mircea_popescu: 2. if you're the sort of man worth the mention in the first place, then you must have 2-4 of what's commonly named "wives", except without the annoying in permanent residence. this means they get a bedroom, and you also need a great bedroom to play with them in, which ideally should be separate from the hall, and they'll want 100 sqm of bathroom including complicated waterholes and whatnot. plus closets and various other hidi
mircea_popescu: 1. if you're the sort of man worth the mention in the first place, then you must be able to entertain twelve at the morning's notice. consequently you will need a "great" hall of at least 100 sqm, more like 150-200 where to seat them around a table, + a kitchen half that at least + 2-3 servants so another 50 in living space for them.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 05:36 pete_dushenski: veyron and other 'hypercars' like it are little more for rich dude to get brownie points with friends and strangers in a way that's less likely to cause resentment so much as envy, at least compared to jewelry, designer clothes, very large houses, and the rest of the gauche trappings of the arriviste class described by tlp and others.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562657 << except for the western us (ie, northern california and a dipping here-and-there in rich az, or etc), everyone's idea of "very large" is ~equal to sane. let's work the math together :
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 05:10 pete_dushenski is presently enjoying the delight of living in a country that isn't arg. and therefore affords a veritable bounty of incandescent lighting options for his new/old george nelson light fixtures.
mircea_popescu: (pro tip : most adult females are most petrified of how their belly looks. ask around.)
mircea_popescu: lol nah, you don't stuff her vagina. have the terminals attached to labia, run wire to her belly or w/e. give her some of those running/yoga pants that come with pocket for ipod, except with a cunt cutout
shinohai: I'm pretty sure I can fir a RasPi zero in there.
mircea_popescu: forget all the square, swipe, circle, whatever bullshit. snatch is where it's at! slide that thing in!
mircea_popescu: and now time for an intromission - i give you merchant-from-the-future girl! http://68.media.tumblr.com/144503737e83614fc6a604fad5072e71/tumblr_n9zc9frpX01sl0njeo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: this is also true of women, but somehow they get excused from this.
mircea_popescu: the top 10 largest things any man encounters in his lifetime consists entirely of the opportunities he doesn't take.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 04:55 ben_vulpes: perhaps he takes pity on the bundies and disbands the BLM
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562629 << i hope you realise that had you organised the topless bundy support alt-burning man, you'd be now in a position to get a govt post in preparation for running for governor there yes ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562634 << he also has a point there! hillary managed to get to almost 70 and yet is still a 13yo derp, with the exact skills and wordlview of invidious preteen female.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 04:56 pete_dushenski: give the man some credit for seeing his way to dismantling the decrepit two-party system woudlja
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562630 << he has a point at that. no further space for a "gop" in this world. curious what he'll call it, Trumpth and Terrormp ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 04:49 pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562105 << lol! natedog had trump at ~15% less than a week ago. at a rate of 2x per week, the hairdo will have 60% 'chance of winning' the day of and then EVERYONE WILL HAVE PREDICTED.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562621 << ikr? what's even the point if he swings this much.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 03:47 asciilifeform: this is somehow acceptable on the author's planet..?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 03:20 ben_vulpes: only tangentially relatedly, cheech and chong scrubbed the rape jokes from their classic albums.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562568 << bwhaahaha. founding fathers were fucking wise. next best thing to putting the goddamned "seat of government" out in the ocean.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 03:15 asciilifeform: i 'parallel-park' on motherfucking city street, yes
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562552 << ahahaha new yorker! do you have an old black dude that moves the cars every 40 minutes for 50 bux a week, also ?
BingoBoingo: Fuck, I go to sleep and Obama steals the rigged World Series for his town.
pete_dushenski: http://qntra.net/2016/08/mircea-popescue-announces-fanfic-contest-with-1-bitcoin-prize/ << two days after closing and still no weiner ? must be closely contested. best of luck to all the dreamers!
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 21:10 trinque: not to mention a different kind of culture among the wealthy
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561446 << this being arguably the controlling point. as personal computer generation (ie republican generation) rises to prominence, so too will exotic and fabulous creations be fashioned to meet the tastes and demands of the new kids on the block. this could very well mean more handmade ic and less whatever it is that jeff koons does.
pete_dushenski: personal computers, by contrast, are hermetically hidden away. they're ~private~ whereas cars are as public as the nose on your face.
pete_dushenski: veyron and other 'hypercars' like it are little more for rich dude to get brownie points with friends and strangers in a way that's less likely to cause resentment so much as envy, at least compared to jewelry, designer clothes, very large houses, and the rest of the gauche trappings of the arriviste class described by tlp and others.
