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mircea_popescu: this will require MUCH more powerful sats, evidently, and a lot heavier navgear. but whatever, discussion was re possibility not feasibility.
mircea_popescu: you don't. here's a model :
asciilifeform: enemy can still fuck you by getting a genuine signal from your own sat, but one which your receiver ought not legitimately to be hearing ( or hearing in the given strength ) , conveying over a fiber, and retransmitting in your loc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well you can't "retransmit" at a time before transmission. so yes unidirectionalyl in time.
mircea_popescu: a yes, wouldn't work on current item.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it makes a number of historical points for me. "but how could mp have known" etc.
asciilifeform: ly fabricated event, and later verified as untrue via internal investigation. He then went behind his TAC’s back and, because he had a very good working relationship with his NG Group Commander, produced a memo directing his reclassification as an 18E. Despite all of these acts, he was not relieved, but was given a recycle into the 18E course. He would fail the SFPA and retest twice before being graduated.' << ahaha
asciilifeform: 'SPC Thomas was an 18B trainee. He was first caught attempting to bribe an instructor with beer, and then later had a panic attack during an AAR while in the 18B FTX. During his relief board counseling, he attempted to blackmail 18B cadre by telling them that if relieved and returned to his unit, he would have to annotate that he witnessed the instruction of secret/noforn course material to international students. This was a complete
asciilifeform: reminds of : ''I was such a pure and terrifying Aryan that they even put me in a special detachment. Its mission was to find out how the Jews always knew what the S.S. was going to do next There was a leak somewhere, and we were out to stop it' He looked bitter and affronted, remembering it, even though he had been that leak. 'Was the detachment successful in its mission?' I said. 'I'm happy to say,' said Arpad, 'that fourteen S.S. m ☟︎
asciilifeform: he levied was proven inaccurate or untrue. But as a student, he was given complete top cover and left unimpeded to continue creating havoc, and was not held accountable for the numerous integrity violations he committed. He graduated with his peers.' << win.
asciilifeform: 'o CPT Jimenez, currently in 7th Group, was the single source of several 4th Battalion investigations. He wrote anonymous emails, started IG complaints, or propagated rumors about virtually every single phase of the SFQC. His continual fabrications were verifiably false, and his numerous accusations resulted in several investigations that hampered operations for over a dozen cadre and battalion leadership. Literally every accusation
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is the ~only type of comment i historically get. it's a snoar.
BingoBoingo: "In the last 24 months, Commanders and/or Sergeants Major at the Group and SWCS level have systematically removed numerous fundamental SF standards, lowered and undermined the grading metrics for others, all while simultaneously ensuring that a gagged cadre population was expressly prohibited from holding students accountable for their academic, physical, and character performance."
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 02:17 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744358 <<< this is actually a remarkably effectual approach.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 02:57 mircea_popescu: it is also why methamphetamine is not actulaly militarily useful : it aggravates instead of balancing out a natural disadvantage.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 02:56 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744508 << the problem with amphetamine in ww1 (which is what that was), then confirmed in ww2, is that it is actually a disadvantageous tradeoff. the fundamental problem of mammals, which includes humans, is that yes they can charge, but they are ridiculously vulnerable after having charged. this has shaped the face of war, is the principal underlying engine of war, and so on. in ~general~ t
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 23:23 asciilifeform: ( also not sure how comparable is the psychology of krokodilism, which is a form of morphinism, to gabriel_laddeling. )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744554 << afaik it's mostly siberian subsistence hunters, ie a sorta chucka. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744518 << moar like a knight, i guess. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: works, so to speak, like a rocket tied to a formula 1 car. those items need more thrust like i need more nose ; they need more adherence is what they need, and rocket dun help that.
mircea_popescu: it is also why methamphetamine is not actulaly militarily useful : it aggravates instead of balancing out a natural disadvantage. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is why reserves are a thing, for instance.
mircea_popescu: he positive results from a successful charge do not come close to the potential negative results of your exhausted troop being attacked.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744508 << the problem with amphetamine in ww1 (which is what that was), then confirmed in ww2, is that it is actually a disadvantageous tradeoff. the fundamental problem of mammals, which includes humans, is that yes they can charge, but they are ridiculously vulnerable after having charged. this has shaped the face of war, is the principal underlying engine of war, and so on. in ~general~ t ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744495 << yes, it was a sarcastic reference to "they stole the stones right out of the empress' marrying diadem the same day the marriage took place". ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( tb method earlier is the one where you pierce and deflate a lung, naturally 1 at a time, to nuke the aerobe microbe. as a kid asciilifeform dug up his grandfather’s set from the war, thought it was diving gear )
mircea_popescu: the walls were not simply black, it fell off as a dust.
mircea_popescu: those chicks did 2-3 packs a day, each day, each one.
mircea_popescu: generally substance abuse in post soviet world would curl the contemporaneous mind. cluj tribunal, three levesl, maybe say 50k sq foot of floor space, a thousand or two (mostly women) working there had A TRUCK. i don't mean a van. i mean a semi.
