asciilifeform: i did the most ordinary fuses - rope soaked in saltpetre.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: dropped << that's old hat. i was speaking of man-portable projectile weapons specifically.
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.
asciilifeform: i've often wondered if a thermite-type reaction could be carried on in a liquid.
asciilifeform: the brits, in their typical 'if a thing is good, 100x of it is 100x better,' built a flamethrowing tank.
asciilifeform: and a separate tank for compressed air.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc they used straight kerosene in ru, in those days.
asciilifeform: and ignition was done electrically or even with a pistol blank cartridge.
asciilifeform: the spout turned into something disguised as approximately a normal rifle,
asciilifeform: but this drew fire, and so different ways were tried
asciilifeform: when ww2 started, state of the art was to have 'pilot light'
asciilifeform: history of flamethrower - supposedly an uninterestingly low-tech thing - is actually full of twists
asciilifeform: cazalla: except that dks is not rich. he is a very old man living in a very small house - and - at least when i visited - had a boarder.
asciilifeform: ed to see them go out of his basement. there was a lot of equipment besides the lisp machines.'
asciilifeform: 'the situation was as follows: an older eccentric millionaire type had lots of this equipment rotting in his basement from years past. it needed to go, and he didn’t care much about scoring big for it. the people paying the market price for all this stuff would certainly mistreat it as they’d just flip them to profit. he wanted to see them go into loving hands who would restore them and treat them properly, but mostly want
asciilifeform: any more than schoolchildren are given bulldozers to play with
asciilifeform: the other thing that folks often forget is that neither nelson nor anybody else seriously expected illiterate derps to get their hands on the machines
asciilifeform: the micropayment thing has to be taken in context. it was 1960s and his vision was arguably an improvement of 'if you want to make money from thinking, have a job in usg academia'
asciilifeform still working his way through it, sporadically
asciilifeform owns pretty much the whole of nelson's collected output, on dead tree
asciilifeform: nothing like an inherited wealth vermin
asciilifeform: 'This is not the first time the 32-year-old Mr. Shkreli, who has a reputation for both brilliance and brashness, has been the center of controversy. He started MSMB Capital, a hedge fund company, in his 20s and drew attention for urging the Food and Drug Administration not to approve certain drugs made by companies whose stock he was shorting.' << mega-l0l
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu if you are running the item described in http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269180 this would handily explain why your node is so easily wedged. it lacks the db locks fix (and, on top of this, still stores fucking orphan tx, even)☝︎
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: is there a link to therealbitcoin.org in there ?
