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@MengTo @drafting_dreams Marina one was one of the locations used to film Westworld season 3😀

@drafting_dreams It's called Marina One, a pretty futuristic-looking building not far from Marina Bay.

1-month update after moving to Singapore ⁃ Lots of brief rain showers. Not as hot as anticipated. ⁃ Balcony is a second living room. No need for AC during the day as fans are enough. ⁃ Children enrolled at an international school for 14k/year ⁃ Housekeeping for 75/week ⁃ Food/grocery deliveries in 30 mins! ⁃ Asian versions of Amazon are unique, high-quality and 3x cheaper ⁃ Met 5 founders in the Silicon Valley of SG and attended 2 meetups ⁃ Traveling to Japan tomorrow! 2h timezone difference so no jet lag.
 Let me elaborate on the points mentioned. The weather in SG has been mild in July(24-32°C) and can surprisingly be cool at times, especially during the mornings and nights due to rain. There are somewhat frequent but short thunderstorms. We don’t use the AC much during the day as the fans are enough. It’s hot and humid but you never have to walk more than a few blocks before you find a mall or MRT link (shopping mall connected to MRT). We don’t think twice before going out. We now take the MRT/bus often, which costs 1$ per one-way trip! Lots of shops and restaurants are underground. Since apartments are small, every inch is used creatively, especially the large balcony. We use it regularly for morning coffee/work and lunch/dinner. We have Ziptrak blinds, which protect from rain and turn it into a room with walls. There are no mosquitoes or flies. It’s nice and windy most of the time. The condo has amazing facilities like a concierge, multiple swimming pools, teppanyaki terraces, jacuzzi, party rooms, gym, kids' playground, etc. We transitioned from 3k square feet to 750. It’s quite a shift, but we don’t feel cramped and it’s nice to not have to take stairs for everyday tasks like cooking or cleaning. Don't get me wrong, we’d love to have a larger space, but the advantages of being in downtown SG far outweigh the disadvantages. Having a big house came with its own responsibilities, especially in Canada with 4 seasons where you had to mow the lawn, open/close the swimming pool, clean large areas, shovel snow in the winter, etc. International schools range from 14k to 60k. We’re planning to switch them to public schools, but it’s competitive as SG is renowned for its education system. We visited 3 schools and found one that the kids liked for 14k/year each. We used an agent for placement. By the way, for every service, there’s an agent available on WhatsApp. Housekeeping costs about 25/h, so it's quite affordable for busy parents. We found tutors, nannies, laundry, and housekeeping services within an hour via an agent. Okay, so Grab is a game changer. We use it for taxis, food delivery, cashless pay and even grocery delivery. Unlike in Canada, where tips/taxes (15%+15%) are high and frankly annoying especially when no service is involved, in SG, tips are not common and taxes are at 8%. Service charges (10%) are only for restaurants with table service. So for Grab, there is only a 3$ delivery fee and 0.4$ platform fee, no tip, and no markup fees. Items are priced the same as in the grocery store. For example, on Instacart, Costco charges 10-20% more for items! Here, I got my favorite grocery store Don Don Donki to deliver in 30 mins! Their ready-to-eat meals are amazing. In Singapore, I use Shopee, which is an Asian counterpart to Amazon, similar to AliExpress. Deliveries take 2-8 days, cost 1$ per item, but the prices for items are usually 3x cheaper, except for international brands. They’re priced like a dollar store. The quality is surprisingly good. A lot of stylish solutions for everyday problems such as organization, cooking, cleaning and even grocery shopping are available. These items don’t exist on Amazon, which I used almost exclusively in Canada.

@MengTo Welcome! Glad you like it here :)