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561434 << even uneducated rappers understand that cars are a visible sign of wealth at least as much as performance machines. the performance writes the cheques saying that "i could" but of course there's essentially nowhere that these cheques might be cashed where anyone is watching.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:45 asciilifeform is of the - admittedly armchair - notion that 'backyard artillerists' oughta focus on rockets, lower pressure, better... 'bang for buck'
pete_dushenski: round, frosted, clear, 50w, 150w, warm white, cool white, a15, 19, the choices... oh the choices!
pete_dushenski is presently enjoying the delight of living in a country that isn't arg. and therefore affords a veritable bounty of incandescent lighting options for his new/old george nelson light fixtures.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes | i have half a semi going just at the thought of locking up any fraction of the demcratic party << "honey, i'm feeling #2 tonight, get your furry costume out!"
pete_dushenski: trinque: speaking of semis, my chef at the office and i were chatting today and she was saying how she feels bad biking up steep hills when she thinks of how impossible it is for wheelchairists to do the same. i responded, "what, like i should feel bad for all the dudes who can't get it up when i'm banging?"
trinque: say it comes out that the clintons and others provably were childfucking for moloch or w/e with that epstein
ben_vulpes: i have half a semi going just at the thought of locking up any fraction of the demcratic party
trinque: let him lock up half the democratic party and hell, he might have half a semi going.
pete_dushenski: something none of the 'yes we can'ners saw coming before last month.
pete_dushenski: he will also jail the girl.
trinque: dunno. I don't suspect he's had a totaly passive role in the way the clintons are coming apart.
pete_dushenski: give the man some credit for seeing his way to dismantling the decrepit two-party system woudlja
ben_vulpes: i don't think trump 1 has the imagination for anything interesting
pete_dushenski: on the off chance that camp security guards require 'liberal arts' degrees from dartmouth.
pete_dushenski: everybody loves advertising that they voted for the winner, so time to hop aboard the trump train kiddos because this is his last stop before the brown shirts and reeducation camps.
trinque: further from election, gotta try and sway the result. closer to the election, gotta look like you're just following the "trend"
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 16:11 mircea_popescu: "With Nate Silver putting Trump on a 28.8 per cent chance of victory, its almost unbelievable that the race could be so close, given the consequences. A Russian puppet candidate with shady business affairs who hasnt disclosed his tax returns, Trump has spent his campaign alienating minorities, horrifying women, offending religious and military voters, and having his career of awful business behaviour paraded in public.
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562105 << lol! natedog had trump at ~15% less than a week ago. at a rate of 2x per week, the hairdo will have 60% 'chance of winning' the day of and then EVERYONE WILL HAVE PREDICTED.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 15:28 deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-cut-the-wallet/ << Trilema - How to cut the wallet ?
ben_vulpes: naw, the girl is to be commended for her tolerance of and adaptation to all sorts of baby-genic father-driven torture
ben_vulpes: trinque: miniature ice-mobiles, bicycles, skateboards and other mother-terrorizing devices may be delivered to <ADDRESS>
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, el pequeno took his first steps at his one-year birthday/halloween party while i was on the back porch smoking cigarettes
ben_vulpes: well, using anything other than illustrator for vector work is very stupid for precisely this reason.
asciilifeform: this is somehow acceptable on the author's planet..?
ben_vulpes: "NO THERE IS NO REASON. IT IS PURE ARROGANCE AND DISREGARD FOR OUR BOXES."
ben_vulpes: "o i see you have a target, i'll just swizzle these files around and source-to-source transform all these other files"
ben_vulpes still having trouble with the gravel driveway thing
ben_vulpes: only tangentially relatedly, cheech and chong scrubbed the rape jokes from their classic albums.
asciilifeform: no architects were harmed in the making of this production.
ben_vulpes: i'd crucify the architect who tried to tell me that an ionian column could sit aesthetically o 2 inches of plinth.
asciilifeform: these were 2 in. tall.
ben_vulpes: in any event, the controllable kiln/oven should be achievable.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 17:27 asciilifeform: i always wondered if the very sad infrastructure in washington, a kind of frozen-in-time 1970s theme park, is at least partly on account of the expectation that anthill will be leveled 'any day'
asciilifeform: i 'parallel-park' on motherfucking city street, yes
ben_vulpes: the place to which all roads lead
asciilifeform: i shit thee not
ben_vulpes: heart of the empire
ben_vulpes: if yer really strapped for cash, get a propane "poofer" and a laser thermometer.
