asciilifeform: *what they wish us to believe they are
asciilifeform: am i alone in using wot as was originally taught, 'level of confidence that this key represents person who is what they wish to believe us they are' ?
asciilifeform: too informed by categorical logic... real objects can of course never be categorically anything << guilty. professional disease.
asciilifeform: (common lisp has a standard-cum-rationale and it isn't quite as deliciously readable)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's 100% free online, too
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's alive for the purpose of usg stooges being able to 'talk about bitcoin' without mentioning #b-a ever
asciilifeform: it's at breaking point << it's been carrying on a happy 'life' of the undead zombie for quite some time, rotting, culturing maggots & worms, throwing chunks of flesh at bystanders
asciilifeform: ^ subject to the standard 'unexpected hanging theorem' disclaimer
asciilifeform mumbles something regarding nonexistence of kitchens with single cockroaches
asciilifeform: but iirc the prophet never forbade coke
asciilifeform: the one thing i've always wondered about dubai is what the owners actually -do- (vs have others do)
asciilifeform: dubai (his claimed home) is an interesting place. haven't had to go there myself yet, but have a friend who regularly visits. has stories
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nothing malicious about the poor bugger, just the fact of having all of the traditional misconceptions ('i'll use my phone', 'let's try the Cloud', etc.)
asciilifeform: too many limbs of one type, too few - of other, wrong directions attached
asciilifeform: see, for instance, the story regarding the composition of their not-quite-national-anthem 'ey iran' - sorta their equiv. of 'america the beautiful'
asciilifeform refrains from going into deep tangent re: how iran may well have joined euro camp rather than descending into strange if it hadn't been spat upon as 'eastern monkeys' when tried
asciilifeform is an armchair general only, but doesn't see the military advantage of usg against subjects as consisting solely or even largely of superior small arms. what, rebel army won't break the law against modifying trigger of semi weapons to auto? rather, advantage of usg is same as in the time of hammurabi - soldiers are fed by the palace so they needn't 'waste' time on honest work; are resupplied so they needn't look for what
asciilifeform: iirc they're limited to public servants or folks willing to license themselves as 'museums' (complete with fingerprinting, letters of recommendation from mayor, surprise inspections, ... etc)
asciilifeform: so the suppressors (sop in eu) were banned as something only a 'shady crook' would use
asciilifeform: decimation: this might have to do with the fact that much of what u.s. folks take to the shooting galleries seems to exist for little purpose but to make an impressive 'bang'
asciilifeform: see the 'saw-off' mosin earlier in thread
asciilifeform: decimation: they have this ancient law, where that one part is the only thing that 'counts' as a limited item, and the rest of the weapon can be bought with cash in a shop or even outdoor market
asciilifeform: decimation: it's sop among u.s. small arms aficionados
asciilifeform: because much simpler even than what they do
asciilifeform: to round off the electrobullet thread, i made this gedankenexperiment up for this just to show what folks like wilson -would- be doing if they were serious☟︎
asciilifeform: bonus points for the bullet exercise if you can dispense with the 'mold' entirely and form the conical part purely with field gradient in the bath
asciilifeform: briefly back to the bullet thread: the most interesting thing about the suggested method is that any material can be used, so long as it conducts and behaves reasonably well as aqueous ion
asciilifeform: copper can be had virtually anywhere short of antarctica
asciilifeform: the concept is meant to address an earlier thread - 'pashtun can make ak but rounds are still from izhevsk'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: have them machined grossly then electrofined << nonono - whole point is to make'em in a cup in kitchen, jungle conditions
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this needs only the most trivial form of electrolytic machining - with ready-made cavity
