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asciilifeform: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/File:Physbitcoinkey.jpg
asciilifeform: try liquid CO2.
asciilifeform: the 'btc coin' is about as interesting as those cars they had in the 1890s, the ones with... reins.
asciilifeform: the whole thing is a 'conspicuous benevolence' circus, not actual politics.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: ceo buys a plane ticket and then whatever he likes.
asciilifeform: 'rare' is when you make 10 of something and they're the only such things on the planet
asciilifeform: if i want coldwallets in ampoules, i'll seal them myself
asciilifeform: i still don't get the appeal, maybe i'm just thick
asciilifeform: beautiful.
asciilifeform: i've never even seen these before, and this part was obvious
asciilifeform: (middle vs. sides)
asciilifeform: that last one - 'casascius' vs. 'casacius'
asciilifeform: *copy
asciilifeform: coping holo is 1980s tech
asciilifeform: this hologram business, why does anyone swallow it
asciilifeform: you could improve virtually any field, not only physics, with Extreme Muppet Removal Algorithm (TM)
asciilifeform: one fellow gets to make a triode, another, to measure speed of light to 1%, another...
asciilifeform: you can train a monkey, yes. but the problem is to be unexpected and picked from a hat, like a soviet oral exam
asciilifeform: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhk9eKOLzQ)
asciilifeform: sorta like an adult version of the 'MIT battery' test.
asciilifeform: if he fails, he goes to Kolyma instead of physics.
asciilifeform: he must, say, construct a (working) triode valve.
asciilifeform: lock candidate in a well-stocked lab, circa 1920.
asciilifeform: exam:
asciilifeform: i'm all for a little 'lustration' of physics as a field:
asciilifeform: *know* them as experts in mystifications."
asciilifeform: popularisation. I am a bit surprised that a faculty failed to
asciilifeform: french TV, with an act between science-fiction and scientific
asciilifeform: "Igor and Grishka Bogdanov are long-time TV stars on
asciilifeform: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/sci.physics/KOBNOKq9FvI/ZjV8jeT9-AkJ
asciilifeform: ... and power.
asciilifeform: make lambsy stuff his fingers in a mains socket. he'll learn hierarchy, truth...
asciilifeform: why remembered?
asciilifeform: aha the french
asciilifeform: or, wait...
asciilifeform: nope
asciilifeform: gas shop won't pour the LN2 in your clasped hands either.
asciilifeform: (visit local welding shop if you don't believe)
asciilifeform: contents cost a few $, container, a few hundy
asciilifeform: liquid nitrogen actually. this situation is abundantly true there.
asciilifeform: the 30.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i recall you mentioned that the user fee will be debited from dividends, when those appear
asciilifeform: i suppose i should listen here as well
asciilifeform: someone remembers!
asciilifeform: played that as a boy
asciilifeform: f-19!
asciilifeform: http://www.boattest.com/images-gallery/News/10000hp8.jpg
asciilifeform: pistons as wide as a man is tall
asciilifeform: 1) there can be >1 prop 2) you can get marine diesels, 100,000 horse.
asciilifeform: propulsion screw will readily eat the remainder.
asciilifeform: want bandwidth? tap a fiber...
asciilifeform: sea water cooling
asciilifeform: great place to do it, too
asciilifeform: to no one's great surprise.
asciilifeform: so yes, efficiency is not 100 %.
asciilifeform: "... the Los Angeles class submarines formed the backbone of the US SSN (attack) fleet, and 62 were built. They are 6900 dwt submerged, and have a 165 MW GE S6G reactor driving two 26 MW steam turbines."
asciilifeform: "The largest submarines are the 26,500 tonne (34,000 t submerged) Russian Typhoon-class, powered by twin 190 MWt PWR reactors..."
asciilifeform: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Non-Power-Nuclear-Applications/Transport/Nuclear-Powered-Ships/
asciilifeform: one source
asciilifeform: up to 500mw, i think
asciilifeform: USS Satoshi, atomic mining ship (free cooling!) ran aground and bent its dish.
