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by bjcy 1y ago
It’s important to note that many of the expat accounts have been closed down due to the laxity of individual bank branches in enforcing their own policies, which were taken advantage of by nefarious actors. Many expats attempt to open bank
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by bjcy 2y ago
While your point is certainly valid, the parent's experience lines up with mine. There is a disconnect for rideshare/delivery drivers even between getting instructions from Google Maps vs. me reading out instructions straight from
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by bjcy 4y ago
When gluten-free diets began to become popular, I had a similar question as to why a food that had been a staple of multiple civilisations for hundreds of years had suddenly become "bad for you". Dan Barber has a book on this call
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by bjcy 5y ago
I felt the same! The best I could find online was that the match-up is not yet scheduled.
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by bjcy 5y ago
I can agree, A History of Thailand is an excellent recommendation.
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by bjcy 5y ago
For anyone wanting to add to their perspective how some younger generations are bringing in their thoughts on freedom/authority: - https://thisrupt.co - https://thestandard.co/homepage/ (Thai language
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by bjcy 5y ago
Agreed, and furthermore, I think it’s easy for most of us to take for granted the influence of our domains of work and study. In general, many of us have backgrounds which pride themselves in their methodology, consistency and pursuit of un
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by bjcy 5y ago
He included a link to this gist on one of the Twitter replies: https://gist.github.com/mitchellh/8aa0b76d42e6f6f12ffe34914e...
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by bjcy 5y ago
My first inclination is that the individualism has turned from (admittedly, rosy nostalgia follows here) a propensity towards creative expression and unique identity amongst the whole, into an assertion of control that serves my needs at th
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by bjcy 5y ago
A lot of people have already commented on the part of not speaking being virtually useless at the beginning. I tend to agree with the criticisms listed there, but I submit another reason: muscle memory. Practicing making the sounds of the t
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by bjcy 6y ago
To add the latest update to the story, the public outcry continues to be strong and after going back-and-forth on whether to pursue prosecution of the heir, the police asked Interpol to issue a red notice: https://www.nytimes.com
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by bjcy 6y ago
It's so great to see people learning Thai! For both you and parent, if you haven't found this already, this website does a good job of giving accurate English definitions for Thai words, along with sample sentences from Thai sourc
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by bjcy 6y ago
THIS. Is so ลำบาก[^1]. I tend to use my iPhone/iPad to type certain kinds of stuff because of the dedicated "123" modifier. [^1]: Completely off topic, but I love when there are words that capture a feeling in one language fo
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by bjcy 6y ago
If you're referring to the Lightning to Digital AV Adapter, unfortunately it doesn't do raw HDMI output: https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surp... My assumption is that the lag and artif
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by bjcy 6y ago
I hope it was with Dr. Alvisi and various arias to open every lecture!
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by bjcy 8y ago
Any top recommendations for those books? Super intrigued to read more.
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by bjcy 8y ago
What thoughts do you have on whether or not it could be both classism and racism at the same time? Or is the hypothesis that on the spectrum running between a system primarily demotivated (since it's mostly behavior to avoid certain th
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by bjcy 8y ago
As a point of clarification, the Guardian article referenced above reports a request from Thailand to extradite Thai nationals living overseas. Thailand's lèse-majesté law was broken by Thais, as opposed to this case where a foreign na
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by bjcy 9y ago
And don't forget! Make sure to read the intro with this in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfSSQ3Vejao
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by bjcy 9y ago
When importing from csv, can you import to a deck multiple times and have it just update? Or do you have to create a new deck each time? Also, can decks be shared? Love the design and it's a welcome change of pace coming from other SRS
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by bjcy 9y ago
> The central flaw of libertarianism is that it depend on property rights to essentially be worthless to work in the real world, as any scarcity allows for a libertarian dictatorship based solely on the idea that property rights are sacr
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by bjcy 11y ago
In his defense, the last sentence is sandwiched between two ads, not exactly the most reader friendly place to end your article.
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Ask HN: Possible to turn a Google Apps account into a regular Google account?
2 points by bjcy 12y ago|0 comments
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by bjcy 12y ago
I use iwantmyname.com for just domain names, but they have great one-step integration for email with Google Apps/Live for Domains/Zoho/pick-your-choose.
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by bjcy 13y ago
XAML doesn't necessarily have strong IDE support, either. Although integrated into VS, it really is no comparison to the "REPL" of HTML/CSS + your favorite text editor and a browser.
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by bjcy 13y ago
Looks like the closing bracket got included into the url. Here's a fixed version: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/google-has-already-removed-...
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by bjcy 13y ago
For more stuff like this, check out Love and Math ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465050743/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... , disclaimer: affiliate link). It's a great book I'm just in the middle of that tal
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by bjcy 13y ago
The one thing to note here is that an iPhone doesn't have any UI to manually control settings a professional photographer might change like shutter speed, aperture and ISO. It only has a rudimentary interface to change the focus and mo
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by bjcy 13y ago
I disagree. If you're the alpha, others give you respect, but this doesn't imply that you can't show respect to others. Respect is not only a form of deference. It is also a form of understanding.
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by bjcy 13y ago
I'm interested in knowing why this is the case. Can you point me to any resources with the technical reason why this happens?

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