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mircea_popescu: decimation i kinda wonder why water circulating systems aren't used for cooling much.
mircea_popescu: six months or a year down the road, we can continue this conversation in a better position.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos i could, but so far i'm not particulrly inclined. the logs are in the topic, peruse at your leisure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, but then again i never had a power outage. if they happened, ups would work fine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and since it runs maybe five times a day for a quarter of an hour, battery's quite feasible.
mircea_popescu: decimation you sort-of need it for the pump, but it's not so much.
mircea_popescu: my house in timisoara, the heating system held about a ton of water in the pipes and radiative elements. took about an hour to cool a coupla degrees.
mircea_popescu: decimation i have nfi what that is ? but no, either keep a pilot going, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: whenever something happens, or doesn't happen, it starts or doesn't start here.
mircea_popescu: when it's decided gavin is of no further utility for bitcoin, it's decided here.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos mno. i mean, when it's decided that mtgox dies, it;s decided here.
mircea_popescu: decimation eu mostly heats on gas, these micro units that mostly don't need power. either because battery or ingenious.
mircea_popescu: otherwise i dunno what household can be run on 5kw (bottlenecked at 1.5ish)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, if it's all resistive charge it's useful.
mircea_popescu: decimation depending on the fridge. i think they make gen friendlier models now.
mircea_popescu: capacitive charge being what it is, the 2kw would serve for what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> those who don't, typically own a small (5-10kW) genset on wheels << i have no idea what this would do. suppose a 2kw air conditioner unit, or fridge, or even washing machine.
mircea_popescu: there you go, asciilifeform, re the orwellworm thread. he perfectly well knows what the problem is.
mircea_popescu: rk that he disapproves of that kind of conduct–on the contrary, there is a definite strain of sadism in him, over and above the brutality which a writer of that type has to have. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem t
mircea_popescu: "It is no use pretending that Kipling's view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. It is no use claiming, for instance, that when Kipling describes a British soldier beating a 'nigger' with a cleaning rod in order to get money out of him, he is acting merely as a reporter and does not necessarily approve what he describes. There is not the slightest sign anywhere in Kipling's wo
mircea_popescu: "Kipling is in the peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years. During five literary generations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there."
mircea_popescu: obviously a scavenger civilisation will hafta be built on top of the previous cities.
mircea_popescu: in fact argentina is about as close you can get to china without having to fuck azn looking women.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the thing is, argentina-chinese trade relations are about as close as us-canada
mircea_popescu: this is the important part here. not that "in principle could be had"
mircea_popescu: i mean order. not prepared. order. when you feel like.
mircea_popescu: mebbe i am confused as to how things actually work thar.
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow your street loses power, you can't simply ordered a truck without wheels dropped in front of your property. for various pseudolegal and regtulatory reasons that essentrialy reduce to
mircea_popescu: and to add to that, hearst & co were DEFINITELY pro hitler.
mircea_popescu: to go from there to fuhrerbunker in less than a decade... you need a real idiot for such a thing.
mircea_popescu: this is actually a fair analysis, i suspect. cca 1936, stalin was pro hitler, lord halifax was, undeclaratively, but essentially, pro hitler. everyone was pro hitler.
mircea_popescu: ardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist, was the obvious answer."
mircea_popescu: " In 1936 it was clear to everyone that if Britain would only help the Spanish Government, even to the extent of a few million pounds' worth of arms, Franco would collapse and German strategy would be severely dislocated. By that time one did not need to be a clairvoyant to foresee that war between Britain and Germany was coming; one could even foretell within a year or two when it would come. Yet in the most mean, cow
mircea_popescu: because these logs were INSUFFICIENT i swear. i leave for a full few hours and what do i get ? NOTHING
mircea_popescu: if the whole thing's out of power your problems are probably closer to finding enough ak47s rather than generators.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes perhaps you don't understand what "the town" means.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: kakobrekla: and, as shown here, 'opaque' plastic - isn't necessarily ideally opaque << actually, only metals are opaque properly.
mircea_popescu: actually you can get it on lease, and on quite excellent terms. with any luck, BY DAY.
mircea_popescu: however, the point is more along the lines of "solutions exist"
mircea_popescu: as you might imagine, it's more expensive to run than just use the grid.
mircea_popescu: well i dunno what teh topic really was cause i'm not so sure i said what it seems to be the case i said or something
mircea_popescu: it's pretty much the lowest "i did something positive for the world i live in" barrier they'll ever meet.
mircea_popescu: there are, however, bunches (i'm told) of people who would like to do something, but for reasons of barrier of entry, can not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it most certainly cannot be true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in. but quite likely true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in for 18 usd per. <<< it doesn't even reach that. the value of ME running pogos is minimal. there are N+k**p things i can do to halp bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: that i never ended up using because... there hasn't yet been a power outage.
mircea_popescu: or tell you about how on reports about "power outages" i had all sortos of arrangements in place, including the option to have a container generator installed (worth about 3mw)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i distinctly recall that machine tools are uncommonly difficult to obtain in ar, for example << do i need to show you pictures of the casa del transformador again ?
mircea_popescu: the great debate of "with what" is eagerly awaited. im even working to import two (2) popcorns for the occasion.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: my plaintive cries << it's not a bad plan i don't think.
mircea_popescu: i can sort-of read c++ and i comprehend computers, but jesus christ was it fighting against us.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: there are all of these things that make sense in the context of it, but... <<< i come fresh from a three hour session of discussing eulora game model with c people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'we've never heard of you' <<< i'll insure against that one, for cheap.
mircea_popescu: trinque: how many countries have to be fighting a war for the phrase "world war" to apply? <<< ww1 was instituted by gallup poll.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: better than refreshing a faucet << pretty much teh point.
mircea_popescu: "oh i hate shootin gelephants and the empire is too heavy ; oh how the latrines stink" is really not adequate for one over the age of about 15.
mircea_popescu: this "british socialist, tour of derpage in spain" thing is wormtalk.