ben_vulpes: get a temperature controllable oven, start with soft steel and harden it per the kindergarten heat treatment tables
asciilifeform: there are, sadly, not so many uses for wooden or plexiglass gears.
asciilifeform: because afaik laser is the easiest + cheapest, supposing you can live with material that it cuts
asciilifeform: btw since ben_vulpes asked, what's the cheap way to make gear ?
ben_vulpes: what /are/ you cutting with the laser?
ben_vulpes: is that from the warping?
asciilifeform: (and yes, the plank was of shitwood and warped from heat also)
asciilifeform: ^ no prizes for guessing how the cam was botched. but hey, learning exercise.
shinohai: Not bad here, on standby for the regrind and other things we discussed. Lots of thinking on the new trilema from today.
mod6: It's not a huge leap to get there anyway.
mod6: I like the idea of private projects too. Gotta dig into that maybe.
mod6: For sure. I do like how I can use the tickets to track discussions thus far though. Saved the foundation from needing the stenographer.
tb0t: Project: trb, ID: 29, Type: F, Subject: Redesign Wallet, Antecedents: 30, Notes: The original Reference Implementation wallet needs a redesign. http://trilema.com/2016/the-ideal-bitcoin-wallet/ http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-cut-the-wallet/
mod6: Yeah, some of these could be a bit reviewed/reorg'd
mircea_popescu: pretty healthy pile of tickets in there.
mod6: !%e trb 29 F "Redesign Wallet" "The original Reference Implementation wallet needs a redesign. http://trilema.com/2016/the-ideal-bitcoin-wallet/ http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-cut-the-wallet/" 30
mircea_popescu: welcome among the current, mod6 :D
BingoBoingo glad satoshi called it the wallet and not the purse. Imagines "How to cut the purse strings" on Trilema.
asciilifeform: the american way!111
asciilifeform reads sticker under elbow: 'prohibited the machine start of no water' (followed by buncha hieroglyphs)
BingoBoingo: Where else from http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/11/ask_the_bills_i_m_still_in_debt_thanks_to_my_sickly_cat.html
BingoBoingo: Make Great Great Again: "Youre hardly irresponsible with your funds. Youre saving a decent sum of money and working on paying down debt. As for your company: It sounds like it wont be a lifetime job. You can easily permit yourself the spending on your cat." << https://archive.is/thWwo
BingoBoingo: Anyways Make Great, Great Again. A bunch of hillary supporters burned a black church and wrote "Vote Trump" on it to mobilize the black vote.
BingoBoingo: This was illustrated as the most fair thing. Elliot discovering Thunderbird and becoming a Chief. Given his excess of will and manner of drinking it was inevitable. http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2016/10/29/is-so-unfair-cycle-12-fairness-strikes/
BingoBoingo: Mad Dog doesn't really count anymore since they "rebranded" with blig.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically, the whole medieval period lived on hobo wine. cheap, sweetened, etc. the exact thing, midnight thunder or w/e it's called. << Thunderbird, Night Train, Mad Dog, Wild Irish Rose, and Cisco. RIP Ripple.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: France vaunts '40 virtues' of Armagnac | The Independent: <http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/france-vaunts-40-virtues-of-armagnac-1891949.html>; Armagnac (brandy) - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armagnac_(brandy)>; The Virtues of Armagnac - Life At The Table: <https://lifeatthetable.com/the-virtues-of-armagnac/>
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes cognac, ie the first distilled spirit, is about half a millenium old by now.
mircea_popescu: very likely correct. though some northern monasteries did brew beer.
mircea_popescu: basically, the whole medieval period lived on hobo wine. cheap, sweetened, etc. the exact thing, midnight thunder or w/e it's called.
mircea_popescu: depends, they drank all sorts of swill. including jerez port absynth whatnot.
ben_vulpes: and not even the high proof stuff at that.
mircea_popescu: especially if you define "drugs" as "what the people who think gay = only fucks men would think drugs are"
ben_vulpes: no, i'd say that "historic drugs" fits quite nicely into the same time window as "gay = only fucks men"
ben_vulpes points at the fifth line up
mircea_popescu: well, the notion that gayness is incompatible with that IS very much a late 1800s thing.
ben_vulpes: qua "men who only have sex with other men"?
ben_vulpes: i guess the argument kinda falls apart on 'historic' grounds, 'gayness' not being much of a thing pre late 1800s
mircea_popescu: historically gayness was mostly used for drug dealing in the first place.
thestringpuller: my bad it's tinder. grindr is the gay app thing
mircea_popescu: which one is tindr ? the gay app thing ?
