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No second best. BTC. Undercover & underpaid CTO I hate bad people. 🇺🇸

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Had an employee yell this about me today, "Do you mean to say the machine has been down for a month and he fixed it in five minutes?! Fucking Lazy asshole!" Gonna put this on my resume as a testimonial.

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@DeweesRobert @LorenaSGonzalez lol. Correct.

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@Amy_Siskind Imagine if you did something useful with your money and paid off my mortgage. Capability does not equate to culpability or responsibility.

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Definitely worth it. I have three (four?) of his belts and love them. Esp the ∞/21m buckles.

[Leathermint @TheLeatherMint]

The Buffalo Belt is built from thick, durable buffalo leather with virtually no stretch, providing a firm and reliable fit day after day.

Its rigid construction helps it maintain a clean, elegant silhouette while offering the support expected from a serious leather belt. Customers have reported using it successfully as a gun belt thanks to its stiffness and stability.

Fait sur mesure.

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@BetterThenHappy Microwave user detected.

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@GhostOfStoneyX2 Wore out the old? Bigger? Adding an operator?

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@GhostOfStoneyX2 Shiny!

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@JamesMcPherson @styropyro_ laser spotted.

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@ziwenxu_ @xikhar Like Mickey and a team of lawyers looking at a 7yo “infringe” on Disney copyrights.

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@SCH_Clay Pretty cool idea. Wish we could build this. Bring manufacturing back to the US. and make hella money.

[Clay @SCH_Clay]

I've been thinking of this all day and I think there is a really interesting service business hiding inside the new Fuse X1.

At $85k I think the machine is a bargain. If you're selling your own products I think it could replace injection molding for a lot of people. But I was wondering if it would work for a quick-turn service?

The normal model is a customer uploads a part, gets a quote, places an order, and the shop decides when and how to run it. The customer is buying parts. The shop is managing machine time behind the scenes.

But what if you flipped that around?

What if the product was not just the part?

What if the product was access to the next build?

The idea is basically: presell the build volume before the print starts.

A customer could upload one part or 100 parts. You'd need software that checks the file, estimates material, figures out how it fits into the next batch, and gives a price. That price changes depending on how full the machine is and how close the print window is to closing.

The build is open for orders for 12 hours. Then it closes. The printer runs for roughly 24 hours. Parts are depowdered, blasted, packed, and shipped. Then the next batch starts selling.

It is like crowdsourcing machine time.

There is also a gamified aspect to it where there are certain situations where you'd end up with super cheap parts. Gut says it would be a sticky service.

The more people who join a build, the cheaper the parts can get. The more empty space left in the chamber, the more aggressively the system can discount that space. Unsold capacity on a printer is like an empty airplane seat. Once the build starts, that unused volume is gone forever.

SLS printers don't just have “capacity” They have perishable capacity

Every hour the machine is not printing is lost revenue. Every half-empty build is wasted opportunity. If you can turn that empty space into a live marketplace, how cool would that be?

Now obviously there are a lot of hurdles here and idk how much demand there is for SLS printed parts vs other types of quick turn stuff. But it's fun to think about.

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@japan_nobunaga Onions

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@LinaSeiche @CryptoCloaks @Little_HODLer Hi, always love to see your art. Thank you.

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@0x12coin @kikes1488 @DasRheingold90 @CMtalks_ @PubWanghaf ARE you also a supporter of this fine scholar?

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@PatHerbert2 @BasilTheGreat It’s been scary. You’ve been protected, quite likely by people you hate.

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@PatHerbert2 @BasilTheGreat It’s been scary. You’ve been protected, quite likely by people you hate.

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@Teknium Would be pretty epic neon is a dying art.

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@100_vkh @Noelle_198 The main device in question is a rotary vane vacuum pump to pull air down close to 0 atmospheres.