asciilifeform: similar

asciilifeform: massive scrap piles, yes, in usa, quite comparable to ye olde su

asciilifeform: from 'golden age'

asciilifeform: visible through street window. wood panelling, all.

asciilifeform: there's a bank not far from where asciilifeform lives, that died in 1990s. but left ALL of the furniture, incl. the ~stately~ mega-vault

asciilifeform: funnily enough somebody bought those

asciilifeform: ditto diebold iirc

asciilifeform: not so many suppliers, e.g. mosler, is gone

asciilifeform: prolly moar

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu wants to become scrap iron fella?

asciilifeform: junkyard keeper will be very happy aha

asciilifeform: hundy

asciilifeform: nor anything worth keeping in a 2tonne safe.

asciilifeform: they also had a 2tonne safe, for some reason , in the back, and willing to let it go for cheap. but asciilifeform has neither flatbed nor crane nor concrete plinth.

asciilifeform bought most of the contents of a ratshack for ~2hundy us

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: show experiment that suggests the 'incomplete maxwell' in the sense contemplated

asciilifeform: but guess what 'inferior is the new superior' because some roman d00dz didn't feed nearly enough uppity shits to lions etc

asciilifeform: it overfloweth

asciilifeform: i dun even have enuff bits in my lulzregister to hold it

asciilifeform: ( re ams link )

asciilifeform: gotta be a gag

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: gold trololol btw

asciilifeform: BIP148 nodes will never let it reorg out the BIP148 chain << this is newz. how does node 'never let' ? i'd like to know

asciilifeform: they all merged into one, in asciilifeform's head. but that comes from reading about'em years later.

asciilifeform: and often thieves of identifiable loot.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: historic record is that 100% of the folx who bragged about 'fear my seekrit mega-profitable co !' turned out to be shits.

asciilifeform: it ain't a hard-smokinggun.

asciilifeform: and 1,000,001 folx who could be author of 'mpex'.co , sure.

asciilifeform: 0 problem. but naturally invites as candidate for mpexcardano.io

asciilifeform: gurls, who in his words, truuluvv him and 'never even saw money'

asciilifeform: though he had some

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: motherland, to

asciilifeform: ^ there oughta be a comma in there

asciilifeform: secrecy + suddenwealth == sold-motherland to ~every intel service on planet

asciilifeform: secrecy does.

asciilifeform: e.g. https://smpake.com/tmp/1494143304871.jpg

asciilifeform: ( photos of throne, whores hanging off arms, etc )

asciilifeform: d00d's been doing the reptilia thing

asciilifeform: betcha it's kako's co.

asciilifeform: but hey, lowest-bidder shannonizer

asciilifeform: and could've been funnier.

asciilifeform: it's shannonized.

asciilifeform: c

asciilifeform: 1,002nd, et

asciilifeform: and yes i recall that mircea_popescu threw out the domain. dun matter much, even if you buy 1,001 domains ( enriching usg each time, each year ) there is always 1,001st.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-31#1610073 << ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658690 >>>> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-31#1610071 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: hey give'em a call

asciilifeform: 'Feel free to call us any time, we have a staff dedicated to answering your questions. +1-803-555-0109'

asciilifeform: megabux from anon swiss 'donor', and he churns out this nonsense

asciilifeform: i bet this is the 'seekrit startup' that made kakobrekla rich

asciilifeform: lol! it's the cardano people ! ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( exercise for student : how many kg of KCl from corner shop, contains ^ qty of k40 )

asciilifeform: not like i'm sitting on this item !1

asciilifeform: as to mircea_popescu's 2nd q, i have nfi !

asciilifeform: kg TNT.

asciilifeform: !~calc 2.13 * 10**-13 * ( 6.022 * 10**23 ) / ( 4.184*10**6 )

asciilifeform: first, gotta finish above,

asciilifeform: bang

asciilifeform: !~calc 2.13 * 10**-13 * ( 6.022 * 10**23 )

asciilifeform: oh btw mircea_popescu , a mol of k40 : ☟︎

asciilifeform: can't afford even half a beryllium sphere!111

asciilifeform: asciilifeform for instance has to die on a rusty bucket

asciilifeform: tru!!

asciilifeform: ( or even on harley )

asciilifeform: matter of taste, but there are folx who'd maybe rather die on beryllium sphere than from vodka

asciilifeform: q in gedankenexperiment was 'what if kitchen nuke after all exists'

asciilifeform: aha, exactly that

asciilifeform: it's an unknown-unknown. that afaik nobody's diggin.

asciilifeform: but this is where my recollection ends.

asciilifeform: probably oughta mention that -- iirc -- induced decay can be moar ( or less ) energetic than the expected one

asciilifeform: ( even if it discards ~half )

asciilifeform: anyway i'll take mircea_popescu's pessimistic figure for K40.

asciilifeform: it's the 'softest'.

asciilifeform: i dun yet have a case, incidentally, picked a naturally-found isotope at ~random, to see what'd happen if someone were to 'burn' a kg of it this way

asciilifeform: not 'all-life'

asciilifeform: well for starters, 1.25e9 is the HALF life

asciilifeform: yes, but abused.

asciilifeform: this dun seem right

asciilifeform: 1.25 rather

asciilifeform: ( normally -- 1.23e9 yr )

asciilifeform: but suppose you could shorten its half-life.

asciilifeform: k-40, most abundant (in nature, 1 of the very few) B emitters, decays with 1.33mEv emission, so ~2.13e-13 j..

asciilifeform: 1 mEv ~= 1.6e-13 j.

asciilifeform: incidentally, let's try gedankenexperiment ,

asciilifeform: ( possibly by growing the material in a crystal, say, such that the emitted particles trigger yet others etc a la ye olde neutron-powered fission reaction )

asciilifeform: i suspect that the finesse, if it ever turns up, would be to somehow 'chain react' the induced beta emission.

asciilifeform: like old crt.

asciilifeform: 'soft', bremsstrahlung, but aha

asciilifeform: xray, but sure

asciilifeform: ( why would you ? no fusion, no heat )

asciilifeform: you might not need bottle.

asciilifeform: all i got is the open lit.

asciilifeform: anyone who knows any -- plox to post.

asciilifeform: but possibly more problem on my end than other.

asciilifeform: i've found ~no record of anybody even trying, since 1980s.

asciilifeform: it's a restatement of whole problem, yes.

asciilifeform: if you can set up the induction conditions for less than the cost - then + sign.

asciilifeform: but yes, was engineering problem, solved to about same satisfaction as solar cell (iirc peak conversion efficiency was similar)