thestringpuller: hoorah ethereum?
thestringpuller: the dump begins?
asciilifeform: anyone know if there's a traditional name for this type of scam?
punkman: http://www.ghs.com/linux.html << the original industrial-strength anti-linux pr. << heh, not bad
asciilifeform: when i read the 'rebecca' piece, i immediately assumed it was a green hills turd somebody dug up for old time's sake.
punkman: "FortressFone™ is a 100% reengineered and reimagined secure mobile solution. The first truly hardened Android Smartphone, it stops intercepts of all communications and blocks any kind of spying."
asciilifeform: incidentally, anyone amused by the above should look up Green Hills corp.
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assbot: Break’s over, back to the basement! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
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nubbins`: it's climbing like the fucking hashrate
nubbins`: i think epidemic is the word they use when 50% of cases have appeared in the past three weeks 8)
penguirker: New blog post: http://trilema.com/2014/breaks-over-back-to-the-basement/
mircea_popescu: !up themediator
gribble: Error: You don't have the network.whois capability. If you think that you should have this capability, be sure that you are identified before trying again. The 'whoami' command can tell you if you're identified.
mircea_popescu: so this is weird : if you do /nick irc it says * irc :Erroneous Nickname ; but if you do /msg NickServ identify irc 123 it says -NickServ- Invalid password for Nexuist. now how the hell did this nexuist guy manage to group irc ?
Vexual: 212 to the 714
Vexual: theyre likey rockin 2000 hp an automatic weapons, cats int that they like fish and killing smaller things
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=catboy | Either a male human that is half-cat(thus having cat ears, a cat tail, and paws) or a male cat that is half human(thus standing upright and having slightly more ...
cazalla: this sums it up well - "The storyline of Archeage is a war between whites and east Asians, and much of the game play is piracy, with much of the piracy featuring conflicts between whites and east Asians. White male avatars are depicted as way better than anyone else, even though this game was written and the art drawn by east Asians. (And, by the way, the Mongols are catboys)"
Duffer1: my brother played it a bit
cazalla: mmo, it's f2p but you pretty much have to pay if you get serious, i played a little of the beta but not much, it's ok but nothing stands out
Vexual: Decimation: no, but i'll brainstorm on quasi intelligent systems for favour for the like sof you
Vexual: you meet the nicest people on a honda
mircea_popescu: the metal cage is extra
mircea_popescu: spacex is the reward programme for musk & friends
mircea_popescu: decimation boeing was going to get usg funds one way or another.
TheNewDeal: I may be wrong, but, the other day I think the topic of french woment showing their tits as part of some feminist revolution was discussed in here? Anyway here's a video that should provide some lulz. Forewarning, it's 10 minutes long, and retarded http://www.upworthy.com/a-french-film-showing-men-what-being-a-woman-feels-like-kinda?c=reccon1
BingoBoingo: decimation: Sure, but if the lifespan is so poor...
cazalla: mircea_popescu, close! but no cigar as they say :P
decimation: BingoBoingo: I think they try to keep a few 'spares' in orbit
assbot: The System: GLONASS in April, What Went Wrong : GPS World
decimation: the details behind the glonass outage: http://gpsworld.com/the-system-glonass-in-april-what-went-wrong/
asciilifeform: and this is without any banana dictator deciding one day to play selective-access games with the machines.
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: I dun think you know how frequently GPS satellites get replaced
The20YearIRCloud: Even with collapse the constellation has good working chances through 2050
The20YearIRCloud: The joys of feminazidom
mircea_popescu: either way.
asciilifeform: it'll get 100% uptime when the last wintel box in russia is ceremonially burned.
mircea_popescu: but afaik they mostly fixed it.
