fdsa

Yes, PDF, DOC, RTF, and all other document formats could contain malware.

On 6/8/2022 at 11:14 AM, fdsa said:

So make a note that importing anything more expensive than 40'000 THB will be a PITA.

Update: I've got another package over 40k THB shipped by the usual Post and the Customs Office wanted me to find some Thai broker to act on my behalf, or to give them a "small gift" to ease the process. I chose the latter.

duno about DHL but with UPS you could send them just copies of the passport, however you still have to register at your local Customs office.

Read this comment and below:
https://aseannow.com/topic/1224885-ordering-a-lenovo-thinkpad-4-weeks/?do=findComment&comment=17406336

On 4/18/2023 at 12:23 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

Is that an easy process, walking in with the passport and out in 20min and all is done?

this

I'm afraid Shopee is dead.

I noticed connections to .cn domains such as "https://staging.shopeecb.cn/assets/firebase.063f44ec1b4e878f.js.map" so I'm afraid Shopee was sold to Chinese (Alibaba Holdings or whatever it is called) and they will ruin it same as they ruined Lazada.

staging.shopeecb.cn has address 42.194.172.188
Prefix: 42.194.128.0/18
AS-Org-Name: Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited
Org-Name: Tencent cloud computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
City: Beijing
Country: China
 

4 hours ago, patman30 said:

this is not a blockchain being hacked or private keys being brute forced

This happens too - a weak implementation of random number generators in some crypto wallets, including original Bitcoin, allows to bruteforce the private keys, and later the seed phrases. Of course the Bitcoin is immune already (and all bruteforce-able wallets were already brute-forced LOL), but the same will happen to the new coins as their developers are not experienced yet.

7 hours ago, JackGats said:

I do not fully understand what's possible with Wise. If I manage to open and fund a Wise account in Thailand, can I use it to send money to Colombia? Let's assume the Colombian side is ok (I have a bank account in Colombia where Wise remittances are enabled).

no, you need to use Deemoney or traditional bank wire transfer.

Wise is used to transfer money into Thailand, not remitting outside.

6 hours ago, piston broke said:

Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger have ZERO Crypto .....

 

That's good enough for me ....

if I was Warren Buffet or Charlie Munger I would have lied to goyim too.

Expectation:

8 hours ago, swissie said:

China has already forbidden "crypto currencies" unless approved by the "Governement".

Reality:

everyone and their mom use crypto, including small businesses getting paid from abroad because Chinese government does not care about crypto income but make receiving dollar/euro transactions a huge unbearable pain in the ass.

5 hours ago, KannikaP said:

I got an email telling me that a withdrawal of $325 from my Coinbase account had been made. I had nothing in the account to take!

I believe Coinbase is a scam company because I recently got a message from legitimate Coinbase email server (I've checked headers and IPs) telling that my account "will soon be suspended", but I have never registered on Coinbase!

And they were not addressing me by name or nickname, just "Hello," as scammers usually do.

It means that the only information they have about myself is an email address, and most likely they got it from bitcointalk database leak.

I'm afraid your money is lost. First of all it is impossible to resolve this without visiting the exact police station in person (a printed screenshots of the P2P deal might be handy). But then most likely the police officers will direct you to the cyber police division in Bangkok, and then most likely the cyber police will not bother because Binance is not located in Thailand jurisdiction. 

At least report this situation to Binance to make her account blocked.

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

they asked me confirm that it was really me via the app on my phone

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

I confirmed it was me via the app on the old, retiring phone

If you wasn't using an app you would have got a SMS.

4 minutes ago, dingdongrb said:

Do you not see Thais wearing shirts that have vulgarity written on them? I do. I see older women wearing t-shirts with words only a nasty sailor would use. 

I thought that many Thais love hardcore music until I realized that "Thrasher" is also just a clothing brand.

43 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Alchemists said they could make gold out of lead.

It is possible to make gold out of lead, the alchemists just did not have the required level of tecnhology back then.

If we are unable to give "intelligence" to an inanimate object now it only means that we do not have the required level of technology yet.

It's rather sad that people believe the jews' tales that only an old grandpa sitting on the cloud is entitled to give life and intelligence to an inanimate objects, and we people could not do the same. I guess that's what religion is all about.

20 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

We have an organic brain, computers are electronic circuits. There isn't a valid comparison there. A bunch of wires (integrated circuits or not) will never be "intelligent".

Which is the difference between an electronic circuit made of fat versus electronic circuit made of silicon? Is your organic CPU powered by Holy Light rather than the very same electricity?

7 hours ago, Moonlover said:

I don't think I've ever received an SMS from Wise in the 4 years that I've been using them.

They send SMS every time you login from a new device.

2 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Both correct. AI is a misnomer. There is nothing "intelligent" about computers. AI is about deeper and faster data retrieval and analysis. Modern computer allow for the faster processing of larger amounts of data, nothing more than that.

What is "intelligence" then? Aren't we all retreiving, processing and analyzing the data with our biological sensors and biological CPU?

4 hours ago, simon43 said:

Many people are raving about ChatGPT, but I haven't seen any detailed technical investigation of how this application actually works.  Anyone have links?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

in short: calculating the probability of the next word based on previous words.

A computer is much more complex and difficult to diagnose and repair than a car. And if it was a firmware problem (one of the chips went nuts) rather than simple electric problem (one of the capacitors or MOSFETs died) then it might be impossible to repair as the firmwares are not publicly available, hence "can not".

Also note that computers differ from common household electronics, the latter are easy to diagnose and repair because they are usually made using a single layer Print Circuit Board - all electric wires are visible and you could trace the electric signal to determine which of the chips or other components is faulty. And computers are much more difficult to diagnose because they are made with multiple layer PCB - some electic wires are INSIDE the motherboard so it is simply impossible to trace the signal and determine which of the components is dead.

33 minutes ago, digbeth said:

try wringing out the warranty claim from the seller when they're in China

yep, it's a classic scam for things under $50 - the seller will offer you a refund if you ship the product back to China, and the shipping will cost more than the product itself.

That's why you should buy from local sellers, and not the ones with "Pre-order, shipping in 15-20 days" items.

I think it is clear that millions will lose their jobs, the question is how the world shall react to the future influx of unemployed people. We (as humanity at whole) need either to reduce the population or to introduce an Universal Basic Income.

As the COVID experiment went unsuccesful I believe the answer is the latter. And most likely UBI will be made not in a direct way like "just exist to get free money" because capitalists will rage their ass off, but in an indirect way of creating bullshít jobs like "earn by watching ads" or "earn by watching TikTok" or any similar way (like already implemented in Thailand and some other countries btw).

26 minutes ago, fdsa said:

But when I list an item for sale Ebay lists it as located in USA, and even if I manually change the item location to Thailand Ebay wants me to send it from Thailand via USPS or UPS Express

more than that - if I manually set the item location to Thailand and add a free domestic shipping, Ebay lists the item as "item location: Thailand, free shipping to USA" ????‍♂️