Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

https://braiins.com/blog/stratum-v2-bitcoin-decentralization

Neat: Slush pool's "pick your own block to mine" scheme rewards miners proportionally to the value of the block they're mining.

"People who destroy property during street protests will be arrested and prosecuted under a tighter new policy coordinated with Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, interim police Chief Adrian Diaz announced Saturday. "

...less than a week after Biden got into power.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/seattle-police-chief-announces-tougher-policy-of-prosecuting-protesters-who-vandalize/

@NunyaBidness @vladcostea Serious response: the power in a potato battery actually comes from the metallic electrodes, not the potato.

@NunyaBidness @vladcostea IN POST APOCALYPTIC FUTURE POTATOES ARE FOR EATING!

@NunyaBidness @vladcostea OTOH, unlike acoustic guitars, you'll need to scour the post-apocalyptic landscape for generators.

What is hope, in the face of all this uncertainty?

What is love? What is meaning?

If anything could happen, at any moment, anything at all, why do I still feel?

Siri, is existence pain?

I'm going to start a new currency backed by guitar pedals. It'll be a limited supply, sound money.

Just ask @vladcostea

NY Times article: https://archive.is/Qj3LE

Not giving them clicks.

Whatever it takes to win an election...

@XBT Why not both? At the same time?

@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Another vid with more explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rCZHG_eEak

@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo I've heard that the "secret sauce" in profitable, high quality, .22LR ammo production is consistently applying the primer to the inside of the rim after the case itself has been formed.

@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Ah right.

Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyYpM56Eo8

They first form a cup with a series of progressive draw dies. I'm guess the machine at 3:49 puts the case into a die with a rod in the middle for support, with a cavity at the bottom for the rim. Then it'd be crushed lengthwise, forcing the metal to bend outwards into the shape of the rim cavity.

@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Wait, what do you think needs cutting exactly?

@alan8325 @DickForgetsHeRunsServices @drgo Well, specifically, there's a lot more people on the right who are involved in building things than on the left. Even at the arts university - which had extensive fabrication shops and machine tools - the people who did more of that leaned right, relatively speaking.

@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Lots of interesting youtube vids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-vQpwgiHbA

This one shows how to turn copper blanks into bullet cases with home made punch and draw dies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0JVm76Y37I

Totally doable in a home shop, with sufficient trial and error.

@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Speaking of, those IMU's were a hilarious example of the failures of regulation: when ITAR was introduced, only "friendly" countries could make them.

But due to how ITAR works, if you can make do with a Russian IMU, you'd much rather buy a foreign one than comply with all the paperwork required to buy ones from "friendly" countries... Supposedly Iran businesses were even trying to get into the precision IMU business, with commercial sales as the goal!

@alan8325 @DickForgetsHeRunsServices @drgo Note how it's much easier to stomach aggressive regulations on tech used to build things when you've off-shored all your industry...

@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Swaging is one of those things which is really not all that hard in term of the minimum supply chain required. It just takes a lot of work to actually build the equipment and get it working right.

@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Got an example?

I used to have an ITAR clearance myself. But that was for a job working with _much_ more specialized equipment (IMU's with good enough specs to do ICBM guidance, and a gravity gradiometer).