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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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he could have been lord curzon II, or else he could have been the Russian Lafayette.
mircea_popescu: is well... laughable. good luck wioth that, you only have one life and when that's finished there you go.
mircea_popescu: charlie going "i am willing to work with planes as long as either the light stays on or x or y"
mircea_popescu: and to "fuck you charlie, read or don't read but the light stays out"
mircea_popescu: it came about to "fuck you louise, go in the air shelter and sit there"
mircea_popescu: the plane CHANGED their life. it didn't come about to make 1900 a more-1800-than-1800.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, by 1950 the vast majority of the utility of planes was dropping bombs on people's heads.
mircea_popescu: the generalexpectation being, that it will meld into people's lives as they are, making them more so.
mircea_popescu: when the airplane came about, everyone hailed it as a "great civilizing factor"
mircea_popescu: well, let me change this from something we don't know to something we do know.
mircea_popescu: italians, as their states were disintegrating, called this spezzatura
mircea_popescu: ANYONE Could be an actual star/paratrooper/president if they actually tried.
mircea_popescu: no, you imagine specifically that you aren't, and that this is specifically why it matters.
mircea_popescu: game much more serious, because not being the work self, it actually therefore must be... THE REAL ME
mircea_popescu: by any one of the 0.05 people present on the same square mile
mircea_popescu: a slightly pudgy 37 yo woman in iowa is not slinking towards her car in a parking lot among crickets because she is going to get raped
mircea_popescu: your average soviet bureaucrat would avoid committing to paper as much as 1+1=2 , if he could get away with it. and sensibly so, because... you never know.
mircea_popescu: they know enough to steer away from those places where they can most easily be caught being stupid.
mircea_popescu: programmers are, by and large, social sciences rejects.
mircea_popescu: it's not "a technology", specifically in that it's not made to serve man.
mircea_popescu: adlai i think pretty much the entirety of the problem stems from your outright bizarre expectation that bitcoin will somehow suit you. the correct approach is exactly the opposite : change yourself to suit exactly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: also, this is all positive testing. what you want is negative testing. entirely different beasts.
mircea_popescu: a) it's not "spit in cup" and b) it still doesn't really work.
mircea_popescu: and mucosal transudate, which possess increased levels of IgG relative to saliva"
mircea_popescu: the choice of screening assays employed. For this reason, investigators have developed specialized collection devices that enhance the level of antibodies, particularly IgG, in oral specimens, ensure sufficient specimen volume, and include reagents to prevent microbial growth and proteolytic breakdown of antibodies. In general, this has been accomplished by collecting oral fluids enriched in gingival crevicular fluid
mircea_popescu: "This is due, in part, to variations in the type and volume of oral sample collected, how the sample is handled prior to testing, the concentration of immunoglobulin (Ig) G present, and if testing methods have been modified to accommodate the use of oral fluids. In early studies that reported poor sensitivity, whole saliva was used and there was little consideration for the volume and condition of the sample needed and
mircea_popescu: logically, the antibodies are not often found where the virus is not often found. the human machine is still a machine, trying to be economical if possible.