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Any idea how reliable electric motors/systems are compared to fossil fuel systems (primarily piston driven as opposed to jets)?

Going overseas also carries risk. It could be something as irritating as just cultural or language friction or as bad as a civil disturbance or war breaking out. Never mind just th…

Anyone remember the Motorola families of chips? 68xxx and 88xxx.

It is easy to stand at a distance and claim that it would be immoral to give booster shots when many countries don't have enough first shots. However, they (WHO) are ignoring the r…

It would have been sad if we had given up on AI/ML ideas due to the failure of AI back in the 80s/early 90s. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer

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Sounds like these may be multiple startup opportunities - one for each industry or mode of dealing with businesses. Of course, those businesses that are reasonable or customer-cent…

This is well understood and as like the rich and powerful in many places do, thought that the rules and laws do not apply to them and their maid (Parti) was too afraid to report th…

The playing field is nowhere close to being level. https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/soft-repression-the-struggle... For more info: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/dispute-pm-lee-hsien-loo…

The key to lawyers and doctors losing their licenses to practice is that they have professional bodies that will police/enforce the rules. However, they also have a monopoly to pro…

It is interesting that PETA doesn't seem to say very much about this. Does any organization?

What does FOSS GIS software have to do in order to compete against ESRI? Or which packages have the best chance to? For example, few consider going with Oracle anymore now that you…

Tech labor has historically cheaper than in the US. It would have been nice to see more Canadian tech success stories at 1/10 the number that have occurred in SV alone. There must …

All corporations should follow the idea of not putting all their eggs in one basket even if that is the cheapest/best idea if you want to over-optimize. In IT, we have backup plans…

On the other hand, a law could be passed where all large companies have to report on diversity hiring numbers so that the general public would know what the current reality is like…

Corollary to this is when a business is so mature that they decide to no longer take risks (or higher risk) by designing a new product, or go after a new market or go for the next …

And yet when you ask a chess player whether the situation has a tactic or a strategy in it (in some cases both), they can tell you which choice is a tactic and which is a strategy.…

Here is an example within the world of chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#Strategy_and_tactics They are very well understood and delineated within that context.

Their loss. Your new employer's gain.

Certain items just have a danger level that requires an elevated sense of responsibility and awareness and I don't just mean firearms. Workshop tools like power saws or table saws …

There are some people with trauma from 2000/2001.

Might not rubber belts have been possible instead of chains? Rubber was available 18th Century - maybe not in industrial quantities but still. In fact, latex was was available to t…

Borders Bookstore didn't want to cannibalize sales either and they don't exist anymore.

Nothing like asking those that actually work and live in that city state - www.reddit.com/r/singapore Or search in that subreddit for "IT jobs" for previous discussions like https:…

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