asciilifeform: somehow did not grow up a morphinist, either of us
asciilifeform: obsolete or not, is iffy q in medicine, pneumothoracic method for tb is making a comeback
mircea_popescu: back in those days, you couldn't be a doctor if you couldn't make your own. just not possible.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 19:06 BingoBoingo has only met one "clean productivity mether" who tried the recovery thing. Bounced in/out and then allegedly a heated argument did in his cardiovascular system
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744393 << i think i knew hundreds. widely abused in post-soviet medical system, for instance ; at some point a whole surgical section was losing it at the same time, one step away from ending up discussed in the national security council. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:57 BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> but beyond that, I was applying to accelerators with this company because I don't want a real job << Sometime at a "real job" would be good for you. Work at BingoBoingo store, call it "field research" if that makes Brian in the head feel better. Show up, bust your ass, eat shit, THEN ask yourself "Why wasn't I working this hard for myself before?"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744358 <<< this is actually a remarkably effectual approach. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:33 trinque: what's the point of putting a company pitch in a cover letter for another job?
BingoBoingo: lol: "His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up. This afforded him the assurance of privacy. It allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him, according to two women who were sexually harassed by Lauer." http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/matt-lauer-accused-sexual-harassmen
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/11/29/unpopular-ideas-about-blockchains-by-sunny-aggarwal-and-nate-rush-adnotated/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Unpopular Ideas about Blockchains by Sunny Aggarwal and Nate Rush, adnotated.
TomServo: I was under the impression that using -connect $tsmr.node.ip -nolisten would be a faster sync, but seems a bit faster without.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:08 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> this is a ssd box, on very reasonable fiber, no less. << I am very glad/sad that asciilifeform's sync from wild experiments are concordant with my own
asciilifeform: ( also not sure how comparable is the psychology of krokodilism, which is a form of morphinism, to gabriel_laddeling. ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: btw there is a famous 1990s ru b00k on subj of gabriel_laddel, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-02-27#536165 . ( summary : at one time ephedrine was sold openly, in 1980s su , for asthmatics. and student culture of methism developed, folx would buy the feedstock, do the reaction in glass taken home from school/work ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i recommend to take a break and come back when you have theorem, or at least something new. and use some of your artificial stamina to make a blog, and write.
asciilifeform: trinque has a point, a byte in the l0gz is not cheap !
gabriel_laddel: some people learn about sex and go MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMME. Some people hear about sports and find it appeals to them. there is a wide variation in genetics & environments.
asciilifeform: i.e. is it possible that gabriel_laddel wanted a dope for theorems, but what there is on the market is there so that derps can http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744462 etc ☝︎
asciilifeform: do dope folx not ever bother to run through a column or wat
asciilifeform: for some reason i thought laevo-isomer has 0 effect on nervous system -- e.g. laevo-meth is sold in every pharmacy in usa, as a nasal decongestant
asciilifeform: and for a while usa.
gabriel_laddel: My interest, incidentally is what OTC d-amph looks like on societal level. The yanks had racemic amph, Erdos had that + ritilan. Japs & Germans had meth. Nobody has had a d-amph free-for-all afaict.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform do you have a book recommendation for use of amphetamines in ww2? I looked a few times and nothing caught my interest
asciilifeform: ( from a mircea_popescuine pov -- ended badly, had approx same amt of agency as typical crack whore )
asciilifeform: tho for a deposed emperor and quisling figurehead ( ceremonially crowned by invading jp ) he ended not so badly -- in communist nomenklatura when he finally died
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 15:07 mircea_popescu: also managed to misplace a 2ct diamond i used to wear in mah lapel... utter puyi operation i'm running over here.
gabriel_laddel: Well for one, awfully interesting comparison - to a chinaman!? Completely out of the blue (yellow?). That his eunuchs did anything at all continues to be surprising to me, thought I guess floggings are useful motivation when you've no sexual drive?
a111: Logged on 2014-08-25 03:08 asciilifeform: busy as a bee << funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems
asciilifeform: 'If you start to change a lightbulb, then spend seven hours deconstructing and re-constructing the elaborate Moroccan light fixture in the kitchen, rearranging the stained glass so that the colors point in the right directions, shining it up inside and out, running to the store for better bulbs, threading the cord so that it lands in an inconspicuous position, you've just tweaked. '
gabriel_laddel: he city, because I didn't see a soul four hours (maybe two, idk). Found a doorbell with arab lettering and rang it furiously. I hope it disturbed them something awful anddsfsdfsdfewdshdslkhfdslhlkjfdshdskjfhds AHEM. Wasn't thinking that at the time, but a terrorist attack & subsequent rebuild seems more likely than any other route to improved publi
gabriel_laddel: ome and a weekend nights end at like 11pm because my generation deserves holocaust). This involved dancing around all over the place, even going so far as to pull out my computer & code onehanded, balancing on one foot, bobbing like a maniac, with lightbulb affixed. Honest to god, I can't tell you if ANYONE even lives in the whole western half of t
gabriel_laddel: Example: had the thought -- ~ _someone, somewhere_ in this godforsakken sodom must have an imagination, and a curiosity to match it! So I took a light bulb, placed it above my head like a cartoon 'idea emoji' and walked all of SF many times over trying to elicit some sort of novel reaction from the fri night 'partygoers' (ED NOTE: sf is a nursing h
gabriel_laddel: st, strip you of giving a fuck and you're off.
