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The future and the role of Artificial intelligence.
" So far I didn't hear that AI or machines pay taxes." Now that would be true AI, all we've had so far is Artificial Lack of Intelligence.- kripik-pisang
- Post #151
- Forum: General Chat
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Indonesia & Corruption: a few articles in the past few weeks
I couldn't previously be bothered to search for this, but I just realised that its in the very first article referenced by the original poster "https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/indonesia-kpk-shadow-itself" which says: "President Joko Widodo felt compelled to instruct bureaucrats to lead modest...- kripik-pisang
- Post #254
- Forum: In the News
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Foreign visitors MUST be accompanied by licensed local tour guides
Restaurants and accommodations are required to have separate bins, but the guys who collect the rubbish just have a small truck with no separation, so both bins are emtied into that single space. However when it reaches the dump, all rubbish, no matter whether from dual bins or single bins will...- kripik-pisang
- Post #101
- Forum: In the News
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Foreign visitors MUST be accompanied by licensed local tour guides
Not so.I'll give you an example. The other day I had 2 tukang in to replace the bearings on the washing machine. Right next to where they dismantled the washing machine was an ashtray. They didn't use it. The grass right next to them was sprinkled with cigarette butts Its mandatory for...- kripik-pisang
- Post #97
- Forum: In the News
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Foreign visitors MUST be accompanied by licensed local tour guides
Bali has been targetting richer tourists for years, One thing seems clear. When Bali was mainly a backpacker destination, there were none of the current problems of misbehaviour. So maybe the solution is to seek poorer tourists. What??? You can't do that because you want to get rich. Now why did...- kripik-pisang
- Post #93
- Forum: In the News
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Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback
I don't remember, but why would you need to know when its blatantly obvious that smoking a cigarette is bound to be more harmful than taking in a tiny fraction of the smoke, secondarily.- kripik-pisang
- Post #44
- Forum: Health and Medical Care
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Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback
"This might be an isolated case. In proper research using statistical data and sound methodology, " Unfortunately, no sound research was ever done. They only did research into cigarettes loaded with additives. No differentiation into those with additives and those without.- kripik-pisang
- Post #43
- Forum: Health and Medical Care
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AI Businesses Impacted by DeepSeek AI
Mighy be better to ask if he's ever wrong.- kripik-pisang
- Post #16
- Forum: In the News
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Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback
The wonderful scientists also made the ridiculous claim that secondary smoking was worse than actual smoking. Fortunately it was quickly debunked but some people still believe it.- kripik-pisang
- Post #40
- Forum: Health and Medical Care
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Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback
Of course if you only do studies of cigarettes that are full of additives, you will get that result.- kripik-pisang
- Post #39
- Forum: Health and Medical Care
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Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback
Exactly, French people did the same until American tobacco companies bombarded them into smoking blonde tobacco instead of Gauloises or Gitanes, which were made of unadulterated brown tobacco with zero chemicals, unlike Marlboro which contained 10% chemicals. All of those additives were licensed...- kripik-pisang
- Post #38
- Forum: Health and Medical Care
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Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback
"what would be the impact if she wasn't smoking" That's not scientific, its hypothetical.- kripik-pisang
- Post #35
- Forum: Health and Medical Care
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Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback
The oldest woman in the world a decade or so ago was a French woman who still smoked at the age of about 129. So on that basis surely scientists should be recommending smoking for every body.- kripik-pisang
- Post #33
- Forum: Health and Medical Care
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Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback
Interesting where Dr Sarah Berry points out that when you take vitamins that you don't need, those that are above the level that the body can utilize, which seems to be most of the excess, all you are doing is overworking the body because it then has to get rid of them, so it isn't without...- kripik-pisang
- Post #32
- Forum: Health and Medical Care
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Unlimited KITAP
"if the Merp is mandatory when applying for the unlimited kitap like it is for kitas renewal and conversion to kitap." Some years ago, when I was still using a visa agent, the agent told me that the MERP was basically a thing of the past as it was automatically "issued" with every new KITAS or...- kripik-pisang
- Post #60
- Forum: Forum Talk
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