The20YearIRCloud: GPS has essentially had 100% uptime since the 80s. Glonass started in 1976 and hasn't worked correctly till about 2004
The20YearIRCloud: There was supposed to be a ? After what I said. Glonass has been very problematic. When it works its great but way more unreliable than GPS
mircea_popescu: This is why I say that all men should have an annual mandatory mental checkup. Over 80% of inmates are men, and 40% of the global male population ends up in prison at some point in their life. It is clear that they have some sort of genetic defect that makes them act irresponsibly and end up putting others at risk. Peace and civility can only be achieved if we ensure that the male population has a normal functioning st
decimation: I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the glonass wagon: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2139300/russias-glonass-gps-system-suffers-major-disruption.html
mircea_popescu: pull that shit on the wrong guy he'd have fed him his pistol by now
decimation: it seems that there is a division between those who are rich in bezzlars and those who could use them to do something worthwhile
mircea_popescu: where the fuck is he
decimation: neither of which are available today
decimation: the way the nazis got there was partially by making von braun the personal dictator of their rocket program and partialy by slave labor
asciilifeform: not sure 19bn buys 1% of earth unless in the form of briefcases loaded with bejies
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asciilifeform: $13k 1945 dollars per V2 << lol! the ultimate 'confusion between the warm and the soft things.'
assbot: A Rocket a Day Keeps the High Costs Away
decimation: herr walker believes this could be scaled: http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/rocketaday.html << the nazis paid $13k 1945 dollars per V2
mircea_popescu: glonass didn't cost 20 bn, and it;'s afaik better than the gps stuff
decimation: actually for what facebook wasted on whatsapp, they could have had a really nice little satellite constellation (assuming they had the will to engineer it properly)
decimation: but zuckerberg stole the idea because he googled 'im stealin ur patents'
mircea_popescu: decimation you're starting to sound like the hershey bar guy
decimation: of course the actual devices used by the us could never be carried by such light aircraft
assbot: I-400-class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: It would probably be best to build a couple devices and stuff them on airplanes that are stuffed into submarines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine
mircea_popescu: but even for the hell of it - calculate the sub that can carry the diesel engine that can make the electricity thyat can fill a baloon
BingoBoingo: Because touching the balloon would set it off?
mircea_popescu: why not make azide baloon then
decimation: http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/other-wwi-aviation/59492-how-many-cows-does-take-build-zeppelin.html
decimation: yeah I'm not sure that the rubber/plastic technology of the age could have made a big enough balloon
decimation: yeah you are right, I guess the submarines were just a hypothesis (although could still be true, sand from beach, launched from sub)
asciilifeform: temperamental machines, they were, not where you'd stuff a precious handmade '40s nuke
asciilifeform: afaik they flew from japan proper.
asciilifeform: decimation: not so much close to an actual physical unit, but had the correct approach (vs. german heavy water.)
decimation: my understanding is that the japanese were actually very close to a working nuke bomb
decimation: yeah ideally you want it to adjust its height so it can use the winds to station-keep indefinitely
asciilifeform: problem is, these pop (by design) at a certain height.
assbot: Amazon.com : 8 ft. dia. Professional Weather Balloon, 150g (green) : Weather Stations : Patio, Lawn & Garden
asciilifeform: http://www.amazon.com/dia-Professional-Weather-Balloon-green/dp/B00DWG25E8 << not a military secret. buy all you want.
decimation: maybe they can sell balloons to zambia
decimation: why the hell does a 'height master plan' need a balloon for photography?
decimation: perhaps it's the humble beginnings of the Ugandan space program: http://acrossdifficultcountry.blogspot.com/2009/05/far-out-space-nuts.html
assbot: About that Balloon in the Sky Over Dupont | PoPville
asciilifeform: http://www.popville.com/2014/03/about-that-balloon-in-the-sky-over-dupont << from comments, reference to commercial balloon service which is sometimes used in the city.
asciilifeform: or amateurs, testing the waters.
decimation: it's some other unit of usg doing spending money it doesn't have
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah but it turns out it wasn't the 'radar blimps'
asciilifeform: these were announced some time last month, i think.
assbot: What in the world were those white objects hovering over Washington, D.C.?
