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mircea_popescu: and of course the shitstain has a wikipedia page. because wikipedia is not for commercial advertising of utterly irrelevant mfa sites.
mircea_popescu: imagine that fucking pile of nonsense. next they're going to give them an obama prize.
mircea_popescu: especially when involved are total scamsites with the dating gimmick. here's a newsflash : the only reason these exist is because the owners are working an angle.
mircea_popescu: since when the fuck can "investigation" on the basis of words be a cause of action in the first fucking place.
mircea_popescu: putin predates china. but his presence might have been informative ; teh chinese are pretty good at "use what works"
mircea_popescu: but star pattern, here as everywhere, is more expensive less efficient etc
mircea_popescu: depends on the design etc. lots of places - including romania - are built on ring pattern interchange. this has the obvious weakness.
mircea_popescu: this is what they're not saying, not that it isn't evident.
mircea_popescu: losing the major interchanges can fry your whole system
mircea_popescu: that's the issue - losing distribution transformers is mere nuisance.
mircea_popescu: anyway. REALLY hard to defend from "hunting rifle". 30-06 soft charge (say like the M2 ball) will cut through 1cm of steel
mircea_popescu: they could detect holes and shoot down as it is. that's the more rational approach, than brick
mircea_popescu: and in the bad news department, even handgun fire will cut through six inches of brick. a proper assault rifle with AP round will do what, two walls and a sheet of steel.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the numbers aren't exact ; but the principle is inescapable. the more you insulate the more you pay to dissipate.
mircea_popescu: you're basically operating with 50 extra transformers for no reason whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: tomorrow, you build a six inch brick encasement. the extra heat load due to the added insulation is, say, 50 MW.
mircea_popescu: take the matter in the following terms : today you have 10k transformers, doing stepping of 1TW each for a loss of 1MW each. these 10 GJ are being pumped into the atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: none of it is wholly pointless, just altogether inefficient is all.
mircea_popescu: it's like a power of 2.5 or some shit to your disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: doesn't scale worth a shit either. spend 10k to encase it in metal shell, gunman spends $20 extra for his bullet, you're back to leaking. spend 1mn to encase the shell in brick, gunman spends $500 extra on ordnance you're back to leaking.
mircea_popescu: stuff like "domestic tranquility", "high density" and "handheld power tools" - pick exactly two.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for this and many other reasons "civilisation" is a self limiting disease.
mircea_popescu: it's an engineering nightmare, the gunfire proof hv transformer. much like the helisubmarine.
mircea_popescu: brick won't do much. all guy has to do is fire a grenade first.
mircea_popescu: in any case there's jack shit they can do, "physical security" my foot. the radiators are big by necessity, a hole anywhere counts as a score as much as any other hole anywhere, dude could take them out with a decent scoped rifle from a mile away
mircea_popescu: i suppose as we speak the idiots with the return-fire thingee are pitching utility comps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. hard to do performant high voltage transformers without coolant ; hard to do coolant under gunfire
mircea_popescu: the procedure doesn't evoke thinking, or even aware subjects.
mircea_popescu: then for another thing, the mechanism. it's so neatly stupid, with its strict content-and-label disparity, like a retarded kid trying to invent "his own" geography, calling all the items in common geography by different names and that's it.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, all their inept rags try to paint russia as a "local power at best", "gdp" of italy bla bla. how, then, is this magical thing possible where they decide who wins the fucking election ? obviously the libtard has a reputation for dealing well with cognitive dissonance, but that they'd prefer this nonsense to actually naming the rapist makes you think they liked the tiny, slanted cock.
mircea_popescu: the libtards are also evidently aware. that they prefer to then clothe this awareness in the ridiculous "trump works for russia" rhetoric is so so fucking telling in so many ways.
mircea_popescu: speaking of duterte : it is quite evident what sort of trumpian "strong leader" china prefers to run its barbaric neighbours.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: somehow i tohught he was there for a while, but he was just mayor
mircea_popescu: i suppose also possible. but i was guessing pete_dushenski fucks teenaged nanny not you know, 49+
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i expect she hates him which is how she got to be a nanny in canada in the first place. "he gets in way of unipolar us world!!" in alt-statement.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so then you just make cards ? and they approve them or something ?
mircea_popescu: well alright, so what do i enter into it, you're the creative pick whichever photo works
mircea_popescu: ok so basically you make trading cards which you then put on some colored coins thing and people can buy. anyone playing the game ? is there like a tournament or anything ?
mircea_popescu: what sense does it make to have "gini coeficients" for individual data in a series ? gini coeficient is calculated over the entire series neh ?
mircea_popescu: rarepepeforever what is this thing ? like a trading card game ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, iirc 30 seconds during superbowl (ie, most expensive) is like a coupla mil.
mircea_popescu: "wtf, someone read trilema while riding a fuck machine???" "ah no, that's an ancient pda platform. from like 1996."
mircea_popescu: in other news, symbian os still exists and is still used.
mircea_popescu: somehow this "some men don't need to ask" thing really gets the libtards all twisted up inside.
mircea_popescu: trump hit clinton where it hurt huh. the odds of white menopausal female with sham marriage and pretensions to social success not being addicted are indeed pretty slim.