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mircea_popescu: anyway, pointless stock. if you can use stocked stuff just get a carbine or something.
mircea_popescu: by the time you're shooting this it supposedly no longer matters.
mircea_popescu: it is just about at the tolerance level of a physically elite man.
mircea_popescu: but the ap variant cuts through any practical armor, and generally can be used against lightly armored aircraft as well.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the thing is just on the margin : the common "action express" .5 round is generally stopped by a level 3 and always by a level 4 vest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the bmg is a machine gun round not a pistol round
mircea_popescu: apparently the de .5 ap, explosive, incendiary etc rounds are secret on internet.en ?
mircea_popescu: usg survival plan once shtf ? "well...we got the largest stores of ammo of anyone...so..."
mircea_popescu: as in, they are actually making rounds the future currency ?
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone put together the "usg will target ammunition rather than small arms" with the "various agencies bought and stored millions of rounds at the beginning of this decade" to come to a "usg will ban ammunition period" thing yet ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, thisd would make sense, with some shitty alt.
mircea_popescu: mike_c anyway, the demographic that supposedly "doesn'ty exist" and "doesn't matter" and "never wins elections" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: (in fact it's mostly white with more asian than "normal", which considering the normal is gawker-and-wikipedia dumbternets... )
mircea_popescu: mike_c politically active, politically unafilliated, filthy rich, mostly azn, some caucasian.
mircea_popescu: the demographics of qntra readership as depicted by quantcast never cease to amaze me.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo that epicscale debacle prolly qntrable.
mircea_popescu: right. the tlp described phenomenon of "oh, this class of medicine is now generic ? guess what, on a review of the data available it turns out it wasn't effective anyway, so we're using Y now instead".
mircea_popescu: "O, you're now advanced enough where you could start some light industry ? fu!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, to imagine the "ban smoking" thing is an isolated incident is naive. no, there's a shitton of these underway, continuously, and generally unreported.
mircea_popescu: and new cars also don't really come with lead batteries.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't be so sure you'll get permits for new development in the us, eithert.
mircea_popescu: then they run for 4 years and have to replace the batteries, and run for another 2 and there's a lightning strike and have to replace them again. tru story.
mircea_popescu: "do you have a basementfull of nife ?" "o yeah! shit rocks" vs "say wut ?"
mircea_popescu: some of the cleverer dcs use them bnecause they're so very tolerant. which makes it the best heuristic to evaluate the operational wisdom of any dc.
mircea_popescu: people generally went for the "cheaper" solutions that rarely last 5 years
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc decade old data, it cost about 2.5-3x as much but obviously you never had to replace anything.
mircea_popescu: cazalla hardest thing for a fraudster is to keep the story straight.
mircea_popescu: and the human civilisation is organised around the implicit currency of "Stored joules"
mircea_popescu: you know, i'd like to read a sf novel which explores a future where technology has re-arranged deep magma of earth into a humongo battery
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not to mention the earth is about 80% nickel and iron by mass.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, S.CARS would be pretty cool. a company that a) aspires atmospheric H2, b) fuses it into Li c) which it uses to make car batteries while d) the energy so produced it uses to make the cars and fill them up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "if you're gonna fuck, might as well make the chick you're fucking in the same go" ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla anyway, practically, the peak oil thing is a lot less interesting now that electric cars have been demonstrated than 20 years ago. (dunno if you know, but this has been a fringe theory for > 50, almost 100 years by now)
mircea_popescu: you can't run out of carbon, ie, the element. but you can run out of, say, sugar. venus is a fine example.
mircea_popescu: but once the saudi flood is done, imo that's it, oil will only ever be expensive.
mircea_popescu: for that matter... it turns out there's not enough rare earths on earth to make an ipad for each person alive.
mircea_popescu: whetrher you care or not - entirely different discussion.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it is elementary that if you keep taking out of a sack and never adding, eventually you run out.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.airgapped.1:9fdc995fb92b89f46ae90459ad60e2b6c87f4627292744d93d9e0c7c8f3f0be7
mircea_popescu: so then it's halfa minute. yeah, see the link for commands.
mircea_popescu: if you were in gribble pre 2015, you were imported. otherwise, gotta reg your key with assbot.
mircea_popescu: airgapped you should prolly get in the wot while at it.
mircea_popescu: the pi is currently being worked on as a first example of a fully fits in head machine.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron more a case of "there's all these people who got pis because excitement, now have nothing to use them for", i thought,
mircea_popescu: i don't recall why we didn't like the pi for this purpoise, but it's in teh logs.
mircea_popescu: if you fill in with something other than 10k or with nothing at all it works.