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by geomark 10y ago
That's interesting. I did drink more water but I did not give any consideration to salt. What's the best way to get that salt balance right?
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by geomark 10y ago
My impression is that the watch sold mainly because of Apple branding not because it solved a real problem or opened up an entire new market. People are hoping/expecting Apple's next big thing to become a viral hit lke the iPhone.
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by geomark 10y ago
I experienced this. I never needed to lose weight, always been lean. But I wanted to see if I could reduce my blood sugar since it was borderline high. So I went very low carb for a while. Did not intend to but lost 5 kilos right away and f
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Visitors to Thailand to be tracked by special SIMs(bangkokpost.com)
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by geomark 10y ago
I noticed the same comparing Thai 7-Elevens to those in the US. Nearly the same prices in Thai 7-Elevens and Thai supermarkets, whereas in the US there was a significant price difference (from what I recall, it's been a while since I&#
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by geomark 10y ago
Knowing who is corrupt needs to be more narrowly defined. You will know who is worse when it comes to rent seeking, but not necessarily other types of corruption.
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by geomark 10y ago
Indeed. You can even cash out bitcoin from a coins.co.th wallet and pickup the cash at 7-Eleven. Thai citizens only, however :(
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by geomark 10y ago
I'm impressed when someone says English is not hard to learn. I'm a native English speaker now living in an Asian country where I have learned the language. When I view English from my new perspective it seems so much more difficu
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by geomark 10y ago
If "using technology" means having a smart phone on which you message, check Facebook, hail a taxi, and play games then I don't think there is any correlation. Or maybe it varies by country. I say that because where I live (T
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by geomark 10y ago
Maybe it's a red herring, but I always wonder how much infrastructure spending that would have gone into surface building (roads and bridges) has instead gone into subsurface building (deep underground military bases and the tunnels co
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by geomark 10y ago
How is ageism in Germany? Despite being illegal in the U.S. it is blatant in the startup scene.
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by geomark 10y ago
I read an interesting article (sorry, don't have the linK) some time ago about a man who cleans houses after someone dies in them. The story was quite sad. He talked about the high percentage of jobs that are old people who died alone
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by geomark 10y ago
A major problem is that since many of the police are involved in the drug trade it becomes open season on their adversaries. Same thing happened in Thailand when Thaksin first because prime minister and declared open war on drug dealers. Th
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by geomark 10y ago
Thanks for that link. It's an excellent analysis of the actual data from the study. I'm part way into reading it and right away the author has thrashed some of the claims of the original study. It appears that even some of the bas
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by geomark 10y ago
As well as a number of other rather useful languages [1]. Now days I use RMarkdown even for experiments because it's nice to document my line of thinking as I write the code and get a nicely formatted output when I'm finished. [1]
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by geomark 10y ago
I'm only seeing the very few times I've signed into Google to upload a video to YouTube. I infrequently use Gmail on my Android but no signs of it in my activity - aren't Gmail logins along with location logged?
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by geomark 10y ago
This is something I've had a great interest in for years and have read many studies where there is clearly correlation but so many obvious confounders that claims of casuality are just not supported by the data. If the summary of the s
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by geomark 10y ago
Exactly. If there was strong evidence for causality I would make a real effort to go vegan. But I suspect it's about being thin and having a high fiber diet, which doesn't require being vegan.
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by geomark 10y ago
Yeah, pretty rough. The examples of asking questions are wrong. Do you have milk? -> คุณมีนม? No, Thai doesn't have a question mark (or any punctuation). The Thai actually says "You have milk". To make it a question yo
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by geomark 10y ago
That's interesting. Naver dominates Japan, Taiwan and Thailand with LINE, but they chose to create a new messaging app to go after Korea and China since LINE wasn't getting traction there.
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by geomark 10y ago
Same in Bangkok. Taxis are plentiful and cheap. But like elsewhere if you flag one down they often refuse you if you want to go somewhere inconvenient for them. That's where a taxi hailing app like GrabTaxi is useful. It works like Ube
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by geomark 10y ago
I used to live in the US. Now I live in a country ruled by a military dictatorship. This year they started with an immigration form that asks for social media accounts, currently optional same as the US. When I left the US I never thought I
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by geomark 10y ago
I live in a developing country (some call it third world) and we've had this capability for many years. I can pay from my computer, mobile, or at an ATM. How is the US so far behind the rest of the developed and developing world?
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by geomark 10y ago
Musk tweeted that "37 of 40 suspension complaints to NHTSA were fraudulent, i.e. false location or vehicle identification numbers were used"[1] [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/741411531582115841
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by geomark 10y ago
I think this right here is why some VC's are so rabid about criticism of startups they've invested in. For a while now it's looked like a lot of pump-and-dump behavior.
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by geomark 10y ago
You mean those "Hater News" comments? Yeah, if you don't support the VC's narrative you're a hater. Doesn't matter if you've got legit concerns related to physical laws.
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by geomark 10y ago
From the article: "Many are growing disillusioned because they bought what Silicon Valley sold them: an idealistic and almost utopian vision in which the technological advances of the Information Age would change the world -- or at lea
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by geomark 10y ago
I also live in Thailand and I hope you are correct. But the fact that they can now easily buy the equipment and consulting to do this sort of thing means they might very well try it. And like I said in another comment, they don't care
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by geomark 10y ago
When you connect to a VPN doesn't it do key exchange in the same way as making a https connection to a website? They would just MITM that as well, right?
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by geomark 10y ago
Word is that the single gateway is moving forward toward implementation. They just stopped talking about it. My guess is that they will attempt to do what is being talked about. If it breaks the internet in Thailand they don't care. Th

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