BingoBoingo: <thestringpuller> people still use okcupid now that tindr exists? << mp doesn't have a guide to beating tindr
mircea_popescu: and in other illustrative shapes, http://68.media.tumblr.com/144503737e83614fc6a604fad5072e71/tumblr_n9zc9frpX01sl0njeo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: the difference between the placid capon and the overactive to mask impotence capon is not substantial.
asciilifeform: i'm not even convinced that it is about castration - the 'actiony' types are just as fixated, they would sincerely rather make a crappy aluminum musket that eventually kills himself and whoever stands next, than a perfectly serviceable rocket.
mircea_popescu: "and what have you learned in the city, billy bob ?" "oh ma, i have learned how to fail before i even try!"
asciilifeform: orcs tend to be practical folk. witness, e.g., palestine, even there - they understand rocket.
asciilifeform: american 'basement artillerists' almost inevitably fixate on small arms 'just like grandfather's'
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:45 asciilifeform is of the - admittedly armchair - notion that 'backyard artillerists' oughta focus on rockets, lower pressure, better... 'bang for buck'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562200 << i dunno there's any dispute re this, here. or outside.
asciilifeform: (did somebody walk away with the domain..?)
mircea_popescu: hasn't changed hands yet, but arguably the iraqis are edging into actual city.
asciilifeform: changed hands for 1st time since then ??
asciilifeform: wrights - had no plastic. they had wood, and wood flexes well, but glue does not.
mircea_popescu: the problem is material quality. they'd cost ~1mn, which is not what people wanna pay for cessna. they wanna pay 100k, and they do.
asciilifeform: incidentally, wright airplane steered by bending wings, this is another item that could be reintroduced in small flying machines that keep popping up in threads here, 'because we now have computer', but afaik has not been.
mircea_popescu: when i first got laid i had nobody there to show me how it's done so i made do as best i could.
asciilifeform: because there is such a thing as practical craft.
asciilifeform: as for airplanes, i recently read, for instance, an entertaining piece, 'stick and rudder', classic, by one w. langewiesche. but if you wanted to fly in an airplane, i would still recommend going with davout at the wheel, or mthreat, rather than asciilifeform .
asciilifeform: this is not to say that nothing is ever usefully automated. just that we aren't at the 'wish and it happens!!11' level for, e.g., organiking.
mircea_popescu: that it doesn't happen all the time, or within a short enough interval doesn't change the fact that it's the one mode of industry.
asciilifeform: in practice, none of this happened, it only happened in the imagination of folks who only see the results on paper.
asciilifeform: just like, incidentally, the notion that cnc magicked away machining skill.
mircea_popescu: the way it works is, two chunks of hardware that have to be interfaced are briefly interfaced by biofilm, until a proper solution is put in place.
asciilifeform: this is precisely the kind of notion which gets people into chemical mess.
asciilifeform: magnetic stirrer does not magic away the hand skill.
mircea_popescu: you don't handboil anymore ; there's magnetic stirrers specifically because of this skill being expensive. etc.
mircea_popescu: all of these are temp skills.
hanbot: well in the same manner as'd be a museum of vinyl siding, sure.
scriba: Logged on 2016-11-02: [15:46:51] <mircea_popescu> the cuban wiki entry is fucking hysterical. lengthy discussion of the shitty jobs the dork did in college. how come none of these go "and then he took rhetorics with elena dragos and was the only one to get a b in any of her classes that decade"
hanbot: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161102/#279 << incredible collection of idiot euphemisms on that page. "provides vertically integrated production", srsly?! also, attempted to make some preserves of it with archive.is, which is broken/dead/? atm, so here's another bitchlog on that ongoing fire....
thestringpuller: i'd rather attempt at raising my own shitty veal rather than continuing to eat mystery meat until end of lie
a111: Logged on 2014-05-29 17:55 asciilifeform: i really can't fathom the purpose of buying a mystery meat hardware rng. if you're willing to eat mystery meat, why not use the vlsi turd found in current cpu?
