asciilifeform: mircea_popescu objected to the examples i gave as 'scientific journal'
asciilifeform: no, the whole concept of a 'news' that is of interest to a gigantic mass of people without being pablum.
asciilifeform: i wasn't intending to (with what, ha.) just ringing the bell to possibly wake up folks who think they can achieve a new result by doing the same thing as was done for 100 years.
asciilifeform: once q transforms into the kind of thing which is presently lucrative, it will cease to be distinguishable from the despised competition.
asciilifeform: the only thing lacking, unless i'm mistaken, is people who actually want to pay for any of this.
asciilifeform: (where the milling - invention of sir newton... is.)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: hollow coins in real life fool no one if examined individually - given the way they are made, the ruse is quite obvious when seen from the edge.
asciilifeform: i.e. it would cost usg more to actively remove penny, nickel, dime, from circulation, than anyone stands to gain thereby.
asciilifeform: given the fate of usd, the small coins continue to circulate largely through inertia of neglect.
asciilifeform: hollowed coins, as pointed out in the article, are old hat.
asciilifeform: except, i think, he wanted to use money as the filter.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ted nelson wanted to accomplish something like this, in his '60s-present concept
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: picture a future net where something akin to wot is baked into the basic routing mechanism. so, a billion derps can make a request and there will be no transmission back until all the actual people get what they came for. etc.
asciilifeform: but the fact of ddos still being a thing at all, reveals catastrophically broken design at large.
asciilifeform: jurov: better in the sense that there was a contemporary translation that is still largely readable to modern germans without an archaeological bent.
