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mircea_popescu: i already am feeling the blessings of engineeringshnu upon my humble abode.
mircea_popescu: i've just finished rewiring this set of xmas lights to work in parallel
mircea_popescu: mno, the origins are batata and papa (still used as originally, to distinguish sweet and plain varieties, here)
mircea_popescu: i guess i'm lucky to be in an engineering-internet. were i in a scholarly-internet it'd be all "mp, potato comes from new world therefore everything is invalid!"
mircea_popescu: prolly instafamous on various social media turds, too.
mircea_popescu: would make a pretty great blog topic, you know ? for the numerous bloggers among us constantly looking for stuff to feed the woodchipper with.
mircea_popescu: i had but apparently lost a degree of magnitude on the way.
mircea_popescu: what do the things actually draw, half a W or something ?
mircea_popescu: actually speaking of dc motors, i wonder if you could get a hamster to wheel-power a pogo.
mircea_popescu: but i had no idea that things could pop if you use parallel! or that you could possibly need a breaker! or things.
mircea_popescu: seems pretty dangerous this could happen and also should not be possibru!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of plugging into mains, you know that if you bought a bunch of power strips and powered your entire house out of the same socket it'd eventually a) start a fire ; b) pop the fuse ; c) all of the above ?
mircea_popescu: win. and if i add a third, what happens to the current ?
mircea_popescu: tell me this : if you have two 1 ohm items in parallel, at 1 volt ea, what current flows through the main ??
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and you know this for a fact ? maybe the profusion is just because people like encapsulated things.
mircea_popescu: in parallel you're relying on same loads to regulate your... current.
mircea_popescu: to summarize said argument attempts : line 1. "high voltage is dangerous" "mkay, throw out your tv" ; line 2 : "you will have to protect the line" "yes you will" ; line 3 : "this was done historically" "yes it was".
mircea_popescu: uncharitably i might also observe that other than "i say so!" "it's how it's done" "reddit would agree", relatively little actual arguments were brought, which is why the task of poking fun was so easy/the experience so frustrating.
mircea_popescu: I'm not necessarily against taking mp's lines and looking in all the folds carefully ; but it's a little silly to do this run off with what i think an angle might have been, damn everything else.
mircea_popescu: llel of how mp said "^ for the record, i've been divesting, if slowly." and you spent two days going on about 0 value bitcoin, then the interval hence being butthurt that there's no 0 value bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> PeterL: he suggested (i still can't tell if seriously!) to plug them in ~series~ << no dude. he said "see if your isp is willing to give you a c block / upgrade your connection. buy a coupla bridges of 32 or 64, make a high voltage rectifier thingee, and power a bunch of boxes" then you went all crazy about how series omaygerd! and i spent the rest of the interval poking fun at it. this is an exact para
mircea_popescu: jurov> actually, that would neatly solve the mystery of cascading failure of his raid setup << fu georg!
mircea_popescu: PeterL> maybe it is just my lack of electrical engineering knowledge, but it sounds like mircea_popescu and asciilifeform are saying to do the same thing, but won't agree with each other? << you have nfi how often this happens.
mircea_popescu: decentralization being not the answer, but the problem, in many applications. as seen here.
mircea_popescu: the ~only point i made prior to the whole "way things are done!11" explosion was, that for the price of buying extension cords for all the shitty little bricks he can make a central power source himself.
mircea_popescu: i guess he'll need to use thicker wires, but hey, if it'll make your impalement sense happy why not.
mircea_popescu: anyway, would it make you happier if he puts a transformer in between, takes it from 300 V 1 A to 4.5 V 60 A and then parallels that ?
mircea_popescu: i've been trying to follow this with the huts etc but it doesn't coallesce into a something.
mircea_popescu: "i want someone to make me a si foundry and i'll strangle anyone who even tries to make a power source!"
mircea_popescu: part and parcel of our attempts to you know, get out of hardware dependency of chinese\
mircea_popescu: this is even lulzier than the whole "can't move out of dc" thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously, you can't protect a circuit from overvoltage, overcurrent and everything else ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think his plan to fight some derps doing black magic is not to squarely ignore them, but to DO THINGS to anti-magic their magic.
mircea_popescu: naked sluts doing hard maths, what more can you ask of art.
mircea_popescu: if i ever open a brothel here, we'll have a rsa night.
mircea_popescu: i suspect through a massive dose of not giving a shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only in us courts that got very lazy meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: at least if they had the fucking decency to be funny about it, lord derp and hurrserl and shit. but no, "chocolate".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't use aliases even in promiscuity. everyone's "vampyre lord" and "celeste" and what the fuck not, i'm mircea popescu
mircea_popescu: ha. don't you need a moustache to legally wear that name ?
mircea_popescu: "honey, if you can say that outloud you're not drunk enough."
mircea_popescu: PeterL i knew a guy who would introduce himself to half drunk british roses as "hi, my name's pizda ma-tii!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know he has a point tho, just because someone stole or didn't stole it, what's that to you ?
mircea_popescu: (and yes in that month i can do the fucking rsa exponentiation on paper three times over.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (for the curious, the way private sealed writs work in fiat court is, the presumed author is confronted with them. if he accepts them all is fine, if however he repudiates them the circus starts, because the case forks into a sub-case about whether the item is genuine or not, gotta have witnesses as to the writ, experts as to the writ, you can be there a month with the piece of paper.)
mircea_popescu: i had the pleasure of a coupla of such nonsense back in the day.
mircea_popescu: i always thought "the path to destruction is broad" just gave measure of the argot prescience of the king james bible and it really means "the path to destruction is woman".
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron and what if they can't fit down the chute ?
mircea_popescu: i must say i'm pretty impressed with this darkcoin thing and with the chinese govt generally. a) no idiotic derpage a la "bitlicense" ; b) actually prosecute scammers.