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mircea_popescu: no, i get it, there's this soy lobby. nevertheless...
nubbins`: (information provided by the United Soybean Board!)
nubbins`: ozone-depleting chemical (ODC), hazardous air pollutant or volatile organic compound. Methyl soyate�s slow evaporation time can be seen as a disadvantage, but in certain applications methyl soyate outperforms other traditional solvents when longer settle times are needed.
nubbins`: Methyl soyate has a high solvency with a Kauri-butanol (KB) value of 58 and has low toxicity when compared to other common substances. In comparison to most commercial solvents, methyl soyate is safer to handle and store due to its high flashpoint of approximately 360 degrees Fahrenheit and high boiling point of well over 400 degrees Fahrenheit. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not list methyl soyate as an
mircea_popescu: whether this thing degrades or accumulates...
mircea_popescu: nubbins` now this all depends. lye and bleach ARE biodegradable.
mircea_popescu: PeterL i dunno, but the parallels with 1935 england are striking.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu apparently way, way less toxic than traditional haze removers: lye and bleach
PeterL: US verison of "austerity" is to cut the most useful platforms, trying to scare politicians into giving more funding?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i thought that thing was toxic.
mircea_popescu: but that the germans are beating them over artillery ?! cmon.
mircea_popescu: that the russians are beating them at air tech is painful but perhaps unavoidable - kennedy's spur failed to outlast kennedy.
mircea_popescu: speaking of heavy howitzers : a move reminescent of the dumping of the warthog is the army cancellation of crusader paladin upgrade / any nlsc weapon at all. leaving the paladin, a 1960s make, as the pretty much only us howitzer for the rest of history.
PeterL: yesterday I was driving through Western Michigan, saw a house with a big Confederate flag in the front yard. was like WTF?
nubbins`: which means that i can get a goddamn /haze remover/ that's drain-safe :0
mircea_popescu: gotta love tardspedia.
mircea_popescu: "H R Clinton is a American penisless disk jockey in the porn and sexy business"
mircea_popescu: "Obama is an American educationless Stanford graduate in the politics and constitutional amendments business"
mircea_popescu: "Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business."
PeterL: so my question is if they would be improved by adding gyrojet-type propulsion?
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_-iZYIofU <<< in other news, jack black is a talented fuck.
mircea_popescu: actually you get the muchly admired panzerhaubitze 2000
asciilifeform: ^ afaik those haven't really changed since ww2
PeterL knows little about current tech in grenade launcers
mircea_popescu: afaik there's only one size grenade launcher.
asciilifeform: (still have it, and the camera option. mostly gathers dust.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i kinda followed the whole thing; even bought - back when it was not clear what it was - the device (1st ed. 'raspberry')
mircea_popescu: no steve, so not the same results, but it does show there exists this partiuclar herd of cattle in the wild, ready for a milking
mircea_popescu: well, it tried for the entire "being apple" marketing thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: broadcom. but also the apologists (many of whom, i gather, weren't even -paid- shills, but merely fools)
PeterL: it would be interesting to see something a bit larger tried with grenade shell
PeterL: RE gyrojet: one thing that sped failure was 13 mm caliber, which exceeded the 12mm size limit, so needed extra note from stalin
mircea_popescu: nubbins` because that's the first thin through murdock's mind ?
mircea_popescu: the eben upton broadcom response to rhel's poettering ?
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 13:43:26; asciilifeform: nubbins`: and the vendor is an known, egregious, and unrepentant liar, intent on giving an impression of 'open' for some strange reason
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2015#1045301 << who do you count there ? broadcom ? ☝︎
nubbins`: and if there's one thing necessary to bringing STEM education to third-world classrooms... ☟︎
asciilifeform: nubbins`: their chip isn't quite fast enough for guaranteed real-time high-res video without the hardware accel.
nubbins`: really don't see the problem w/ swapping out for ogg
nubbins`: my understanding is that mpeg is required for their camera add-on (no idea why)
nubbins`: re: open, it's just the fashionable clothing these days 8)
nubbins`: who gives a fuck about mpeg tho! (aside from those who do)
nubbins`: yeah, i read the non-info of the press release bragging about open-sourcing the shim between the cpu and gpu
asciilifeform: nubbins`: and the vendor is an known, egregious, and unrepentant liar, intent on giving an impression of 'open' for some strange reason ☟︎
asciilifeform: nubbins`: they are contractually obligated to never fully deblob it on account of mpeg 'license' crapolade
danielpbarron: cazalla> danielpbarron, who is avatar x? steph? << no idea; some guy who sent me a private message on google+ who thinks he's important or something
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 everyone thinks they do.
