that israel has nukes
i should be writing
that israel has nukes
It’s not. Taiwanese say that pagers weren’t made by them but instead these were made by their Hungarian subsidiary, but that company only has nameplate at residential address. It seems that shipment was for 5000 pagers and extra faje component was added
this is like second or third worst kept secret in the middle east
ncd gains another prophet (this was posted to r/ncd yesterday)
for now it’s handheld radios, more pagers, solar energy systems and laptops
not when dealing with bad faith posters, no
a sort of problem that only lw forums users have
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i’ve seen other source stating that it was something between 30 and 60g
give it a few days, nobody knows what is going on and only thing you can get are rumors. some people still think it was lithium battery
these pagers were issued by hezbollah higher-ups, for one-way communication with their hq. there’s little reason for them to sell them or even lend to family because you can’t call from this thing or communicate with it any other way because it’s receive only. civilian casualties are probably low for this reason
technical aspect seems to be for now that israeli secret services intercepted and sabotaged thousands of pagers to be distributed for hezbollah operatives, then blew them up all at once. it does look like small, reportedly less than 20g each explosive charge, but orange site accepted truth is that it was haxxorz blowing up lithium batteries. israelis already did exactly this thing but with phone in targeted assassination, and actual volume of such bomb would be tiny (about 10ml)
secretive agency does secretive agency shit
tal: how can i make this to be about mee?
don’t put plastic explosives in electronics of your choice that’d be pretty safe i guess
Israeli secret services used exploding phone previously, it’s not a stretch to assume that they tapped into supply chain of pagers and brought a pallet of pagers with a low tens of grams sized bomb inside
also lithium batteries don’t explode like that
that would be the simplest explanation, and they did that covertly, perhaps somewhere further up supply chain, yes
This already happened with phones, but that was a targeted killing:
At 08:00 on 5 January 1996, Ayyash’s father called him and Ayyash answered. Overhead, an Israeli plane picked up their conversation and relayed it to an Israeli command post. When it was confirmed that it was Ayyash on the phone, Shin Bet remotely detonated it, killing him instantly.[3]
it better be, shaped charges are probably cheapest part of it (other than chassis)
nice, now ukrainians can inspect ka-52 radar closely
right, so let’s start with equipment. instead of using lab-scale techniques with lab-scale equipment, they instead decided to make an industrial-type reactor but tiny. so for a thing that stirs and heats your reaction mix they came up with arduino-powered jars that cost all in all $300-500. you know what does this job? a hotplate-magnetic stirrer combo with external thermometer that you can get on amazon for $70ish, with some associated glassware that still will be cheaper than $300 total, won’t leach plasticizers and that you can actually clean up thoroughly. if you’re looking for case of coder mindset where every problem can be solved with iot and 3dprinting, it’s there. that thing only really allows purification by extraction and crystallization, but this is straight up not enough for some cases. maybe they’re limiting their syntheses to cases where it is enough. sometimes you need to run distillation, if it’s something other than solvent this means vacuum pump ($2k ballpark) with dry ice trap (that has to be fused quartz and not normal glass) and dry ice. sometimes you need to run chromatographic column, that alone is easy if you know what you’re doing but it requires a lot of solvent that would be ideally recycled because there’s a lot of solvent involved (100x mass of compound to be purified is on lower end) (honeywell doesn’t want you to know this but recycled solvent is free you can do it in-house. i recycled 1500L). then you need equipment to evaporate that solvent (rotovap) and recycle it. like derek lowe said, it’s a lot of like trying to make your own aluminum foil
and then there’s entire waste management of it all, and there will be a lot of waste that you just can’t flush down the drain
another problem is that they expect anyone to be tied to this rube goldberg model reactor and don’t provide instructions in human readable form, but only as instructions for that contraption, and even that only through chatbot (??) if you can pull something let me know. (they have something better than machine generated free association right? as in, something they have tested. i don’t expect orgsyn.org level work where they repeat all procedures they publish, but at least something grounded in reality)
like you said there’s zero quality control and options for purification are extremely limited, this alone will get people killed. some of their testing was outsourced, and there are some ancient methods of determining what you’ve got based on things like melting point, but this is critically sensitive to fucking up due to not knowing what you’re doing. but this won’t tell you what it is, it only allows you to compare your result to someone’s else result to check if they match. i don’t know how likely in this case would be that fucking up synthesis will get patient killed, but in their previous one where they tried to cook naloxone there was a way to fuck up synthesis that would give compound with opposite activity to what was intended (oxymorphone).
regarding sofosbuvir. it’s fluorinated, which means they either
e: by now i suspect they just ran with outputs from 2 without actually trying to make in their jarware. there’s also stereogenic centre on phosphorus which can, but doesn’t have to, make things significantly harder, but idk how actually important this is
and this is all forgetting about that sofosbuvir is used in combination therapy, where all the other drugs come from
the other drugs are also patented and just from looking at them it seems to me that these require a bit more specialized starting materials and a few steps that involve palladium couplings
synthesis-prediction software is an alleged thing that will sometimes work, i personally never did, but if you do use it, it’s critically important to know what you just have cooked because these outputs are predictions, not procedures. in this case point is moot because they just can replicate what is in patents, as patents describe something that already works, even if some details are missing
there are degrees to it. their abortion cards from what i understand just repurpose veterinarian misoprostol, which has similar if not the same requirements for purity and such and because it’s also used in humans, i won’t be surprised if it (as in, API) rolls off the same production line. but here, they don’t cook anything so there’s less room to fuck up. this is also not golden standard on how pharmaceutical abortion can be done now, but it’s available and it’s basically unregulated which i suspect was the entire point
single sane take from hn that is grayed out for some reason. something like quarter of discussion involves nootropics
This looks more like a libertarian nightmare than an anarchist dream. I couldn’t care less what you inject your body with, and will always support open science, but this is no solution to the USA’s disastrous healthcare system.
The real “right to repair your body” necessarily involves a socialized healthcare system, like in the rest of the West.
e: looked up their synthesis planner. for the easy example they mentioned (ivacaftor) 1/3 of the last step reactions are wrong, and these that aren’t require mildly to wildly spicy reagents (allergens, toxic or corrosive, that last bit is expected). first few candidates split entire molecule in two parts across amide bond (correctly) into amine and acid. acid is listed at $1/g amine is listed at $28/g, which are prices cited in 404media article actual link provided lists amine at $28 per 10mg. predicted synthesis of amine does not include the actual pathway that i found on reaxys (and one that would work in garage). ivacaftor is listed as commercially available at $86/g, but link provided only lists 10mg at $12. i take they just punched these compounds into their wrong prediction machine and ran with numbers it provided without checking
that’s not even synthesis planner like i’ve seen before that will provide you with suggested reaction conditions, any extra reagents and all that jazz, that still require careful supervision and good analysis of reaction mixture afterwards. no, here you have two bits that you can possibly stitch up to get something, fuck you, you won’t get anything better. figure out all the other bits, draw the rest of the fucking owl on your own
but uranium has 20 billion calories per gram
would RDX increase or decrease baofeng interference? only one way to find out