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trinque: oh,
a friend and I drank plenty playing bocce at his house
mircea_popescu: and the proper phraseology for
a challenge, "hey, can you do this ?"
mircea_popescu: phf well they weren't priceless antiques yet. and i doubt many people seriously saw
a putin future back then.
phf: i've not seen
a chinese export, until the first wave of chelnok came back with bag full of stuff from turkey (traded as i recently discovered for priceless pre-soviet antiques for pennies)
phf: pete_dushenski: hard to source that sort of stuff in the middle of nowhere, by the time we would even consider destroying
a shuttle, i'd be shredded beyond any sort of reasonable aerodynamic characteristics
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: real men dance on hot coals with other real men on their shoulders. in
a blizzard.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: [...] it isn't. but it doesn't help that my translation efforts are ~starting~ with post-phd-level writings THAT DON'T EVEN HAVE ACCENTS << he has
a point there lol.
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 22:53:12; *: BingoBoingo still astounded that if one wants
a new diesel vehicle thanks to the EU it will refuse to run if you don't fill up
a second tank with pisstein (urea)
mircea_popescu: but you gotta live in
a shitty marsh where saltpetre is found!!1
phf: we actually did have fuse at some point. one of the kids had one of those "engineer" fathers, who, i remember gave us, of note, soviet spectrum knockoff, rc plane engines of various sizes. he's also the one who converted part of forest glade into
a "proper" badminton field, and then, with his wife as
a partner, proceeded to regularly slaughter us in regular tournament matches
mircea_popescu: we had specialist "turner" (kid who was adept at turning 1/4 wire around shoelace in
a corkscrew pattern making ready to go puncher for ball.)
mircea_popescu: phf what fuse, stick
a length of shoelace in there, good to go.
phf: oh man ping pong balls the versatile weapon manufacturing device, i'm surprised they are not yet banned in u.s. stores. make
a small hole, fill it with stuff, attach
a fuse
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> it would be
a devastating - if expensive - weapon, with armour being of little to no use - provided that you could find
a way to avoid incinerating own barrel. << Probably ought to be dropped
BingoBoingo: Spz. I need
a harbor? How long would that take to dig with ANFO vs. Nuclear?
mircea_popescu: "the amount of engineering effort that went into these machines far outweighs what you might get in
a modern computer, and that’s something i don’t think the world will ever see again" << he's wrong, fwiw. the amount of competent work that went into art as the empire got fucked in the ass exceeded the amount before.
mircea_popescu: " there was also
a demand for systems that could be easily introspected, debugged, and changed by individual engineers, which was something mainframes couldn’t easily do as one mistake by one engineer could bring down
a system serving dozens" <<< since we're doing the entire underappreciated point thing.
BingoBoingo: <phf> for effective flame thrower you really want
a gelling agent << polystyrene
phf: so according to the website, "Officially approved fuels: Gasoline (unleaded), gasoline-diesel mixture, alcohol." and "tilizes
a high pressure electric fuel pump, powered by
a 3S lithium-polymer battery typically used in R/C aircraft"
mircea_popescu: mmm, the way that ONE trail looked to me was, she's firing it at
a puddle of flammable something
phf: for effective flame thrower you really want
a gelling agent
phf: above is just
a portable propane poofer, which is
a sort of rite of passage for construction among burning man steel&propane crowd
hanbot: i've got
a fever, and the only prescription is moar dakka.
mircea_popescu: she fucking shoo'd
a political campaign away from the fucking downtown landmark!
mircea_popescu: so dumbass "political campaign" for some twerp here tried to have
a huge rally (which is how i woke up, fucking drummers). but it's been raining, and nobody gives
a shit about their crap, so they took refuge under
a huge awning and there they've been, playing this inept 2 minute political soundclip (lo que la gente quiere, blabla fuckhead rodrgues) etc. this for
a while, until
mircea_popescu: it's
a great thing. the main by-product of the knitting culture. little clothes made to measure by bored old women for things like teapots.
gernika: asciilifeform: it's
a slightly chemical smell - perhaps ammoniaish?
