geomark

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by geomark 5y ago
It's fun to read stories like yours and others here. A lot of us probably have similar. I think I enjoy telling mine because each time I retell it I get a little bit of that great feeling again of suddenly being able to buy what I want
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by geomark 5y ago
Childless friends tell me they won't have kids because they are too expensive. I tell them they are thinking about it wrong. They own a house and talk about it as their best investment. Well, kids are an investment. A high risk/hi
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by geomark 5y ago
I've had some luck building toy websites for the main purpose of trying out or practicing some tools or skills. Most recently was a site where I was semi-automatically collecting stock price data, creating and posting stock charts and
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by geomark 5y ago
Right. Just like the force between opposite charges. That's how I've always thought of it. Small nit - I think it is actually called electrostatic force, at least when we are talking about charges at rest.
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by geomark 5y ago
This probably isn't the right place for this question. But the right kind of people will be reading this thread so I will ask it. In college physics my teacher insisted that, despite gravity being popularly referred to as a force, it i
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by geomark 5y ago
"Thinking of Physics" is pretty great. Thanks for the rec.
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by geomark 5y ago
What a great approach. The easy social studies courses are made so horribly boring that it drives students to study the hard sciences.
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by geomark 5y ago
Any titles you can recommend? I'm homeschooling my kid and have been using sample problems from both Russian and Singapore math. But I only have a single source for Russian math problems, which is a pdf of a paper by a Russian educator
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by geomark 5y ago
Here in Thailand they sell those chunks of alum at village shops. Called สารส้ม in Thai. Villagers follow the same routine, swish it around in a bucket of dirty water to settle it out. Photo on the page at this link: https://pan
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by geomark 5y ago
I am homeschooling my kid and this Secret Life of Components series is part of our Design and Technology curriculum. We've always done a lot of making and building, and Tim's practical knowledge of so many things really expands ou
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by geomark 6y ago
Humans aren't a natural phenomenon?
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by geomark 6y ago
What you say is true, but I wonder what you mean by "failed it's people". Because from what I saw it wasn't just really poor leadership. It was the prevalent attitude of individualism above everyone else that made things
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by geomark 6y ago
Tangentially related, this brought to mind the study that showed a reduction in myelination in young children who were exposed to "excessive" screen time. [0] [0] https://neurosciencenews.com/screen-time-brain-chan
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by geomark 6y ago
Yeah, that's a good example of how the rich can get away with anything in Thailand. In most places if you kill a cop the cops make sure you get what's coming to you. But here even the cops can't get justice for other cops if
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by geomark 6y ago
Smuggling luxury cars is a big thing in Thailand. There is a 200% tax to import them. There are busts reported in the news now and then. Sometimes it's a shipment of "used" car parts which is really a container of disassemble
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by geomark 6y ago
I'm interested in how you got the account back. My kid lost access to the email address on the account. It wasn't stolen, it was a school email address at an old school. Replies from Roblox support have been very slow and not help
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by geomark 6y ago
I took a course in college called "European Political Thought" and one of the texts we had to read was the bible. Reading it cover to cover revealed a number of surprises to me. I had to go to church as a kid so I knew the basics
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by geomark 6y ago
Agree on the peer reviewing in non-degree courses. I never got spammy-looking reviews, but I did get ridiculous reviews where one reviewer would grade high, another low and a third make no effort and just say "pass". It was clear
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by geomark 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm. But I never know these days because a lot of people actually avocate things like this. After seeing what happens to most people after they receive a lot of free stuff, especially large sums of money, I
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by geomark 6y ago
As some siblings have commented, it's probably the failure to get back and document it. But the desire for job protection is not uncommon. I saw it when I worked on testing satellite power converters at a large aerospace company. There
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by geomark 6y ago
I believe you meant eletromagnetic compatibility (EMC).
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by geomark 6y ago
Having experienced, in a couple of very different countries, the difference between public and private housing and healthcare I know which one I prefer. No experience as an insider in academia so can't comment on that.
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by geomark 6y ago
I don't think that word, capitalism, means what you think it means.
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by geomark 6y ago
What does a "run on BTC" mean?
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by geomark 6y ago
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. We are all subject to it. Requires constant vigilance to avoid it.
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by geomark 6y ago
Many people, although not enough, have had similar experiences. I feel fortunate that it happened to me when I was still a kid. The local newspaper reported a story about the adventures me and some neighbor kids had during a flood in our li
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by geomark 6y ago
Yeah, I thought Asimov was all over this long ago. Also see "Machines Like Me" by Ian McEwan for a recent go at sentient androids.
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by geomark 6y ago
Brings to mind the MRI scans of the thighs of an elderly athlete versus an elderly sedentary man https://www.bettermovement.org/blog/2012/use-or-lose-looks-l...
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by geomark 6y ago
Does anyone know if the thresholds for being "overweight" and "underweight" have changed over time? I mean, with so many people getting heavier and heavier has the standard crept up so that "underweight" isn&#x
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by geomark 6y ago
That has been my experience, having ordered a hundred or more items in the last couple of years.

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