note to self: no such thing like a former spook

oh you “did your own research”. i work in pharma and there’s plenty of real problems to be solved instead of chasing wishes of dead chinese emperors

no serious pharma company tries to do that, it’s all high proof uncut transhumanist nonsense, served by crackpots, feeding on old scifi and rooted in the same impulse that driven alchemists in search of immortality

i’m of course not gonna stop you from believing in anything, do what you want

you might end up like ray kurzweil, aging no matter what despite 300 pills popped every day

thiel isn’t funding unlicensed drug trials for longevity/immortality just so that he’ll become more progressive in the process

with 200, 300 year old oligarchs values they grew up with are gonna stay influential much longer

For the record, i just intend to outlive my enemies

my background in biochemistry makes me think it’s almost guaranteed to be impossible, so i don’t worry about it.

however, in hypothetical case it isn’t, i’d argue that it would be proper to destroy this technology in all cases along with inventors, because it would be horridly expensive initially, and first people to get it would be people like peter thiel and larry ellison. there was a recording where putin and xi admitted that they are also interested. then what you’ll get would be class of immortal oligarchs. planck once said, progress in physics happens one funeral at a time, it’s really more general than just physics, and you can say goodbye to any progress from that point on

he’s a clown, that counts i guess

yeah piracy community is three blocks down, fuck off

because it’s packed with nazis and cryptobros with their spam. moderation is very limited by design

things that bounce from ionosphere. shortwave radio, AM broadcast, some military communications. couple of radiooperators will take a break for a day or two until space weather gets calm. unlikely that satellites would get fried

if you’re lucky, you might see aurora tomorrow, even if you’re in area that usually doesn’t have them (easier for southern hemisphere)

here if you need anything over certain power (6kW; depends on country i guess) you need a three phase installation, and even if you get single phase, it’s really handled as three phase split between single phase customers (a block gets three phase supply, then splits flats in three groups, each group gets connected to one phase). this gets supplied by a distribution transformer that might serve somewhere around 200 people per (in residential areas)

i understand that sometimes americans also get distribution like this, with 208/120 three phase coming from substation, without 240v available

american version would probably only have two phases at best, and possibly just one

wait, how do you route cables in there? is there just a massive bundle right through the middle?

ye except that depending on how paranoid are you this also means that all personal/small instances will be always suspicious and most of popular instances allow lots of that by default

Absolutely none, and it’s by design. All you need to do is setup an instance and everything you might need gets right into database

it’s lowkey crazy how fast has she adapted to being a conservative grifter

In America, if you make fun out of president’s favourite podcaster, you go to jail

if you have an antenna with impedance of, say, 200 ohms, then you need to match it to transmitter impedance of 50 ohms, or else most of power output from transmitter would be bounced back and will damage output stage of amplifier. because on receive currents are tiny, you can wing it by just using it without any match and connecting it directly

transformers are not the only way to do this, and some other circuits can be used instead. if you take a transformer with 1:2 winding ratio, then if on one side current is 1 and voltage is 1, then on the other current will be 0.5 and voltage 2, which means that impedance increases 4x. in EFHW, it’s 1:7 winding ratio and impedance ratio is 49x, which works for end-feeding a half-wave dipole, just as expected (from 50 ohm to ~2500 ohm). that transformer is a limitation on power usable in this antenna and main reason to use this type of antenna is mechanical

most importantly, transformers work nicely only if you have real impedances, so your antenna has to be resonant anyway. l- or pi-network tuner will also handle complex impedances so doublet or random wire will work nicely with it, as long as you can accept weight and losses in tuner