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Corvos
15m ago
IMO there are two serious barriers to widespread 3d printer adoption:
- Most people don’t need to make small custom objects regularly
- 3D printers produce striated plastic objects in primary colours and people don’t want those in their homes.
The latter could be considered a technological problem. Wood mills are much nicer but too loud and too messy, but there might be paths forward.
swift
17m ago
Fortunately, ChatGPT will also allow the professors to dodge: just ask the machine to mark a computer-written exam.
FeepingCreature
19m ago
I think that anyone who wants to can have a 3D printer at home. Inasmuch as "we'll all have 3D printers at home" has failed, it has failed due to lack of interest, not lack of technological development.
It's a tech bubble from a market size perspective, not a technology perspective.
gus
24m ago
food would have to be absolutely identical down to coming in boxes labeled 'not suitable for prison’
Apparently tons of people have seen these yet there’s zero pictures of them on the internet. A ton of those same military folks say it’s because if food might have bones the prisons don’t want to take a chance on it.
Hieronymus
27m ago
No one is denying the relevance of Christianity’s Jewish roots. The Old Testament is important, and Jesus as the Jewish Messiah is a central doctrine of Christianity. But gentiles were included from a very early date.
I want to riff on hydroacetylene’s examples, keeping in mind that the Battle of Milvian Bridge, when Constantine began to move toward Christianity, happened in 312.
Acts 10–11 covers the Jewish church’s acceptance of gentile converts, and Acts 15 relates the decision not to impose the Mosaic law on them. Even if you do not accept Acts as history, it demonstrates the presence of gentile converts who did not practice the Jewish law at the time the book was written. It may be from the 60s, because it doesn’t include Paul’s death, but I think that some liberal scholars have it as late as the early second century.
The Didache is a super interesting document of early Christian teaching and practice. It has a ton of Jewish influence, but it also takes pains to distinguish Christians from non-Christian Jews (ch. 8) and to include gentiles (14:3). Its date is hotly disputed; it is most likely from the first century, but at the latest from the middle of the second.
The church fathers cover a long span of time, but they begin in the late first century. The earliest group is called the apostolic fathers (as distinct from the apostles themselves), and they take it as a given that the church includes gentiles.
SerialStateLineXer
52m ago
Remember a hot business studies chick in my dorm slept with half the econometrics track guys to get them to do her maths homework.
I was good at math! Why did nobody tell me about this opportunity?
I have a hunch for the Navy Nukes it's less about creature comforts, and more about ensuring they can have undisturbed rest and privacy for better studying.
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