supplies

In some specific areas the contest is much clearer: Amazon is much better for books, Wal-mart is much better for household supplies, etc.

A prize at the end is nice, but you can’t do anything if you can’t pay for equipment, supplies, and (perhaps Congress will be surprised to learn this) people’s salaries.

Universal power supplies (computers, phone chargers, etc) and brushless motors (washing machines) should really only require tweaks of their control circuits.

Good quality cards, good quality power supplies, no swapping - it still eats them up.

Old fashioned copper gravity batteries instead of modern power supplies and things like that.

(delivery of supplies + security) The world is not in a steady state, so as our needs change over time, so does the mission.

Medical supplies might be another story, especially as it's capex intensive and low headcount.

The fishing boat had no way of selling its catch or taking on more supplies without first losing the Sea Shepherds tailing them.

I've emailed a very experienced electronics engineer friend of mine who has built more switching power supplies than anyone I know.

When I need groceries and household supplies such as laundry detergent or toilet paper the last place I think of is Amazon.

For pet supplies they drastically beat the selection of a Wal-Mart and drastically beat the prices of a real pet store (eg stuff like Feliway or Nature's Miracle).

The offering looks limited now but it'll soon be expanded to everything necessary to working as a chef, or tools and supplies that would be worth having at home.

I think those are 15" MBPs, their stock power supplies are rated for 85W, so we're looking at a maximum draw of just over 8kW for the laptops alone.

Standby power supplies (the thing that powers the IR receiver and power button while your TV is "off") wouldn't function as-is, since the common method is to use a capacitor+zener across the power line.

- At the bottom of each page: "Buttermilk Supply is a carefully curated shop of handmade knives, tools, and lifestyle goods all in the name of good food." Except you also sell hair cutting supplies?

Every year around burning man time it "notices" that I'm buying supplies for burning man, and starts recommending me things like baby wipes, which are completely unrelated (naively) to things like lag screws, rebar pullers, etc.