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Autopsies find first U.S. coronavirus death occurred in early February(washingtonpost.com)
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Patreon lays off 13% of workforce(techcrunch.com)
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I should clarify, in production projects, materials may end up being a much greater overall part of the process, especially if the production is heavily automated. However, 3D printing of tool steels seems like it is aimed at lower volume p
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Actually, I’d be surprised if any of those were good candidates. Turbine blades in jet engines aren’t even machined now - they are grown out of inconel. Valves are highly dependent on surface finish and frequently multi-material setups - e.
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For those who may be unaware: martensitic steels encompass all standard tool steels, e.g the ones used for knives, springs, dies, files etc. martensitic means hardenable. Being able to 3D print these into arbitrary shapes vs machining them
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Even better would be for RPGs and things like Roll20. I’d love to deep fake different voices/ character faces on cue.
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Is it possible to just pay a shipping container company up front to use materials that are more friendly for repurposing, with an agreement that you buy it after it is used? That way you wouldn’t necessarily need to strip and repaint it.
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Side effect - these become documents of record if you damage/modify a rental property.
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This is true, but also unhelpful. We all make significant choices all the time that cannot be proved effective, these are heuristics and not scientific theorems. The gist is that this is more like avoiding rock climbing because you don&#x27
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You knew it was folly...Some people want rationalize rather than observe. Our government's situation looks an awful lot like ignorance and error, not malice.
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I think that is the holy grail.
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My dad used to have a recording studio before he passed away. Our Sweetwater rep (the same one the whole time)called every couple months for 13 years just to see if I need any other equipment, and to tell me when older gear I had was going
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5th result.
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INTP here. Starting projects and having multiples at once sure seems comfortable, but, ADD does not. It is a measure of rigor that there are projects that get done. Now, there's something to be said for projects that were always "
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ideally, there would be a 3rd path, which would be direct forgiveness of those debts for a small period. All creditors would take the haircut, instead of the debtors. this means that incoming money would go back into the productive economy.
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As a general response to negativity here (which seems to largely stem around technical concerns over what is implemented and how), I think this is cool and fine. As a kid I would have figured out a way to get around this, and that would hav
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My surfacebook also has a terrible screen resolution. 3000x2000. I don’t know why, but windows can’t seem to handle interface scaling at all, and a lot of the apps I used failed to be usable on that super high res monitor. I wanted it to wo
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I've had 2 surface pros. I find them to be incredibly unreliable. They unpair from the lower half and drop peripherals, and the stupid trackpad! Its just awful. It is just so mediocre.
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I've always wanted live monitoring from SLR/Nice Camera straight to iPad for focus/composition monitor. There are hacks to get there now, but they all suck and cost a lot.
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"Sure, we lose money on the transaction, but we make it up in volume!"
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Agree with you! And yet, if people want to liquidate it does drive the price down, but, the market is about price discovery and valuation - the company may have different beliefs about its value and different preferences, hence buybacks.
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This is important, especially for those workers who do not qualify for a 401k. There is an interesting problem where if workers get a 401k or IRA, then buybacks probably help them by driving asset appreciation in a tax free investment vehic
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Nothing prevents shareholders from selling shares. However, if a company does nothing - e.g. no growth, no buybacks, the future value of their stock will decline continually. through buybacks, they can hold those share prices steady, at lea
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This whole issue is overblown. Employees, retirees, and generic Wall Street investors have a preference for buybacks because it leaves equity holders with the ability to put their capital to good use. I don’t want GE to invest in vanity pro
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competition == unemployment. corporate failure == unemployment. innovation == unemployment. Maybe all in the short term, but, this stimulus is specifically looking to avoid short-term discontinuities. That said, I'm a big fan of corpor
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Everyone always seems to knee-jerk forget that corporations are employers...the economy is run for people. People work for companies. Companies compete, and the financial gymnastics they do to get there is done by people also. Companies are
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Fascinating. First I’ve seen about the low blood pressure and gastric symptoms in old people...makes me wonder. An older friend of mine in the bay area was hospitalized in the last week of January, first week of February. His symptoms were
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Self reply to all others: try doing something that actually tests the limits a bit for health reasons. you can tell in a welding/woodshop when N95s and P100s go bad, they get physically harder to breath through after about 6-8 hours. I
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I mean, they're good for 8-10 hours, but they don't last indefinitely.
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And, they’re great! They keep you cool, then keep particles out, and they don’t need to seal so tight. Source: have used one for welding.

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