asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's more or less universal in the slavic and bordering cultures, afaik. and other orcish nations (cn) have own word that is closely analogous
asciilifeform: (roughly might translate as 'pull' or 'crown concession' but not quite)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: isn't it odd that engl. doesn't (afaik) have a word for блат - that other capital that u.s. economy actually runs on today, as discussed above
asciilifeform: that alone would not doom it - consider the world of usg - but the onesie-pcb-assembly business doesn't have the makings of a mass popu-chumpatron
asciilifeform: as i understand, it is severely antieconomic and cannot really go anywhere
asciilifeform: in short, i am presently at a loss as to what this is good for, how, and why...
asciilifeform: as for actives, virtually none to be had.
asciilifeform: e.g., no 47K 0805 resistor of any grade
asciilifeform: their selection is, i'd say, rather spotty
asciilifeform: it lets you fidget with the selections
asciilifeform: decimation: you have to crap in an actual project to learn the costs
asciilifeform: 'You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.'☟︎
asciilifeform: but i could also live with a pill that propels me on morning commute by enabling me to fart ponies
asciilifeform: i could live, for example, with an outfit that would crap out the board and place just the passives (then i xray the damn thing here. and place the actives personally)
asciilifeform does not expect to find one of these things that works for any reasonable value of 'works', because the economics of it are not, to put it very gently, favourable
asciilifeform even more disappointed than expected to be
asciilifeform: but why force user to use turd service ?
asciilifeform: i assume they will all 'mistreat the data'