decimation: asciilifeform: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/09/16/what-in-the-world-were-those-white-objects-hovering-over-washington-d-c/ << they're watching
nubbins`: i think there's a guy in montreal with one of those as well
nubbins`: maybe he can get you into the embassy
mircea_popescu: it's not burned if there's hope
mircea_popescu: there.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin.org is the original domain name used with the first Bitcoin website. It was registered and is still managed by Bitcoin core developers and by additional community members, with the input of Bitcoin communities. Bitcoin.org is not an official website. Just like nobody owns the email technology, nobody owns the Bitcoin network. As such, nobody can speak with authority in the name of Bitcoin.
atcbot: [PityThePool Hashrate]: 109.95 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.34 TH/s
BingoBoingo: chalbersma: Now you need to coordinate with mod6 to get the pool added to:
chalbersma: Ya when you look at p2pool in Bitcoin nobody has a share of the network like you and Bingo do.
X-Rob: The pool still has its share difficulty way too low.
X-Rob: and that's the important thing.
BingoBoingo: X-Rob: Well, maybe a mix. For a while there were 0.002 second share times.
chalbersma: X-Rob I looked it up. It will accept +diff but there's a maximum + you can go up. going 1024 when diff was 1 was too much.
X-Rob: that was the first major fix that chalbersma did
BingoBoingo: Oh, fixing the share difficulty was in part my bashing hash into the pool unproductively for a while's result
X-Rob: the gui is saying it's still small, but it seems to be only asking for resets at about 12k now
X-Rob: The share difficulty is better, chalbersma, btw
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2014 00:22:07; BingoBoingo: ;;later tell X-Rob How are the stats on chalbersma's pool looking? http://104.131.60.126:8559/static/
BingoBoingo: chalbersma: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2014#831691 is where to do the quick catching up
atcbot: [PityThePool Hashrate]: 73.30 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.65 TH/s
chalbersma: @Ragnar did someone else add hashing power to the nodes?
BingoBoingo: RagnarsBitch: There seem to be a few of these sites. It was just the first one mentioned when the constipation crisis happened. I think Blazedout419 brought it up
BingoBoingo: RagnarsBitch: Also with that site... It just functions as a sort of Ebay trying to be a "dumb" middleman so contacting rig owners off their paltform is a hassel
RagnarsBitch: OK. I will do some research then
BingoBoingo: RagnarDanneskjol: Well complicating this is also that other than Antminers I dunno what mining hardware is actually shipping in quantity
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://photo.oper.ru/news/read.php?t=1051614147 << just for you. 'ballerina at the machine.'
BingoBoingo: RagnarDanneskjol: A big thing with p2pool seems to be finding miners that play nicely with it. Antminer S2's suck, but S1's and S3's are ok. Other rigs are somewhat trial and error in my limited research.
kakobrekla: thats the record. :)
RagnarDanneskjol: BingoBoingo - what is the name of the miners you are using - if its gonna stop tomorow, I might take it over so there's more than one miner on the pool. and I assume rob isnt planning to keep his running 24/7 indefinitely, right?
kakobrekla: anyone knows what is the record for male 100m sprint in Montenegro?
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: If it wasn't a badbet I'd suggest maor white Americans get ebola y Jan 1st 2015 than black Americans. Seems safe since they already have the lead.
asciilifeform: 'our [soviet] elephants - largest in the world!' - unknown wag
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are ascending
mircea_popescu: cazalla i wanna meet the followers for all these leaders. america, the land of the 99 leaders to the duck.
cazalla: cryptsy users about to get btfo with spam "Cryptsy will actively promote digitalX Mintsy to its customer base of over 250,000 registered users, who currently trade over 200 different types of digital currencies, making the site a leader in digital currency trading."
X-Rob: which means every 10 seconds, I (and all the rest of the miners) get told to discard everythign they're working on
X-Rob: but p2pool has sharechains. The sharechains is, according to p2pool, a new block
X-Rob: Assume 'asic reset time' = ... 500msec. That happens whenver the pool says 'discard all your work, I have a new block with a new coinbase'
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: I don't think I used the word suck.
