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mircea_popescu: and
the human civilisation is organised around
the implicit currency of "Stored joules"
cazalla: related
to running out of something..
techcrunch reports yesterday's bitcoin auction was
the last of dpr's coins.. bloomberg quote usms as saying otherwise
mircea_popescu: you know, i'd like
to read a sf novel which explores a future where
technology has re-arranged deep magma of earth into a humongo battery
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not
to mention
the earth is about 80% nickel and iron by mass.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, S.CARS would be pretty cool. a company
that a) aspires atmospheric H2, b) fuses it into Li c) which it uses
to make car batteries while d)
the energy so produced it uses
to make
the cars and fill
them up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "if you're gonna fuck, might as well make
the chick you're fucking in
the same go" ?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, it's not
that i'm interested in it (or would understand/appreciate
the issue
tbh) but it seemed obvious way
to poke a hole in orlov's prediction, at least
that it might occur in my lifetime anyway
mircea_popescu: cazalla anyway, practically,
the peak oil
thing is a lot less interesting now
that electric cars have been demonstrated
than 20 years ago. (dunno if you know, but
this has been a fringe
theory for > 50, almost 100 years by now)
mircea_popescu: you can't run out of carbon, ie,
the element. but you can run out of, say, sugar. venus is a fine example.
mircea_popescu: but once
the saudi flood is done, imo
that's it, oil will only ever be expensive.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, whether you care or not would be influenced if you are
to run out
tomorrow or 100-200 years from now
though
mircea_popescu: for
that matter... it
turns out
there's not enough rare earths on earth
to make an ipad for each person alive.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it is elementary
that if you keep
taking out of a sack and never adding, eventually you run out.
cazalla: asciilifeform, i read orlov's post soviet lessons.. article last night and my impression is
that some of what he predicts relies on suggestion we've passed peak oil, but
then i have read elsewhere peak oil has been debunked or
that we're not even close
to passing it.. can you share
thoughts? not much
turns up in logs
airgapped: I have been loking for minimal node for some
time but
there is no good option it seems
assbot: Logged on 18-03-2014 01:19:43; asciilifeform: our friends at ft. meade call
this 'NONSTOP'
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2015 21:52:21; asciilifeform: 'raspberry?'
terrible,
terrible i/o. ethernet on same usb as
the storage. no
thanks.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2014 22:42:52; asciilifeform: re: raspberry pi:
the news item is - a sham
airgapped: no I have no illusion
that secure processor exists
airgapped: yes
they call it secure but I fully agree
these are just micros with crypto accelertion
pete_dushenski: so
the more specific
the
task of
the chip, as is moreso
the case with arm
then general-purpose cpu,
the easier it is
to attack
assbot: Logged on 19-02-2015 04:39:24; asciilifeform: decimation: a diddled die of 100 gates in a
tiled matrix will do what, exactly ?
danielpbarron: not
that it matters, but
telling a passphrase should surely be considered "testifying against yourself"
kakobrekla: at
this stage
they wont check vms as
they are pretending
to check if device is real device or real bomb only.
danielpbarron: what if i'm caught
traveling with my private key ascii armored and printed on a sheet of paper? do
they even know well enough
to ask for a passphrase?
pete_dushenski: it's obvious
that airport security is about as meaningfully useful as curtains on a submarine
pete_dushenski: jurov nah, it's just people getting fussed about
the
theatre
jurov: but really, do
they routinely rummage
through photos and documents? and when i have virtualbox on desktop, will
they ask me
to fire all
the vms,
too?
danielpbarron: also,
they already have
those pictures, presumably
danielpbarron: is
that incriminating? could be anything in
that bong!
danielpbarron: what is
to wipe on a phone
that
they don't already have? It's not like my keys are on
the
thing
kakobrekla: if you werent on
this chan you could actually carry it as well hehe
jurov: wiping both my ntb and phone would appear completely insane
to me
jurov: well... if i wasn't on
this chan, i'd easily ended up carrying any
to/from canada
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 16:31:33; nubbins`: chetty it amazes me
that people still carry non-wiped devices over int'l borders
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 03:30:18; mircea_popescu: and
that is, joining
the wot early, and helping set
the world on fire. it. strictly it.