asciilifeform: or they're changing a transformer at ft. meade.
asciilifeform: batch of boobietrapped asics quit?
asciilifeform: overall, crypto tastes best when used deliberately, by human trigger, rather than an invisible protocol layer.
asciilifeform: benkay: admittedly i only read the intro, but i see nothing about counter-MITM strategy.
asciilifeform: in other, more interesting news: http://rt.com/usa/littoral-pentagon-order-cut-735/
asciilifeform: and he spewed forth his placebo: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/ppd-28.pdf
asciilifeform: e.g. 'Virut'
asciilifeform: compiler diddler is a dime a dozen: any EXE-infector on winblows technically qualifies.
asciilifeform: damn, the day people actually ask questions i know the answers to, i miss it all.
asciilifeform: can't see how one might argue 'inhumane.' rather, the opposite.
asciilifeform: in fact someone in your town is probably paying right now
asciilifeform: what the hell, some people would pay to die of opiate overdose
asciilifeform: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2711/1/The%20answer%20lies%20in%20the%20sewers(lsero).pdf
asciilifeform: paging mircea_popescu!
asciilifeform: - As told to Associated Press correspondent Charles Foltz, 1936. (For those interested in going to the library for a fact-check, the quote can be found in Paul Preston, “The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939,” pp. 104-105 [Dorsey Press edition].)
asciilifeform: ontrol God intended us to have. Sewers are a luxury to be reserved for those who deserve them, the leaders of Spain, not the slave stock."
asciilifeform: workers’ quarters. Not content with the work of God, we thus interfere with His will. The result is that the slave stock increases. Had we no sewers in Madrid, Barcelona, and Bilbao, all these Red leaders would have died in their infancy instead of exciting the rabble and causing good Spanish blood to flow. When the war is over, we should destroy the sewers. The perfect birth control for Spain is the birth c
asciilifeform: "Sewers caused all our troubles. The masses of this country are not like your Americans, nor even like the British. They are slave stock. They are good for nothing but slaves and only when they are used as slaves are they happy. But we, the decent people, made the mistake of giving them modern housing in the cities where we have our factories. We put sewers in these cities, sewers which extend right down to the ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://bpravdarefugees.runboard.com/t203310
asciilifeform: misread as 'stealing as a service'
asciilifeform: until the stack of undrivered hardware widgets piled a little too high
asciilifeform: for me, it was years of freebsd
asciilifeform: every gentoo aficionado i've ever met was an 'expatriate' from *bsd.
asciilifeform: pankkake: same. but it sucks telling people 'i'll get nothing useful done for the next two days, have to fix xorg'
asciilifeform: pankkake: every once in a while, the gentoo dev people push out a turd that auto-breaks everything.
asciilifeform: i still use it, grudgingly and with grumbling, from the lack of an equivalent alternative.
asciilifeform: you could probably squeeze the silicone putty through an extruder.
asciilifeform: when i was buying castable silicone on 'amazon', the search results included a kit named 'clone-a-willy'
asciilifeform: laugh all you like, but this almost exists
asciilifeform: and the bitcoin source struck me as ugly and 'surely full of strange'
asciilifeform: i also tend to lazily read the source of things while they build (gentoo crackpots unite!)
asciilifeform: (bitcoin superficially resembled some of my own unpublished crackpottery, and the differences struck me as 'insecure')
asciilifeform: and spent a while looking for possible attacks.
asciilifeform: i threw that very same web-based miner on my site for a short spell.
asciilifeform: which reminded me of cuecat
asciilifeform: and somebody mentioned how he mooched from ad-based dial-ups back in the day
asciilifeform: diametric: a spammer wandered in, pushing 'ad-supported net access'
asciilifeform: a little like an 'eichmann museum of judaism'
asciilifeform: phun phact: the smithsonian museum has a 'lemelson gallery of invention hall of fame'