BingoBoingo: I have to say this is probably the most consistent rented hash I've ever had it seems. The 600GH/s pointed at it nao
X-Rob: What I'm seeing on the dashboard is not what I"m seeing when submitting shares.
X-Rob: there aren't any
BingoBoingo: Hopefully this thing plays well with different workers mining to the same address.
X-Rob: BingoBoingo: I can try aiming there again if you want
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell X-Rob How are the stats on chalbersma's pool looking? http://104.131.60.126:8559/static/
jurov: As early as 1987, the New York Times wrote: "by the early 80's, Mr. Jobs was widely hated at Apple. Senior management had to endure his temper tantrums. He created resentment among employees by turning some into stars and insulting others, often reducing them to tears. Mr. Jobs himself would frequently cry after fights with fellow executives".
BingoBoingo: Often the maggots seem like their are try to help. "Oh here's some necrotic tissue to debride!"
mircea_popescu: lol the american svab. not bad.
mircea_popescu: jurov> you see for youself what happened to it anyway. << it took over and set the course of computer history ?
TheNewDeal: curious to see if anyone knows how http://bitcoincharts.com/ calculates network hashrate. Looked around a little and couldnt find the answer
jurov: lol actually there is more
jurov: 'the mute people'<< same here, additionally "šváb" (Swabian) and "rus" (Russian) are both widely names for cockroach species
BingoBoingo: Always nice to have more node options that don't care where the transactions they push come from
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Also it seems to not have its own wallt implementation, or at least the press release doesn't mention one which is a plus.
assbot: The Coinbase Blog Introducing Toshi - An Open Source Bitcoin Node For Developers
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BingoBoingo: No, that's what they are fed.
BingoBoingo: bounce: Well, who feeds the wikipedos?
bounce: wikipedia says we left the last of those behind in the bronze age. so if the argument goes those things are still around (and they could well be, the eu likes this too for one) then we still need a useful classifier
asciilifeform: but literally - anywhere goods are delivered mainly to - and distributed mainly from - the palace.
asciilifeform: bounce: palace economy is any system where the crown is the (or even 'a') first-class financial, economic, cultural - player.
mircea_popescu: that end up is not even correct. they are. pretense to the contrary won't long endure.
gribble: Palace economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_economy>; "Palace economy" In: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah06237/pdf>; Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies | American Journal of ...: <http://www.ajaonline.org/forum/905>
bounce: (how ironic that the USA effectively has a single party left. alright, two names and a dissident faction, but the politics are still muchly one party.)
bounce: "liberal" sounds right-wing to me, as in non-labour. but then, us politics are right-shifted compared to pinko-commie treehugging yurpeen politics.
chetty: I suppose we are doing the same thing with things like libtards
mircea_popescu: maryland doesn't have the same ring to it
asciilifeform: but it also is used by provincial folks to gripe about the capital & the central gov. in general. approx. 'damned muscovites'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ukrs lifted it, too
asciilifeform: chetty, mircea_popescu: 'the mute people'
chetty: asciilifeform, whats the russian word for germans actually mean?
asciilifeform: so they can in principle flip.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not necessarily a zapped theory, just needs a little 'epicycle.' that being: orc and human exist in dynamic equilibrium; 'orcish' land has a trace element of 'human' and vice versa
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your pissing theory is weak because singapore went from one to the other over one generation.
asciilifeform: bounce: but before you can 'run' them, have to recruit.
mircea_popescu: which is ridiculous, because in romanian that says "the russians" which were his backers mostly.
mircea_popescu: it failed horribly, the cryptocommie in charge brought some miners from mining country to beat the shit out of the "intellectuals" and assorted aggitators
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform funny linguistic trainwreck : during the early 1990s, the leftover us derps tried to organise the maidan thing in romania too. it was called "miscarea piata universitatii", dunno why the fixation on "plaza" in the name.
mircea_popescu: "well they're not corsicans, i'll tell you that! so..."
mircea_popescu: because the current one "wrongly vaporized" or w/e was gmaxwell's expression.
