asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1501726 << still sop in india ☝︎

asciilifeform: and yes, too white!111

asciilifeform: verboten.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1501715 << supposedly 'took party side' ☝︎

asciilifeform: (it runs on the dripping fat)

asciilifeform: if jurov's has run low, he needs a new sacrifice

asciilifeform: eh we have those now

asciilifeform: *periodic

asciilifeform: photovoltaic wasn't bad enough re joules-to-manufacture-vs-joules-lifetime-yield ratio, let's also make fuel cell, using whole bottom half of period table ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'microbial fuel cell' << lel

asciilifeform: can remove the now-useless comments.

asciilifeform: ty BingoBoingo .

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: aha. it is the contractor army that is unusual.

asciilifeform: unique in being the sole 20th c. example.

asciilifeform: and is famous for successfully infiltrating fbi, rather than getting its ducks in a line legalistically.

asciilifeform: trinque: scientology was sui generis.

asciilifeform: as witnessed by the half dozen perfectly-conventional protestant churches whose licenses were yanked by obummer. ☟︎

asciilifeform: if you want to actually buy seven figs of tax-free real estate, etc. - different matter.

asciilifeform: it is very easy to make church with no godz, no doctrine, no history, etc. so long as you just want to wear a pope hat and hang certificate on wall

asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo feel free to fix the links in my original comment

asciilifeform: 'Total Play Telecomunicaciones'. Mexico, Morelos, Tlalnepantla.

asciilifeform: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/9D60710F34429805CA983E018B19C9D0400E3978C6A4F97721303D362A1E9941

asciilifeform: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/F97816E68FFBD245AD39F3509A34B16D8F193D91A6125903354AB4CB383548F3

asciilifeform: lel, these urls are cut off.

asciilifeform: bang!

asciilifeform: (i bet martin gardner had this as a puzzle in his column, but unfortunately my 100kg of old sciam are not searchable...)

asciilifeform: go generalize right-hand rule to n dimensions.

asciilifeform: well clearly it will have to be n-dimensional maze for him.

asciilifeform: 'step too tall' for him.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rat, afaik, has not yet invented righthandrule.

asciilifeform: i recently read some allegation, of unknown veracity, that a beggar in peru chewed (why? i dunno) on a tube of superglue, and consequently starved.

asciilifeform: it need not even be very large.

asciilifeform: trinque: if martians lift you by your tail and put you in large enough maze, you will also starve.

asciilifeform: multiple answers possible

asciilifeform: or should have dealt dope instead of running for office ?

asciilifeform: because they did not vanish, no.

asciilifeform: 'where they cut off yer lips, 'cause they don't like yer smile!111' -- disney's 'aladin'

asciilifeform: (because orcs are simple folk and this was the easiest thing to do)

asciilifeform: he had vavilov killed

asciilifeform: picked wrong place to be born ?

asciilifeform: what, exactly, was vavilov's mistake ?

asciilifeform: was he 'gossiping idiot' ?

asciilifeform: vavilov was successfully prevented from doing much of anything again by lysenko.

asciilifeform: well this re 'let's have coffee and gossip about that asshole who's the reason i can't do all the good things'

asciilifeform: but you gotta remember that fella is old enough that it was not yet a mousetrap when he made the commitment.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu can laugh at schwartz for being the sort of fool who lands in the mousetrap where adelbergers matter to begin with;

asciilifeform: there is the mass of idiot neurotypicals and there are the folks with actual ideas.

asciilifeform: ... perhaps ~some~ idea, see the adelberger thread, he wanted a formal capitulation from the enemy, and knew that he would never get it

asciilifeform: i have no fucking idea what the man's problem was.

asciilifeform: he even had the benzyl crystals mostly grown. ☟︎

asciilifeform: at the time i even had access to the necessary calorimeter. so it would not have even been the 50k.

asciilifeform: still can't fathom why fella didn't listen.

asciilifeform: sorta what i said to him about my 50k-usd eotvos tester variant.

asciilifeform: mile-long queue to even get on the pig. or at least what original thread was.

asciilifeform: from pocket-sized mri scanner to blaster pistol.

asciilifeform: makes considerable difference to ~every aspect of engineering.

asciilifeform: climber also has to not be a quadriplegic.

asciilifeform: it is not enough for the fence to 'not be too tall'

asciilifeform: published, to 0 effect.

asciilifeform: schwartz had a very plausible recipe for room-temperature supercon, for instance.

asciilifeform: it tends to annoy the folks who do see.

asciilifeform: but it is very easy to say 'tall stair!' when ~you personally~ don't see over the fence.

asciilifeform: kelvin thought same thing and was full of shit.

asciilifeform: collapse reaper cometh.

asciilifeform: until, just as with cpu, it will be done with cheap tools - or not at all.

asciilifeform: over as pretty much anything but a money sink.

asciilifeform: didn't we just have a thread re this phenomenon ?

asciilifeform: and lel, is 2011-vintage chart circulating as 'current' ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has not 1 but 2 spiffy articles re same.

asciilifeform: *maxint

asciilifeform: (incidentally, not only dope peddler, but peter thiel, flies on $maxing planes that are somehow not 'in his income' etc.)

asciilifeform: i don't even have any reason to think that the chart accurately depicts the ~tax-paying~ folk.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~noise. nobody counts, or could count, the mexicans, or the dope dealers, et al.

asciilifeform: but it entertains me to no end to learn that mircea_popescu buys into usgificated centralized faux-physics.

asciilifeform: so that is not the point of disagreement.

asciilifeform: i make generous use of my arse.

asciilifeform: or pulled from his papal, sainted arse ?

asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu pulled not from arse ?

asciilifeform: but not where the smart money bets.

asciilifeform: emphasis on the ~. there are 45 y.o. theorists worth mention, just as there may have been 45 y.o. whores who were fuckable, or gymnasts still winning gold

asciilifeform: what is he supposed to say.

asciilifeform: a theorist's productive life is ~over at 40.

asciilifeform: 'stop, idiots, physics is dying' ?

asciilifeform: said what ?

asciilifeform: dunno why mircea_popescu was inclined to bite this particular cathedral hook

asciilifeform: wholly.

asciilifeform: this is where i disagree with mircea_popescu .

asciilifeform: dun matter when he died.

asciilifeform: de broglie did his work with pen & paper. in early 1900s.

asciilifeform: or show me the fella who built a 'ligo' with own billion.

asciilifeform: they don't live today.

asciilifeform: didn't say they never lived.

asciilifeform: asciilifeform simply never met these folk !

asciilifeform: lord kelvin, et al

asciilifeform: moon is terrible example, for that reason.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on the contrary, i can ping the corner mirror from here.

asciilifeform: trinque: waiwut

asciilifeform: fwiw i personally have never met anyone worth talking to who inherited anything bigger than a library. but then again i prolly dun count as 'person' in mircea_popescu's radar.

asciilifeform: you also dun just person because your father left behind a bag of dubloons for you to drink through.

asciilifeform: adelberger: 'you ain't doing physics unless i give you a few hours on this here machine. and i ain't gonna.'