geomark

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by geomark 9y ago
I would expatriate to a country that has good healthcare at much lower prices so you can pay out of pocket without being ruined. I did precisely that - for other reasons, not for the healthcare advantages. But now this is one of the big rea
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by geomark 9y ago
Your question re point C is a good one. Some might call it inhumane, but the reason everyone directly involved consents is that the workers have it much better doing this work than their alternatives back home. So is it more humane to take
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by geomark 9y ago
Indeed. This is known to be a factor in the Bangkok area. Huge amounts of ground water are pumped from the aquifer and the land is subsiding as a result. It is making the a annual local flooding problem during rainy season worse, particular
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by geomark 9y ago
Doesn't get much coverage outside of Thailand, but there is a low lying coastal area called Khun Samut Chin that has been inundated by ocean for a distance of about 1km over the last couple of decades. It is a bit of a tourist destinat
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by geomark 9y ago
Indeed. That ttle broadcasts the message that "I don't meditate and I have no clue what it's about."
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by geomark 9y ago
I worked at a large aerospace company which had a large contingent of business majors needed for all the required compliance reporting. They weren't paid well compared to the engineers. Those business people always joked that if the co
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by geomark 9y ago
Thailand's national police, too. Someone there tweeted a photo this morning. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_yiGj1UIAE6wby.jpg
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by geomark 9y ago
The entire existence of spooks is about deception. That's why they don't speak directly or truthfully.
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by geomark 10y ago
"...just as easy as it is to create new ones!" I don't do Facebook, never have. But a few months ago I wanted to add login via Facebook to an app I was developing so I signed up for an account in order to get access to the de
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by geomark 10y ago
Possibly of interest to HN due to all the recent discussions about fake news. So here's a way to squash it, as well as any other news governments don't like. Also of possible interest to HN because "reporting news" inclu
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Two years in jail for reporting news without a license(bangkokpost.com)
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by geomark 10y ago
Indeed. Utmost respect. Even for royal pets. Because otherwise http://time.com/4148911/thailand-bhumibol-tongdaeng-lese-maj...
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by geomark 10y ago
I guess it's mostly a tourist or short term resident thing, because as someone who has lived in Thailand for 15 years I find the street food vendors largely a menace. They block the sidewalks, forcing you to walk in the street to get a
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by geomark 10y ago
He says "Then, a few years later, they finally quit their job, but only after having spent years in an industry they didn’t enjoy, and that didn’t really advance them toward their long term ambitions." It seems to me there's
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by geomark 10y ago
It is similar in many countries. In Thailand, where I live, it is also built into the language. There are many different pronouns for addressing others based on your relative social standing. There are pronouns not only for normal societal
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by geomark 10y ago
If anything needs disrupting it's law enforcement. Been waiting for VC's to put out a call for startups that would try to do that.
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by geomark 10y ago
Does nobody else get car sick when reading or looking at a screen in a moving car?
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by geomark 10y ago
"Translation is one job that has already been disrupted by technology." For some language pairs that is true. And that's one reason people aren't willing to pay decent rates for human translation. But for other language
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by geomark 10y ago
There are a few reasons for eating only once a day as a monk. Making yourself easy to take care of is one of them, as you mentioned. But there is another interesting point that a senior monk taught me while I was ordained. He said that one
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by geomark 10y ago
Yes. There are many cases where a lower expected value is a rational trade off for reduced variance.
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by geomark 10y ago
I kind of doubt they have anything on Bangkok when it comes to traffic. After all, a recent study showed Thailand has the world's worst traffic congestion. Nepal wasn't in the top 10. [1] [1] http://www.bangkokpost.com&
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by geomark 10y ago
Well at least it was stated early in the article that "The results don't prove there's a connection". Making causal assertions based on observational studies that are so wide open and uncontrolled might soothe our sensit
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by geomark 10y ago
I think you got played. I saw that before as a hiring manager at an old school company when other departments would exercise candidates and sometimes pick up a nice little gem of an idea or two for their own use. Especially that part about
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by geomark 10y ago
Isn't glycemic index (GI) an important measure of the potential negative effect of the carbohydrate? Some varieties of rice have a surprisingly high GI. Jasmine rice, for example, has a higher GI than pure glucose, a sad fact for me si
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by geomark 10y ago
I don't know the legalities of it. But the government hasn't been bothered by legalities in many things for quite some time.
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by geomark 10y ago
Are there any noises about coming capital controls on foreign remittances? Seems like a logical next step to enforce the lock-out of foreigners and lock-in of assets.
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by geomark 10y ago
As a hardware-first kind of guy, I really identify with bunnie. Would love to do the kind of stuff he is doing.
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by geomark 10y ago
That's a very interesting idea. Thanks for the suggestion. It is still invasive since I have to cut the intake pipe and insert a section with the sensor installed in it. But it is more flexible since I can install it in any size pipe.
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by geomark 10y ago
I'm sure that would work, at least initially. I'm concerned about reliability. My water has very high levels of calcium carbonate which quickly scales up everything. I think the electrodes wouldn't last long. A nonintrusive s
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by geomark 10y ago
Nice project. Mine isn't quite so ambitious (yet). I just need to monitor water pumps. Does anyone have a suggestion for a water flow sensor? I need to detect if there is water present at the pump input. So far the only thing I've

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