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by geomark 8y ago
I had the same impression about countries with rice-based diets. But, anecdotally, after I moved to Thailand I learned that many of my spouse's relatives and friends are diabetic, some seriously. All of them are of older generations th
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by geomark 8y ago
Actually, some starchy foods are worse than pure sugar when considering their glycemic index. Jasmine rice, for example, has a GI of 109, where pure sugar is 100. So choose your starches smartly so that you don't get the large spike in
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by geomark 8y ago
Just yesterday I was reading a list of logical fallacies, and between this comment and your previous one I think you've hit at least 3 or 4 of them.
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by geomark 8y ago
I am pretty sure he can say it did work with more certainty than you can say it didn't. It's a personal anecdote that he is intimately familiar with.
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by geomark 8y ago
From the article: "...70 percent marginal tax rate and it kicks in, not at $10 million like AOC proposes, but at around $98,000"
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by geomark 8y ago
Recent discussion about a software developer's take on living in Sweden https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18799643 and one Swedes opinion of the high tax rate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=188
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by geomark 8y ago
Thanks for that recommendation. My kid started with Scratch and then did several of the Code.org courses and Hour of Code activities. Been wanting to move him on to learning "real" programming. Was trying to find an easy, online,
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by geomark 8y ago
"I think most people agree that the quality of health care is an issue..." Really? I thought that good healthcare was one of the major positives of the high taxes paid in Sweden. That was alluded to in the article and I have seen
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by geomark 8y ago
"Americans have the best care in the world (for those with decent insurance)" I don't think I have ever heard that claim before. I am American, had very good insurance through my employers when I was living in the US, and rou
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by geomark 8y ago
The half who are working and paying the taxes, amirite?
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by geomark 8y ago
I was wondering if there are dissenting opinions. What percentage of Swedes do you estimate feel the way you do?
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by geomark 8y ago
But the Swedes are fine with it, as is the author of the post, because they feel they get their money's worth. The author went into quite a bit of detail about he doesn't have to save much for his childrens' education and som
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by geomark 8y ago
There is in Thai. หมั่นเขี้ยว means wanting to bite someone/something because it is so cute.
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by geomark 8y ago
That's similar to my experience in Thailand. Everyone in my family has had one or more hospital stays for illness, surgery or injury. Prices for common procedures are posted. After initial evaluation there is a discussion about what th
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by geomark 8y ago
Classic! And yes, that's exactly the angle Musk should take.
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by geomark 8y ago
Maybe he could leverage it the other way. He could say that Tesla is willing to save the factory but the evil GM, who previously saw no value in the factory and was going to close it, now wants an outrageous price. Tesla should be able to g
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by geomark 8y ago
There is definitely no nomad-friendly visa here in Thailand where I live. It's just pretty easy to fly under the radar because enforcement of laws of any kind is pretty lax. It gets expressed in things like how an immigration officer i
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by geomark 8y ago
I have done some bamboo construction here in Thailand. In addition to mold problems, untreated bamboo gets eaten by powder post beetles. Treating the bamboo with a borax/boric acid solution preserves it for many years and does not affe
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by geomark 8y ago
I suppose you might convince yourself to think of it that way. As long as you don't mind the fact that you are subsidizing the large number of people for whom it is literally free because they pay but a tiny portion of their actual cos
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by geomark 8y ago
Of course you are correct, it's not "free". I always chuckle when I hear about "free" education, "free" healthcare, etc. Somebody is paying for it. It might not be you, at least not at this moment. But if
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by geomark 8y ago
""This assumes everyone values personal health over financial health." Very easy to solve this one - the elected official doesn't eat the fish and drink the water, their children do." Even that doesn't seem to
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by geomark 8y ago
In places where the rule of law is weak and corruption is rampant it is easy to literally get away with murder just by paying off the police. But that doesn't protect you from retribution from associates of the people you had killed. Y
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by geomark 8y ago
People who are high performers in a group of slackers like these kinds of managers.
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by geomark 8y ago
Are you sending from where you warehouse in China? Then maybe your parcels will attract attention and get hit by the tariffs. If you are shipping from NZ then I would guess not, and maybe you even have a new found advantage compared to comp
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by geomark 8y ago
Successes as an individual contributor are a great feeling, but not to the level of the amazing feeling you get when you successfully execute a strategy that requires coordination of a large number of people to perform a complex task. I&#x2
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by geomark 8y ago
The subject of using profanity around your kids is a subject I have definite opinions about. But it is a whole other topic that I'm not sure belongs in this thread. I will, however, mention something Paul Graham says in one of his essa
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by geomark 8y ago
Yep, enjoy watching him. He has an interesting combination of knowledge about materials, electronics, machining and general tools know-how. I got a kick out of an episode when his young daughter came into the workshop while he was filming.
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by geomark 8y ago
I definitely think there is some planning you could and should do.
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by geomark 8y ago
I am aware of all those things, because I did it. So I know it is not trivial; I'm not being disingenuous at all. I made the trade offs for my family. I am just wondering what other people's thoughts are.
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by geomark 8y ago
If you were debt free with 1 million USD in cash and mutual funds would you choose to live in a major city? So many major cities worldwide have high levels of pollution which has a deletirious effect on both physical health and mental perfo

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