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On 9/20/2021 at 7:54 PM, IamNoone88 said:Petrol car the best and always will be in my life time.
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On 9/20/2021 at 7:54 PM, IamNoone88 said:
Petrol car the best and always will be in my life time.
The best at what? They are on their way out. Electric is just getting started. Electric already produce the fastest production cars available which, while irrelevant to normal driving in so many ways, means efficiency will outpace ICE. Teslas are made so well that the testing authorities had to change their standards adding 'extra levels' to cater for their industry leading safety standard. Advances in solar will mean most commuting will be powered by parking outside. Maintenance is so simple. Many Tesla owners claim they spend more on tires than energy for the life of one set.
This guy crashed a car so badly that it caught fire but escaped with minor injuries. Try that in a diesel pick up made in Chonburi.
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On 9/20/2021 at 7:54 PM, IamNoone88 said:
Petrol car the best and always will be in my life time.
The best at what? They are on their way out. Electric is just getting started. Electric already produce the fastest production cars available which, while irrelevant to normal driving in so many ways, means efficiency will outpace ICE. Teslas are made so well that the testing authorities had to change their standards adding 'extra levels' to cater for their industry leading safety standard. Advances in solar will mean most commuting will be powered by parking outside. Maintenance is so simple. Many Tesla owners claim they spend more on tires than energy for the life of one set.
This guy crashed a car so badly that it caught fire but escaped with minor injuries. Try that in a diesel pick up made in Chonburi.
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I have a Binance account - works well. They cancelled their SWIFT gateway partnership days after I had transferred some money in. Took them two months to get a new partner and it's not set up right. However, those are my problems... They have as broad a selection of coins as you can find. Bitkub only handles a small number of coins and the transaction fees are shockingly high by comparison. I use BNB to pay for my transactions on Binance as they extend a discount to customers who do so. If you are just planning to invest and hodl (hold), then Bitkub is fine. If you want to trade, Bitkub's fees will dampen your experience. If you want to invest in newer coins, Bitkub will not support you.
Crypto is risky and exceptionally volatile. If you are trading, you will loose sleep. It is a 24/7 market so you have no time to unplug. It is important to have set triggers and alarms otherwise you will miss out. I am hodling so I ignore the daily volatility. I am up 75% across my port - 300% on some smaller coins.
If you want to invest and trade but don't want the stress, I suggest you sign up at eToro.com and buy into the CryptoEqual fund. I am up 30% since May.
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25 minutes ago, club said:I dont think either one are coming until first of the year. Just my opinion. Decided to fly back to USA. Tired of this <deleted>
The wheels are starting to turn here. It's your choice, but you might find a little extra patience saves you hassle of flying and getting back in...
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I registered with ExpatVac the day it was spun up. No response from them, but BCCT kicked the tires for me just this Monday and I got my first AZ jab this afternoon at SCG Bang Sue. There were thousands there, all under various different schemes; ExpatVac/BCCT, BMA, and others whose names I did not catch while waiting for the overworked security guard to tell me where to go.
The entire process, front door to getting a cab home, took me 75 minutes. I very much doubt that the Thais waiting in the BMA queue got processed that fast. Were the performance slower today, I'd still be grateful for it taking place. It could be argued I should not have had to wait so long to be registered - all registrations accepted and sorted by age rather than there being a Thai queue and a non-Thai queue. However, at the end of the day, the machine is oiled and working and the volume of people through it seems to be rising. The staff I talked to said they were processing more people per day each day.
Ironically I received a mail from MedPark this morning offering me Pfizer yesterday or today. Not sure how that would work, but as I live close to Bang Sue I took the AZ and will wait until Nov 19 to get my second jab. I am not considering a self-diagnosed mix-n-match at this time, although preliminary tests suggest the two combine well. (https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/covid-19-vaccine-mixing-astrazeneca-pfizer/) It is unclear about getting a certificate here if one mixes vaccines.
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Massive shoutout to BCCT. I mailed them on Saturday 21. They responded on the same day and had arranged my jab of AZ by end-of-day Monday. My appointment is this Friday.
I don't understand the complaints. BCCT is a members-only organisation that has decided to assist any and all where it can. That is not the same as being required to ensure a win for all. It will assist all those it has capacity to assist, and clearly when it can, it amazingly effective and efficient. Their capacity is limited and so they will focus on where they can be most effective.
If you choose to live away from the noise and mess of a major city, don't expect the same levels of service-accessibility as a provincial capital or Bangkok. It would be irrational to do so. Thailand's medical facilities and the organisations that are assisting are not focused on your individual needs. They are logically required to focus on where the majority of people and facilities are.
