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by potatote 7y ago
Ah...I see. I am not much of a gambler either, so this is a very useful piece to know why Roulette gambling, in the long run, turns negative for the gambler. Thank you.
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by potatote 7y ago
I do not have a lot of background on statistics. Hoping someone here could explain why in Roulette game, although the apparent chances of getting number between 0-18 (inclusive) and 19-36 (inclusive) are the same, we lose money if we keep p
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by potatote 8y ago
Your suggested approach was exactly what I did when I had gone through a similar system in Myanmar as the OP described above, where lazy teachers leave managing the class to students among themselves. Stay as neutral as possible so that it
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by potatote 8y ago
As an immigrant, that was one of the cultural adjustment that I had to do in the US. In my home country in SE Asia, people usually ask "Have you eaten (have you had a meal)?" as a greeting. It's easier to answer with "No
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by potatote 8y ago
Last year, AT&T hired Brian Lesser, the former CEO of GroupM/WPP. They have been planning to enter the digital marketing as a player for a while now.
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by potatote 8y ago
As an immigrant with no family to rely on in the US, I always give credit to Reddit for helping me learn so many things from buying old/used car, applying to grad school, to looking for an apartment. Just like you said, its diverse use
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by potatote 8y ago
A great story. It's similar in a lot of ways to how people believe that Buddhas (according to Theravada Buddhism, many, many Buddhas live among us and almost all of us will become one) fulfill his path to enlightenment this way--reinca
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by potatote 8y ago
I agree with you about not trusting anything we see on TV/Newspapers (even if it is from 60 Minutes; NYT; whatever-is-reputed-to-be-reliable). I grew up in Myanmar and after reading a lot of one-sided coverage about the refugee issue t
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by potatote 8y ago
I believe that it's not too bad to let negative thoughts pass through our stream of consciousness everyday. I mean, it's part of being human to have different kinds of emotion, right? The intervention is necessary ONLY IF one feel
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by potatote 8y ago
I've been working from home once a week in the past couple of months, and noticed that I spend more time working at home than I do in the office. For example, if I work from home, I'd be working from 8am to 6pm (with a few short b
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by potatote 8y ago
I really like your take on Buddhism and I share a similar sentiment toward it. I don't think a lot of educated Buddhists in Myanmar take Nagas, sky gods, seriously at all. Uneducated (meaning they are not well-read) Buddhists probably
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by potatote 8y ago
This! The Kalama Sutta was broadcast on national TV every night (around 8-9pm) when the military junta was in power. It is their way of saying, "Don't believe in what you heard about our evil doings from outsiders--such as the wes
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by potatote 8y ago
I grew up in Myanmar until 23 and know what you're talking about. Those 'sayalays' follow a less stricter rules/precepts than a fully-ordained monk. That's why they are expected to pay respect to the male monks. Of
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by potatote 8y ago
> E.g. The poor are usually uneducated. Meaning they can't help with homework. > Even in poor black American communities, house work is often more important than school work. You pretty much nailed what I wanted to described earl
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by potatote 8y ago
I grew up in a poor SE Asian country, and felt the same as you (that my experience with parents' involvement in education is quite limited). I think most of what we read about in the US are biased toward China or developed Asian countr
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by potatote 8y ago
Hmm...a bit different experience by me growing up and graduated from high school in a poor Southeast Asian country. There, a lot of parents (esp. from lower and mid-middle class) invest a good chunk of money/resources on their kids&#x2
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by potatote 9y ago
As a male in his early thirties, who have been to several OKCupid dates, I can tell you that you are in a minority because you seem not to care much about your partner's earning power. Among the women I've met in those dates, at l
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by potatote 9y ago
Yep. I was born in SE Asia and came to the US for high ed (and have since been living here). Most of the people who I met on the internet and in the US, who are interested in the political situation of my home country, posses a view from a
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by potatote 9y ago
Same in my country (somewhere in SE Asia) too. I went to med school there for 2 years. It takes a total of 5 years there and doctors who are trained there eventually leave the country to practice in UK, US, etc. I have a few friends who gra
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by potatote 9y ago
I agree with your point. I never understood why making >150K starting at the age of 32 with a debt of about ~300K is an insurmountable burden. I have a close friend who fits the above profile. She actually makes about ~200K/year (af
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by potatote 9y ago
> Once you account for hours worked, time spent in the workforce, and debt accumulated to achieve their income, a doctor will only have a 10-20% boost in lifetime earnings compared to a UPS driver. Do you have any reference to back that
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by potatote 9y ago
Thank you for sharing the links. Is there a pure JavaScript library that helps with reading and writing data from/to Google private spreadsheet? From the links above, I think node-google-speadsheet repo comes closest to what I'd l
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by potatote 9y ago
> For example, students and professors I met in college that grew up in the USSR thought engineering was stereotypically women’s work. But ability to do those jobs? Can anyone with similar experience comment on this? I am just surprised
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by potatote 9y ago
Same in Myanmar. There, people with stroke are given small doses of Python liver/pancreas or some sort as part of traditional medicine. I'm quite surprised to see that there's some sort of medicinal application to snakes.
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by potatote 9y ago
I believe that the big pharma and the insurance companies are certainly part of the problem, but rarely do we mention doctors as a contributing factor (albeit relatively small) to the high cost. The American Medical Association (AMA) does i
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by potatote 9y ago
Myanmar as well. But again, I think if they can choose, they'd rather choose to live away (not too far away to pay a visit like once a month/year) from their parents. There's no hard and fast rule/expectation about that
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by potatote 9y ago
I tried opening an account on Robinhood. But they wouldn't approve my application because I am a citizen of Myanmar (Burma) and the country was under economic sanctions. But those sanctions were cleared a bit over a year ago and when I
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by potatote 10y ago
From my observation, I notice that a lot of younger generation Chinese adults are likely to be taller than their older fellow country people as well. I have many Chinese coworkers and even the female coworkers are at least 5 feet 5 inches o
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by potatote 11y ago
I am from Myanmar and my mom still lives there. My mom, in her late 50s, uses facebook everyday and I actually set up an account for her a few years back (opened a gmail for that, but my mom never checks her gmail, so she's entirely re
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by potatote 11y ago
Just a side question because you mentioned being a professor: is this work/project related to academic research (in other words, do you plan to publish about your usability findings)? Or is this a product that will become more feature-

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