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Re:Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valle... by pydry on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:17PM (#40770641)
The entire culture of the country is much more oriented to being a fast follower though. They do not innovate.
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Re:Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valle... by acheong08 on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:30PM (#40770729)
By your standards, most of the world outside the US does not innovate, which makes sense since if they did, the tech would be bought up by a US company anyways
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Re:Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valle... by pydry on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:24AM (#40773962)
No, not really. There are some unique facets to Singaporean culture that heavily discourage innovation. This isn't the case for most of the rest of the world.
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Re:Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valle... by gmerc on Monday June 24, 2024 @02:05AM (#40772981)
Which is why water desalination tech is one of their major exports. They mastered the technology out of survival need (Malaysia constantly threatening to cut off water supply) and are exporting it now.
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