asciilifeform: two or three of those, some wire, a glass of water, and you learn about gasses
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the notable thing about those 'flat batteries' (what we called'em) was not where they were used, but the kid-friendliness (in the old sense of educative danger, rather than 'safety') - you could wrap wires around the terminals directly, even short'em across various objects to learn what happens
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253471 << i know of a fella who was in gulf war I. his father looked down on him for not having suffered being taken prisoner in vietnam; his father's father looked down on the latter for not having been abused by north koreans in korean war captivity; and his uncle - for not having been in japanese prison camp in ww2.☝︎
asciilifeform: (where all but a handful of'em are entirely opaque and nonprogrammable, and, direly, not the least bit inspectable..)
asciilifeform: the funniest thing is that, as described earlier, we already have this. in retarded form.
asciilifeform: in 'dataflow' concept, your computer is actually a barrel full of very small computers. most of them perhaps idling at any given time.
asciilifeform: who does not believe this, can pick a favourite vendor and read the data sheet (or his kernel's driver for the item)
asciilifeform: modern network chip is also implemented in quite the same way - it gets a chunk of memory to itself and drops incoming frames there, and waits for magic bit upon which it will crap out its buffer (also there) onto the wire
asciilifeform: walking a dual-ported ram again, again...
asciilifeform: and it exists in isolated instances in your computer right now. for instance, disk has own computer. as does your vga card, which, as mircea_popescu pointed out, must scan forever
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253522 << must dig out this thread, because this is when i point out that the generalization of this principle - 'if it really has to happen all the time, it ought to have dedicated silicon' - is called 'dataflow computation'☝︎
asciilifeform: un minimo respeto por el trabajador!!!!11111
asciilifeform: 'Now I seriously think of moving to Argentina. This nation already survived the horrific default of 2001, military dictatorship, deindustrialization and various other calamities, and came through it all with its dignity intact. They know how to be poor but happy (unlike Russians) and without neuroses (unlike Americans)—I saw this with my own eyes.' (guest orlolz, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/08/corn-madness-revisited.h
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253275 << somebody could achieve great lulz by making a similar poster, featuring just as many folks who have raped usg and are still laughing all the way to the bank - the 'indicted' chinese army folks, bogachev, buncha others☝︎
asciilifeform: l0l i thought there was just that one
asciilifeform was thinking of only this while being eaten alive by mosquitoes
asciilifeform: and they're a bug not merely in the hearnia-enabling sense. but in a philosophical sense - dollars to doughnuts it was the existence of the pool, of derps-mattering-in-the-aggregate-and-knowing-it, that bred many of the socio-psychiatric ills of 2011-present btc
asciilifeform: but this is a much easier way to earn 100+ btc than nearly anything else.
asciilifeform: (and no, restoring the contents, once they are resoldered onto something built for the occasion, is not trivial - need to reconstruct the 'wear-leveling' scheme)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: what one does in such a case is to lift the nands
asciilifeform: because shareholders' pocket calculators don't respond to gag orders (yet.)
asciilifeform: and the fact that ~something~ must be said,
asciilifeform: and that outrageous losses by public american corps are in fact results of gag order
asciilifeform: reminds me of my crackpot hypothesis that the 47 megabux '419sp4mz0red away' by ubiquiti corp. is actually a secret fine levied by nsa star chamber
asciilifeform: '750k plus a light tap by the fed on the brake pedal'