We just moved to Singapore. It’s a dream to live here. ⁃ 26-31º all year ⁃ Super safe & clean ⁃ Great education & services ⁃ Started a company w/ Sleek ⁃ Sponsored my own visa Rent is expensive (5k), but everything else is affordable, esp taxi and food. Canada has been my home most of my life. It’s generous in space, friendly and peaceful. But my dream was to work in the US. I did for a year, until they kicked me out. Defeated, I went on to travel for 2 years. We fell in love with Singapore and Japan. Didn’t think it was possible to live there because of visas. Then I started @designcodeio and became financially independent. To be near family, we settled back in Canada. We had 2 kids and bought a big house. Life was good. But we only felt alive in the summer, and we always wanted to travel. We just love Asian food and we keep referencing Japan for everything: sushi, ramen, tea, wagyu (told my kids it’s called melt-in-your-mouth), perfect strawberries, muscat grapes, etc. After our Japan/SG trip last winter, it was clear that we wanted to move there permanently. I started to look at Vancouver, Japan or SG to be closer to Asia. After a failed visa attempt and a few tweets, people suggested starting a company and sponsoring my own visa via Sleek. I had no idea such a service existed. Fast forward a couple of months, we were approved and ready to move! The kids are having a blast at the kids parks, shopping malls and swimming pools. So much to explore. It’s still honeymoon phase, but we’re going out almost every day and love that it’s full of Japanese restaurants and groceries (Don Don Donki). Lots of spicy food here, so the kids always prefer Japanese food or fast food. We avoid the latter. As someone who cooks, I appreciate the high-quality ingredients. We plan to visit Japan multiple times a year during the spring break (cherry blossom, they have 2-3 weeks here!), long summer, fall break (yep!) and winter. Of course, we’ll visit other places too, such as Vietnam, Thailand, Australia and Europe. Most importantly, we won’t need to hibernate anymore. Moral of the story: don’t go to Japan. It’ll spoil you.

Amazing 2023 gathering of many of the founders of the computer graphics field in the 1960’s and 70’s! The PC 3D revolution was spawned in the early 1990’s as @ID_AA_Carmack and others found tricks to make the elder generation’s algorithms run fast on x86. spectrum.ieee.org/history-of-com…

Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️ reddit.com/r/apolloapp/co…

📢 @WhatsApp Singapore users can now pay local businesses for goods and services seamlessly and securely right within a WhatsApp chat.

We created the world's first international trading watch. Designed and engineered with the finest watch specialists at @ChrisWardLondon.

@punk6529 In some countries, house values are appraised by third party (like govt) and sets as the baseline for the price. People can still sets the actual selling price up or down, but in general house prices becomes controllable

a lot to unpack in this thread, but this caught my eye as over-optimistic there is not a single asset on planet earth - not stocks, not bonds, not commodities, not tokens - that has a "minimum floor" once demand evaporates NFTs are not going to be the exception to this rule

@MuseAppHQ is there timeline for end to end encryption?

@nocontextfooty @videodownIoader

@wirtzdan @logseq Amazing work! Please share it :)

Tweaking my @logseq paper theme for mobile. Getting there. :)

Current home pages for Apple, Android, and Windows. No mention of the brand new iPhone 14, Apple Watch, or AirPods

@kocienda @readwise

I’ve tweeted about this before, but when we made the original iPhone, we didn’t have product managers. We had directly responsible individuals (DRIs). Each important piece of work had a single person charged with seeing to it that the work got done. 1/

@pengx17 @logseq This is amazing. How do you envision this to work on mobile apps?

Some updates on @Logseq's Whiteboard feature🌟: after a couple of months of active development, the Logseq whiteboard is close to MVP! Please see the following video clip which gives a quick tour of what you can do with it:

@tomaspueyo @readwise save thread

Why do Brazilians speak Portuguese and not Spanish? Because of the rotation of the Earth and the distance between Puerto Rico and Cape Verde:

We’re going to be switching up LooksRare’s site preview image and we’d love to include some of your NFTs! So, if you own something dope, that you’d be happy for us to use, please right-click save it and post it in the comments 🙏🙏🙏 Who got something rare? 👀

🆕 Conditional Listing is Live on #LooksRare Sell one, keep the other! Using conditional listing, you can list 2 NFTs for sale and when one sells, the other listing is instantly canceled. Read how it works here: ℹ️docs.looksrare.org/guides/selling…

🧵1/2 Ownership of the #LooksRare Exchange smart contract has now been transferred to a timelock. The timelock currently has a delay period of 14 days. That means any changes must wait at least 14 days before they can be executed. Transaction: etherscan.io/tx/0xb03f0a07b…

the audacity....after decimating an entire economy

In the early days of Facebook, I would interview potential candidates and they would tell me that Facebook was just a simple CRUD interface on top of a database. Or that it was a glorified blog. Or a contact list. And yea, a blockchain is just a slow database. Probably nothing.

I’m so happy Twitter will continue to serve the public conversation. Around the world, and into the stars!