geomark

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by geomark 5y ago
Plenty of that misinformation is being indoctrinated in people at college.
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by geomark 5y ago
My kid accused me of that. I grounded him. Edit: Ah, come on! That's one of my best jokes and I got downvoted?!
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by geomark 5y ago
That's a good demonstration of the results that come from price controls.
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by geomark 5y ago
Not around here. TVs, fridge and a/c throughout the house working without issue for more than 10 years so far. A couple of Samsung mobile phones as well that kept going until they were so old they could not receive updates.
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by geomark 5y ago
The transistor? (at Bell Labs, the research arm of the very capitalistic company AT&T)
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by geomark 5y ago
"Perhaps critical thinking is not a useful skill in medical practice?" I was having a discussion about this recently, recalling the vast majority of my experiences with medical doctors who obviously just follow a cook book approac
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by geomark 5y ago
People may find this interesting http://toomandre.com/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pdf (PDF) It is written by a mathematician who has taught in Russia, the US and Brazil. They have a lot to say about how math is
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by geomark 5y ago
At the company I once worked for I used a NeXTcube to demo a co-processor board built from VHSIC Phase II chips. The cube's size and form factor allowed for a nice sized board to be plugged into the backplane. And the graphics of the N
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by geomark 5y ago
Yeah, but receiving payments can be an issue because U.S. banks won't deal with you without a U.S. address.
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by geomark 5y ago
Imagine being an expat in the middle of a pandemic, the U.S. donating millions of vaccine dosages to the country you live in, vaccines that your tax dollars helped pay for, and you can't get vaccinated because the U.S. won't stipu
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by geomark 5y ago
Seems like there might be another way forward, one in which we all muddle along with an ongoing pandemic that doesn't wipe us out but keeps evolving and infecting and killing significant numbers of people. We continue opening and closi
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by geomark 5y ago
That is very interesting. What are the preferred plants to grow to produce the biomass for slashing and dropping?
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by geomark 5y ago
This is interesting to me. For the past 15 years I have had a small plot in the tropics on which I have tried to improve the soil by adding copious amounts of compost, manures and growing cover crops that I till under. All that organic mate
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by geomark 5y ago
More than "a club to stop people criticising the government", it's used extensively by the rich and powerful to stop anyone from criticising them. Another funny thing about it is that the truth is not a defense. So even if Un
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by geomark 5y ago
That's a good idea. A demonstration of that old phrase "birds of a feather flock together." Musk employs a sleazebag to do Unsworth dirty, gets done dirty himself. Or maybe karma is a better word for it. I don't know abo
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by geomark 5y ago
I saw and touched the sub; it was featured at a science expo in Bangkok not long after the rescue. It was a metal tube with some plexiglass plates on it with air valves mounted in them. I'm sure there was some engineering involved, but
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by geomark 5y ago
There is an Instructable for making one yourself https://www.instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARDboard-Illustrative...
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by geomark 5y ago
So one wouldn't want to have an NAS with WD products (although the bare drives are fine). Is Synology the only good option now? Seems like a good time and place to ask if anyone can link to a good tutorial on a good NAS setup.
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by geomark 5y ago
Can you mention some of those benefits?
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by geomark 5y ago
About those benefits of having a US passport, could you mention a few of them? Because I'm a US expat and wondering why I have to keep filing tax returns but receive no benefits whatsoever. A number of important examples: Being a non-c
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by geomark 5y ago
Yeah, pretty much this.
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by geomark 5y ago
Sounds familiar. When I was building my house (not in SA) the construction workers would often disappear after getting paid. I would go looking for them in the village and find them on a bender. They would come back when they needed more bo
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by geomark 5y ago
Interesting. I was unaware of that and thought it was a bizarre approach unique to banks in this so-called developing country.
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by geomark 5y ago
Some of them get finished other ways. Others get taken back by the bank when the owner decides to stop making payments on a loan for an unfinished house. You often see half finished houses that are slowly rotting.
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by geomark 5y ago
"You wouldn't start building a house when it's uncertain that you have enough money to be able to complete the project." Sorry for the completely OT reply, but this triggered me because it is exactly how banks in Thailan
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by geomark 5y ago
Same for me. But of course that is because we have been conditioned to feel that way, isn't it?
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by geomark 5y ago
What if you don't have a family? In Brave New World there are no families. Technology plus social indoctrination have eliminated the need and desire for them.
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by geomark 5y ago
Is monogamy in humans the result of evolutionary pressures or a social construct to serve other purposes? With the right social indoctrination the majority might not care at all about monogamy, even find it strange and undesirable, ala Brav
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by geomark 5y ago
It seems very sad to me to think of it as wasting your best years taking care of your aging parents. I considered it a privilege to take care of my parents to the end. To each his own.
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by geomark 5y ago
So you have a big pile of cash. And you will just use it to pay someone to take care of you in your old age. And they will do it lovingly because you paid them. They won't take advantage or even abuse you when you get to the point of n

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