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- Comment on I would venture to say this is bad 4 days ago:
Looks like the glue failed and so heat was building up instead of transferring.
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 5 weeks ago:
In general, not interfering is the default position, there needs to be a reason it should enjoy protection.
Need to look at the goals the legislators were pursuing when they wrote the law. If protecting typefaces hinders the production of new books, that goes against the intent of the law. It might not make a difference on that front NOW, but back when typesetting was done by hand, and you needed a whole set of physical type for each typeface, it was a bigger deal.
The point of copyright is to encourage creativity, and there are reasons you might not care about encouraging creativity in typefaces. It’s a bit like trying to copyright how you pronounce a word, getting TOO creative here makes it more difficult to convey meaning, and people will do it anyway without the protection of copyright, it’s just a natural consequence of how language develops.
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 5 weeks ago:
Typefaces cannot be protected by copyright in the US, but by some stupid interpretation, fonts are software, which is protected. Really annoying how tech-illiterate judges can screw up something this obvious. Even if the technical implementation of a font was something that should be protected, it should be under patent law, not copyright.
- Comment on Is a Prusa Mini+ for $100 a good deal? 1 month ago:
As someone that has one, I’d say more than 80%. That might be accurate if you only print other peoples’ designs, but for functional parts I’ve designed, 80% are a total non-issue, 10% need to be rotated 45 degrees on the build plate, 5% need minor redesign to fit, and the rest I was able to break into multiple prints without issue.
Even if you eventually need a bigger printer, I’d still buy this one. I’ve definitely run into situations where I need to print multiples more often than I’ve wanted to print something big.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 month ago:
But then you’re buying the phone from google, which is not great if you’re trying to boycott google.
- Comment on Print Data Recorder concept 2 months ago:
I don’t think it has much practicality, just get some known straight/square object and attach your test indicator to the toolhead. Measure your motion error directly.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 2 months ago:
Open source is a major boon for process automation in a print farm. I also wouldn’t trust ANY cloud platform with anything remotely sensitive, like product development prototypes.
- Comment on Popular 3D printer vendor has come up with a foldable portable concept that's mindblowing 2 months ago:
Looks like that arm would be a floppy noodle, it wouldn’t surprise me if it needs re-calibrating halfway through a print just from temperature changes.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Maybe the value of real estate held by corporations is assigned proportionally to the shareholders? Maybe the tax rate is determined by whichever entity has the largest accumulation. I don’t see why it needs to be particularly complicated, can certainly make it enforceable and effective with less complexity than the current tax system.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Money represents things you do deserve, like the value created by your own work, as well as things you have no moral claim to, like natural resources. What makes sense to me is that the land is owned collectively, and the property taxes are effectively rent to the rest of the population. Makes sense to me that the people that consider it most valuable get to use it.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Why? You can just force them to sell you a property and pay less on the mortgage than they pay on the same property on taxes.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Land is a natural resource, and like air or sunlight, nobody deserves to own it more than anybody else.
“But my family has live here for generations!” sounds awful similar to “I deserve it because my great grandfather killed the people that used to live here.”
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
So rent is several times more expensive than a mortgage on the same property. Now what?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
What does someone deserve to own? The product of your own work yes, but nobody deserves to own natural resources like land more than anybody else. The whole point is that you get to decide how much the property is worth to you. If it’s worth more to someone else, you’re both better off for the trade. The only losers here are people trying to cheat on their taxes by giving a “low” appraisal, and people trying to hoard multiple properties.
Plug some numbers into that formula. If you own a $100k property, you pay 1k in taxes/year If you own 10 of those properties, you pay 100k/year. This would mean you have to charge more in rent than a mortgage would cost to buy the same property. The business model would become unprofitable.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Think about what the investment company’s tax rate would look like. They’d be bankrupt instantly.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Eh, probably paid like 25k for a house that’s worth 500k now. Really what we need to do is make property taxes scale more aggressively, so it isn’t economical to hoard more resources than you can actually use. Maybe something like annual tax owed = (value of all real estate owned by one person)^2/10,000,000. Perhaps with a grace period for new construction/renovations.