All

One bubble counter argument to the multiplier effect, defense spending makes stable manufacturing companies that have some free time on the machines that can then be used to make bike components by the enthusiasts working there (5DEV) 😁

The point about defence spending having a positive affect on the rest of the economy- in my lectures this was talked about using the concept of the multiplier effect. This is the idea that if someone, ie the state, spends £1 on something then it increases national GDP by some amount because that’s been spent at a local supplier, who then pays wages, their employees go to the local butcher, who buys from the local farmer, etc etc. The issue with defence spending is it has a comparatively poor multiplier effect vs other forms of government spending. If I spend...

I have a friend who works high up at one of the big five Defense firms and he said his firm is under increasing pressure from the DOD for all of their products, components, required maintenance parts and supplies, and the rest of the supply chain to come from within the US, so as not to be dependent on or beholden to foreign manufacturing, especially in regards to potential geopolitical adversaries. To be clear, they aren't able to meet 100% of their needs entirely within the US, but the planes he was talking about featured a shockingly high proportion of...

"Is the state of manufacturing in the US really that bad that a company, backed by the most important VC firm achieving 30 million motors per year is an achievement?" I'm not in a great position to comment on the annual global production of drone motors, but I can tell you that yes, the state of manufacturing in the US is pretty bleak. By one measure, China's manufacturing sector accounts for roughly 26% of their GDP, Japan is at 25%, Germany is 18%, but in the US that share is only 9% of GDP and continuing to trend downward annually...

Drone != quadrocopter. FWIW regarding production, I thought about it some more. Making the stator is easy. Stamp some sheet metal, injection mold isolations and wind the thing with copper wire. Decoupling magnet production from China is the hard part. Regardless of how many motors we produce, all the magnets for them are coming from China. That's the reason why automotive makers are starting to make excited rotor motors where they replace magnets with winding on the rotor (besides other performance advantages). This works for big motors (drive motors for electric cars) and even there contacting the rotor is the...

A drone is any kind of remote controlled aircraft. A quadrocopter is one of them. You can also have a manned quadrocopter if you'd like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_warfare As you can see there are more classic airplane type aircraft shown in this article than there are "quadrocopter" types. Furthermore if you need to fly fairly long distance (ideally a few kilometers or more), need to be fast and at the end of the day don't need to be particularly agile, it makes ALL the sense in the world to go for an airplane type aircraft with lifting wings over a quadrocopter. It...

I've always maintained that if you had to pay for your Gopro, I don't want to see your shit.

Yep, @jeff.brines wrote a whole post about it 👆

My 1st Luca memory: He & Walker as little kids doing full sprint laps on the Hendersonville BMX track chasing Christopher Herndon. Walker was older & bigger but Luca was ferocious pedaling every single lap latched onto them & relentless. I was putting on races with buddies just to have races & we were so excited to have kids committed to DH suddenly. I’ve enjoyed watching the Shaw Brothers progress from little BMX groms to National Champs & now a World Cup winning family.

Posting for the sake of updating your friends on your life is largely dead. Young kids are the first to correctly recognize that they have to always be giving a performance if there’s any chance they’ll be on camera because they’re always at risk of being the subject of a viral moment. Be hawk tuah or be nothing

The Pope reads Vitalmtb forums confirmed