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mircea_popescu: "your broken linux computer could be fixed by installing windoze"
mircea_popescu: However, your Mac running OS X or PC running Linux that meet the hardware system requirements for Entropia Universe may also be able to run Microsoft Windows, the operating system needed to run the Entropia Universe client software.
mircea_popescu: The Entropia Universe client is designed to operate on Microsoft compatible PC:s running Microsoft Windows as an operating system. It is not designed to run natively under Mac OS X or Linux.
mircea_popescu: because they get most of their income from pretending those students doing boring shit are "gaining"
mircea_popescu: lol basically making macros for computer illiterate folk ?
mircea_popescu: i tell you, originally they thought the same of industrial robots.
mircea_popescu: tho the "mmo" idiots beat up in btc moved there, and it's prolly going to be the internet marketeer reservation
mircea_popescu: btc-e is pretty much the reason nobody takes alts seriously
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pretty much the pump and dump they're running
mircea_popescu: tbh the no-relay-fee is probably the grossest fundamental oversight in the design of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: consequently there's no way to outcompete dust txs, cause you don't pay a fee to be relayed
mircea_popescu: im not sure why they're not just letting the tx fee decide
mircea_popescu: not sure how he picked it but looks bellybutton sourced
mircea_popescu: can you acrtually fabricate silicon with resonance without having very specially made foundry silicon ?
mircea_popescu: " Solid printers can make crude unassembled plastic parts; nothing else. No electronics can be made in this way."
mircea_popescu: but the foregoing statements are both incorrect and misleading.
mircea_popescu: " If he just wanted to make a working gun out of a barrel and bolt, he could have done so with duct tape, modeling clay and superglue."
mircea_popescu: imagine a remote opperated batter of gun printers and robofirers
mircea_popescu: further, if my carbide solution actually works any, you could be making the guns as fast as you fire them for instance
mircea_popescu: as in, it's extremely unlikely you won't find a debrittleing additive
mircea_popescu: and brittleness doesn't sound undefeasible either. maybe you add some guar gum or some shit
mircea_popescu: before you make a TOW 6 barrel double rotating machine gun
mircea_popescu: so you will be able to ACTUALLY print a harder-than-steel barel witha good 3d printer
mircea_popescu: actually! here's a blueprint : i bet you can get a formulation of some sort of carbide, maybe even tungsten base, to dissolve in a solvent that evaporates at room temeprature
mircea_popescu: also, plenty of non-plasticizing composites may well work in the 3d printer model.
mircea_popescu: you can in fact produce polymers of any arbitrary hardness, however you define it.
mircea_popescu: either he has no idea what plastic is or he's just following some script.
mircea_popescu: he upper receiver of the AR-15 is legally the gun, and a plastic version would melt if it didn’t dissolve from mechanical stress the first time you fired it.
mircea_popescu: but locklin doesn't strike me as much better honestly.
mircea_popescu: you know i appreciate the sentiment of calling out business insider et al for their ignorance, which is patent and outrageous
mircea_popescu: "The AR is one of the few rifle designs where you could even think about using a lower receiver made out of plastic."
mircea_popescu: it may surprise you to find that inefficiency is a blessing not a failure.