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mircea_popescu: actually... it takes about half hour to cover its range.
mircea_popescu: yaya. the mechanics of the thing are against them. you have a very visible (really, in the right spectrum it blots out the sun), slow moving large object. doing what.
mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised if they can usefully launch anything by this point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i vaguely suspect delivery actually worked better in 49 than it does today.
mircea_popescu is kinda amused at all the "oh noes, nuclear war destroys planet as we know it". go for it boys, really.
mircea_popescu: easier to explain to the peons why they can't have chocolate this week if there's an "all out total war" going
mircea_popescu: truth be told, the scenario is rather plausible. the us has nowhere to turn.
mircea_popescu: it's gonna be funny as we age, and all sorts of infantile derps are the #78589 satoshi
mircea_popescu: coming right next after the official usg libertard ideologue steps in here to prove to me how wrong i am about things and matters.
mircea_popescu: and if not necessarily useful, in any case entertaining.
mircea_popescu: look, you're theoretically arguing about things in such a vague distant approach it's not worth the skinning.
mircea_popescu: they TRIED to anoint one, to great lulz. dr whateverthefuck.
mircea_popescu: ironically i fucking warned the idiots when they fired the hearn toothpick. but, too dumb to figure it out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how the fuck are you going to generate "Aditional gavins" roflmao.
mircea_popescu: too used with the "we control the vertical, and the horizontal" usual fare.
mircea_popescu: they had gavin and all it took was a trilema post to turn him from st peter to a sort of dan quayle. it's not the sort of thing the grunts like to face.
mircea_popescu: anyway, asciilifeform, morale at the ant farm is exceptionally low.
mircea_popescu: shinohai eth is the backup plan, turns out. lulzy shit.
mircea_popescu: so the logical expectation is that they'll rage before they quit.
mircea_popescu: the options keep narrowing until it's either rage or quit. because obviously the correct and naturally-imposed solution of submit and humbly suck mp's cock is for some incomprehensible reason not on their plate.
mircea_popescu: recall, the usg & friends, as well as any and all other wanna-be, pretended or otherwise power centers have been regularly humiliated.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so much that, moreover simple desperation.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are in a similar position mutatis mutandis etc.
mircea_popescu: they had plans, none of which worked, their cost basis keeps exploding, which is not nice,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: basically, tmsr has been extremely effectual at murdering usg assets and crippling usg influence in bitcoin, this doth not sit well with them ;
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell copypaste btw the party's here --> #trilema
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun see how he needs any further spray for any purpose, the substance's self-discrediting enough.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty well known, sure. actually screaming on a reasonable frequency will get recent mommies all lactating in a social setting.
mircea_popescu: whatever be the case. PeterL presumably has a very legitimate need for it, being in the business of organics. these schmucks making advanced clays however... not so much.
mircea_popescu: PeterL they use lots of it, and constantly bitch about how expensive it is to handle.
mircea_popescu: he read unspecified "central texts" and references some william buckley. who the fuck is william buckley ? turns out, a tv show host.
mircea_popescu: why do all these people put so much effort into creating some sort of label/brand/title for themselves anyway
mircea_popescu: there's now and again cases when actual forces hostile to usg do the whole thing, but when genuine independent research occurs... well. this.
mircea_popescu: the sad truth underneath this all is, that the "computer [security] industry" has slowly became dependent on usg-sponsored burnings to the degree that unless weimer and co actually write all the stuff and put it out, they can't do it on their own, in any sort of timeframe.
mircea_popescu: or maybe dmso was really too toxic (that thing is a riot) and thf acvtually dissolves borones and so ...
mircea_popescu: so the boron carbide with xenon filling aerogel production process involves electromagnetics and evaporation. SCIENCE!
mircea_popescu: of course, dmso would be even dielectrical-er, but hm.
mircea_popescu: acetone, barely 20, also rather volatile if not as toxic.
mircea_popescu: note how they stand : thf, massively used, because relatively safe - million tons produced a year or such. yet, dielectric < 10
mircea_popescu: unless, again, the dielectric is a major part of what "better" means.
mircea_popescu: yes. but why use this headache when much better solvents available
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, the idea of using acetonitrile is very bizarre. much better polar solvents exist ; unless the remarkably high dielectric constant of the substance is useful.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: come to think of it, tyhe usg aspires to be tmsr in more ways than one, huh.
mircea_popescu: i guess the ustards imagines itself in the glorified position where all non-orcs are friendly.
mircea_popescu: tey said "wrong hands", they didn't fucking say "reddit's hands"
mircea_popescu: ie, decent physicist takes one look at list of possible outputs and picks the right one.
mircea_popescu: right, and im well persuaded the current item is just a glorified enigma machine
mircea_popescu: and then have a physics team to sort outputs in order of likelihood and a cs team to rebuild the chip from scratch.
mircea_popescu: i put this chip on a breadboard, and feed all possible input combinations to it, note down all that comes out.
mircea_popescu: sure. so you have a chip, that takes say 4 inputs, and generates say 3 outputs.
mircea_popescu: and i'll recover them through any of the numerous cryptanalysis tricks available.