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mircea_popescu: or maybe the only reason you think so atm is because you're looking at the dynamic equilibrium of proces as if it were static
mircea_popescu: and even this 2 cc combustion engine will beat the shit out of your electrical 10 watt engine
mircea_popescu: making a 2 cc combustion engine is more expensive than 1/50 of making a 1000 cc one.
mircea_popescu: look, a combustion engine works from about half liter to about five. that's what it does.
mircea_popescu: if you look at the relative size of a plane when it moves from two to four it's abundantly clear what the sweetspot is like
mircea_popescu: decimation yes but there's a reason they have bipropellers and quad propellers, rather than thousandprops
mircea_popescu: some very simple math : cheapo chinese copter toy = $100. cessna, $100k. cessna powerplant = 100kW. chinese copter toy = 10W
mircea_popescu: what was to recognise/promote ? guy was iirc a military officer with interests in mechanics.
mircea_popescu: decimation he was born either just before or jsut after revolution
mircea_popescu: the golden standard (carnot cycle) is too big generally, rather than too small.
mircea_popescu: the problem is tho : the electric machines suck specifically for being electric. this isn't fixed by assembling more of them.
mircea_popescu: seems exactly the sort of thing to get freak compounding nonsense in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a simple exercise : given each element applies a force F on a random vector, calculate the shear force - probability function for a string of 100 such.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's also much harder than it sounds, because of all sorts of scale effwects
mircea_popescu: three hours with the fucking ram because apparently no fucking blacksmith existed anymore.
mircea_popescu: at the time, the united states was like, a world leader.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.brendafdez.-1:99c85240d655d8874bfc63e85c4d96eab4222b144bd7b518ea6a0ffbd3a9fac7
mircea_popescu: !rate brendafdez -1 Highly intelligent and utterly self-destructive. Will stick around for as long as the former appears to mask the latter.
mircea_popescu: !rate brendafdez Highly intelligent and utterly self-destructive. Will stick around for as long as the former appears to mask the latter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think that's so bad, really. let that everybody hack on them
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski it's not clear to me facebook is a "technology". if every tripod/myspace clone with an advertising budget were a technology then you should probably avoid tap water.
mircea_popescu: jurov stands to reason that if one wants to run a devel pogo they'd run the devel pogo rather than the cement pogo ? or am i missing something ?
mircea_popescu: that he then accidentally forgot to either softlaunch here or defend afterwards ?
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> havelel is manually processing withdrawals << FIRST EVER!
mircea_popescu: ironically enough, the usms scammer thing which is how i even got started also doesn't seem to have made it in.
mircea_popescu: dude if i was going to put everything in i'd be there for a week.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> afaik colour laser was never well-regarded by artistic types << not even on wood.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes in the system they live in, this is a crime.
mircea_popescu: because no, i won't be impressed or satisfied with a coupla muppet heads cracked open.
mircea_popescu: especially as he conspired with others to do so, who idem 20 to life.
mircea_popescu: he knew, lied to the judge - which is enough for disbarment, and broke half the laws in the book, which is enough for 20 to life.
mircea_popescu: it's not like the guy in charge didn't KNOW what was happening.