geomark 8y ago
I thought that part was added just to try to draw in the younger folks who are too little afraid of the scary science and maths parts to consider learning about tech stuff.
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by geomark 8y ago
I am surprised to hear that. I have no personal experience with it, but anecdotally, the son of a friend who recently graduated in CS from Newcastle said he and all his classmates had multiple offers upon graduating. Although, he did say th
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by geomark 8y ago
I have looked at many alternatives to banks. They are better than banks but not by much. For small amounts Transferwise is ok, but the fee isn't capped and keeps going up with the amount of the transfer. I do substantially better via t
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by geomark 8y ago
Of course you can make an electronic transfer, as long as you can manage to keep a bank account open at a US bank. But don't let them find out you are living overseas or they will close it.
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by geomark 8y ago
US expat trying to receive money overseas. US banks won't serve you unless you have a US address. Many lie and say it is illegal. The usual work-around is to establish some kind of US address through a relative or friend. Still ends up
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by geomark 8y ago
I wonder how that is actionable. I did not say anything about the candidate. Just the opposite, I was clear that I cannot say anything about him. What I said was very generic and sound advice for any hiring manager. Any negative information
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by geomark 8y ago
Mostly this. I was a hiring manager at a big company where HR made it very clear we cannot give specific feedback to applicants. We also could not give references for the same reason; fear of being sued. But after a while you learn to speak
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by geomark 8y ago
That terrible routine is repeated many places in the world. Here in Thailand students do a full day at low quality public school and then a few more hours of tutoring. What is particular foul is that many public school teachers are very cor
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by geomark 8y ago
I think you left out another primary function, which is to teach children to conform to the standards of society.
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by geomark 8y ago
I am no stickler for grammar but when you take out the other people you get "... while me was growing" and to the native Enlish ear that sounds pretty terrible compared to "... while I was growing".
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by geomark 8y ago
Yeah, I found that product shortly after moving to Thailand. Unfortunately, the price in Thailand is many times the price shown on their website, over US$1,000. Here for example https://shopee.co.th/BlackHole-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8
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by geomark 8y ago
I have a technical background with many years in development but ended up working at a sales office late in my career. I worked with sales managers who did the "sales stuff" while I did the technical pitch. The very best sales peo
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by geomark 8y ago
Interesting paper. They say that markets fail to bring forward some types of "reinstating" AI and they give three examples, education being one. But I think otherwise when it comes to education AI. Lots of people are trying to dev

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