Bring back hand jive.
cooper8
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mbin: 
any specific lifetime fee indexers you recommend?
Same as a Voron
To your point, there will always be an axis of optimal strength for a layer based 3D print, and layer adhesion is the weakness, but if you full fiber fill the print then the fiber does tie the layers together like a coil.
Multiple interlocking parts with axies along the vector of greatest strain would be the solution with this setup of you are really expecting strong forces from many directions. That said, this printer is also capable of printing with some very strong polymers on top of the fiber, so it seems pretty capable in a lot of scenarios.
Their examples of drone and robot parts are pretty optimal use cases, strength to weight ratio is the bottom line here.
But that's the point, this unit uses separate spools of filament and polymer and then coextrudes them, making it way cheaper. I was trying to hunt down an article about it but can't seem to track it down, but I think they said spools of the fiber are around $50.
"Composite Fiber Coextrusion (CFC) is a proprietary 3D printing technology that embeds continuous fiber strands into melted thermoplastic during extrusion. Unlike chopped fiber or filled filaments, CFC places full-length fibers precisely where strength is needed — layer by layer." - from the kickstarter
He's an accelerationist to the core, which is in some senses a "beyond left and right" political position, but which demands lib-right short term politics to take the guard-rails off of the "accelerationist project". That said, his "peers" are dark enlightenment totalitarians who want nothing more than to bend the accelerationist project towards permanent technofeudalism and he doesn't seem much inclined to oppose them, and so is a de-facto collaborator. He may genuinely believe that Superintelligence will be inherently and inevitably benevolent because that is the "logical" position, and so getting there as fast as possible will diffuse the monarchist machinations of the rest, but it's hard to believe he is naive to the strong potential of alternative outcomes more like Brave New World than The Culture. Being de facto far right is about as bad as being fervently far right for the masses of the present moment.