asciilifeform: § 2466. The claimants appeal the judgment on several grounds, most prominent among them that the district court lacked jurisdiction over the defendant property because it resides in foreign countries, that fugitive disentitlement violates constitutional due process, and that disentitlement in this case was improper because the claimants are not fugitives from the law. Finding these arguments unpersuasive, we affirm the district cou
asciilifeform: 'The claimants in this case appeal from the district court’s entry of default judgment for the government in a civil forfeiture action against funds deposited in the claimants’ names in banks in New Zealand and Hong Kong. Default judgment was entered after the government successfully moved to disentitle the claimants from defending their claims to the defendant property under the federal fugitive disentitlement statute, 28 U.S.C.
asciilifeform: re: metallurgy, and 'design for manufacturability', i once heard a vintage, scratchy-record recording of old american engineering, if you will, folk song, where some quasiliterate rube is ruthlessly mocked, and chorus was something like 'triangular drills will drill all his square holes!'
asciilifeform: not even uncommon for same individual to switch between strategies (in, e.g., certain fish)
asciilifeform: cowardice has ~0 to do with it, there were jet bombers over london in april '45.
asciilifeform: complicated, but not wholly unrelated.
asciilifeform: hence were few, and what few there were, had mtbf measured in 10s of hrs.
asciilifeform: german jet, for instance, famously, jumo and bmw both, did not turn back british largely because it was designed with no mind of availability of materials (can get whatever you like for prototype, but try for production line)
asciilifeform: and requires functional grip on the materials.
asciilifeform: it is not the designer's place to replace the metallurgist. but 'design for manufacturability', for instance, is a thing.
asciilifeform: the result is, approximately, american car.
asciilifeform: and draws 'whatever, and let machinist pick'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: have you ever met, e.g., mechanical engineer, who has never heard of alloys ?
asciilifeform: because everybody 'i'm a genius and will pick the tower back up and insert hard ground under it because i am better than everyone who lived prior' etc.
asciilifeform: this painful lesson is taught, again and again, for the whole history of the idiot field, but nobody learns.
asciilifeform: the only way to have structure that stands up is to begin from the bottom.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the 'i will pick high-level abstractions and then, much later, find a low-level set that supports them well' is doomed. and leads to, e.g., urbit.
