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mats: am not an expert by any means but
this air-metal stuff looks 'next gen'
mircea_popescu: im all for prosecuting
them AS IF
THEY WERE, it's right and proper.
mircea_popescu: which is
the
tell
tale sign of
the absence of such an elite.
mircea_popescu: and charged with anything but "failing
to respect
the elite"
decimation: you would be
tackled and arrested (by 'his' people)
mircea_popescu: if i go up
to obama and
take a leak on his shoes he's going
to say "that's inappropriate" isn't he.
decimation: somebody fills
the plum book, decides what
the ny
times prints, prints usd, etc
mircea_popescu: who exactly, outside of
that idiot mit kid, actually says "we are
the elite and move out of our way" ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno
that
the us has an elite. merely a perception of such a
thing does not cosntitute one.
decimation: the liberal elite are
trying
the hardest
to avert
their eyes from him
mircea_popescu: people like
that black dude in wc metro are actually helping.
mircea_popescu: now if
the us could just get over itself collectively and reach
the humility of chinese peasants cca 1970,
the us would be all ready
to be china
thirty years ago.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah. and
the impression i got, from
there an' everywhyere lese, is exactlly
this : neat execution, uninnovative.
assbot: Logged on 18-07-2015 02:10:35; decimation:
the main advantage
to workstations: ecc and raid
mircea_popescu: you can now get a 70kwh battery for cheaper
than in 1995.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, hes improved
the mass production part.
gernika: Incidentally, I had
the completely opposite impression
that
Tesla was catching on - having recently seen
Tesla recharging stations at a Holiday Inn in Winnemucca. Seems I should have weighted more heavily
the fact
that -- no one was using
them.
mircea_popescu: the more resources one
throws at a wrong problem,
the more
thoroughly reviled.
mircea_popescu: which incidentally, since you don't ask, is exactly how love and hate works in
this channel.
decimation: yeah is
there any evidence he has improved batteries or is even working on it?
assbot: Logged on 18-07-2015 02:07:12; mats: i'm cheering for
tesla
to somehow succeed, if musk improves batt
tech
thats a net win for mankind
decimation: or
they would just laser-cut
their way
through 'strong points'
assbot: Logged on 18-07-2015 02:03:20; decimation: if batteries were about 10x more energy density
they would be
the no-brainer solution
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes, electric car is a piece of shit submarine-airplane joint nonsense, specifically because
there is no battery equivalent of fuel.
assbot: Logged on 18-07-2015 02:02:37; asciilifeform: and
that's all you get in
this mega-car ?!
decimation: mircea_popescu: what else you expect, selling baubles
to idiots?
mircea_popescu: "including bigger batteries and a quicker acceleration mode, called "Ludicrous."
That option will
take
the car from zero
to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds. During
the hold music for
the online press conference,
the automaker played some of Ludacris' music"
mats: >Special note
to law-enforcement agents: ... We are not
talking about eliminating other
types of states. We love most states, especially yours! Also, "hash" is another
technical
term and has nothing
to do with cannabis.
trinque: "Special note
to law-enforcement agents" << sad
that
they felt
this needed
to be said
mircea_popescu: usians are going away. not
to be confused with actual
trends for actual people.
assbot: Logged on 18-07-2015 01:43:53; ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> in retrospect, his going
to war with
the dealers sunk his car business. << Beware
the
trade guilds << prole ownership of cars is going away. period.
decimation: really
there's no 'running out' of any element - just 'no longer cheap'
decimation: no I meant
the rare earths, helium is a problem
decimation: actually
they have plenty of
them in
the ground, it's just not very profitablel
to mine/process
mircea_popescu: yes.
the lightbulb scandal is
the one
thing
to hang people for.
mircea_popescu: imo
that's
the
top of
the list of
that stupid shit, and it's not even usian
mircea_popescu: or
the incredibly colonialist "now
that
the
third world can produce lightbulbs, it's
time
to 'move on'
to a
toxic 'alternative'
that looks god awful and will poison
the immediate environment with mercury"
decimation: or
the phasing out of proper refrigerant
mircea_popescu: well, what people do and what people mean
to do may diverge, but nobody cares about
the latter.
the fellow who wrote it necessarily agrees, in
the writing.
mircea_popescu: it has a little leg
to stand on, at least. inasmuch as usg claims a mandate
to regulate everything, every failure of regulation is on
their head.
mod6: next
they'll sell us a
toothbrush
that doubles as a jackhammer. won't need
to prop up
the dental insurance companies any more, no one will have any more cavity laden
teeth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i gather
the proposition is
that
these aren't different.
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: do you know where
this file resides? 6. Compile Eulora Add
the following line
to ~/.bash_profile:
decimation: I
thought
the whole point of spam was
to force you onto gmail
ben_vulpes: i suspect
that fitbit is paying
to get
through
their filter.
ben_vulpes: decimation:
they are now refusing
to mark spam for me.
mod6: <+ben_vulpes> decimation: and security! << at lesat you can easily rip out
the shit you don't want. as opposed
to debate weather or not
to get rid of
the screen.
ben_vulpes: you do not get
the F1 engine power when derping around like armadillo.
decimation: the main advantage
to workstations: ecc and raid
☟︎ ben_vulpes: laptops are going
to become more and more impenetrable boxes of
turdware.
ben_vulpes: i'm growing fond of mp and alf's attitudes
towards workstations.
decimation: or double
the power for
the processor at
the same lifetime
mats: well,
this is
thinking small, but i'd like a 'smartphone'
that runs longer
than 24h
ben_vulpes: the cell phone was a bad branch on
the
tech
tree.
mod6: cell phones
that last longer
than 8 hours.
decimation: ben_vulpes:
there are loads of applications
that become possible if you have portable high energy source