gernika: asciilifeform: 1958 - complete with class schedule of
a junior high student from 1969.
shinohai: Sent 20 emails out today regarding your art commission, get one chick to reply 10 minutes ago. I gave her
a link to chat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i took
a gamble of sorts. it kinda worked.
mircea_popescu: when i was
a kid, the #1 question hopeful spouse had to handle with the fambly was "are they smart enough"
mircea_popescu: this is how vc circus works, spend 10-20mn on "
a venture", part of which goes to "
a respectable voice" etc.
mircea_popescu: all that shit re culture and whatnot, all the pretense of wikipedia to relevance, the whole kaboodle : an overstated maximal output of an optimistic evaluation of
a technological base that
a) never actually existed in fact and b) has meanwhile been substituted by
a provably worse alternative IN ALL THE POINTS
mircea_popescu: hint : the "expectations" about "what the internet is" which were build in the 90s by people about as informed or inclined to think as the current "blockchain technologies" crowd, are predicated on
a MAXIMAL EXTENSION of an optimal ideal nelsonian network.
mircea_popescu: "No, you pedo-peso hoarding little shit lizard. One of your sociopathic free-market libertarian brethren took it upon themselves to threaten
a real person and people around them in their place of work making them genuinely fearful."
shinohai: That one gave me quite
a few lolz
mircea_popescu: but you could add
a gas cromatograph in the exhaust, diagnose driver's odds of getting kidney stones
BingoBoingo: <punkman> why don't they have
a piss-funnel for the driver? fill it up during the 8 hours of commuting. << Biologic piss isn't good enough. Need special monsanto pure piss.
BingoBoingo remebers there supposedly being
a piss backed atlcoin advertised on bitcointalk at one point
punkman: why don't they have
a piss-funnel for the driver? fill it up during the 8 hours of commuting.
BingoBoingo: Because why accept engineering compromises when you can instead invent
a tank that pisses into the exhaust and feed monsanto more bezzel
mircea_popescu: bureaucracy at work. "one thing got away and all other things got to be that thing now. because easier to have
a central exception"
BingoBoingo: Because instead of letting efficient diesels with their turbos and insane compression produce
a bit more oxidized nitrogen, make them emulate naturally aspirated gasoline vehicle
BingoBoingo still astounded that if one wants
a new diesel vehicle thanks to the EU it will refuse to run if you don't fill up
a second tank with pisstein (urea)
☟︎ phf: and here i am being upset that you can't find
a bidet anywhere in u.s. except for muslim neighbourhoods
phf: could make
a portlandia show about west philadelphia, if it wasn't all so derivative already
phf: there's
a coop yoga place, that designed "as
a sort of community wellness center", good thing that the owner owns the building too, because they can't seem to quite break even, and periodically have strategic brainstorm sessions about how to make money
phf: ooh ooh,
a chubby english major, who's
a perpetually broke works random jobs, but aspires to be
a singer, but nobody has
a heart to tell her that she's not very good
phf: there's an organic food coop here, with stereotypes buying groceries from stereotypes selling it. you'd have
a field day
ascii_field: 'auto' would be
a lie. but nominally, yes.
mike_c: ugh. maybe you should get
a 21 and pay someone else to do it with your constant stream of bitcoin.
ascii_field: if my hypothesis is correct AND the makers have half
a brain, there is nothing to be learned from buying the board presently. unless you have access to electron microscope.
ascii_field: this will be hailed as
a great leap forward by the redditard crowd, because difficulty in this altcoin will initially be very low, making their 50-125 appear to 'count for something'
ascii_field: permanently turning it into
a usgcoin miner.
ascii_field: that will be blown by
a future 'mandatory update'
ascii_field: (what commercial chip do you know of that sells as
a ~range~ of possible performance ??!!)
☟︎ ascii_field: incidentally, i would not be the least bit astonished if the miner die contains
a second, inactive circuit for an alternative workfunction
mike_c: yeah.. the whole "not
a mining pool" thing is weird
ascii_field: mike_c: also pushing
a usgized wot knockoff
mike_c: they're pushing micropayments, not buy
a $400 hunk of silicon.