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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, evidently gas diffusion was a problem. but this was re hypothetical item which is still ant-sized in body, but has really lengthy legs, rather than proportionate scaling
mircea_popescu: if it had lungs it'd have muscles (because current system not powerful enough and because since you got all that oxygen..). ant with lungs and muscles is called rat.
mircea_popescu: resistence of materials starts fucking with you rapidly. (daddy, why is there no ant larger than a toyota prius???)
mircea_popescu: maybe that's what they're training for, with the ghost towns.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends where. i don't see china clearly enough to say. maybe they got turkeyws.
mircea_popescu: the problem with terrain trackers is that eg suddenly sahara becomes mega-valuable strategically.
mircea_popescu: not clear wtf it will need. but yes, in principle a thousand-to-million-ton satellite is warranted by the gps needs. nobody said satellite stays thinspired forever.
mircea_popescu: in general -- if enemy can silence your emitters AND retransmit them stronger, there's no saving you.
mircea_popescu: not necessarily. but yes, small errors are major errors.
mircea_popescu: but basically, a blockchain-gps will be the next upgraded version of gps
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: receiver listens to frequencies for specific quanta of transmission : "this is station X transmitting count Y", rsa-signed. IF the signature verifies, and IF the y was not before seen (and if x on unit's access list etc) THEN the item is placed into quueue, to be sorted by signal strength. otherwise, dropped as noise.
mircea_popescu: but the discussion was re an authenticable alt-item that dfun exist.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the current way gps/glonass works is not authenticated by definition, as you correctly point out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well you can't "retransmit" at a time before transmission. so yes unidirectionalyl in time.
mircea_popescu: of course, i'm unconvinced. include counter for instance.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it makes a number of historical points for me. "but how could mp have known" etc.
mircea_popescu gloats at just how fucking convenient everything about that piece is.
mircea_popescu: lmao alf got 50 comments from idiots. hang it there alfie, this isn't any kind of basis for judging blog. hackertards are just trying to drive wedge between man and man's tools.
mircea_popescu: no systematic effort by the army itself to issue it, sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amphetamine (generally not very pure, and more or less racemic) was used to treat depression in the us from about the 30s. it was also used indiscriminately along with blessed chamrs/amulets and eg pink pills by soldiers.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o check it out, usg self-anticorruption squad ?!
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: 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: yeah but i mean glucose ffs. approachable with "my first spectrometry kit" even
mircea_popescu: that shit even works, other than the collapsible lung sechellae etc. but it will kill it.
mircea_popescu: the walls were not simply black, it fell off as a dust.
mircea_popescu: every morning delivered ciggarettes to the local outlets.
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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, i think i mentioned this, but in any case : 4yo me was prescribed codeine as phosphoric salt for kiddy cough. double dose what chet got for back pain.
mircea_popescu: people routinely ran out of / couldn't afford the western reagents, ended up doing 1800s glucose tests for urin and so on.
mircea_popescu: understand, hospitals still had whole floors for labs, with bunsen burners, cut-and-seal your own tubes etc.
mircea_popescu: back in those days, you couldn't be a doctor if you couldn't make your own. just not possible.
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.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: let's just say that the principal military function of leadership is the management of the enemy perception of weakness.
mircea_popescu: in which sense, ethereum (not as the item, but as the prion set) is necessary for bitcoin to go into the millions. just a step on teh road.
mircea_popescu: this trading as a bloc means, importantly, that the political and legal framework changes.
mircea_popescu: as a result, they traded their valuable token AS A BLOC to other people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform leaving reality aside, i can readily show in a snowglobe model how it's a problem. so, some indians (by which derrogatory term we denote genetically stunted, phenotypically inferior apes with some superficial semblance of humanity) had their "land" token inflated by events into great value cca 1600.