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mircea_popescu: lol for new year i dun recall which, took girls in chains to floor -3, poured champagne / fucked them among the scary concrete. was a blast.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the usg is desperately trying to achieve said refrigeration through trying to shoot people who trade it.
mircea_popescu: a really ? then what the fuck do you hang on to used furniture for. no party rental outfits where you live ?
mircea_popescu: i've not been using the much for years now, and can't say i noticed the absence.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, the government gives. but otherwise ?
mircea_popescu: it's entirely unclear to me what exactly "bank" expects to make money out of.
mircea_popescu: somehow the soviet and soviet likes didn't annoy me nearly as much.
mircea_popescu: i can't even be arsed to take the anglo formalism seriously. A-> field, really ? pshaw.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel_p i'm only vaguely familar with the matter, but my understanding was that photons are un-existed.
mircea_popescu: eh, brunette is the new blonde has been a meme for a long time now.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny to me that in the end the fem-gay revolution came to the same conclusion it started by denying : "we are inferiorz to straight men"
mircea_popescu: i kinda miss the early ones. remember the punk, what's his name, who thought he was a "crypto innovator" ? or that tv schmuck. or or or
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude dun quite grok hwo this shit works, does he.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently went to oleg savchuk school, archive.is dun see it.
mircea_popescu: next they're going to invent a sheath fully utilizing steel that aims at solving the difficulties faced by swords embedded in idiots guts everywhere.
mircea_popescu: put that in your "internet domains are worth money" pipe and smoke it.
mircea_popescu: before alf cuts more notches in the
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658505 stick : i literally did not bother paying for the domain, for no other reason than because i literally give this much of a shit about domains, and the whole rest of the ustardian crap built atop it.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: ah, look at that, highschool virgin club collecting discarded, used condoms, making themselves bower to impress the highschool sluts. sounds like MAGA.
mircea_popescu: now calculate the magnetic field that turns a million years into a second.
mircea_popescu was wondering how long until you ask for avogadro's number.
mircea_popescu: yes. they don't tend to have 100k spare change in couch cushions.
mircea_popescu: it went so fucking well for curie and that idiot with the beryl sphere.
mircea_popescu: gee, i wonder why nobody wants to dedicate life to building incidental nuke.
mircea_popescu: and also, surprisingly energetic. imagine what fun it'll be once you discover that a kilogram is not like the microgram in that it summons fucking chtulhu.
mircea_popescu: yeah. jus' saying, ev is the problem with this theoretically promising idea.
mircea_popescu: add a 2% conversion efficiency on top, and it suddenly looks terribru. diesel engines work in the high 40%.
mircea_popescu: (well, twice, really. irl i should have divided by half)
mircea_popescu: if the whole mol halflived NOW that'd be the total energetic output.
mircea_popescu: dja know what the mol of gasoline produces through oxidation ?
mircea_popescu: you get a quarter milijoul per mol. as an absolute maximum.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as the conspiracies go : politically speaking, if the ev were even close, even vaguely the "art" grads in eg germany would be pushing for lifting the cost on hot reactors matter disposal so as to balance it outright.
mircea_popescu: (beta sources are terrible, i will remind the public, because metal emits gamma on contact.)
mircea_popescu: though most don't even want to use that as a confinement method
mircea_popescu: anyway, esp because of the incredible expense that is magnetic bottle, it's not even CLOSE, ev wise.
mircea_popescu: well, do you what, go to parties where solid state grads show up ? or how would you ?
mircea_popescu: beta radiation is not just an electron about in the sense a tsunami is not just water.
mircea_popescu: but the thing remains, so you do induced beta decay. this has some matter costs, in the radioactive material, and some energy cost, in the confinement, excitatron, etc. in exchange for these, you get beta particles. now, what do you do with them ? warm some water, turn turbine ? -ev. put against photovoltaics ? -ev. illuminate raw metal joints ? -ev. what ?
mircea_popescu: informal party talk. i've never followed it in much detail.
mircea_popescu: i know of a coupla who tried. the problem was the measurements not coming out, rather than conspiraci.
mircea_popescu: simple recipe for man interested -- go into grad school at relevant place, make measurements.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, seems even at mit, physics lab should be able to produce the micrograms of I or w/e is contemplarted here.
mircea_popescu is having the antipasta of all time. grana padano, anchovies, winter salami, olives... ahhh.
mircea_popescu: there's many tons of waste in the us they don't klnow what to do with. and as recent qntra points out, it's starting to leak.
mircea_popescu: if the 100k you're talking about is factual, ie, what a moderately competent engineer makes a year, it seems altogether strange they're not doing it.
mircea_popescu: not entirely clear to me what you're saying here. so the idea is, that because random upstart / usurper of minor crown enobled anyone who could read/write and hadn't rean off a century ago, it therefore follows that a man who could power a whole city out of hot reactor waste today does not do so because mit graduates can't power a lightbulb with the battery in hand. something like that ?
mircea_popescu: ok. what else, the microwave ? velcro ? what shall we take ? gsm comms ?
mircea_popescu: so take something random, say the touchscreen. who invented, who got assigned ?
mircea_popescu: yes but also best model of this "assigned to respectable people" thing.