asciilifeform: what ruined, very mundanely, is that it was part of reagan's massively-distributed embezzlement thing, which came to an end 'like all good things'
asciilifeform: the only genuine concern is 'unicorns' (p==np, optical factorizer, entirely unknown strange) for which the incentive is more or less infinite and so will come into existence if at all physically possible
asciilifeform: at any rate, moore's law as this passive quasi-mythical gifts-from-god thing hasn't been cryptographically relevant for a while.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i could also visit buenos aires via fart propulsion and wings made from garbage bags.
asciilifeform: williamdunne: i couldn't use coinbr even if wanted to, because it would be a recurring btc cost and i have no btc-denominated income stream.
asciilifeform: but mainly taken in proverbial 'organs worth' sense of 'more money than i ever expect to touch at one time'
asciilifeform: if correctly parcelled out and sold to americans, they could be worth 10k.
asciilifeform: which presently costs about what my organs are worth
asciilifeform: regardless of what is bought and sold by s.nsa, i can't eat any of it unless i buy mpex ticket.
asciilifeform: no relation to extant numbers. but serious question.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, what is to keep it from costing X, where X is whatever s.nsa is worth at that time ?
asciilifeform is wondering what mpex seat will cost by the time he actually needs it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so this is mainly to discourage reselling account ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is ludicrous sophistry and you know it. if i sign key y with key x, it is proof that i hold key x. nothing to do with parents or children, no analogy here.
asciilifeform: local l0ltr0n: last week, university of maryland proclaimed that it will charge higher tuition price to students majoring in business, engineering, and comp. sci.
asciilifeform: (then you get: 'fpga' which doesn't give a damn about radiation, can be fabricated with 1940s equipment, etc)
asciilifeform: the key boojum missing from all of this work is: a likewise purely-magnetic means of arbitrarily altering the -interconnects- between elements.
asciilifeform: 'deposited magnetic films as logic elements.' (proceedings of the eastern joint computer conference, 1959. franck, marette, & parsegyan.)
asciilifeform: unsurprisingly, nothing i said today is actually new
