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		superxpro12 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? I work in a different industry, power tools. Somehow the USPTO allowed Milwaukee to patent a circ saw that spins at a certain rpm... The things that get through the patent office are braindead. Patents are just weaponized legal minefields now. They've totally lost their original intent.

yellow1389745 8 days ago [–]

I recall a container of multimeters seized at the border because they were the wrong color of yellow...

I may have bought an American meter once, but it was a fluke. Never again.

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