asciilifeform: what, precisely, are the plausible worlds here. i can really think of just one - it lost db, and author pulled it down ?
asciilifeform genuinely wonderf wtf happened to deedbot 2
asciilifeform: at least i assume the rifle was designed to be somewhat annoying to uncripple, considering, iirc, that this was required in usa
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as a reverse engineer, i find examples of 'crippleware designed to be annoying to fix' conceptually interesting wherever i find it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the molokization of deedbot v2.0 << wai wat? sabotage ?
asciilifeform: (is 'ar' simply alias for the well-known 'm16' ?)
asciilifeform: two (?) missing small parts, slightly different bolt, according to schematics
asciilifeform: a very peculiar kind of 'mechanical crippleware', this 'street legal ak'
asciilifeform: according to one source, it is because a large quantity of semi-automatic ak was once produced in that country (for a civil militia project of some kind, iirc)
asciilifeform: even here in usa many (most?) of such rifles offered for sale are originally made in ro
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ak-47... argentina... should be about 1k << wai wat. sure not off by a zero ?
asciilifeform: yeah, the 'actual work' of pretending to help voters, drafting bills, etc is generally performed by 18-25 year old women << zoologically interesting phenomenon. visit wash. d.c, they're everywhere - restaurants (incl. costly ones), $xx mil houses, 7 to a room...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... gmaxwell aware enough to notice [one of] trezor holes. << the differential power thing is plain as daylight to anyone who has seen the published schematic.
asciilifeform: <RagnarDanneskjol> (23:51:57) nanotube: hi, looks like outbound connectivity is dead on my vps. filed support request, would appreciate someone to take a look
asciilifeform: RagnarDanneskjol> asciilifeform - update from nano from few hours ago:
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: herr jobs & bezos are well-known figures but they are 'inventors' in much the same way as they are ballerinas.
asciilifeform: (though a certain frenchman did record audio in a very edisonesque manner, without playing back, a few years before e.)
asciilifeform: for instance, one often meets with discussion of how edison 'did not invent' x. which, for most values of x, is technically true. but i have not been able to find evidence (did try) that he is not the actual inventor of phonograph.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: possibly you knew of some invention that i am not aware of, attributed to these men ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i merely thought it was odd that you brought up two figures who are not, afaik, known to have invented anything as examples of inventor
asciilifeform: winter clothing << the comical heat-only-the-humans-with-microwave-turret gadget from the film series 'silicon valley' was - afaik - proposed in earnest. possibly in ussr. vague recollection.
asciilifeform associates that company exclusively with spam
asciilifeform: convenience is appreciated esp. by the chronically inconvenienced.
asciilifeform: matter of fact, i appreciate that, for instance, i do not (yet) have to build own refrigerator.
asciilifeform: nobody (i hope) uses some bozo's www 'rng' site for weaponized anything
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: if all you need is an rng, you can very easily build a satisfactory one yourself in an evening. from, e.g., 1970s textbooks.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: there's a toggle which forces continuous rng grind, yes
asciilifeform: for children, doing homework exercises
asciilifeform: during one of early rng discussions, i think
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we read this one together !
asciilifeform: as in, whether only the specced kind of judge stands a chance of becoming an american judge - or, at least, of deciding so much as the least bit of such a case - or - alternatively, whether explicit control over the judges is somehow exercised ?
asciilifeform: the judge, afaik, is a kind of mechanical component here and is operating within specced envelope
asciilifeform: or the couple of 'bank transfer' ones from slightly earlier.
asciilifeform: ^ perhaps this, and not the imaginary radioactive mushrooms.
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asciilifeform: observe, plenty of uranium ore on, e.g., 'ebay.' but no refined metal (depleted or, srsly what do you expect - the other kind)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: direct quote from one of the 'dune' film adaptations
asciilifeform: 'tell me again about the waters of your home world...'
