@SawkTong @BDHerzinger When they do this in a very torquey EV, the seasickness is more than vague!
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Singapore based Scot, via Hong Kong, New Zealand, London, Glasgow & Gourock. 🏴🇬🇧🇳🇿🇸🇬🇭🇰🇸🇬🇭🇰🇸🇬
Singapore Katılım Nisan 2010
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@BDHerzinger No doubt using the patented Taxi Uncle on/off the accelerator pedal action for the whole trip.. leaving you vaguely seasick by journeys end?
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Given this is Singapore, I will share my favorite taxi uncle story which, incidentally, was my taxi ride from the airport.
Sam@Discoplomacy
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@abhishekn @s8mb There’s a big opportunity for those who can deploy dynamic pricing in a way that people like. And people do like some kinds of dynamic pricing: Happy Hours, afternoon combo deals, etc.
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many topics on here that will be of interest to folks following me/economists:
1. Making dynamic pricing work. People dislike surge pricing. But the practice to which it belongs is among the most useful mechanisms in modern commerce. Charging different prices to different buyers widens access to goods, allocates them toward those who value them most, and sustains markets that would otherwise be too small to serve. We would love to read a piece on the subject, either on notable historical episodes or an account of technical advances that have made modern surge pricing possible.
2. When Germany was the world’s scientific engine. For roughly a century from the 1820s onward, the German-speaking world produced a remarkable concentration of scientific talent across physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and philosophy. What created the conditions in the first place? Was it specific institutions – such as the Humboldtian research university, the academies, the seminar system – or state patronage, the fragmentation of German principalities, or something else entirely?
3. How the Serum Institute became the world’s largest vaccine factory. In 1966, a horse-breeder in Pune started extracting serum from his animals to make biological products. Today the company he founded supplies vaccines to more than 170 countries and was a key part of the global COVID-19 response. How did it come to dominate the market?
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Articles we would like to commission at Works in Progress. Could you write one? worksinprogress.news/p/more-article…
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@wallaceme My wife, Rasi, moved to Hong Kong and before she got her local number, gave mine when she needed a shop to call her back. The locals clearly had trouble with her name, because I would get phone calls:
“Can I speak to Miss Ahrayesseye?”
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@fesshole At a B&Q, see a guy load his hatchback with supplies, forget to close it and pull out of the parking wrong way down a 1 way.
I wave and shout.
He leans out gives me 🖕 .
Then he drove through the entry anticaravan barrier which ripped the hatch off!
Proper LOL!
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@BDHerzinger Going after the Finns for god sake. Pathetic. Talk about missing the target.
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@graham_euan “Why should you be exposed for an offence someone else noticed?”
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No prizes for guessing which country the sanctions-busting vessels are predominantly from: same one that complains of ‘harassment’.
David Capie@davidcapie
“Royal New Zealand Airforce Air Commodore Andy Scott said the P-8A Poseidon aircraft had spotted the potential sanctions busting in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea.” rnz.co.nz/news/world/593…
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@yorksranter This is pretty common. My first work exp was 2 wks at National Semi in Greenock. They put me in a corner running tests on chips that had been baked in ovens then frozen in liquid nitro. A chip that passed after that would last 10yrs+. All destined for Mil/Aero/Space applications
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interesting one. GPU failures are dominated by infant mortality (i.e. uncaught QC fails), once it's been running a while it will probably go on for ever
Meg McNulty@meggmcnulty
A brand-new GPU cluster fails more often than a mature one. The first two weeks are the worst weeks the hardware will ever have. Meta's Llama 3 training paper is the number everyone cites: 419 unexpected interruptions over 54 days on 16,384 H100s, with GPUs and HBM3 memory causing the majority. That was the stable phase, after burn-in, acceptance testing, and the obvious lemons had already been culled. The follow-up reliability paper from Meta FAIR covers 150 million A100 GPU-hours and is clearer about what the ramp looks like: mean time to failure drops from roughly 47 hours at 8 GPUs to 7.9 hours at 1,024 to 1.8 hours at 16,384, and projects under 15 minutes at 131,072. Failure modes also ebb and flow as new health checks uncover new patterns. New health checks do not make a cluster healthier. They make its existing problems visible. The operational consequence: if your first customer workload lands during the first two weeks, you are running on the steepest part of the bathtub curve with the thinnest monitoring coverage. That is how a quarter of a cluster ends up cordoned before anyone understands why. What failure mode surprised your team most during a new cluster's first month, and how long did it take to attribute ?
