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mircea_popescu: and in
the bad news department, even handgun fire will cut
through six inches of brick. a proper assault rifle with AP round will do what,
two walls and a sheet of steel.
mircea_popescu: anyway -
the numbers aren't exact ; but
the principle is inescapable.
the more you insulate
the more you pay
to dissipate.
mircea_popescu: you're basically operating with 50 extra
transformers for no reason whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: tomorrow, you build a six inch brick encasement.
the extra heat load due
to
the added insulation is, say, 50 MW.
mircea_popescu: take
the matter in
the following
terms :
today you have 10k
transformers, doing stepping of 1TW each for a loss of 1MW each.
these 10 GJ are being pumped into
the atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: it's like a power of 2.5 or some shit
to your disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: doesn't scale worth a shit either. spend 10k
to encase it in metal shell, gunman spends $20 extra for his bullet, you're back
to leaking. spend 1mn
to encase
the shell in brick, gunman spends $500 extra on ordnance you're back
to leaking.
mircea_popescu: stuff like "domestic
tranquility", "high density" and "handheld power
tools" - pick exactly
two.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for
this and many other reasons "civilisation" is a self limiting disease.
mircea_popescu: it's an engineering nightmare,
the gunfire proof hv
transformer. much like
the helisubmarine.
mircea_popescu: brick won't do much. all guy has
to do is fire a grenade first.
mircea_popescu: in any case
there's jack shit
they can do, "physical security" my foot.
the radiators are big by necessity, a hole anywhere counts as a score as much as any other hole anywhere, dude could
take
them out with a decent scoped rifle from a mile away
mircea_popescu: i suppose as we speak
the idiots with
the return-fire
thingee are pitching utility comps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. hard
to do performant high voltage
transformers without coolant ; hard
to do coolant under gunfire
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
then for another
thing,
the mechanism. it's so neatly stupid, with its strict content-and-label disparity, like a retarded kid
trying
to invent "his own" geography, calling all
the items in common geography by different names and
that's it. << Just like Elliot!!!
mircea_popescu: the procedure doesn't evoke
thinking, or even aware subjects.
mircea_popescu: then for another
thing,
the mechanism. it's so neatly stupid, with its strict content-and-label disparity, like a retarded kid
trying
to invent "his own" geography, calling all
the items in common geography by different names and
that's it.
mircea_popescu: for one
thing, all
their inept rags
try
to paint russia as a "local power at best", "gdp" of italy bla bla. how,
then, is
this magical
thing possible where
they decide who wins
the fucking election ? obviously
the libtard has a reputation for dealing well with cognitive dissonance, but
that
they'd prefer
this nonsense
to actually naming
the rapist makes you
think
they liked
the
tiny, slanted cock.
mircea_popescu: the libtards are also evidently aware.
that
they prefer
to
then clothe
this awareness in
the ridiculous "trump works for russia" rhetoric is so so fucking
telling in so many ways.
mircea_popescu: speaking of duterte : it is quite evident what sort of
trumpian "strong leader" china prefers
to run its barbaric neighbours.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: somehow i
tohught he was
there for a while, but he was just mayor
BingoBoingo: Eh, came over a few months ago is still
teenaged.
mircea_popescu: i suppose also possible. but i was guessing pete_dushenski fucks
teenaged nanny not you know, 49+
BingoBoingo: Why can't she hate
the previous guy instead?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i expect she hates him which is how she got
to be a nanny in canada in
the first place. "he gets in way of unipolar us world!!" in alt-statement.