gabriel_laddel: not a choice in the matter. A state of (Csikszentmihalyi) flow - forgetting to eat, drink, sitting in one position beyond any reasonable limit - we all do this when thinking anyways, but it can be interupted. When you remove the very notion of interruption what you're left with is tweaking, which is an awful lot like being enslaved, perfectly, by a
BingoBoingo: trinque: Maybe he hits bottom, finds a sponsor to guide him through steps, becomes useful?
trinque can walk a few blocks and watch bums get high at pleasure
gabriel_laddel: I have to move because people are coming into the room, but will drop an actual story with details here in a sec, or at least PM to you ascii
asciilifeform: 'William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was : “A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.” '
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> dun think it's very active orally ? << Could make a chewing gum or sublingual tablet
jhvh1: asciilifeform: Quote by Bertrand Russell: “William James describes a man who got ...: <https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/301370-william-james-describes-a-man-who-got-the-experience-from>; Secret of the Universe: A Strong Smell of Turpentine Prevails ...: <https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/31/turpentine-prevails/>; to spread over an area - synonyms and related words | Macmillan ...: (1 more message)
asciilifeform: !~google a smell of petrol pervades throughout
a111: 0 results for "a smell of petrol pervades throughout", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=a%20smell%20of%20petrol%20pervades%20throughout
asciilifeform: !#s a smell of petrol pervades throughout
BingoBoingo wonder what gabriel_laddel's objection to cocaine was, it's a natural botanical and reportedly fairly cheap compared to historically
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: taking performance dope, when you dun have any aim, is rather like swinging a hammer wildly around your room, where there are no nails to pound
asciilifeform: must be a californilandia thing
asciilifeform: lol never before heard of such a thing.
BingoBoingo: Tradition 3: The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Doesn't say for how long...
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> do i need to do some time in a dope den , to learn this ? << I have been suggested you visit an AA/NA meeting for some time to meet people
gabriel_laddel: Nono, just different. Fuck can't find the link -- but anyways, I had the idea that it'd be easier to hold a lightbulb over my head and head out on a Sat. night in sf than to network with people one by one
asciilifeform: do i need to do some time in a dope den , to learn this ?
asciilifeform: not knowing what is a 'scheming high' or 'tripping face'
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform d-amph is better in that it far less physical, doesn't cause oxidative stress, isn't as much of a "scheming" high and won't make you tweak to the point of tripping face.
asciilifeform: patron saint of intellectual dopers, paul erdos , took such small doses that a typical american would not even feel
BingoBoingo has only met one "clean productivity mether" who tried the recovery thing. Bounced in/out and then allegedly a heated argument did in his cardiovascular system ☟︎
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i did not know that the networks cross-pollinated but it makes a great deal of sense
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: lmt is a mether?
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: It is a form of withdrawal.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: no but let's work this out. gabriel_laddel generates an addr. pgps it to e.g. asciilifeform . who sends to it a coin. how does hitler find that 1) addr belongs to gabriel_laddel 2) where to find and rectothermally rebuke gabriel_laddel
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> BingoBoingo meth has no withdraw << It has a withdrawl syndrome. Not at all like opiates or alcohol. More subtle, treacherous thing.
gabriel_laddel: yo it'll sound like a bunch of excited / nervous engineering types discussing IP addresses, fake names & locations over lunch
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> but beyond that, I was applying to accelerators with this company because I don't want a real job << Sometime at a "real job" would be good for you. Work at BingoBoingo store, call it "field research" if that makes Brian in the head feel better. Show up, bust your ass, eat shit, THEN ask yourself "Why wasn't I working this hard for myself before?" ☟︎
asciilifeform: let's rewind a bit back to the last reich -- picture 'i dun wanna hold any diamonds, gold, until the nazis go away'
gabriel_laddel: Oh I think I'll hear fear / desperation in the voice of one of these government people while getting a coffee.
asciilifeform: i'm a connoisseur meself, would like to hear his ver.
asciilifeform: possibly gets flayed and regrown every week, like prometheus and his eagles, and spitting out privkeyz a bit in a month at a time
asciilifeform: ran a gox, wouldn't play ball, etc
gabriel_laddel: "yer not a man then!" OK ya, am total wage slave / bitch to someone willing to kill for it. fine by me
asciilifeform: 'stable' is a mirage, everybody dies of sumpthin.
trinque: yes, the splitting is also a speed user thing
ben_vulpes: b-but building a fortress and carving a domain of sovereignty out is antithetical to the digital nomad ideal, trinque !