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mircea_popescu: what the fuck, how many lux are needed to boil a mol of water ?
mircea_popescu: and missiles fail at an impressive rate for "no reason".
mircea_popescu: the only place where it'd matter would be if the part of wire with high mommentum was lighter than the parts surrounding it. this isn't going to happen.
mircea_popescu: jurov the weight has very little to do with oscillation.
mircea_popescu: the weight of the fiber doesn't really have much to do with it
mircea_popescu: artifexd that's excessive, but a cone works well to resolve this problem.
mircea_popescu: otherwise your harmonics problem simply reduces to the new limits
mircea_popescu: so no, making it resistent to harmonics by making it shittier just means it'll be shittier.
mircea_popescu: the first serious capitalist building was... a rope factory.
mircea_popescu: and so, for about a century, making better rope was more important for each country than making better ipads is today.
mircea_popescu: and since the ships use cannons, the larger ship always wins.
mircea_popescu: that longest length of rope valueestablishes the largest ship you can build, i nthe age of sail
mircea_popescu: it works like this : the quality of the rope (ie, its uniformity) establishes the longest length of rope that can be operated credibly
mircea_popescu: do you know what was the first industrial product, and the one thing that started the industrial revolution ?
mircea_popescu: artifexd this leads you to the problem of the rope. do you know the problem of the rope ?
mircea_popescu: so do the math. calculate the the maximum shear force that can occur in a taut fiber of arbitrary length ?
mircea_popescu: at any arbitrary point 100km worth of air can decide to sing traviata into your fiber and there's jack shit you can do about it.
mircea_popescu: when i was younger i used to fuck this young opera singer chick. she did this trick whereby she'd sing into a glas
mircea_popescu: jurov ever calculated the maximum shear force that can occur in a taut fiber of arbitrary length ?
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> i doubt he cares THAT much << i can't imagine either.
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> Does a gag order require denying such a gag order exists? << usually.
mircea_popescu: meaning any info you upload to them, such as bank acct numbers, id scans, etc, is now held by the usg and by all the hacker groups.
mircea_popescu: they're also insecure, and have been hacked repeatedly,
mircea_popescu: artifexd it's a real thing. coindesk dumps all its data daily.
mircea_popescu: "all 12 men to have walked on the moon were either eldest or only children"
mircea_popescu: kinda why regressive tax is actually the only way for national/polis stability. it acts as a de facto offer.
mircea_popescu: also known as the view that locations have to make you offers, rather than vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: principally due to the important benefits one derives from... rootless cosmopolitanism,
mircea_popescu: spanish/european jooz were the merchant class pretty much.
mircea_popescu: there are people you do not mess with, or else your head.
mircea_popescu: they did the same exact mistake, much higher scale : got all the gold, pestered the jews,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depending on what measure of wealth you use. but if you consider % of extant gold shipped to capitol, the us is way behind england, rome and pretty much every empire in between
mircea_popescu: buncha smartasses went wild coupla years ago, made coin*, base, desk, lab, what have you
mircea_popescu: fluffypony they're only different if you're into splitting hairs. otherwise, same people.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, the average us peon thinks oprah is one of the richest people in the history of the world,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, none of this matters in any actual sense.
mircea_popescu: the whatsapp had "users", airbnb is "a success", coindesk is being pumped by gigaom as "relevant" and coindesk has a lot of users and etc.
mircea_popescu: there's no argbument that the us-based vc-scammers are very good at what they do : faking numbers.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i guess after my extradition i can STILL make more than the average forum guy.