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Fri Mar 18 17:06:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform and you know this for a fact ? maybe the profusion is just because people like encapsulated things.
Fri Mar 18 17:06:36 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: NOBODY REGULATES CURRENT
Fri Mar 18 17:06:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> big whoop.
Fri Mar 18 17:06:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in parallel you're relying on same loads to regulate your... current.
Fri Mar 18 17:05:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you might be, i guess.
Fri Mar 18 17:05:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you don't HAVE to be tho.
Fri Mar 18 17:05:19 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: you are missing the key piece
Fri Mar 18 17:02:32 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> to summarize said argument attempts : line 1. "high voltage is dangerous" "mkay, throw out your tv" ; line 2 : "you will have to protect the line" "yes you will" ; line 3 : "this was done historically" "yes it was".
Fri Mar 18 17:01:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> uncharitably i might also observe that other than "i say so!" "it's how it's done" "reddit would agree", relatively little actual arguments were brought, which is why the task of poking fun was so easy/the experience so frustrating.
Fri Mar 18 16:59:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> moderation in all things eh.
Fri Mar 18 16:59:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> PeterL: he suggested (i still can't tell if seriously!) to plug them in ~series~ << no dude. he said "see if your isp is willing to give you a c block / upgrade your connection. buy a coupla bridges of 32 or 64, make a high voltage rectifier thingee, and power a bunch of boxes" then you went all crazy about how series omaygerd! and i spent the rest of the interval poking fun at it. this is an exact para
Fri Mar 18 16:59:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> llel of how mp said "^ for the record, i've been divesting, if slowly." and you spent two days going on about 0 value bitcoin, then the interval hence being butthurt that there's no 0 value bitcoin.
Fri Mar 18 16:59:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> I'm not necessarily against taking mp's lines and looking in all the folds carefully ; but it's a little silly to do this run off with what i think an angle might have been, damn everything else.
Fri Mar 18 16:52:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> jurov> actually, that would neatly solve the mystery of cascading failure of his raid setup << fu georg!
Fri Mar 18 16:52:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL> maybe it is just my lack of electrical engineering knowledge, but it sounds like mircea_popescu and asciilifeform are saying to do the same thing, but won't agree with each other? << you have nfi how often this happens.
Fri Mar 18 16:01:22 UTC 2016 <BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform i think his plan to fight some derps doing black magic is not to squarely ignore them, but to DO THINGS to anti-magic their magic. << Oh it's not a plan. It's noise
Fri Mar 18 15:37:38 UTC 2016 <PeterL> maybe it is just my lack of electrical engineering knowledge, but it sounds like mircea_popescu and asciilifeform are saying to do the same thing, but won't agree with each other?
Fri Mar 18 15:32:57 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: a correct way to 'de-chink' the pogo power source might be, e.g., to connect them all - in parallel - to old soviet car battery charger.
Fri Mar 18 15:30:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> decentralization being not the answer, but the problem, in many applications. as seen here.
Fri Mar 18 15:29:57 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 18-03-2016 14:34:24; mircea_popescu: lol davout while i'm the first friend of humor, or so i like to think, that two weeks tm can't stand there. it can readily be interpreted to mean forever, and that just can't be.