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: not conclusion, more "direction toward edible turd" vs "eat the mystery meat" re: << http://btcbase.org/log/2014-05-29#694660
asciilifeform: i was thinking more of the basics that folks learn 'with spinal cord' in training.
mircea_popescu: note that the place where good training would have helped (concorde crashed into hotel ; smolensk lulz ; etc), the training though present didn't do anything, and nobody thought it proper to blame anyone for this.
mircea_popescu: there is a thin sliver of stuff your training is useful for ; but most accidents, including with planes, including with controlled flight into terrain, come from not having read the book.
mircea_popescu: would you want someone working on trb on the basis of having read the book or on the basis of having watched "the videos" ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562186 << yes, actually. guy is a competent (if self-taught) engine engineer. in between him and the various trainers he had, he's the sane mind i've seen.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what kind of conclusion did you have in mind ?
thestringpuller: looking through my research there doesn't seem to be a conclusion to hardware RNG thread
asciilifeform: (there is variant where it is man-sized, it is sold as 'mri')
asciilifeform: the business end of nmr box was never large.
mircea_popescu: i mean "the miniaturization is important in itself", ie, even if obviously won't work to move large bodies, it's integral to the magical cavity.
mircea_popescu: yeah. just, you know, the miniaturization itself is important.
asciilifeform: hence the monster machines with liquid he etc.
mircea_popescu: guess there's also that.
PeterL: it could work with a flow cell, which would be cool for monitoring a process, but the low resolution would make it very bad for identification work
asciilifeform: PeterL: then what led you to believe that it works ?
asciilifeform: PeterL: didja pop the cover on it? what does one need to make it ?
PeterL: at my previous employer there was an equipment showcase, bunch of vendors showing off new stuff, one guy brought a shoebox sized nmr, blew my mind a bit
mircea_popescu: human civilisation was built by very intelligent, special, sensitive doods DOING WHAT THEY WERE MOTHERFUCKING TOLD
mircea_popescu: this entire "elective" driver for human activity is the pits.
asciilifeform: which theoretically lets you make the entire orchestra, gun, barrel, bullet, from soft aluminum.
asciilifeform: re '3d gun' folk, it boggles my mind that they ignore 'gyrojet'
asciilifeform: (in the somewhat cryptic words of ilkka k.)
mircea_popescu: and we'll be all "oh, good thing you did the rape thing first then mkay. THAT was the emergency"
mircea_popescu: it's gonna be the "surprising nobody could have predicted what will those zany scientist kids think of next" of our old age.
asciilifeform: with the right hands it is 50 months, or 50 days away.
mircea_popescu: but this technology is 50 years away, idiots are too busy making "3d guns" out of the practical equivalent of a large plastic coathanger injector and other stencils.
mircea_popescu: in ~principle~ all chemistry as practiced now could be changed to phys-chem through the process of, put substance inside magical cavity, shoot the right beams at the right atoms.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 19:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562159 << he was born in soviet russia. there isn't a purpose, just, electricity is all he's got besides "the power of the soviets", and while neither can fill a hand before pissing in it would, nevertheless at least electricity DOES SOMETHING.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562259 << betcha that one could budge the otherwise astronomically-unfavourable equilibria with modulated arc, or something else unavailable to ancestors.
asciilifeform: '“We don’t spy on anyone. We don’t work with any government to spy on others and we never would,” Dominic Carr, General Manager of Public Affairs at Microsoft, said.' << gold
mircea_popescu: (in some ind processes, the "was there a spark" is mn dollar question post disaster)
mircea_popescu: then it's a good caveat.
mircea_popescu: yes but most organics are not "thermodynamically plausible" to use your terminology, making it misguiding. put caveat "if it's not organic, or interesting (ie explosives)"
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 19:29 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562147 << it is, or at least was, the explanation of "how life begun". nevertheless, this method fails amply for organic compounds : fill a tube with a all the organic compounds you can think dilute in the same solvent, run electrictity through it, congrats you have some lightly chlorinated toilet water.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562257 << did i not put in caveat, 'if there is any thermodynamically-plausible path to the end product' !
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:24 asciilifeform: and the feedstock problem is not escapable in postindustrial world. e.g., one can make nitric acid from, say, copper sulfate, saltpetre, and water. but where in the forest do i dig up copper sulfate ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562183 << afaik copper sulphate is one of the naturally occuring presentations. it comesa as mix of carbonate, phosphate and some oxides.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:23 asciilifeform: how the fuck do you write down ~hand skills~
mircea_popescu: fucking savagery. and it probably started "for your own good", as these things always go.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562173 << i wanted to show girls the thing (it's fucking pretty, innit ?) these idiots don't even know what it IS. i mean, pharmacists. they go to medical school here. NO FUCKING IDEA!
