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mircea_popescu: "how
to support
the welfare state ? oh, simply cut everyone in
two and hide
the halves"
mircea_popescu: the divorcing of people's skills from
their general ability
to
think, neatly mirroring
the divorce between want and control, and for
that matter between capital and power.
mircea_popescu: "therefore"
that genetic factors were more important
than
the home environment in determining social mobility, isn't
that probably
true? Having
to do
this sober I asked her, "But didn't you change your surname 11 years ago? Or are you betting she can just upgrade hers?" What else could I say? If you read it, it's for you?"
mircea_popescu: " My face is in my hands and I wonder how anyone could be asked
to raise a girl in such a world? Recently a female cardiologist with a "difficult" 10 year old daughter who had been well
trained
to want
things but not control
things asked me if I had read "the study in
the New York
Times"-- !?!?!?!?!?--
that said
that people with
the same surname, over generations, continued
to achieve
the same level of wealth, showing
ben_vulpes: i also kicked around a design for a nifty reciprocal engine where
the piston was really just a magnet-bearing shuttle zipping back and forth
through coils for insta-ac
mircea_popescu: decimation
the guy's exquisite chjoice of relevant subject matter, and
the fearless approach has
thoroughly impressed me.
decimation: mircea_popescu: lol he goes on: "It's probably unnecessary
to point out
that
this increase in lifestyle is built on
the increased work product of whoever will do it for 30 cents an hour, and anyway it is a red herring.
The real attraction for us isn't just
the lifestyle, but
that it systematizes-- it makes normal-- not ever wondering: how come we have more lifestyle when we didn't do more work? "
ben_vulpes: never got
the gas steam bearings
to work
tho
mircea_popescu: incidentally re
teh cryo stuff, anyone seen hibernatus ?
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] flat enough with one disk << i did my own axle and used HD disks
to get better boundary layer performance
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: weren't you killing people and building criminal empires
then?
decimation: lol
that chip shooter is hardcore, but how many bezzlars?
kanzure: well why bother with breathing at
that point? what?
ben_vulpes: i built so much errata in pursuit of
that
thing
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] kanzure:
tried plain old
tesla
turbine ? <<
talk about boyhood dreams
mircea_popescu: stop getting in
the way of dreams and aspirations alfie
kanzure: i wasn't claiming i was mass manufacturing anything like
that at home
ben_vulpes: impossible's more a function of available
time/energy anyways. not an absolute
thing.
ben_vulpes: making anything always requires impossible investments of
time and energy.
kanzure: if making anything always requires me
to make impossible investments in
time and energy
then none of
the fun stuff will get made
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 06:51:10; ben_vulpes: absolutely none of
this qualifies you
to have an opinion about block size.
mircea_popescu: what'd
that be, pages of documentation
that double every year ?
kanzure: microelectronics vlsi doesn't require millions (well.. i mean.. not
to make a single chip)
kanzure: basically i want hardware but i don't want
to have
to spend my life reading millions of pages of documentation
kanzure: hmm
then i will pencil
that in sometime
kanzure: have i ever ranted
to you about my apt-get for hardware stuff
kanzure: basically ghetto projector pointed down microscope
tube
mircea_popescu: kanzure alf spent i dunno, a year or os ?
trying
to build essentially a pick n place / fab lab for cardano
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes just keeps his
tact quiet most of
the
time.
kanzure: asciilifeform: i have various parts laying around for homefab of microelectronics (on
the order of a few hundred microns but whatever)
mircea_popescu: i changed my mind, you're not lazy, you're
the heart of
tactfulness.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "because
the joo's a lazy reader." << pardon?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I wouldn't know where
to start on
that danielpbarron is having some sort of
twitter conversation with Weev and just wanted
to suggest
there might be use cases for
the OTR
thing.
mircea_popescu: i like
the principle, and
the man deserves front page and his picture on
the newspaper.
kanzure: i am also fond of
things on
the order of "resistive heating element + some surface" heh
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo can
the otr folks get pointed
to
the fact
that a) openbsd got 20k and b)
they'd better get
their ass in here and start working up a
track record ?
kanzure: asciilifeform: i actually am very fond of linear screw actuators, but i would prefer something
that can be manufactured using spatial light modulation with basically zero assembly steps.
mircea_popescu: Second question: why work? Men are not being
taught
to want
their job
to value
them, in fact, men want as little
to do with
their jobs as possible. Randi and
the globalism party bus are
teaching women
to want "careers"-- more precisely,
to want
to draw more of
their identity from
their careers."
mircea_popescu: First question: which work? Not
the job you have, it's real, and it's boring. It is a future "career",
the fantasy environment seen on
TV dramas where all of life
takes place.
assbot: It's great /JuliaAngwin got GPG donation love. Now OTR needs some
too. It's much better crypto in many
threat models
https://t.co/MvruCAd1Ka mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and
therein lies your answer. or
to quote
the shockingly on point
tlp, "Think seriously about what she (thinks she) wants: acceptance of her individuality-- by work. Not for her work product--
there is none; but for her individuality, by work.
kanzure: anyway
this is not for micromotion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, he could probably get away even with duct
taping resistors on
the pane.
kanzure: gah why did you send
to me ebay
kanzure: ebay is selling surface mount lasers
that do >1 kW? hrm /me looks again
mircea_popescu: i was
thinking, it's probably something like mg permanganate water solution
mircea_popescu: what's a good working fluid ? (high absorbtion / high expansion with
temp) ?
mircea_popescu: ok
this is an idea! glass pane stirling heated by laser.
mircea_popescu: kanzure seriously, if efficiency is not a concern (and i
take it not
to be since you never mentioned it yet), a succession of bottles is your best bet.
kanzure: right... nobody in
their right mind should use youtube.. yet here i am.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform granted. just one of
those mental automatisms
that never had a chance
to run into a door before.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
thought
the inchworm's main application was precise movement
kanzure: since asciilifeform seems
to understand i'll drop it
kanzure: i'm not sure if mircea_popescu is being serious about
this
mircea_popescu: "Every
time you hear
the word globalism, you should hear
three
things: 1. wealth uncoupled from work product. 2. Lifestyle as a reflection of your personal self-worth. 3. You give up control of
the capital, and by capital I mean you. "Do I still get paid?" Sure, but you have
to promise
to spend more
than what we pay. "How will
that work?" Don't worry, Visa will explain it all
to you."
kanzure: oh
that doesn't matter, you can convert most forms of motion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i moved on
to
that after building a generic jammer, in my childhood :D