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asciilifeform: ( battery sux, yes, but does it prohibitively suck. )
asciilifeform: why couldn't it, in principle, work as strela.
asciilifeform: i often wonder what the practical speed and ceiling are, for 'roflcopter'
asciilifeform: and navy.
asciilifeform: clouds are only problem for infantry.
asciilifeform: liner also dun give a fuq re clouds
asciilifeform: phunphakt -- 1st model of 747 had a hole for stellar nav
asciilifeform: phf? prolly
asciilifeform: now to be fair, ballistic rocket only needs guidance for maybe 10min.
asciilifeform: ( famously, not even a cancellation signal receiver. or so claimed, i suspect that it's a lie )
asciilifeform: 0 radio.
asciilifeform: ( all current icbm -- stellar-guided. just as in 1962. )
asciilifeform: so nope.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: clouds dun exist at the rocket's march height
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2014/minigame-smg-november-2014-statement/#selection-649.0-737.1
asciilifeform: dunno, can't be arsed
asciilifeform: 'MIXING REINVENTED FOR YOUR PRIVACY' etc
asciilifeform lolling over usg 'mixer' ads on current-day tardstalk behind link
asciilifeform: ^ or how being dropped from 7th floor window, works.
asciilifeform: the one where 'created a high-powered idiot, who can wreck exchange rates, create pyramids, etc' or how it went.
asciilifeform: mega-article
asciilifeform: that was 1st hanbot thing asciilifeform read !
asciilifeform: in what sense were the 'tens of thousands btc' destroyed btw ? went to enemy ?
asciilifeform: незримого фронта солдаты lol
asciilifeform: the mtgox penny thing ?
asciilifeform: the 0.8 fork ?
asciilifeform: asciilifeform was silently sweating over room full of fpga in those dayz.
asciilifeform: didntthinkso
asciilifeform: was i alive for that one..?
asciilifeform: but wai
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu knew that the btc would go into the hands of a monkey?! before sending?!
asciilifeform: 'To maintain transparency, I am not a OpenBSD Foundation director, so you'd have to ask them... Encouragingly, I have heard discussion about some policy for public recognition of large donations, and I suspect that would handily cross the threshold' << lol!!
asciilifeform curious
asciilifeform: aah
asciilifeform: 'oops' ?
asciilifeform: lolsrsly!? what did he say
asciilifeform: ... or of anything since he inhaled the spores.
asciilifeform: betcha if you had him airlifted and put in a room and asked, he genuinely never heard of mircea_popescu , or bitcoin, or news from past decade.
asciilifeform: surrounded by hannoboecks, they do the talking, the 'investing' etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc theo de raadt turned to rms-like 'human mushroom' thing looong ago
asciilifeform: they... 'like' surprises, apparently
asciilifeform: same reason as why no airlock.
asciilifeform: typically there's 1 of those also
asciilifeform: what's the use?
asciilifeform: airlock rightfully consists of 2 iron doors that 1) swing in opposite directions 2) cannot both open at once
asciilifeform: knock out 1, other falls off immediately
asciilifeform: andreicon: that's pathetic
asciilifeform: 2nd door gives designated victim time to take aim
asciilifeform: ... they'd have to go through window. might, ohnoez, cut a finger.
asciilifeform: i also suspect that 'no airlocks' is a usg 'helpful suggestion' to architects -- after all , airlock complicates the work of the bust-in-the-night-under-colour-of-law folx
asciilifeform: flats, funnily, suffer less from this. they get intrinsic airlock of the hallway.
asciilifeform: unless built pre-1980s
asciilifeform: i've been to 'rich' houses. no airlock either.
asciilifeform: they get it anyway.
asciilifeform: afaik nobody
asciilifeform: absolutely.
asciilifeform: aha!!
asciilifeform: just this 1 door. as if year were 1700.
asciilifeform: no buffer zone with 2nd door , keeping rain & wind out
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: many lulz re american houses, other than the well-known fact of their being made from cardboard. for instance, most of one tends to be taken up by the 'living room', which in turn is rendered ~useless because it has NO AIRLOCK ( try and put electronics in there, thermal shock, rain )
asciilifeform: andreicon: this place dun have one of those tho
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1682694 << incidentally americans for some reason luvvv building these micro-bedroom things. the room where asciilifeform has bed is more or less JUST big enough to construct the frame ( carried in, yes, in pieces ) inside, and that's mostly it. ☝︎
asciilifeform: maybe right place is 3 doors down
asciilifeform: andreicon: how do you know you're 'in the right place', gotta ask
asciilifeform: writhing mess is never > havingaclue
asciilifeform: just writhing mess.
asciilifeform: give 0 leverage.
asciilifeform: except that it ain't
asciilifeform: everything is everything else once-removed, lol.
asciilifeform: throne per se not electrified.
asciilifeform: but this is a slide.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mine is, theoretically, also, shit dun go uphill either.
asciilifeform: even the lowest javascript monkey has, say, awareness of the fact that his shitter is not plugged into the mains. and can hang a picture, change a filter, etc
asciilifeform: what was she thinking about instead ? watching own hair grow in the mirror ?
asciilifeform: if i were crashed on the proverbial starvation island with this animal and a dog, i would eat her first , before the dog
asciilifeform: the sheer lifelong complete absence of curiosity, needed to land on the fucking throne N times a day and never look for the mains plug
asciilifeform: lol!
asciilifeform: i wouldn't keep one of these around. better a dog, a horse.
asciilifeform: holy mother of shit
asciilifeform: 'how do i learn this?' 'start by going back 20yrs..'
asciilifeform: now this is so.
asciilifeform: and i'd predict that most of the perpetrators would stop overnight after the first educational public impalements began.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno that anybody actually, in earnest, sits and 'learns to empathy', it's a signalling scamola
asciilifeform: eh ilizarov can fix.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aka bonsaikitten
asciilifeform: it's the glue-with-broken-glass we discussed in 2014, etc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1682929 << absolutely that. see also http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-03#1665170 . ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1682911 << quisling iirc also ! ☝︎
asciilifeform: aka taiwanization, etc
asciilifeform: embrace&extinguish.
asciilifeform: usg has , turns out, just this ONE trick -- http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-26#1632664 ☝︎
asciilifeform: nah that's old
asciilifeform: and c# on shithub.
asciilifeform: and open sores visualstudio!
asciilifeform: phf: dun forget microshit wget!
asciilifeform: andreicon: art of virusism is not for you then
asciilifeform: andreicon: if not, you then have an easy boobytrap for 'scanning utils i've used'
asciilifeform: re drill, see also finale of film 'pi'.
asciilifeform: not mega-puzzler. consider the haskell people. 'hey this is a mechanical substitute for my brain! says on the box!!'