☟︎ pete_dushenski will ask his flipp nanny what she
thinks of him for further perspective.
pete_dushenski: pretty lulzy actually.
this duterte fella is growing on me.
pete_dushenski: so basically usa drags Benigno Aquino III by
the nose
to
the united nations, gets inevitable anti-china ruling, duterte comes in and gives Scarborough Shoal
to china anyways, much libtard us media flailing about how duterte 'just doesn't understand how
the us-centric-unipolar world works'
pete_dushenski:
http://archive.is/UTpV0 << "In 2013
the Philippines opened a case under UNCLOS against China. In a ruling handed down on July 12, a
tribunal ruled in favor of
the Philippines and rejected China’s sweeping claims, invalidating
the nine-dash line. Filipinos celebrated—but by
that
time Duterte was in power.
pete_dushenski: aggressively at sea." << it's all
the flip's fault you see!
pete_dushenski: "Some have called Beijing’s strategy in
the South China Sea “salami slicing,” or
taking many small, incremental actions, none of which is on its own dramatic enough
to provoke a response, but
that over
time lead
to a strategic advantage. Scarborough Shoal was one of
the larger slices it’s
taken in recent years.
Thanks
to Duterte, it looks set
to get away with it—and
to be rewarded for acting
rarepepeforever: I'll be back in a few days after I make
the card and get it certified.
Then you can have 333 if you wish.
rarepepeforever: I mean who buys a pizza card for 5,000,000 (was worth $200 at
the
time) simply because I put
that it is worth 10,000,000 on
the card :)
rarepepeforever: It just so happens
that
these people are crazy enough
to pay for
these
things.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: 1.5mn is also what
thiel ~announced~
to primary campaign. if he's really backing
trump he'll also donate multiples of
that via superpac.
mircea_popescu: so
then you just make cards ? and
they approve
them or something ?
rarepepeforever: "5) No NSFW content please.
Trying
to be keep it light for now. (dont get upset if you are declined)"
pete_dushenski would select canonical egyptian horse pic for mircea_popescu's
trading card
mircea_popescu: well alright, so what do i enter into it, you're
the creative pick whichever photo works
rarepepeforever: do you have a preferred photo? i'm happy
to work on
the card and send you 1/3 of
the supply
mircea_popescu: ok so basically you make
trading cards which you
then put on some colored coins
thing and people can buy. anyone playing
the game ? is
there like a
tournament or anything ?
mircea_popescu: what sense does it make
to have "gini coeficients" for individual data in a series ? gini coeficient is calculated over
the entire series neh ?
mircea_popescu: rarepepeforever what is
this
thing ? like a
trading card game ?
pete_dushenski: all
these years i'd mistaken
tyga for 'lil chuckee' on 'ym salute'.
turns out i can't name a single
tyga
track after all. such impact.
rarepepeforever: Just wanted your opinion on what photo you would prefer for
the rarepep card
pete_dushenski: tyga basically stands out for being
the
tall skinny childish looking one and not a whole lot else besides
a111: Logged on 2016-10-15 18:27 mircea_popescu: in other shock-lulz from
the other side :
there's a douche calls himself "tyga", who being black and vapid is evidently "a rapper". while going out with some underage runt in
the kardashian litter, he also had a child with a stripper with
the innovative and revolutionary name of "blac chyna" ; who meanwhile dumped him and is going with some dude named rob kardashian, who also impregnated her. so in a decade or so,
the best re
mats: whats with
the air quotes
mircea_popescu: "wtf, someone read
trilema while riding a fuck machine???" "ah no,
that's an ancient pda platform. from like 1996."
jhvh1: BingoBoingo:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !~later
tell
thestringpuller If you really want a chance
to do some work, you could do a breakout Xtend on
the whole Chinese RMB situation
BingoBoingo: The latest Xtend is published and closed.
There is always next Xtend
mircea_popescu: somehow
this "some men don't need
to ask"
thing really gets
the libtards all
twisted up inside.
BingoBoingo: Trump-Clinton would of course simply declare
the
two spectral lines he was left with were
the BEST COLORS and he has no need for
those other loser colors!
BingoBoingo: Anyways if
there's ever a candidate for
taking away all colors but 2, its Rodham-Clinton
mircea_popescu: trump hit clinton where it hurt huh.
the odds of white menopausal female with sham marriage and pretensions
to social success not being addicted are indeed pretty slim.