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Look up “Force Majore”

Third, the market is (with exceptions) global. If Google moves its headquarters to Toronto, that doesn’t open up an opportunity for a new American search engine.

I think he lives in the UK

Well, taxes and accounting for starters.

I find the time constraint to be a strength (used to do these in college - won some prizes, sometimes didn’t finish in time). It’s a beautiful thing to work on an ambitious thing against a clock, knowing that if you fail you can walk away. The ticking clock forces you to put your ego and perfectionism aside and ask questions of the interesting people around you.

A related article was "Muslim nobel laureates". Total:10. I did some quick meaningless math, and found that there's 1 nobel prize winner for every 160 million muslims, and 1 for every 70,000 jews.

I'm not going to try and interpret the data, but I do think that's interesting.

Let's get this thing Front-page

Now that would be a printer that sells well. Even the most expensive printers still take FOREVER. One day. One day.

It's hyperbole. I use 3D printers frequently. The "instantaneous" was referring to the digitizer, which takes 12 minutes to create the file. That, compared to the hours it would take to create such a design in CAD program, could be called instantaneous. Just as "rapid prototyping" can take hours, depending upon the object. It's fast, compared to the alternative.

It's all about frame of reference.

Interesting idea. The issue is that (I'm guessing) you'd also need some intense software to decipher the image and convert it into a 3D file.

Agreed. Both sides are CRAZY. I get caught up in the craziness every once in a while, before dragging myself back down to sensible-land