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by geomark 8y ago
I used to work for a defense contractor and I remember the boogie man of the Soviet Union and how the intelligence community was constantly saying there was likely to be a breakout in new Soviet technology. So our budgets remained fat to fu
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by geomark 8y ago
It seems to me to be more that a16z just wants to squelch anything that doesn't support their agenda. They are always talking up their latest startup no matter how flimsy it may be. Anything critical said about the regard as hate speec
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by geomark 8y ago
Andreesen blocked me, a little nobody, when I had a different opinion than him when he was supporting an argument for an investment in some kind of app targeted at young people in Southeast Asia. The app was supposed to aid them in their en
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by geomark 8y ago
Sounds like what has been happening to me. Except when I try to login to nuke the thing I get some error message about a database error and can't login. So the Facebook spam about new friend suggestions etc keeps coming. But since I ha
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by geomark 8y ago
The term "competitive victimhood" came to my attention after watching the Joe Rogan interview of Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay who pranked academic journals with research papers based on ridiculous premises. A must watch IMO
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by geomark 8y ago
I have a different perspective after moving from America to a developing country. Where I live now corruption is commonplace and everyone knows it. But it is relatively petty in most cases and costs everyone a little. But America is rife wi
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by geomark 8y ago
I used to work at an aerospace company that did a lot of spook projects. Many of the company's senior management were on LinkedIn but all they had in their profiles were first name, last initial and title at the company. Didn't se
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by geomark 8y ago
Yeah, I meant rocket engines . I realize there's a lot more to a rocket than just the engines.
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by geomark 8y ago
Isn't the US still buying rockest from Russia for critical launches? I'd say Russia might have a bit of an edge.
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by geomark 8y ago
It's basically the standard monk's schedule. Might be a shock for late sleepers used to eating and snacking throughout the day. Enough of a shock to set off some people. The Thais have an idiom for it which translates to "all
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by geomark 8y ago
I live in a rural part of Thailand and there are lots of snakes. I see them a couple times a month. There are both venomous and non-venomous. Around my home I most often see pythons, golden tree snakes, and rat snakes. There is also the oca
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by geomark 8y ago
At 530 sieverts (53,000 rads(gamma)) per hour mega-rad hard electronics could last about 18 hours. Long enough to do some work, but expensive if the robot could not be rennovated and they had to have an army of expendable robots. Such elect
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by geomark 8y ago
What are the radiation levels the failed robots experienced? Searching, I keep finding information about radiation levels in reference to human health. But I'm interested in the total dose those robots get before they fail. I used to w
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by geomark 8y ago
There's another issue that I noticed when I was a hiring manager. Some people find it difficult to interview and manage people who are older and more experienced than them. Some feel uncomfortable giving orders to people who are their
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by geomark 8y ago
I found it immensely useful to speak English with my Thai tutor in the beginning when I was trying to get the pronunciation correct and train my ear to hear tones. When I listened to four different words that sounded the same to me but actu
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by geomark 8y ago
That's right. Truth is not a defense at all in defamation cases. If your intent was to embarass or defame then even if what you said was true you can be convicted and do time. Not sure if the case could be filed in Thailand. But if it
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by geomark 8y ago
I saw and touched Musk's "submarine" which was on display at a science expo in Bangkok I went to a few months ago. It was sort of underwhelming. It was just a metallic tube with some handles on the sides and a thick acrylic r
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by geomark 8y ago
Better yet, sue him in Thailand where defamation is a criminal offense where conviction comes with jail time.
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by geomark 8y ago
I worked at a company that did chip design work for contract. Our bright biz dev director tried to land a deal with Huawei. Huawei kept asking detailed questions about how we would design certain features that they wanted in their chips. So
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by geomark 8y ago
Although not many Thais are vegetarians, many do participate in the annual vegetarian festival which comes from Chinese Buddhist tradition. And it is all meat substitutes. There doesn't seem to be much awareness of how to get high qual
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by geomark 8y ago
No banks ask me for my SSN in Thailand when I open accounts. They report as required by FATCA. Presumably your US passport number is adequate.
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by geomark 8y ago
I watched the first half of it. Hilarious. Definitely recommend.
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by geomark 8y ago
There is actually another more important lesson, which is that there is always someone bigger and more powerful than you.
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by geomark 8y ago
You're probably right. It's pretty childish to upvote/downvote a comment because you have the same/different opinion rather than based on the value it adds to the conversation.
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by geomark 8y ago
That sounds a bit like the InCAS assessment[1] used in the UK and some international schools that follow the British system. In my experience, the teachers are a bit reluctant to share the results because it takes some effort to get reports
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by geomark 8y ago
A lot of the schools where I live do the detailed progress reports. The thing is, the quality of the reports varies a lot from teacher to teacher. Some of us parents share the reports with each other and there are always lots of questions a
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by geomark 8y ago
There are federal, state and local taxes on transportation fuels. So sure, if you drive through the city without filling up your car there then you got a free ride on that city's roads, but not the state and interstate highways leading
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by geomark 8y ago
Yeah, parent comment neglected the fact that drivers are paying via taxes and fees. Those may not be sufficient to pay for external costs, but that's how the roads are typically paid for.
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by geomark 8y ago
I mentioned my personal definition in a sibling comment. I say that being wealthy is a feeling, the feeling of abundance. You choose which things an abundance of makes you feel wealthy.
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by geomark 8y ago
Yes. Being wealthy is a feeling , the feeling of abundance. That feeling can be achieved at many income levels. It depends on the person's character. A person with modest material desires can feel very wealthy with only a modest amoun

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