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by geomark 6y ago
Adding my anecdote to this, I had an interesting experience when my kid did some voice over work for a couple of studios in Bangkok. I grew up in southern California and apparently have that West Coast or news broadcaster accent, which my k
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by geomark 6y ago
Haha. I'm asking for suggestions of unis where I can still be challenged and even offended, and someone comes along with some psycho babble about me being a conformist of some sort. If I put on my psycho babble hat I might think they s
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by geomark 6y ago
Yes, the ISS has some protection from being in low Earth orbit. But the rate of cosmic ray strikes is still high enough to pose a health risk, so the areas on ISS where astronauts spend most of their time have additional shielding. The mate
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by geomark 6y ago
He says "...good universities are still an excellent way to meet independent-minded people." Is that even true anymore? So many of the ones I considered "good" have gone over to the whole SJW/microaggressions/
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by geomark 6y ago
Tangential question: How long does it take exposure to sunlight to affect serum levels?
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by geomark 6y ago
Well, Venmo is owned by PayPal. So there's that. Also US only I believe.
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by geomark 6y ago
"I'm very lucky that I get to learn about genetics through osmosis ..." I see what you did there. But...is the genetics knowledge the solute or the solvent, because, well, you know (teaching biology to my homeschooled kid at
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by geomark 6y ago
Yes, and they had millions of mainland Chinese tourists in 2019 and into early 2020. Amazing they did not get buried by covid-19.
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by geomark 6y ago
To put some numbers to it - Thailand: population 70 million, number of confirmed cases < 4,000, number of deaths 60, not an island - borders Myanmar on the west, Laos north and northeast, Cambodia east, Malaysia south.
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by geomark 6y ago
I like his standing up at the stadium metaphor for everyone getting a college degree. For years I have thought about it but never had a good metaphor to describe it.
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by geomark 6y ago
Down in Thailand at the moment.
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by geomark 6y ago
Pretty sure that when tax payments skyrocket the quality of services do not. As per parent comment, the bay area is a good example.
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by geomark 6y ago
"...homeschooling teaches you nothing about career readiness without experience..." But homeschooling gives you the flexibility to pursue experiences that would be hard to manage if on a traditional school schedule.
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by geomark 6y ago
+1. I have heard this idea a number of times and seen it in action but did not know that there was actually a "law" and a person credited with stating it.
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by geomark 6y ago
"...people will similarly jump in to correct the wrong belief." This works really well when you have a question about something. If you post a question asking for answers or ideas you often get crickets. But if you post an idea th
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by geomark 6y ago
That might make for an interesting study. Although, the tactile sensation of writing on a tablet still doesn't match that of pencil and paper. So there's a big confounder there.
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by geomark 6y ago
I've had countless discussions with teachers about this. They all have seen that handwritten notes consistently result in better learning outcomes for students of all ages. There are lots of theories and nobody seems to really know why
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by geomark 6y ago
You mean, no phosphorus means no phospholipids so no cell membranes like the ones we have now? That would seem like a shortcoming.
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by geomark 6y ago
I think many/most people ignore this, that some of the mega defense projects spawned many companies that led to huge growth in tech industries. The VHSIC program was one of them. I saw dozens of people from the big defense tech company
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by geomark 6y ago
Although quieter than ICEs, those engines are not silent. Too noisy to be close to homes. You would need to keep that in mind in your off grid dream.
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by geomark 6y ago
I don't know the details on the engine as we did not build it; it was sourced from Kokums.
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by geomark 6y ago
The manufacturer of the Stirling engine for those submarines, Kokums, is the source of the engines used for a dish-Stirling solar energy system I worked on for a licensee of Stirling Energy Systems[1]. It was a concentrating solar energy sy
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by geomark 6y ago
This is a good article. It covers all the facets of radiation hardening pretty well. I worked on a radiation hardened processor chipset that had to be very rad hard - total dose, prompt dose, SEU all had to be addressed. That required measu
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by geomark 6y ago
It's actually worse than that, because public schools typically teach the government-approved version of history. It's not until much later that, after digging into multiple alternative sources and triangulating what is likely a m
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by geomark 6y ago
I guess YMMV, because at my school (a long time ago) we learned a new sport each term. And it took the better part of the term for the average kid to achieve some level of competency, much like an academic subject. It's certainly diffe
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by geomark 6y ago
As part of just normal station keeping it might do that.
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by geomark 6y ago
From the article "SOFA robots have become something of a national treasure in Thailand." Strange, I live in Thailand and have been following the news closely ever since the pandemic hit but I have not heard of this or seen it ment
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by geomark 6y ago
This kind of thing drove me away from MOOCs for certain subjects. There was the Human Computer Interface course where your UI was graded by three peers. On multiple assignments I would get a strong positive with comments, a strong negative
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by geomark 6y ago
What do you think of italki? I'm about to sign up my kid for Chinese through them. Lots of tutors look very good in their intro videos.
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by geomark 6y ago
Definitely a vast difference in the level of physical violence between those two groups. But similar how bad performers are shielded by the unions for both of those groups. That's likely the issue that has OP lumping them together.

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