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mircea_popescu: the one item chem reaction speed / reaction front wave is most sensitive to, is dopings.
mircea_popescu: possibly the case ; in which case that'd be why no one tried.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, just gave an example. understand, sea is made of concrete if you're falling into it from high enough. your perception of mechanical material properties is bound to low impulse, but things are different at higher speeds.
mircea_popescu: it's not soft at the speed cntemplated. more importantly, i suspect it's not friable
mircea_popescu: anyway. prolly solid gold chamber better than solid steel. in any case this repeat-h/o explosion item is not either cheap or light
mircea_popescu: a major advantage of gunpowder is that it is strong ~but VERY SLOW~. in chemical reaction speed terms, the black powder item is an outlier of slowness.
mircea_popescu: may be just enough to fracture your chamber rather than propel your round. i never did teh maffs
mircea_popescu: this may be the very problem : very fast but weak wave.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's constraints. but anyway, it's not clear to me it wouldn't, so.
mircea_popescu: but it's unclear to me it'd produce the sort of bang one expects out of a hunting rifle say.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform something like an electric-h2/o2 super-soaker sized gun could perhaps be demonstrated.
mircea_popescu: Mocky yes, as far as information is concerned, photon unbeatable. as far as mass-interaction however, photon never ever gligible.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason ships don't try to swing at each other underwater like men do, or did, on ground ; just like there's a reason air-to-air missiles aren't propeller-propelled (while torpedoes aren't jet engined)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sometimes it's fun to consider what "revolutionary" items like this would make of the past. like say, submarine wars carried out with lengthy "swords", underwarer.
mircea_popescu: recall how the whole sintered magic was going to "change the world as you know it" ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is such a pleasant donjon over a vast field of "revolutionary!"
mircea_popescu: "polizei is wermacht that couldn't be taught aiming" or what.
mircea_popescu: same flatfile that had the toilet "operating system" lampoon and so on
mircea_popescu: "Martin Luther Cling was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull." yeah not altogether terrible.
mircea_popescu: "Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice they didn't ask for, a service for which he was eventually killed. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock." << not even bad (slightly corrected)
mircea_popescu: re that "bloopers" item, "The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies." << it seems rather suspicious to me that this exact item tends ot lead ro internet collections also. da fuck
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway esthlos i know it's hard but srsly, don't give it up, it's entertaining and perhaps marginally even useful. "Hence I'm changing my base organizational approach and will be prioritizing the log reading above Keccak and other projects, to move towards the desired number." pfff!!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "republic not using nato-based warheads means we can't turn them off! SECURITY THREAT!111"
mircea_popescu eagerly awaits the time "most advanced army in world" comes back "not defeated" from whatever shithole, but instead complaining that "the barbarians don't understand how the world works", "aren't used correctly '''advanced''' weaponry" etc
mircea_popescu: so lucky, the ustards, that they have a patriarch there at the ready to set the sun every time the sun sets and raise it again every time it raises again.
mircea_popescu: right, because when the us can't sell its useless shit in russia it's "russia embargo", and when us can't afford to buy russian shit it's "obama banned".
mircea_popescu: it's 20 years after that, after tmsr ended clinton's presidential hopes and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: it ain't 2000 anymore, when /b/ decided time's man of the year to be m00t.
mircea_popescu: and they gotta be "secret", specificalkly because it's rarely half a dozen attendance.
mircea_popescu: by now they've faked the faking to the point there's truly and overwhelmingly absolutely nothing there.
mircea_popescu: yes, but the true problem here is that restaurant is attempting to compete with online simulation of restaurant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more than very little is still useless here.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you understand this, right, ALL of the "mainstream" in pantsuit narrative is 100% fabricated astroturf. nobody ~actually buys~, actually subscrtibes, actually anything. vice has a readership of maybe 10 people in a good day.
mircea_popescu: nra is working the wrong end of the funnel, it's a whole lot easier to get visa to pretend like you got 10mn donated than to get 1mn derps to send you a tenner each
mircea_popescu: yes, but your question was in the format "how can car manufacturer compete with print shop printig pictures of cars". well... the OTHER people DO NOT actually get anyone to donate anything.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman you call them with space double parens " (("
mircea_popescu: and in this same vein, nra can't, but "black women code" can.
mircea_popescu: how about 100% of "donations" to, say, pantsuited hilarity campaign were in fact imaginary ?
mircea_popescu: should be fun to destructure the pantsuit style "platforms" anyway.
mircea_popescu: hey, at least there's social media and chick's rights, right ?
mircea_popescu: man much better at estimating the diff between 1st and 2nd mile than between 1000th and 1001th
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes in purely notional terms, the diff between a 10k btc tangibles line 0.01% valuable and a 10btc tangibles line 10% valuable is nil. but people have some optimal values so to speak.
mircea_popescu: a lot of what mod6 is stuck doing currently strikes me as exactly that, as the least constructive take (more constructively, it's training him in accounting and valuation fundamentals, which is not a waste at all).
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think it is only worth doing systematically if it can be done in such a way as to not require phd assembly line.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes purely for meeting people's expectations ; depreciation is the principal faucet out of the tangibles bucket, so you don't end up with massive tangibles that are greatly overstated in accounting terms.
mircea_popescu: of fucking course it's the substance and the liant holding the human world together.
mircea_popescu: but anyway ; much as in the case of "no mechanical trust", there's no such thing as an "automated" valuation. the value of things requires thought, at all interfaces, which is to say wheresoever the thing potentially changes hands, even if just mentally. these are just minute re-applications of ye olde "no possibility of meaning outside of structure of authority". of fucking course all authority is predicated on thought, and
mircea_popescu: just because it's short doesn't mean it's not great ; the item in question happens to be, specifically because in its shortness it manages to not contradict any of the principles needed by functional accounting while including nothing not needed.
mircea_popescu: the world would be a much better place should people actually do a whole lot more of it.
mircea_popescu: jurov that'd be what criticizing IS, lol. not that there's anything wrong with criticizing.
mircea_popescu: poor mod6 btw. he sounds like he's got himself well up to the ears.
mircea_popescu: and now back to actual topics, moron interest fades quickly.
mircea_popescu: which is precisely the problem, because "they want miami." is just a polite way of saying "however many bn cuntsquirts walk about, there's never bneen more than a million or two souls, and these schmucks don't got one."
mircea_popescu: "corporate" dun even begin to describe it. after i fucked that moron's ugly ass-face in every conceivable venue, he's actually "bought" freenode to try and impress ?
mircea_popescu: <milky25> Don't support freenode and their ICO scam, switch to a network that hasn't been co-opted by corporate interests. OFTC or efnet might be a good choice. Perhaps even
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