mircea_popescu: how's the film biz ?
cazalla: clock's ticking
cazalla: had a few too many drinks so..
cazalla: mircea_popescu: there was a fetlife "btc" fetish group <<< buttcoin? at least it'd be a fitting name
mircea_popescu: random etatist muppet from brazil is really a wikipediot first class, too. will wonders never cease.
mircea_popescu: A Wikipedia contributor, Jorge Stolfi (talk · contribs), may be personally or professionally connected to the subject of this article. Relevant guidelines include Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Autobiography, and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view.
assbot: Talk:Jorge Stolfi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1x2OphS )
mircea_popescu: not like being jorge stolfi is that valuable.
mircea_popescu: heh gotta love the "usg could do shit" muppetry on qntra.
cazalla: those master distiller's batches they put out over the years have been hit and miss
cazalla: drinking this https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_788413
cazalla: i'm drinking some bundy, meant to drink last night but sidetracked with that orlov article and then zzz
Vexual: maybe a taxi then
Vexual: as people prefer outcomes these days
cazalla: what ya drinking this evening Vexual ?
asciilifeform doesn't know even what kind of dope he ought to take in order to understand any of the above
Vexual: hed have b-a logs on a knuckle tattoo
Vexual: well like your classic laptop is to classic cars, you can do a time test, running your own software
Vexual: if you give a fuck i imagine it makes things real easy
Vexual: working on the hutter prize?
Vexual: 2 left and one stayed, and the mother also turned into a footstool, again, presumably snakebite
Vexual: they were the same color but better
Vexual: it was eating taipans, and i found them about the house missing the tasty parts, then it really dissappeared but remerged from under a junk pile with 3 new kittens
Vexual: one died, presumable of snakebit, and the next day it shooed every other to other places
Vexual: well, i had this cat wot had 5v kittens
Vexual: 8 point, what is this..
Vexual: weve done poisionous snkes lately tho
Vexual: ok so we've got a thing about a cat with good quality management teq
Vexual: why never anyone ups me until i am three sheets?
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : the middle german term for a tournament is... butthurt.
mircea_popescu: digging up to see which the fuck earl of somerset was pete talking about (i thought that's a duchy), it turns out there's two different 1st earls of somerset : John Beaufort (Gaunt's son, in 1300s) and Robert Carr, in the 1500s.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation short explanation as to why exactly it can no longer be fixed.
decimation: asciilifeform: now's the time to import euro strange I guess
decimation: heh EUR/USD fell to $1.08 from $1.10 ☟︎
decimation: so at 20% rate, usg pays $3.6 trillion in interest per year. current annual tax revenue is $3.1 trillion
mircea_popescu: i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a butcher. i don't revive dead cows, i just cut them apart.
decimation: not only will usg be paying all of its tax revenue to debtors, the fed's $4.5 trillion worth of 3% mortgages won't look so good
mircea_popescu: "the only thing you know for sure is that tomorrow's going to be worse" = pain plan
mircea_popescu: when you tell the slavegirl "today, you X this much, and tomorrow X+k, and so forth each day X+nk"
decimation: pay the little people 0% when inflation is well above 10%?
mircea_popescu: it makes a nice jpg of the page that can be downloaded.
cazalla: (and yes i know that this cannot be 100% trusted)
cazalla: well archive.today provides a download of the archive it makes as well
asciilifeform: would suck to lose all the mirrored pages in one shot if archive.today is taken out
asciilifeform: ideally the mirror would be a genuine #b-a-affiliated box, no ?
cazalla: mircea_popescu> archive.today thing works fine. <<< i have started to do this
mircea_popescu: but as a theoretical, probably impractical solution. otherwise, 1-2% hikes each quarter for the next 3-5 years would be what a sane cb would do
decimation: the problem is, if you raise rates to the 18% per annum that real estate prices in new york imply, you quickly find that usg is paying all its tax to debtors
asciilifeform wonders what the rate would have to be to cut off the chump flow
decimation: which doesn't mean shit for actual economics but means alot for the magic fed decision meter
mircea_popescu: no, all this because they're not stupid, and would like to not hang.
decimation: all this is because usg released a report that said that 30k more people 'have jobs' and wages were flat
mircea_popescu: by now every fucking wikipedia entry containing a sum of dollars has to have a "x in 2013 dollars" affixed.