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mircea_popescu: well this is like asking why did the goat piss its left leg and not the right
mircea_popescu: the result is that it sets it up for rechecking, yes, but i still only made a get req
mircea_popescu: i just checked, by going to nosuchlabs.com/redo/0D9057DA7AEE12C725AA9408D47F4FFC3769BEF7891A0F9C0A9F38420C5C08AB? myself
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, it clearly scraped the url from there
mircea_popescu: it's just a get request. and google is pretty aggressive following all conceivable urls.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what makes you think that's a form posting ?
mircea_popescu: 64 bytes from archive.today (195.211.154.159): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=28.4 ms
mircea_popescu: aww. im sure it was just a researcher doing researching.
mircea_popescu: i think your stay in b-a has benefited you immensely :)
mircea_popescu: the shenanigans would come back out once a 2nd item is found
mircea_popescu: if you can store 100gb of chain you can store 100mb of static html.
mircea_popescu: then everyone running a node can run that too, if they run a webserver.
mircea_popescu: this could actually be a reasonably decent companion project. make a static html exporter companion for bitcoind
mircea_popescu: mostly doing pest control or i don't remember what nonsense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the usual "i say words about words so please hire me" circus.
mircea_popescu: the main point of difference is that the soviets at least had some still functional brainparts.
mircea_popescu: nothing gets "magicked away with magic rays". they can shove their hands in ears all the way to the elbow, i'm getting all my pounds of flesh.
mircea_popescu: same thing that came out of the "hey, you're defrauding maryland u" email.
mircea_popescu: not merely shit, but shit that's been trampled by monkeys.
mircea_popescu: "designed by americans" is quickly becoming the english equivalent of "marfa romaneasca"
mircea_popescu: the "resistance through culture" intellectuals still did a lot to mitigate the sort of damage discussed here
mircea_popescu: but yes. the us is not only just as inclined to outright lie as the su was, it's also blessed with the gift of suck in the shape of a purely imbecile population.
mircea_popescu: in fairness it hasn't been studied too much yet. who knows.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow in their minds the idea doesn't form that... hello ? anyone home ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile, during THAT EXACT INTERVAL, this set of 10-20 metals did EXACTLY what they had hoped their dead horse would do.
mircea_popescu: my concern was more cultural, so to speak. here are these dudes, maybe 100k of them, all heads counted. they're mostly over 50 white men, who have for 30 years been buying and hoping.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile buying a kilogram bar of non radioactive rare earth metal is perfectly feasible as-is.
mircea_popescu: but in all fairness this thing, while in principle promising, is mroe than a few tweaks away.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i always thought all the work in fine graphite fibers is really intended to do this, eventually.
mircea_popescu: this "from the clouds down" approach... who cares about "the entire world", srsly ?
mircea_popescu: the x per day bla bla figure is spurious. obviously there's a shitton of energy there. the problem is we don't yet have the filters.
mircea_popescu: i thought you wanted it made the only way we know how to create elements atm.
mircea_popescu: that's all i was saying really. making your own rare metals may work, but it won't be this century.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: decimation the idea was that somehow you create the hafnium you use in your laptop through a fission process that happened during your lifetime.
mircea_popescu: but it boils down to the simple fact that if you're a mile away your share of the sphere surface is tiny, whereas if you're surrounding the item, your share's 100%. distance is a much better insulator than mass, because distance goes into the formula ^3. and consequently you're better off a mile away from a ton's worth of criticality than with a gram of the stuff in your colon.
mircea_popescu: (i have the math done on the difference between being exposed to a meltdown outside and being exposed to ingested material, if the obvious difference's aren't obvious i can dig it up)
mircea_popescu: fission may well be the safest method of electricity production. that's not in discussion. a large part of WHY it is the safest involves not sticking bits of a reactor core inside you.
mircea_popescu: but i will note for jurov's benefit exactly what the differences are between his great friend to the east and his great friend to the west.
mircea_popescu: you know, just because japan's a colony and ukraine a colony of "the enemy" doesn
mircea_popescu: is this a rehash of the entire russian song and dance about how "nobody died at chernobyl" ?
mircea_popescu: well in this case the reasons seem to be more like, "because it will kill you painfully."
mircea_popescu: i doubt you'll ever be able to put up your gf's butt something that was inside a reactor core during your lifetime.
mircea_popescu: the trawlers that pretty much took all the fish, 1965-2015 can be refurbished to suck out the rare earths too, 2015-2065.
mircea_popescu: otherwise ocean extraction would almost be practicable.
mircea_popescu: yes. the fact that they can't currently be extracted efficiently from electronics scrap speaks volumes.
mircea_popescu: it is actually not unreasonable to overspend on sustainability when building a mine.
mircea_popescu: decimation soon to come to a strip mine/mall near you!
mircea_popescu: i guess alf's observation re kalash bullets, copper and izhevsk is so difficult to grok and utterly advanced people just can't wrap their heads around the fact that copper's not really the only superiority metal.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nobody yet wanted to be africa and failed to get its wish.
mircea_popescu: but his much more important failures when trying to preserve soime sort of future for that country get ignored throughout.
mircea_popescu: somehow his international relations failures when being humiliated by putin in public are widely discussed
mircea_popescu: iirc obama even whined at the wtc about china rare earth policy