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mircea_popescu: and don't wait for the boards to show up to put the 2nd job order in, either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so tell them that you want them to rush the 2nd joib as much as humanly possible and fly it over.
mircea_popescu: so we are small and they are tinier still and the world's immense.
mircea_popescu: nor are the billions being spent his own personal pocket money he could buy icecream with otherwise.
mircea_popescu: the us congress does not particularly think loyd austin of the army is very smart,
mircea_popescu: but you don't need that. you merely need to be deemed by a major capital allocator worthy of the allocation.
mircea_popescu: it's not a simple matter of money, as money's not invariant over the cases we discuss.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the stair of no return, once you left you can't walk back
mircea_popescu: no, i know. the problem with gedanken experiments is that they necessarily won't fit the reality
mircea_popescu: if you're in the 1% that did then as it does now, the fact that there's a further aspirational 19% added to the pot does not help you
mircea_popescu: "it takes us a second to do things that took a lifetime before - and they come with the guarantee of being something else entirely!"
mircea_popescu: as a result... a month later alf does not have his peas.
mircea_popescu: as the work works now, software makes everything much easier and faster. errors especially.
mircea_popescu: if the world was working as it did before computers, ascii would have been one of the few people with pen and paper, and wrote a description to one of the few people who made what he needed, and by virtue of that fewness they'd have actually been friends. the letter took a week to get there, the work took a week to be done, and so a month later alf has his peas or w/e he's needing for alchemy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this factually true, that you had the wrong part in there for a while, then switched it out to the right part and ordered immediately ?
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, most public-facing diff futures seems to happen on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: they have that massive an infrastructure that they cache the application !?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! i wonder what the bug would have been
mircea_popescu: that's the traditional socioeconomic use for fillies in human societies.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because the morons think they can magic their own spew away when it turns embarrassing. << b-a logs will become the most interesting resource in not many years.
mircea_popescu: because they can't be wrong, or stupid, because they're smart and special.
mircea_popescu: without anyone ever saying they were wrong, or stupid.
mircea_popescu: it is incidentally the model upon which i see the most serene republic coming to an agreement with the obsolete "states" : bitcoiners are outside of lay jurisdiction, and to be judged by bitcoin court.
mircea_popescu: it was quickly limited to a "first offense only" thing
mircea_popescu: and as a side note, that's how probation came to be : originally clerics (ie, university students y compris) could claim eclesiastic jurisdiction before they lay court, and be taken before their rector to be judged there.
mircea_popescu: it exists so as to exclude the scum so people who can think can do so, and young people who could one day think can come there to be away from their idiot families, small towns and government.
mircea_popescu: an university is by definition dedicated to exclusiveness.
mircea_popescu: "hey, that's exactly what should NOT be a value of yours, core or no core"
mircea_popescu: such nonsense tho. "our police department remains comitted to our core values of donuts and shooting the nigger"
mircea_popescu: the university of maryland is a fraud. those can't be the core values of an university.
mircea_popescu: "The University of Maryland remains committed to our core values of respect for human dignity, diversity, and inclusiveness."
mircea_popescu: is this your ploy to make me invent thought typing for you ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, make mesh of two wires, so that on each hole you have at least one spot of wire at - potential and one spot at + potential. then the size of the hole and the intensity of the emission tell you how much potential you need in the cage.
mircea_popescu: hence passive. it is still a radiator in my theoretical view of things, because it COULD
mircea_popescu: chetty i guess so does all your dust plus the cats, huh
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's forget optical fibres for a second and consider this : on a standard keyboard, making a spoke portrude from each key so that from a width-long perspective each spoke is separated by any other is trivial mechanically. lighting one width and sticking a camera on the other width then resolves the problem,
mircea_popescu: make a sort of cyclotron in your living room, all electrons end up on the plate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was thinking btw, faraday cage is essentially a passive radiator element. what if made active ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but "shield the screen" vs "shield the screen and shield the keyboard"
mircea_popescu: who knew that ipad style on-screen kbds will actually have at least one advantage ?
mircea_popescu: but re-reading, you actually mean the mechanical keyboard pressing is the source
mircea_popescu: i was simply thinking a 2nd kbd with a rng tied to it closing circuits.