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7 hours ago, LeatFingies said:No thanks.
There is an argument to be made that those who refuse to get vaccinated should have their internet anonymity stripped so responsible people can avoid them like the plague they are.
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13 hours ago, riclag said:
Did you register for a vacc, on the site in this thread , expatvac ?
I did. The site crashed initially so I waited 20 mins, tried again, struggled with the date field and eventually got a success.
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I think it goes deeper than that. Too many older Thais have neither any clue about, nor interest in technology. 60% of Thai IT graduates do not work in IT. 60% of IT workers here did not graduate in IT. As only young people understand programming, and programming is a career path with a low glass-ceiling so the smart programmers realise that and change careers. Most Thai organisations programming can and should only be done by fresh graduates for the lowest price possible. Have we ever seen a tender here pitched and won on quality over price?
I have worked in IT since 1988 in London, here, Hong Kong and Singapore where I ran IT for a USD100,000,000 regional logistics Co., I have seem how each country in Asia approaches IT. Thailand is so far behind the rest it is scary. In 1993 I can remember one of Thailand's bank's IT Exec VP telling us they would 'jump over' the client-server revolution and get away from COBOL and AS/400s. I can remember them calling us in a panic when they used waterfall development processes for SmallTalk projects (few might understand that but it is the programming equivalent to using a Ferrari to drive off-road or carry durian.) I wonder how much blame can be assigned to Thailand's slavish use of AS/400 and all the wrong-headedness it brought with it.
The few companies here that know how to buy technology services are keeping the even fewer companies that can deliver very busy. The rest of both camps are stuck with each other until death.
11 minutes ago, macnmotion said:Actually the biggest piece missing is usually the strategy, including security, before a finger is lifted for design or programming. But since managers here have little incentive to spend their budgets on such an invisible step, it usually doesn't happen.
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5 hours ago, garygooner said:
Thought the number would be higher than around 29k. Wonder how many have already paid for Moderna up front and are waiting?
Me for one. Q# 909K and change for Moderna. Signed up for this (painlessly) hoping to accelerate the process. If a 60+ year-old with 2 health conditions is told April 22, it would seem reasonable to conclude Moderna will get me first as I am both under 60 and in great shape.
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7 minutes ago, 2long said:
WOW!! ????????
I normally enjoy the company and opinions of fellow bikers, but the aggression and accusations* in your post are quite alarming! I will/would never click on a link surrounded by such words, such is the fear of a spam link or worse.
How very dare you call me a Somchai!
Act like a duck, get called a duck. And whatever you do, don't go reading up on how polls are actually done so you can keep to your false understandings... With that kind of bravery, I bet your stand leans your bike more than you do ????
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1 hour ago, pauleddy said:
A sample size of 1000 (without ages, location, wealth etc)taken from 60 million (I’ve discounted 3 m farang) is as useless as a chocolate teapot. Does nobody study stats here?
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Do you?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-only-100/
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1 hour ago, mikosan said:
1069 respondents to the poll. Not worth the paper it's printed on. The government should do a REAL poll. No, they can't, because then they'd have to include REAL people and the likelihood is that it would be 99% critical. Muppets.
What is a "real poll"? Pray tell us Mr. Statistician? Explain your sample size and its distribution, your margins of error and quality control methods?
We'll wait...
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2 hours ago, judokrab said:The Dunning Kruger Effect is evident here.
As a professional statistician, I can tell you that there is no practical benefit to be gained in polling more than 1000 people (even in a population the size of the USA) for such a survey, provided (as always) that it is a properly randomized sample.Be careful, knowing about the subject matter will get your scorned by the armchair 'I know best' group. Being right is not enough, you need to be loud, disparaging and have a weak reason to feel superior to your hosts before your correct opinion can be viewed as such.
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You join the ranks of Somchai and Sombat with your lack of knowledge of mathematics and statistical modeling... Before you state that 1,069 people can't represent 69 million, try reading up on statistically sampling. Until you have an opinion based on knowing something, your opinion is not worth a tin of duck-poop.
I've posted this link to every muppet who declares their ignorance about stats. I will continue to do so until the message is beaten in - your lack of understanding of statistical modeling does not mean the polls are badly done...
7 hours ago, 2long said:How can they say the 'vast majority' after polling just over 1,000 people?
Ridiculous!
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1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:
Thank you for your cultured response. I stand by what I wrote, that asking so few is pointless, no matter how they are sampled.
What you wrote is a personal pinnacle of fact-free opinion. Standing by it means you are in free-fall...
