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mircea_popescu: i so loathe it when people try to serve a solid point by pious fraud.
mircea_popescu: "Also he possessed a wife and child. This, too, was a great innovation."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how do i do it lol. she's on my payroll and keeps things organised for my convenience ?
mircea_popescu: course these days due to automation, crews are kinda obsolete in both aviation and submersion roles.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck do you think can put up with constantly rubbing against other dudes ?
mircea_popescu: it's not just "an improvement". it's cultural revolution huge, like the automobile.
mircea_popescu: right ? turning a simple one way consumer into an actual integrated cycle is huge.
mircea_popescu: (i obviously fucked up my digit breaks, but i think the idea carries anyway ?)
mircea_popescu: this is roughly speaking 3 to 5x the efficiency your competition gets.
mircea_popescu: your costs ? .18 + .3 = ~.5 MJ to keep a 1MW circuit going perpetually.
mircea_popescu: this water has another .7MJ added by a nuclear power plant, turns to steam, powers a turbine, putting out 1MW of electricity which restarts the cycle.
mircea_popescu: 1MW is used to generate hashing power. this means it turns into 9.999 MJ of heat. This heat is extracted, by compressor using 180kJ, and 6MJ of it are used to preheat some water.
mircea_popescu: well, why not ? let me run a quick model for you here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that it was trying to administer the lands that ruined them. not conquering them in the first place.
mircea_popescu: it is not true that money and wealth is "wrong" or "corrupts", as the fucking protestants would have you believe. it is not true that appetite or expansion are evil, as the puritans would hae you believe.
mircea_popescu: dermined the basis of social stability, by substituting the bonds established by “contract” for those dependent on “status” as a basis for social order." are little more than present nonsense anachronised.
mircea_popescu: "The resultant society, however, was still reasonably stable and probably would have lasted a very long time if it had not been for Rome’s expansionist policies, which led to the establishment of the Empire." << this notion, that it was "expansionism" that broke rome's back, together with the previous "Its power was not based on hereditary status but much more on wealth. Such a change in itself must have seriously un
mircea_popescu: that indeed preheating water with the extracted heat would boost efficiency enormously.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it finally danwed on me after seeing that comment on the humble proposal to miners
mircea_popescu: the fact that chip manufacturers are mostly not selling to individuals anymore, and the fact that mining is moving towards meaningless "cloud" derivatives is some point of concern.
mircea_popescu: a well, sure, plenty of scams. those are of little consequence.
mircea_popescu: yes, except now pushed by the more corrupt of the mining gear manufacturers.
mircea_popescu: cazalla just between you and me, this bullshit "cloud mining" is a step away from pool mining in the utterly wrong direction.
mircea_popescu: There is the moral of all human tales '(tis but the same rehearsal of the past) : first Freedom, and then Glory when that fails. Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last. For History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagined the way this works is, an actual provider somewhere gets orders from random derps on whatever forum
mircea_popescu: no, but if you only can afford 10 hours a week, what do you do ?
mircea_popescu: decimation well, prolly trying to make the most out of his budget.
mircea_popescu: well, if you can't see it, send me your ip and you too can be whitelisted!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so is this qntra down thing actually ? cuz i still see it...
mircea_popescu: i suppose one could put their bed on a gravimeter, the evaluate the fucking quality
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> what, you don't have your duets locked down? << can you explain this to the innocent ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: some do. google bot runs JS. << last i heard it was buggy as hell
mircea_popescu: i don't share the power rangers' suspicions of Werner Koch.
mircea_popescu: it could be one of those annoying chicks trying to impede sexual congress with their "friends" at parties ?
mircea_popescu: (a cockapede, being, of course, a creature walking on its cocks)
mircea_popescu: your pauses are pregnant like a thousand cockapedes fucked them raw.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03:you have potential for the stage my man << he has a point, you know.
mircea_popescu: so bookshop owner also had a mechanic shop and the two were next to each other but the later was in argentina ?
mircea_popescu: dja know how you'd distinguish the brothel and the campus housing in Krivoy Rog ?
mircea_popescu: you know the sort of blowjobs you'd get in moscow for a pair of jeans, cca 1993 ?
mircea_popescu: dude, i expect the world out of 100 years of communism.
mircea_popescu: they can't cook, they can't fuck and they think they somehow matter.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i still don't know why anyone in his right mind would go to that stinky, crowded, desperate shitstain of an island.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada me coming here, "where are you going to stay ?" "no idea" "you know i have to put something in the machine ?" "recomend a good hotel ?" "x" "wut ?" "X!" "write it down wouldja" guy gives me a postit. "ok, so that's where i'll be staying".
mircea_popescu: this trend where us folk are charged to leave their ghetto (pioneered by argentina, of all places) is going to only grow.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada which is why it'd be the perfect argument for divine comedy.
mircea_popescu: and it turns out it's a ... tungsten rock, with a few milimeters of gold on top
mircea_popescu: the lulz of all time, of course, is if someone finds a ten or fifty cubic kilometer solid gold meteorite in the ice sheet, however deep
mircea_popescu: anyway, meteorites are mostly iron-nickel, much like the eart hand everying else in the solid range
mircea_popescu: a pure gold meteorite is about as likely as a prostitute with a heart of gold