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Re: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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> America's immigration system gets more and more rickety It's completely insane that we allow mass migration of people with no money and no skills and make it incredibly difficult for the most valuable immigrants to get in.

It's quite understandable, imho. Immigration is being allowed precisely for cheap labor, especially when citizens are not prepared to go through the extra hardship - for example, I remember reading that the fatalities when the bridge fell in Baltimore around 1 am, were all immigrants, all on duty at that hour. For specialized labor, there is always a question of possible espionage and back-channel tech transfer. This…

> fatalities when the bridge fell in Baltimore

As an example of how strict immigration policy is, the crew were made to stay on the boat throughout, including while parts of the bridge were blown up.

Re: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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> feature eight engines in total and able to carry a 300-kilogram payload to an altitude of around 700 km. The launch vehicle used in May’s test was only 6 meters tall Significant military implications as well [0]. There is a significant spy-sat race going on in the region right now [1] with China, India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, US, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Israel, etc all investing in capabilities i…

> America's immigration system gets more and more rickety It's completely insane that we allow mass migration of people with no money and no skills and make it incredibly difficult for the most valuable immigrants to get in.

I wouldn't defend america's immigration system (in my opinion the world should be borderless and you should be able to vote in any location where you can demonstrate that you've performed work for a wage or something like that), but if anyone should be allowed to seek labor by moving freely, it is the unskilled, who are already tremendously disadvantaged by globalization. Skilled labor is unlikely to be tremendously impoverished by being unable to move to the absolute optimal location.

In other words, one could say its insane that we draw imaginary lines on paper and then confine human beings to those lines based on the accident of their birth location.

Re: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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> we allow mass migration of people with no money and no skills You don't? There's no visa for that category.

They are allowed in without visas

Not having a visa is the opposite of "allowed".

Re: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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> The machine also automatically outputs a report that details any deviations during printing, removing the need for postfabrication qualification. Anyone who's previously worked with 3D printing knows that this simply does not pass any kind of a sniff test. Both preventing and detecting internal defects is one of the, if not the hardest problem in 3D printing. There are many large companies trying to find ways to re…

If they’re not doing post fabrication validation, then the passengers are…

Re: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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you do, if you have sanctuary cities and entire states openly claiming they will not arrest people who break immigration law, it reduces the ability of USA to actually pass policies to take in more skilled immigrants who'll be a net benefit to America as a whole.

Like the War On Drugs, the human cost, violence, and intrusiveness of enforcement is worse than the alleged problem. The much-vaunted localism of America lets states and cities decide that it's not a problem for them to allow people to live there, and they don't want to help the big bad Federal government disrupt that. (it's still no picnic being in that category, unable to register for social security or even take a…

World isnt some amazing la la land, I hope people who break laws to immigrate to America, will continue having the same sympathies towards you, when they become majority, and start dominating over you with their culture.

It feels bad to say this, but to build a good well integrated state, integration is key, you cannot integrate people into a society, if you cannot even control the immigration rate. You can't just let people come to your country illegally, setup shop, and then tell everyone 'Cant do anything about it folks'.

The human cost is paid in everything, the cost americans need to worry about, is whether the safety and future prospects of americans is safeguarded, not of people who break laws to illegally immigrate.

It's like having sympathy for a next door neighbour child who is uncared for, and serving him/her food, while you're own child cries and starves to death.

America isnt a country, with limitless resources, and enough food,housing,healthcare to feed everybody, stop treating it like it.

Also, I'm not sure the people who arrive here illegally are as ready to integrate with America's culture, as some americans are ready to integrate with illegal migrants.

I understand life is cruel, and maybe america should even do good things for it, but not at the cost of watching americans starve to death, veterans getting overdosed on the streets wishing after years of suffering to just die and be at peace, and watching them not being able to help them, because our resources are too stretched, Charity starts at home. Even the people who migrate illegally here, they'll help their own first, before even sparing one thought towards you.

One needs to be realistic about certain things, it's perfectly doable to protect your own borders, Singapore does it against Malaysia, India does it against Pakistan and Bangladesh (big borders), China does it against neighbouring countries, most Asian countries can protect their own borders.

Why can't america?

Re: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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> The machine also automatically outputs a report that details any deviations during printing, removing the need for postfabrication qualification. Anyone who's previously worked with 3D printing knows that this simply does not pass any kind of a sniff test. Both preventing and detecting internal defects is one of the, if not the hardest problem in 3D printing. There are many large companies trying to find ways to re…

If they’re not doing post fabrication validation, then the passengers are…

what's wrong with testing in prod? /s

Re: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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> The machine also automatically outputs a report that details any deviations during printing, removing the need for postfabrication qualification. Anyone who's previously worked with 3D printing knows that this simply does not pass any kind of a sniff test. Both preventing and detecting internal defects is one of the, if not the hardest problem in 3D printing. There are many large companies trying to find ways to re…

If any system could measure its own signal to noise accurately, it wouldn't have any noise in the first place.

Re: Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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post #41
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's quite understandable, imho. Immigration is being allowed precisely for cheap labor, especially when citizens are not prepared to go through the extra hardship - for example, I remember reading that the fatalities when the bridge fell in Baltimore around 1 am, were all immigrants, all on duty at that hour. For specialized labor, there is always a question of possible espionage and back-channel tech transfer. This…

> fatalities when the bridge fell in Baltimore As an example of how strict immigration policy is, the crew were made to stay on the boat throughout, including while parts of the bridge were blown up.

I'd inferred that it was the company keeping them there, after hearing stories like this:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-ed...

This article goes into the actual reasons, the visas only came into play during the second month:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/us/baltimore-bridge-dali-ship...

Basically the company would get in trouble if the crew left, and they are too cheap to hire replacements, so they threaten them.

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