405900+ entries in 0.166s
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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i understand agriculture correctly, the main virtue thereof is you can plant crops in your own back yard
mircea_popescu: some shetroll could implant christian-only eggs only to abort them 10 weeks in.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> then i got occupied with other stuff and its like that for like 2 years maybe more now << i blame marketing.
mircea_popescu: #bitcoin-assets, the liberal-hating trade chanel where people discuss their sexual orientation and substance history
mircea_popescu: i imagine they'd be pretty sore if the holes were reversed
mircea_popescu: but jurov, seriously : in a household of three women i fuck each maybe once or twice a week
mircea_popescu: actually the town here starting hireing local police and it was mostly chicks. on like, high heels and shit.
mircea_popescu: girl spells it with an o. his own fucking link spells it with an o