Readit News> BPS is at least as easily jammed or disabled as GPS.
So which is it? Because LORAN was much harder to jam than GPS. The jamming resistance of any positioning system is mostly based on the ability to overpower the legitimate signals arriving at the receiving antenna. The problem with satellite based positioning systems is:
1. Satellites have relatively little power available to them, which makes their broadcasts rather weak. Terrestial transmitters can be much more powerful.
2. Satellites are very far away, which causes the received power to be very attenuated. Terrestial transmitters can be much closer.
There are many valid reasons to choose GNSS over terrestial approaches, but jamming resistance is not one of them.
Source: I was a weapons engineering officer for the Dutch Navy for many years and jammability of our positioning systems was a constant concern, to the point of ships being equipped with LORAN-C receivers well into the 2000s as a backup for GPS.
Making them nice targets for the enemy
I have a couple of family members and friends who are looking to buy businesses (separately), and it's been much more time-consuming than you'd expect just to browse through listings to determine if they're relevant to you or not.
The platforms seem to mostly follow the same format as real estate listings (as the brokers seemingly rely on the same software/data formats), with one big blob of freeform text that contains the various information that you'd ideally just be reading at a glance.
Add to the fact that there are over 15 "business for sale" type platforms in Australia where they have a minimum of 1,000 listings and at least 10 platforms with between 100-1,000 listings, you can easily burn hours looking through them individually.
I'm currently covering 12 of the top 15 (ranked by number of listings they contain) platforms and I just tinker away once or twice a month, adding support for new platforms.
I should probably release it and get some feedback at some point, but I suffer a bit from "it needs more polish before I let people other than my family and friends use it"
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Raising prices on everything is not going to help the majority of Americans. Taxing the rich might have but half the rationale for these tariffs is tax cuts for the rich.
There is no plan or logic to this.
The factories have to be designed and built. This includes all of the manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, automation, etc. All of which are done by reasonably paid, middle class engineers and trades.
Then you have all the 2nd order businesses that get stimulated. Energy must be provided. Mines, mills, refineries, etc. to make the raw materials. The packaging for the end products. Logistics for supplies and end products.
All of the value above used to be in the US but has been captured overseas for decades now.
You're also right that it could be a reporting quirk.
I don't think we can say definitively that Chinese companies didn't use Singapore as a conduit for purchasing advanced GPUs, I haven't come across any evidence for that. (If anyone knows otherwise, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.ashurst.com/en/insights/lessons-from-singapore-d... [2] https://themalaysianreserve.com/2025/01/24/singapore-data-ce...
The DC market in SG has a very low vacancy rate meaning there's very little available space.... i.e. where are all those GPUs going if the market has very little space available?
To play's devils advocate, this could be an Nvidia reporting quirk with all of sales in SE Asia being reported as "Singapore" but even then, the numbers still piqued my interest.
- Trade licensing fees
- Liability insurance
- Medical insurance
- A vehicle to move equipment around
- Vehicle insurance
- Tools to complete the job
- The time taken to drive to your residence
- The time taken for the quote itself
- The expertise required to correctly spec/quote equipment
- The tradesperson driving to the city office
- The tradesperson applying AND paying for a city permit to do the work
- The tradesperson driving to a supply house
- Purchasing the equipment on credit
- Transporting the equipment back to your house
- Ripping out and disposing the old equipment (if applicable)
- The time and expertise to install the equipment correctly
- The time vacuum out the lineset
- The time charge the equipment properly with refrigerant
- The time commission the system and make sure it's running properly
- The tradesperson driving BACK to the customer house to be present for a city inspection