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@graham_euan Do they still have that impressive audio visual show with the projection of the woman walking about some of the artefacts? I read about it in the Bill Bryson book and detoured to Cowra driving from Parkes (The Dish!) to Melbourne.
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Worth a visit for those interested in their war history. The ruins pictured are from one of the Italian compounds. Italian POWs, captured in N Africa, lived a relatively benign captive existence (some had local girlfriends). The Japanese POWs were a very different story.
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My ANZAC Day tribute, from a recent trip to Cowra NSW, to the 4 Australian servicemen killed during the Japanese mass POW breakout of 5 August 1944. Unfortunately, the Japanese & Korean graves in the war cemetery were being renovated so no pictures.
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@romanhelmetguy It is a high trust society. It got that way through strict rules. You can go for weeks without seeing a policeman, but there is high confidence that any theft will be responded to immediately. This is why people feel safe to reserve tables in Starbucks with their iPhones.
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Singapore is not a high trust society, it’s a port city where order is enforced by a draconian police state that canes people for stuff that isn’t even a crime here. If that police state disappeared next Tuesday, you’d have a race war by the weekend. Nice place to visit though.
Tetra | ChadFish@TetraChad
Singapore is a high trust society and doesnt have a homogenous culture. Different races and ethnic groups packed into a small space yet you can walk around at 3am drunk with cash hanging out of your pocket and a $100k watch on your wrist and no one will do anything
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@DavidDPaxton Yeah, rude. The traditional way is to give you your change in annoying coins so you just roll your eyes, maybe pick out a pound coin or two for the meter and leave them the rest.
Happy to live in a place where tipping is almost non-existent.
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Just had lunch. Bill came to £42.50. Service was included. I put down a £50. Waitress asked me if I wanted my change.
Would you consider that rude or not? I have considered it so.
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@APHClarkson There are 6 European Pharma /Biotech giants: two are British, two Swiss, one French , one danish. We do pretty well.
The openness of London is a plus not a minus and the ecosystem effects are strong enough to resist even the self harm of Brexit.
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The biggest European biotech firms are German, Dutch, Belgian and Danish while the UK has 2 out of 10 of Europe's largest banks, while most of financial services in London owned by EU, US or Asia-based firms.
The UK does OK as a hub for businesses owned by external actors.
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@DJSnM As a fresh graduate getting my first bonus, I was delighted to see that I could buy a ten year old Porsche. Wiser heads talked me out of it!
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Even small content creators can afford to buy jets, but the cost to operate these makes them dubious deals.
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@ijsimo25 @HCH_Hill It’s fairly obvious that McDonalds is using predatory pricing to drive small artisanal fruit salad curators out of business.
Should the pricing change of course, we’d be seeing TikToks with serious faced influencers spooning heaps of sugar into the fruit cups to MAKE YOU THINK.
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Why do one or two potatoes cost more than half a dozen different fruit grown in different seasons and parts of the world? Damn those capitalists.
Out of Context Human Race@NoContextHumans
Yep
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@JamesSurowiecki At least when my 4 year old daughter called it “the chocolate ice cream emoji” she had the excuse that she was 4 years old. These people have no excuse and after It happens we must never let them forget it.
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Iran was being bombed relentlessly. Trump agrees to stop bombing them.
MAGA: Iran blinked!
Acyn@Acyn
Ingraham: It looks like Trump ultimately hits the home run here, takes it to the brink. Iran blinks. Towery: When will the Democrats and some Republicans ever learn that the rhetoric he uses is done for a reason. And it works
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Cathcart Square, Lyle Fountain, Victoria Tower, Wellpark Mid Kirk and McNeil House.
#Greenock #Inverclyde #Scotland
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