bounce: on the note of nigerian scammers deliberately writing horrible ingrish to filter out the chumps... what'd the successful scam ratings do if the regulars in -otc would manage to write well-punctuated correct english?
mircea_popescu: russians having invented robots, they get the benefit of seeing things like "worker worker" whenever someone has a worker robot in a game or somewhere.
asciilifeform: bounce: the term 'agent work.' refers to how traitors are traditionally recruited by the masters of the 20th century - totalitarian intelligence agencies. (and, arguably, every intelligence worker since cave man)
bounce: no idea about the (probably) cyrillic, but the tactic was pretty obvious down to boring me to tears
asciilifeform: and what his plan is for the recruited chump.
asciilifeform catches up with log, reads the latest mr. spam, and wonders if he's the only one here familiar with traditional 'агентурная работа' tradecraft. i.e. why the bugger wants you (for some value of 'you') alone, in dark alley, and feeling warm & special & 'pre-qualified.'
mircea_popescu: but which SEEM exactly the contrary.
mircea_popescu: the problem of course is the converse situation : products like the btc, wot or gpg, without which life ACTUALLY IS not worth living
mircea_popescu: in fact items as expensive as 50k are consumer products just fine, because of the finance economy.
mircea_popescu: the only consideration is if the thing actually costs 18k to make (cars don't really, but the mess of "safety" and "environmental" regulations make the "car" as defined actulaly cost a lot to make)
mircea_popescu: in point of fact people can and do spend 18k just on financing for a car they don't need (either because they live in ny, or because it'd be the 3rd family car etc)
mircea_popescu: re kako's "cost 18k usd" thing : a financial economy has one benefit exactly, and that is, making the price point not a consideration anymore.
thestringpuller: yea the buddy is annoying me
nubbins`: i also emailed your buddy the same info fwiw
nubbins`: anyway, we're ready whenever. shirts are here, films are printed. should be in the mail within 24h of getting the graphic sorted
thestringpuller: nubbins` yea i can't get in contact with the designer. He's being really sensitive right now.
mircea_popescu: "I had this notion that it would be interesting to meet people from all around the world and show them Galway, but most of the visitors we got were extremely boring eastern Europeans who kept their food in a separate plastic bag and got up early to do yoga."
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2014 00:24:55; nubbins`: thestringpuller shirts finally arrived, printing films; your design doesn't have text converted to outlines
bounce: yeah uh, where's the protein pills?
nubbins`: thestringpuller
bounce: also, you're now thoroughly in the "waste of time" bucket by saying the same vapid things five times in a row. of course, our fault. so sorry.
qq1932: it's okay. Nobody has self-qualified. Without the self-qualification, it 100% sounds like a scam. But then, so would the Watt steam engine.
bounce: then it isn't happening. not impressed. sorry.
qq1932: This project is discretionary for me and if I don't find a backer based on this pre-qualificaiton then it is not happening. I have two other outside commitments that are very serious.
qq1932: here's the deal guys. if you google >patents public disclosure< you will see that there are limits to what can be said in a public channel, since I do not plan on entering the manufacturing field of the project. privately after a brief agreement I can and am happy to share 100%. tihs is part of why I need someone who would self-qualify as being able to discriminate and, e.g., understand the Watt steam engine in 1700.
mircea_popescu: now they're all going about calling each other sir and acting as if they're fucking people. it's a sickening display.
qq1932: It might not be the right audience. I've had interest in other places, but they did not have money. However, I would not like to refer to them, I would really only pitch this specific project, in full, to someone who thinks they have the background, specifically in basic physics.
mircea_popescu: but the god damned idea that politeness is something that may be afforded to the horde.
kakobrekla: if only you could harvest the energy of people trying to make this happen.
mircea_popescu: i would submit that the worst invention of the 20th century was not the a bomb, nor the concentration camp, nor statal racism
mircea_popescu: this is like free talk therapy.
qq1932: There is no pitch so far ,sorry.
bounce: show of hands. is anybody amused by the pitch? does it anything for you at all?
