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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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    AI Businesses Impacted by DeepSeek AI

    Mighy be better to ask if he's ever wrong.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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    Vitamin supplements: suggestions/feedback

    "what would be the impact if she wasn't smoking" That's not scientific, its hypothetical.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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    AI Businesses Impacted by DeepSeek AI

    Why do you think French people are incapable of spotting American arrogance. I see nothing ridiculous in Balfrog's comment. I don't see any relevance in the rest of your post to the OPs pop at American arrogance. They just look like an attempt to make yourself appear knowledgeable.
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    A problem with a healthcare insurance company

    What depends on individual circumstances? I was talking about the american paranoia about making contributions that might be used for somebody else's healthcare because they consider it about as close to communism as you can get if your payments aren't used exclusively for your healthcare. Never...
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    A problem with a healthcare insurance company

    Yes I do know people who have had cancer but not the big bills as like most people in the western world they were covered by the 'socialist' health care that most americans seem to be so afraid of. Such a mean spirited attitude. Oh, my god my contributions might pay for someone else's treatment...
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    A problem with a healthcare insurance company

    In my view most health insurance is a waste of money. If you have 1M in a deposito or government bonds that will cover you for just about any procedure including heart transplant. Chances are you won't need anything so complicated so you can leave the money to your kids, instead of lining the...
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    Indonesia & Corruption: a few articles in the past few weeks

    Apparently the beans are fermented as they pass through the digestive tract of the musang (civet) maybe that and the fecal matter excreted with the beans provide a unique flavour enhancer

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