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Before you state that 1,051 people can't represent 69 million, try reading up on statistically sampling. Until you have an opinion based on knowing something, your opinion is not worth a tin of duck-poop.
1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:Probably are. Who is going to check them, and (allegedly) asking 1,051 people and applying their answers to 69 million people is pointless anyway. How are these people picked? Age, profession, location? Was Somchai in Nakhon Nowhere asked?
I say allegedly, because years ago I worked for a month for a company that offered property ownership time shares. I had to call people who had supposedly shown interest when stopped in the street, but in reality many of the phone numbers had simply been taken from the phone directory. Some of the people who had 'shown interest' weren't even alive. No wonder my boss was concerned when he discovered that my regular job was as a journalist.-
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3 hours ago, fleccer said:
How can you predict 1000 cases a day? Please do explain it to us Mr expert .Not only that, but the third wave will be even worse than the first two, we are at the apotheosis of catastrophism ,no discounts
You mean you don't know? Good of you to admit that.
Health departments have models for social mobility. They can get data from a number of sources including census, public transport data, highway planning projects where traffic is counted and people quizzed on their travels. Depending on the granularity of the data they can breakdown average person-movements by the day. From that they use infection rates and rates of change in infection rates to make predictions. Not surprising to me, it is actually way more complex than that, but for you, Mr. Armchair Expert, simple might be best.
A simpler explanation might be that as an infectious disease specialist, it's his job to find the data to make predictions.
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Well done, you read what is happening in the UK and understood it at a superficial level! Congrats. Have you thought about why the Minister made that announcement? Even a little bit? Are there any differences between the UK's Covid-19 status and Thailand's? Can you name one?
The UK has set a world-leading pace for its vaccine rollout. Symptomatic cases are down 60%. Hospital admissions are down 80%. Deaths are down from 1800 a day in January to 26 on Monday. With around 50% of the population jabbed once, and 8% jabbed twice, the run-rate of vaccination is very high and a statistically significant majority will be vaccinated within a defined and reliable timeframe. Only because of the volume of inoculated people in the UK as of yesterday can the threat be downgraded.
The flu is a persistent threat that has been gene-sequenced and for which vaccines are readily available. Only because of those vaccines and their pervasive usage and availability is the flu not a bigger killer in the UK. Covid in Thailand is a different situation. Very very few people have been vaccinated. The risks of an outbreak are high. There is a high degree of fatigue in the population - we are all fed up with the disruption. A slip-up at this late stage would make all the sacrifices made before of moot value.
So until Thailand's population is sufficiently vaccinated the same risks exist today as they did a year ago. Only then will it take its place alongside flu. You need to live with the fact that your annoyance is of no interest to the people who are making decisions based on more data and more expertise than you bring to the table...
2 hours ago, Phuketboy said:The UK health. minister a few days ago announced that the UK will no longer have lockdowns and it will treat covid as it should be, a flu. He even went as far as saying that allowing some deaths is the price on allowing others to life a whole life. Tired of this spread of fear and hearing about new cases when locking down the world over something with a 99.7% recovery just to push a vaccine is just pure crazy. This will not go away, this is going to be around for a while even with a vaccine. People just need to learn to live with it pure and simple.
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On 3/7/2021 at 12:21 AM, Fex Bluse said:
I can see from the comments that lots of newbies don't know much about Thailand...
Lecturing at the well known uni and driving a Benz should make anyone who knows Thailand immediately suspect the driver is from a wealthy family.
You don't get these jobs without being connected.
Your use of knowledge and understanding are problematic. Those who jump to self-supporting assumptions based on the prejudice of not being Thai will be offended by you basing your comments on facts!!
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6 minutes ago, Quietus said:Why are so many foreigners here so stupid, sexist and racist?
They fit in well...
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These kinds of opinions say one thing to me: you've experienced Thailand through bar-girls, motorcycle & taxi drivers, waitresses and Thai working-class families. And even if that is not true, it's the narrow viewpoint you chose to opine from. It's also trying to make yourself feel better about your situation. 'Poor but honest' perhaps?
There are a significant number of wealthy people in Thailand - just because they won't talk to you/your type, does not mean that every young woman with an expensive car fits into your myopic view of Thailand. Pretty much every wealth family I know has a teacher/lecturer in the mix.
14 minutes ago, Excel said:Maybe she has a well paid side line or else somebody may have some explaining to do as to why this lady was driving this car.
56 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:Very young lecturer and already driving a Benz?
As far as I know, UNI jobs don't paid that well.
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are there any ebike manufacturers in Thailand?
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Yeah - the performance of real e-bikes is terrible...