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I don't know how else to put this. I want to pitch just someone who has the level of physics understanding that they would have understood and funded the Watt engine (as an IP play, which is what it was) in 1700 (70 years early.)
kakobrekla: there are more groups trying to build that scam than there parts needed to supposedly make it.
bounce: fuck no, I just got bored of the repetetetetetetetetive sales pitch.
bounce: it's just updated for the modern age with some ancient-sounding modern physics. best of all worlds, see?
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I realize that you have self-qualified above with "no". I do not want to convince you based on appeals to authority, collaborators, third-party things, etc. This is a suitable partnership with someone who would self-qualify as 'yes' to the above question. Thank you however.
mircea_popescu: now s/woman/idea and you get the idea.
mircea_popescu: and that IF they're lucky.
mircea_popescu: to put it in other words : harems are for lords.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: well, I am not in a position to drop my other projects to pursue this discretionary project.
mircea_popescu: you are not in the position to even remotely as a joke consider anything but slavish 100% dedication 16 hours a day with no sundays
mircea_popescu: dude, let me tell you something to help your head calibrate yourself. i recently wrote to a famous illustrator, whose work is celebrated by an actual fanbase and included in successful franchises. he committed, on the basis of that conversation, and the whole thing is costing me bitcoin fractions so far.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: there is no "secret" component to this, I don't need to hold anything back. Of course, that only matters to those self-qualifying as having enough understnading to discriminate between the Watt's steam engine 70 years early (1700) and snake oil.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I have not committed any resources to it, and cannot commit to full-time work on it; I have two major existing outside commitments. I may not do the project at all.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: works well << yes! 'tell me again about the waters of your homeworld.' ('Dune'.)
qq1932: Basically, I agree with you. At any rate anyone who is interested in hearing in this needs to self-qualify as having enough understanding of basic high-school physics that they actually could have understood the Watt steam engine 70 years early, if Watt had described it. If you self-qualify (it sounds, mircea_popescu, that your answer is no) we can discuss. This is a totally discretionary project.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: precisely same. diddles the mark's 'feeling educatickled' receptors.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform worked on the same premise ?
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I agree with what you're saying, and most innovations in, e.g. battery technology, or fusion reactor design, and so forth, are far too difficult for anyone other than a non-expert to evaluate.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the time honored tradition of con artistry << i call this '10th dimension-ism' in honour of a particularly egregious web-based psycholoscamz0r.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I can understand this but in this particular case the principles are no more advanced (by comparison) than the Watt steam engine at the time. It's a different field, this is an analogy.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the time honored tradition of con artistry is to flatter people who are too stupid to understand how stupid they are by making this confusion, between "highschool understanding" as required to understand well known and widely understood topics, and extremely advanced fundamental understanding required to understand similarly just as simple, but not widely known topics.
The20YearIRCloud: lots of people are like that qq1932 , those are the people that rarely amount to anything
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I disagree with you that it always takes much more than "highschool understanding" of any topic to recognize fundamental innovations that eluded people. In fact, this is the reason a lot of people think the "obvious" bar is too low and no patents should be granted . I had someone tell me that there is no fundamental innovation of any kind in the past 200 years that was not "obvious".
punkman: do they still have physics in US high schools?
fluffypony: because I can do either
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud tthe problem with it is that it only works one way, and at a fixed speed.
The20YearIRCloud: he has time travel that works? THen really, really sign me up
mircea_popescu: this is why fundamental mathematics only started in 1800.
kakobrekla: The20YearIRCloud that actually works.
mircea_popescu: qq1932 dude, there's a major difference between "highschool understanding" of any topic and fundamental understanding of such outstanding quality as to recognise fundamentally correct but contemporaneously obscure advances.
BingoBoingo: qq1932: Is this the flappy plane idea?
qq1932: Note that energy is a RIPE field for actual scams. This is open to someone self-qualifying as having enough basic high-school physics understanding to see the distinction.