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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Probably the wording in the article that seems to say exactly that?

    The Singapore Government’s Factually website states that all goods brought into Singapore are subject to goods and services tax, currently pegged at 9 per cent. However, travellers are granted GST import relief based on the duration of their trip.

    Those who have been overseas for 48 hours or more are entitled to GST relief of up to $500. For trips under 48 hours, the value is capped at $100. The GST rate is currently pegged at 9 per cent.

    These amounts apply to the total value of goods bought overseas, excluding liquor and tobacco. Any value above the relief limit is taxable, and travellers are required to declare it upon or prior to arrival.

    Singapore work permit, employment pass, student pass, dependent pass or long-term pass holders, as well as crew, are not entitled to GST import relief.

    The term goods isn’t specified, but could easily be interpreted to mean absolutely anything they want potentially.






  • I would expect by this point after Waymo has been on the road for 7 years… Police should know what the fuck one looks like, especially with the dozen or so very obvious LIDAR sensors all over the thing. And especially since Waymo only operates in a handful of places under special authorization by the State DOT, the police should know what they look like by now, they are not new.

    We need to stop giving police the benefit of the doubt for their ignorance. Ignorance of the law isn’t an excuse for regular people, why should we accept that ignorance and poor training is fine for the police?



  • It could, but realistically not much in most cases. Only if you’re on the very edge of losing a signal entirely.

    The specific network chip and device antenna design could play a significant part on reception, but realistically there won’t be much of a difference in the real world, lots of research and development has already gone into the technologies we use now.

    Higher end phones will often support more frequency bands, and thus support more signals, but no carrier uses all of them. Just make sure the phone you pick supports the bands your carrier uses.

    Now when new technologies come out, that’s when you can see real world significant differences between devices because there isn’t as much real world experience with a new technology yet, but everything out now and in the near future has already gone through that phase.