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:14 PeterL: what would be the purpose of this?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562159 << he was born in soviet russia. there isn't a purpose, just, electricity is all he's got besides "the power of the soviets", and while neither can fill a hand before pissing in it would, nevertheless at least electricity DOES SOMETHING.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562147 << it is, or at least was, the explanation of "how life begun". nevertheless, this method fails amply for organic compounds : fill a tube with a all the organic compounds you can think dilute in the same solvent, run electrictity through it, congrats you have some lightly chlorinated toilet water.
trinque: asciilifeform: http://news.softpedia.com/news/russian-president-vladimir-putin-wants-microsoft-out-of-the-country-509902.shtml << hey alf, pootie tang heard you.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:08 phf: failing to find it so far, i think it's the one where we talked about looking through dirt for useful synths and how nobody is doing it (but when they do they get mad gains)
mircea_popescu: (to be clear : 14F catheter is inserted in the lus (lower uterine segment). the baloon is then inflated to ~5ml, and under light traction 100ml of 0.15% solutin in introduced as drip over 10 minutes. no antibiotics needed, abortion occurs within hours.)
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 16:46 PeterL: If I were a woman, I don't think I would trust the purity of something made in somebodies garage to not have dangerous impurities
asciilifeform: 'Homer Hickam stated that "Universal Studios marketing people got involved and they just had to change the title because, according to their research, women over thirty would never see a movie titled Rocket Boys"...' << l0l!!
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: re: woods << wasn't this the premise of October Sky (the rocket boys?!?) from West VA back in the 50's?
thestringpuller: just cause you can buy weight from the comfort of your mom's basement does not mean you have capacity to sling said dope on street.
asciilifeform: and when you helpfully light the way for gasenwagen with gigantic flare above your door..
thestringpuller: i.e. "You're the guy who wasn't good enough to sling dope."
thestringpuller: well silk road idiots didn't follow the book of jeezy
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'nobody' shows up at any door -- until they do.
asciilifeform: incidentally this possibility is a perennial thorn in the side of usg, and they keep coming up with crackpot mega-surveillance schemes against it, most recently the ill-fated $2B balloon
asciilifeform: if you're 'in nowhere' just launch from the woods, neh?
thestringpuller: which ironically in th elocale legend a farmer launched a two stage rocket into the sea from here
asciilifeform: Great Inca owns, in case anyone missed the memo, not only land, sea, but air.
asciilifeform: which is why rifle bullets are not the size of grains of rice
ben_vulpes: numbers, the rest.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what application for thermite, armor?
ben_vulpes: the 'g' of grenade is a shameful waste of mass budget imho.
PeterL: IIRC, they were slightly too big and fell under the "dangerous weapons" regulations anyway, should have gone all the way to mini-rpg
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: some applications call for thermite.
ben_vulpes: trade the explosive for a bit of mass and a bit more propellant.
ben_vulpes rather fond of simple barrages over gyrojet projectiles
PeterL: gyrojet is so futuristic weapon, shame it didn't make the cut
asciilifeform: where the jets were simply angularly-drilled openings.
ben_vulpes: as evidenced by the usg-blessed rocketry associations insistent whine that rockets may only go up.
asciilifeform is of the - admittedly armchair - notion that 'backyard artillerists' oughta focus on rockets, lower pressure, better... 'bang for buck'
asciilifeform: point is not 'top metallurgy', but that the axle beats any kind of iron you can smelt in your cellar.
PeterL is not metalurgist, does not know how much variation goes into these things
asciilifeform: i once encountered an entire monograph on the drilling, rifling, and tempering of barrels made specifically from old truck axles.
asciilifeform: there is some of this.
asciilifeform: minerals live in 1) the shops, while supplies last and 2) in junkyard.
asciilifeform: PeterL: recall the 'copper caves' thread ? identification of minerals 'in the wild' was useful skill in 1700s.
asciilifeform: point here is that - sadly - not everything is susceptible to the written-word treatment.
asciilifeform: and the feedstock problem is not escapable in postindustrial world. e.g., one can make nitric acid from, say, copper sulfate, saltpetre, and water. but where in the forest do i dig up copper sulfate ?
PeterL: I mean, not specifically wikipedia, just there are a lot of topics that each connect to one another
asciilifeform: how the fuck do you write down ~hand skills~
asciilifeform: PeterL: as you well know, the actual body of knowledge that is needed, has never really been written down, because it is at least partly a 'seat of the pants' craft, like flying jets
asciilifeform: in that the 'cat and mouse' game continues, you come up with path, and usg bans formerly commonplace household crud, etc.