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I've limited money and I choose to spend so that I get maximum spending least within the legal framework.
And most of the Amazon basics item come from china too.
So doesn't matter who you choose, china is benefits either way.
If people are against Chinese currency manipulation, they should be against what Germany does.
Amazon India usually has same product listed for 2-3x the price.
>For EU citizens, the EU is a labor transfer union by design. These 'imported laborers' were not forced, they took their chances
No it's not that simple, other EU countries had to open their market to technologically superior Western European nations who had better quality highly skilled labor and capital.
If it was simple, labor movement - I wouldn't even be bringing this up.
>Are you seriously suggesting it is a problem foreigners are not making up the board of directors of German companies
Yes it based on the fact number of immigrants Germany has.
>As a direct neighbor of DE ( I am in NL ), DE seems to have been very generous accepting refugees. A bit too generous for some.
It's just a knee jerk reaction to their aging population.
But do you know who else does this for you? A dog.
I've never promoted anyone who likes me or respects me or vouched for me, I promote those who are reliable and have have skills to achieve the task at hand, one who will not betray themselves or their company for some kickback.
>Bundestag MPs gave standing ovations for care workers. Meanwhile those continue to slave away for pennies, now more precariously than ever, while the next items on the MPs agenda are bailouts for airlines and fucking car manufacturers.
Slaving away for pennies and immigrant workers, anything sounds familiar?
I usually buy stuff from Chinese e-commerce websites where you can find things much cheaper.
I think more serious threat comes from existence of global market. It means, the local supply does not need to react to local increase in demand but people elsewhere can capture that demand by shipping cheaper goods.
To make UBI work you possibly need to become an island or already have huge exports to offset whatever your population might be interested in buying from other countries.
This is not a fact/experiment based, it's merely a hypothesis.
It only matters to people who have lot of cash saved up. Value of their money might decrease.
But vast majority of population does not have cash saved up, they do not care about money losing its value as long as they are able to get more money today and buy the stuff they need.
Usually when production decreases, cost of production increases - operation becomes less profitable and investor might pull their money and take it elsewhere. In some industries, margin might be so thin that once they lose economies of scale which comes with higher production, they simply may go bust or choose to stop, citing higher cost of inputs. This is what pushes the supply below demand level.
Also demand is usually established at some specific price, if cost of production increases, producer might have to increase the price and this might also put downward pressure on demand.
Wood drill has continuous flight depth while extrusion screw has 3 zones. In compression zone, flight depth is gradually reduced to compress polymer.
Other than this, I think you'll have problem with finding reasonably straight wood auger drill.
With precision machine barrel and screw, screw will not touch barrel wall.
You can experiment with wood drill and steel tube but I doubt you'll get consistent diameter filament with it.
If you fancy making cheaper one for small scale/personal use, try this one:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-filament-extruder-f...
Any idea how they are doing it?
Which means = they take car dashboard, wash it with water/solvent then shred it into very tiny pieces.
I take it and dry it in oven then I put that in an airtight jar, and let it cool to room temperature over next 24 hours.
I mix it with some virgin plastic (also dried and stored in airtight container)
Then I pour the plastic into hopper and extrude it into filament.
This filament is made from recycled blue ABS: https://youtu.be/Xirli3qDJlU
It seems amoral to prevent them from making money, why don't we see it as a talent as we see "tech jobs" as talent?
Can it really do more damage than what tech companies specially one who pedal ads and sell customer data and give people anxiety?
Project: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...
Hopefully, this will reduce the use of virgin plastic for creating art pieces in 3d printing community and you might be able to create beautiful and useful things out of waste plastic while cleaning plastic waste from the environment.
It's a profitable business.
I worked on this in my free time during quarantine.
I want to make the project more accessible so people around the world can develop local recycling unit. There is lots of work which needs to be done including making parts more standardized, demonstrating how parts fight together in a visual way and also have a microcontroller firmware to control diameter of filament.
I need help from someone who can write Arduino code, mostly includes reading diameter from a guage and then change the motor speed of puller roller so that it stretches the filament if filament diameter is more than target and slows down the stretch if filament diameter is less than the target diameter. This needs PID control.
Telegram: alexfromtokyo
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...
Hopefully, this will reduce the use of virgin plastic for creating art pieces in 3d printing community and you might be able to create beautiful and useful things out of waste plastic while cleaning plastic waste from the environment.
It's a profitable business.
I worked on this in my free time during quarantine.
I want to make the project more accessible so people around the world can develop local recycling unit. There is lots of work which needs to be done including making parts more standardized, demonstrating how parts fight together in a visual way and also have a microcontroller firmware to control diameter of filament. I don't have much experience with microcontrollers but I've ideas, so we'll see.
And really what's the point of getting grade/scores in school, when we can teach kids to collaborate with each other and create great new things.
Not everyone will be good at math, not everyone will have same drive to study physics. But everyone of us might find smth interesting in a project.
We shouldn't be pitting students against each other.
To change his all I've to do is just listen to her and offer her my view and usually she is able to fix all problems on her own.
I am one of the lucky people to have great wife who loves me so much.
It's in this article:
“Building Filament Extruder” https://medium.com/endless-filament/building-filament-extrud...
I didn't accurately measure it. My way of measurement is simply to run the extruder use current rating from clamp meter and multiply that by line voltage. So I guess the power usage goes down once heater reach target temperature. It's by no means accurate, only guarantee there is that the power usage will be below 3kilowatt.
Unfortunately I don't have good meter, the ones I order from AliExpress didn't arrive yet due to Coronavirus lockdown issues.
>Beside insulation, could waste-heat from cooling the filament
I've no idea. I've a water bath which in which there is a motor which simply moves the water from bucket into the bath then back the bucket.
>PS: the video was reversed, right?
No, the filament goes behind the spool so it appears as if the spool is unwinding.
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...
Anyone who needs help building one for their community can reach out to me.
Plastic usually degrades when recycled, it loses its properties like strength. But 3d printing is a good area where recycled plastic can be used as lots of people use it for printing a show piece with artistic value, not for high stenght tasks.
I can't get the land in city at affordable price.
So it's fine to treat drivers bad?
Who enabled this treatment of drivers?
I prefer being fired/layed off through a text message, it will save me not having to make weird faces and hide emotions when dealing with the person who laid me off.