geomark

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by geomark 10y ago
Being responsible for killing many kids over a long period of time is near the top of my list of despicable. If it's not near the top of yours then I agree we don't have any basis for a discussion. Edit: Obama isn't the only
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by geomark 10y ago
Maybe most of the jobs in the factory will be performed by robots and not humans.
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by geomark 10y ago
Aren't the Trump haters also projecting? And the Obama lovers as well. Obama is a smooth talker versus the crude talk of Trump. Obama's actions were dispicable. It remains to be seen if Trump's can reach that level.
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by geomark 10y ago
The great philosopher Wally agrees http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-05-09
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by geomark 10y ago
Yes. I often think of reports about studies this way. And then I add likely confounders and draw the causality arrows in all directions, and most are often just as reasonable sounding as the reported causal relationship.
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by geomark 10y ago
I've dabbled a bit with permaculture while reading a quite a bit about it. They talk about combining plants into a "botantical guild" such that pests are deterred or controlled in a way that yields are maintained. I've n
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by geomark 10y ago
I went to a Carlin show once. He was witty. But overall the impression he left was that of a vulgar bitter man.
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by geomark 10y ago
Sure. But my point really was that use of profanity in most endeavors is a sign of failure.
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by geomark 10y ago
I like how comedian Jerry Seinfeld put it: "If you have to use profanity in a joke then you failed to nail it." Applies to other things as well. It may be a (crude) indication of honesty, but it is a clear indication of failure.
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by geomark 10y ago
Have you ever taken a MOOC? A quality one, like Andew Ng's Machine Learning, or Data Analysis and Statistical Inference from Duke.
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by geomark 10y ago
Orly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_9000
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by geomark 10y ago
"We just need to be better to each other." Yes, that is the answer. Sadly it seems unlikely since throughout history a large portion of the population remain cruel and uncaring. Many thousands of technologist in the US are involve
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by geomark 10y ago
Thai immigration appears to be inconsistent about the requirement to complete this part of the form. Some offices say it is optional. Some offices don't ask you to fill it out at all. As far as I know they aren't asking tourists t
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by geomark 10y ago
Just last month I commented here [1] how strange it is to see America slowly but steadily moving in the same direction as the military dictatorship that I live under. And here is yet another move in that direction, because here in Thailand
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by geomark 10y ago
Top 3 sugar exporting countries by US$ volume in 2015 were Brazil, Thailand and India [1] [1] http://www.worldstopexports.com/sugar-exports-country/
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by geomark 10y ago
Interesting idea. But that seems pretty tough unless the new grad has a much sought after skill and speaks the language in the destination country.
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by geomark 10y ago
Seems strange to say the public healthcare is bad because of the existence of private healthcare. It's bad due to the fundamentals. Things like: - it is "free" so it is grossly oversubscribed (basic market forces at work)
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by geomark 10y ago
I live in Thailand. Private healthcare is excellent here. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world come here every year to take advantage of it - Thailand is a huge medical tourism destination. There is also a public h
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by geomark 10y ago
Was wondering when someone would say this. It always boggles my mind reading the discussions about "insurance". It's what Americans have become used to calling insurance even though much of it isn't insurance at all.
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by geomark 10y ago
Until the day that reading 1984 gets you arrested. Think that's impossible? That's what happens in Thailand [1] where you also get arrested for the hunger games salute among other things. Think that won't happen in America? I
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by geomark 10y ago
Where I live a lot of kids have been arrested and imprisoned for that salute. It so strange as an American expat living under a military dictatorship where any improper speech is harshly dealt with to see American slowly but steadily moving
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by geomark 10y ago
"... pretty much the only market for pickup trucks" I thought, huh? 'cuz where I live it's pickup trucks as far as the eye can see. Turns out that my country has the highest per capita ownership of pickup trucks [1] [1]
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by geomark 10y ago
That's kind of interesting, sort of reverse age discrimination. Although, does that mean they tend to prefer younger hires since they will take less time off work?
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by geomark 10y ago
I've been on both sides of this, receiving and allocating raises from a merit pool. Last time around I got the order from senior management that raises would be awarded on a curve in all departments, no exceptions. I had 6 direct repor
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by geomark 10y ago
Sounds a bit like my story, although I suspect I'm a bit older. I wanted to bail for several years and then one of the recessions led to my department being downsized. Took the opportunity to move abroad. Missed some of the tech work b
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by geomark 10y ago
This looks like yet another business opportunity where online personas are crafted for a fee.
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by geomark 10y ago
I would also donate bitcoin. Not with PayPal because like thousands of other people who have been robbed by PayPal I won't use them again.
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by geomark 10y ago
I get the some of the same feeling. And related is emergent behaviors where entities with simple rules/behaviors exhibit amazing, complex and seemlingly unpredictable behaviors when interacting in large numbers.
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by geomark 10y ago
Much like rooting mobile phones to get around restrictions on how you can use them. Problem might be that the IoT market is not as concentrated into two or three products. So you would need to have the know-how to lobotomize across many pro
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by geomark 10y ago
"Correlation does not imply causation, but a lack of correlation does suggest (not prove, but suggest) a lack of causation." I don't think it's any stronger one way or the other. Correlation does not imply causation; it

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