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decimation: re: 3mw genset < yeah that's basically a diesel-electric locomotive
asciilifeform: those who don't, typically own a small (5-10kW) genset on wheels
decimation: re: generators < the power is so unreliable in many areas on the east coast that many folks have a propane or natural gas powered generator permanently installed at their house
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mircea_popescu: rk that he disapproves of that kind of conduct–on the contrary, there is a definite strain of sadism in him, over and above the brutality which a writer of that type has to have. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem t
mircea_popescu: "It is no use pretending that Kipling's view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. It is no use claiming, for instance, that when Kipling describes a British soldier beating a 'nigger' with a cleaning rod in order to get money out of him, he is acting merely as a reporter and does not necessarily approve what he describes. There is not the slightest sign anywhere in Kipling's wo
mircea_popescu: "Kipling is in the peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years. During five literary generations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there."
mircea_popescu: obviously a scavenger civilisation will hafta be built on top of the previous cities.
mircea_popescu: now that sort of thing is probably a lot iffier.
asciilifeform does not often have praise for usa, but cannot deny that it is a first-class graveyard for surplus golden toilet tech - e.g., machines like the 'tecan 200' (see ancient thread) originally costing 1/3 $mil can be had for ~5-10k usd, etc.
asciilifeform: but wanted to point to the difference between a ubiquitous piece of construction equipment (SOP for electric welders at large sites) and something like a 6-axis cnc mill
asciilifeform: quite a few office parks around here have gensets. through a quirk of bureaucracy, they were made mandatory at one point
asciilifeform: 3MW is a railroad car.
benjamindees: yeah, you can find a large military surplus generator for cheap, but 3MW is pretty large
asciilifeform: lol! everybody on the street (but me, apparently) owns a genset
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow your street loses power, you can't simply ordered a truck without wheels dropped in front of your property. for various pseudolegal and regtulatory reasons that essentrialy reduce to
asciilifeform: ebay hunting for usg surplus tech is a national sport.
asciilifeform: just a bus without wheels, really
benjamindees: <benjamindees> meth is a hell of a drug
mircea_popescu: to go from there to fuhrerbunker in less than a decade... you need a real idiot for such a thing.
mircea_popescu: this is actually a fair analysis, i suspect. cca 1936, stalin was pro hitler, lord halifax was, undeclaratively, but essentially, pro hitler. everyone was pro hitler.
mircea_popescu: " In 1936 it was clear to everyone that if Britain would only help the Spanish Government, even to the extent of a few million pounds' worth of arms, Franco would collapse and German strategy would be severely dislocated. By that time one did not need to be a clairvoyant to foresee that war between Britain and Germany was coming; one could even foretell within a year or two when it would come. Yet in the most mean, cow
mircea_popescu: because these logs were INSUFFICIENT i swear. i leave for a full few hours and what do i get ? NOTHING
ben_vulpes: how does renting a backup generator by the day make sense?
ben_vulpes: but you mention a 3mw gennie, so that's relevant
mircea_popescu: that said, i'll definitely run a few myself.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it most certainly cannot be true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in. but quite likely true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in for 18 usd per. <<< it doesn't even reach that. the value of ME running pogos is minimal. there are N+k**p things i can do to halp bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: that i never ended up using because... there hasn't yet been a power outage.
mircea_popescu: or tell you about how on reports about "power outages" i had all sortos of arrangements in place, including the option to have a container generator installed (worth about 3mw)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: my plaintive cries << it's not a bad plan i don't think.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: there are all of these things that make sense in the context of it, but... <<< i come fresh from a three hour session of discussing eulora game model with c people.
trinque: mircea_popescu: maybe they'll crowdsource a sweet name for wwiii from reddit this time
mircea_popescu: trinque: how many countries have to be fighting a war for the phrase "world war" to apply? <<< ww1 was instituted by gallup poll.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: better than refreshing a faucet << pretty much teh point.
asciilifeform: didn't always have a cover
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: unusually chinese ic package, would be a reasonable hypothesis.
asciilifeform: just as, say, your fingers are not (get a flashlight and see if didn't remember this)
adlai: i'm not going to declare in advance that i want X% of profits, or a Y% upfront fee, if that's what you're looking for
adlai: i'm not set on a specific configuration for how such terms would look; i'm interested to see what works for them. mircea_popescu outlined the terms he offers people who manage profit centers, and it seems that he's not willing at this stage to risk an amount which is worth my time to manage, and this is understandable
adlai wonders whether that quite does him justice, but arguing on irc gives less of a fuzzy feeling than becoming that someone
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it most certainly cannot be true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in. but quite likely true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in for 18 usd per.
asciilifeform: -everything- is a problem of the poorly networked.
ben_vulpes: but now says he can't even get a pogo shipped in.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu originally contested the difficulty of importing heavy things, saying it was a problem of the poorly networked
ben_vulpes: not at a term i don't understand.
asciilifeform: i don't know the author personally, no. he's just a blogger.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what is it about that place that provides for space and security at such a low cost?
ben_vulpes: a pauper like myself, though?
ben_vulpes: for a man with income, surely.
