mircea_popescu: ass of new girl has three layers of marks acquired in not even two days, and out of the balance of dozen+ she's earned. because, genuinely, this problem. and this is a smart & brave girl.

mircea_popescu: (yes, there's no real difference between authority and authorship, in the sense used in scholarship. because how.)

mircea_popescu: ww2 partizans had a credible structure of auctoritas, linking them to the very tree of reason.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-17#1800936 ; aka "futility, yes, but i still have to live here" ☝︎

mircea_popescu: strange that all the kids that "want to show futility of parents control" go to mall to buy emo geddup rather than burn down house.

mircea_popescu: what, we went to school with kalashnikov, exchange many stories of weapons designed ?

mircea_popescu: and finally, specific form factor of chamber may also be important enough to worth mention

mircea_popescu: the one item chem reaction speed / reaction front wave is most sensitive to, is dopings.

mircea_popescu: yes, doping may be the other major factor here

mircea_popescu: possibly the case ; in which case that'd be why no one tried.

mircea_popescu: i dunno, just gave an example. understand, sea is made of concrete if you're falling into it from high enough. your perception of mechanical material properties is bound to low impulse, but things are different at higher speeds.

mircea_popescu: it's not soft at the speed cntemplated. more importantly, i suspect it's not friable

mircea_popescu: anyway. prolly solid gold chamber better than solid steel. in any case this repeat-h/o explosion item is not either cheap or light

mircea_popescu: a major advantage of gunpowder is that it is strong ~but VERY SLOW~. in chemical reaction speed terms, the black powder item is an outlier of slowness.

mircea_popescu: may be just enough to fracture your chamber rather than propel your round. i never did teh maffs

mircea_popescu: this may be the very problem : very fast but weak wave.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's constraints. but anyway, it's not clear to me it wouldn't, so.

mircea_popescu: but it's unclear to me it'd produce the sort of bang one expects out of a hunting rifle say.

mircea_popescu: i dunno how capable of maintaining 02 safely partizans even are, considering a) http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-13#1824489 and b) even molotov cocktails went out of business, as "too dangerous" (to the derps). ☝︎

mircea_popescu: there's a reason ships don't try to swing at each other underwater like men do, or did, on ground ; just like there's a reason air-to-air missiles aren't propeller-propelled (while torpedoes aren't jet engined)

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sometimes it's fun to consider what "revolutionary" items like this would make of the past. like say, submarine wars carried out with lengthy "swords", underwarer.

mircea_popescu: "laser rifle" never happening, thump oir no thump. photons are photons, they do what they di ; and let's include the "ion cannon" / http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-17#1556218 discussion ☝︎

mircea_popescu: recall how the whole sintered magic was going to "change the world as you know it" ?

mircea_popescu: "polizei is wermacht that couldn't be taught aiming" or what.

mircea_popescu even had that line art on a wall at some point.

mircea_popescu: same flatfile that had the toilet "operating system" lampoon and so on

mircea_popescu: "Martin Luther Cling was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull." yeah not altogether terrible.

mircea_popescu: "Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice they didn't ask for, a service for which he was eventually killed. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock." << not even bad (slightly corrected)

mircea_popescu: re that "bloopers" item, "The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies." << it seems rather suspicious to me that this exact item tends ot lead ro internet collections also. da fuck ☟︎

mircea_popescu: anyway esthlos i know it's hard but srsly, don't give it up, it's entertaining and perhaps marginally even useful. "Hence I'm changing my base organizational approach and will be prioritizing the log reading above Keccak and other projects, to move towards the desired number." pfff!! ☟︎

mircea_popescu: in other shockers, apparently http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-17#1826273 didn't make it for notability cut on the 17th of june. ☝︎

mircea_popescu goes to check out how teh log summaries are coming along, sees http://summaries.logs.esthlos.com/#2018-08 has one entry on the 1st... yo esthlos ? how goes it ?