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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Why is it shameful to be behind Namibia and Costa Rica?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It's just the cost of a banana!

For all we know this is their luxury buy of the month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You may want to look at the other reply to my post, they mentioned that a part that breaks should still be food safe. I don't work in the food industry, I'm just a 3D printer nerd, so I wouldn't know about things like that, I just wanted to make stuff for my own use.

I'm outdated as far as printer options, Prusa makes good printers without going into the really expensive enterprise tier, so that's where I would look.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That makes sense, thank you for pointing it out! I can't see plastic 3D printed parts complying with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm the past there were hot ends (the print head) that may contain lead, so there is also that to consider.

The solution I read about in the past was to coat the part at the end with something food safe, like glazing for ceramics.

Of course you have to be careful about cleaning these plastics, PLA can't handle dishwasher temperatures.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I did not know the answer so I looked it up. Fiberglass is hard to recycle and it isn't done much. A lot of nuclear "waste" is actually spent fuel which can be reprocessed and used again.

Obviously it would be better to improve recycling of fiberglass but as it stands today, nuclear waste might be recycled more often than fiberglass...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Legally the output of the training could be considered a derived work. We treat brains differently here, that's all.

I think the current intellectual property system makes no sense and AI is revealing that fact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Don't use wifi smart stuff. My house uses zigbee, so you have to be physically close to interact in any way. That really narrows down bad actors.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

In the US a lot of workers don't get paid if they don't show up to work because they have no paid time off.

In the US they often combine sick days and vacation days, so if you miss work while sick, you are using your vacation days, which are very limited.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

As others have mentioned, the Galaxy S5 was water resistant and had a replaceable battery. Phones are generally not water proof, so don't go dunking them in water expecting them to work. Use a case for that, also if it floats all the better.

Adding a sealant when you close it isn't a huge chore, although it's nice to be able to just replace the battery without any tools, it's better than charging. Also it would still be water resistant until the first battery change.

Watches have replaceable batteries while having replaceable batteries, too.

As a side note, if you drop electronics in water, take the battery out before taking them out of the water, so that the short doesn't destroy them. The battery will be toast, but that's cheaper to replace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then you should do some reading. Latin America is the most urban region in the world.

We have small pockets with high density like Santiago. It has 1/3 of the population of NYC but 150% of the population density. And NYC is by far the densest US city.

The result of this is wide swaths of nature, I grew up used to seeing no buildings or anything else man made all the way to the horizon. When approaching my hometown we would first see the city glow, because you get actual darkness out in the country. In the US' lower 48 only part of Oregon and Nevada get close to that.

Of course now US companies are once again trying to destroy our land with careless mining.

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