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c_o_n_v_e_x

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    Comment #47748298

    >People who shoot someone or throw bombs at someone even though that someone never did something against them I think the point is that there's going to be an increasingly large pe…

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    Comment #47482820

    Having previously worked in a few DCs in SG, I was incredulous when I saw those sales figures.

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    Comment #47406701

    I suppose the extreme take would be that it becomes a de facto bounty hunting platform

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    Comment #46820177

    >Having everything in one unit is a recipe for a single point of failure disaster. They're optimizing for something other than resilience.

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    Comment #46518946

    I agree with your market analysis. Private jets are often referred to as "time machines" given how much time HNW / exec travelers can save. There's a market segment that's willing …

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    Comment #45328069

    Humans weaponizing water flow (or lack there of) has been routinely used through out history.

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    Comment #44882890

    You're paying for: - Trade licensing fees - Liability insurance - Medical insurance - A vehicle to move equipment around - Vehicle insurance - Tools to complete the job - The time …

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    Comment #44806218

    email sent!

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    Comment #44750439

    >Terrestial transmitters can be much closer. Making them nice targets for the enemy

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    Comment #44706439

    Living in Australia and interested in buying a business, I can attest to biz4sale-type sites being a real problem.

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    Comment #43688267

    There's a lot more to manufacturing than "just" being a line assembly worker. The factories have to be designed and built. This includes all of the manufacturing processes, equipme…

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    Comment #43044500

    Labelling Singapore as a petro-state is a stretch. Collecting taxes from refining is a very different thing than reaping the benefits of royalties from oil production.

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    Comment #42883919

    This was also in the news last year: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

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    Comment #42849500

    SG is very small country and yet someone was buying 1/3 of the volume of the US market in Q3. The DC market in SG has a very low vacancy rate meaning there's very little available …

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    Comment #42835827

    https://techwireasia.com/2023/12/what-did-singapore-do-to-nv... Having previously worked in the DC space in Singapore, when I read the sales numbers, I was in disbelief. IMO, there…

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    Comment #42776307

    Not NSA - you'd have someone from US Bureau of Industry and Security tracking you down (no pun) for most likely violating export controls if you were to openly share information on…

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    Comment #42774553

    There's very good simulation tools available but scrappy startups can rarely afford them. You also need to people who know how to use the tools appropriately.

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    Comment #42678399

    6th gen Texan here with a very german sounding last name. My dad's side of family immigrated from Switzerland through Galveston. The original surname was sprinkled with umlauts. So…

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    Comment #42278078

    There were far fewer planes in the air before GPS. In order to squeeze more planes into the same volume of air (aka "airspace density" or "airspace efficiency") you require high pe…

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    Comment #42199546

    >You reach a point where you are a foreigner wherever you are. I left the US in 2009 to move to Singapore. After 14 years in SG, I moved to Australia. During my time overseas, my a…

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    Comment #41893986

    Or you try to capture water that's already condensed... cloud droplets.

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    Comment #41405276

    In theory, connected devices that control large energy loads ("large" on a household level of energy consumption) can be coordinated at scale to "attack" the power grid via instant…

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    Comment #41385700

    There's a few companies out there that provide these "expert networks." GLG or AlphaSights Not necessarily tutors, but I run into the same issue in Product Management. I need to do…