ben_vulpes: i grow to suspect that you see all of the ussa as a homogenous enforcement environment.
asciilifeform: and a total lack of draconian conditions in lease ?
asciilifeform: but the workshop fella posted that to 'youtube' and was not afraid of being robbed. (however, long after, he since moved, to a larger space, iirc.)
asciilifeform: 'nobody knows this is not a warehouse full of old shoes' is not 'minimally secured'
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ben_vulpes: out in the woods, the sop (as i understand it, not having pulled this particular hat trick myself) is to fire a warning shot, shoot the invader, and then call the sherrif.
thestringpuller: it's okay to shoot a nigga in the hood.
asciilifeform: not much of a door, either
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: one could get a similar space in some parts of usa, but it would be under 24/7 orc siege and security costs for parity with the pictured workshop would dwarf the rent
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: D1X can do strange things to a man.
ben_vulpes: hah and of course a windows machine
thestringpuller: he was like "I've become a hipster even though I was an anti-hipster"
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 06:06:39; mircea_popescu: ironically, irc was a big thing when i was a teen. then pretty much forgot about it. only rediscovered it in a frustrated attempt to make sense of the ever mounting idiocy that bitcoin appeared to be.
thestringpuller: i guess. they said the city is a hipster factory.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] how do you plan to use it w/o a wallet ? << gotta move all the transaction generation logic out of the turd. implies a database replacement using something that can actually be queried, not a braindamaged k/v store.
thestringpuller: really would love to watch a Comedy show inspired by the work of ALF
ben_vulpes: i've a feeling argentina'd welcome me with open arms.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu: failure of imagination ^ here. more interestingly, we could, say, go on a 'disappearing' plane. or, more comically, turned out on the return leg: 'we've never heard of you, go and starve in mexico city where you came from'
adlai is a fan of dropping in a url and letting assbot do the heavy lifting
ben_vulpes curls tighter into a hangover ball
trinque: how many countries have to be fighting a war for the phrase "world war" to apply?
ben_vulpes: a real joy to work with
ben_vulpes: * asciilifeform not a fan of 'pattern matching' languages << i worked with a database with queries in datalog recently.
danielpbarron: better than refreshing a faucet
asciilifeform: what political tack would you imagine he'd have taken, if he had not been a lamer (as pictured in your article) ?
asciilifeform: ialism. As it is, the aeroplane is primarily a thing for dropping bombs and the radio primarily a thing for whipping up nationalism. Even before the war there was enormously less contact between the peoples of the earth than there had been thirty years earlier, and education was perverted, history rewritten and freedom of thought suppressed to an extent undreamed of in earlier ages. And there is no sign whatever of these te
mircea_popescu: the plane CHANGED their life. it didn't come about to make 1900 a more-1800-than-1800.
mircea_popescu: when the airplane came about, everyone hailed it as a "great civilizing factor"
mircea_popescu: a good word to look up in period italian literature.
asciilifeform probably needs to reread tlp, because he finds this a little confusing
asciilifeform: that's kinda how i pictured the narcissism working - you play 'paratrooper' and imagine that you are in fact a ww2 hero
adlai: khaneman has a chapter on this, tl;dr is that a good "expert" is one who knows when to mistrust expert intuition
asciilifeform: it's one thing to sign a freshly-packet parachute with your blood, swearing 'i am responsible for this, whatever happens'
mircea_popescu: a slightly pudgy 37 yo woman in iowa is not slinking towards her car in a parking lot among crickets because she is going to get raped
asciilifeform: had to spend a grand total of two minutes reading, to learn this.
mircea_popescu: it's a discovery. it bends future behaviour.
mircea_popescu: it's not "a technology", specifically in that it's not made to serve man.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: which is a deal-killer
danielpbarron: speaking of netbsd; that's what i'm researching as a candidate to replace archlinux for the pogo
punkman: speaking of baggage, there is a type of gpg packet that can cause an infinite loop in version 1.4.16 and before
punkman: netbsd has a pgp implementation
mircea_popescu: a) it's not "spit in cup" and b) it still doesn't really work.
mircea_popescu: logically, the antibodies are not often found where the virus is not often found. the human machine is still a machine, trying to be economical if possible.
mircea_popescu: at the size of the proteins involved, there's not really THAT many billion units in a saliva sample.
asciilifeform: immunoreactive test at ppb concentration is not a wholly outlandish concept
asciilifeform: afaik nobody gives a damn re: syphilis today.
asciilifeform: likewise, device requiring drops of blood is a nonstarter from the perspective of thermonuking the contagion.
asciilifeform: Cheap Smartphone Dongle Diagnoses HIV And Syphilis In 15 Minutes << sham. not in that the tech doesn't work (it does) but in that it is the ordinary single-shot immunoreactive test, but for some (chumpatronic) reason someone bolted it on to a pNohe.
mircea_popescu: eh, and you'll enforce a really good agreement how ?
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:19:42; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> adlai: why does it have to test on actual live-fire btc anyway? << so he can make a buck ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski part of your disbelief also comes from you thinking in plain terms of d/s whereas the show seems to be thought more in terms of "a coupla switches get together".