asciilifeform: more examples - anything to do with wavelets
asciilifeform: e.g. electric nose, retinal projection display, various biological strange
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: battleship where they piss on patents: there is a smart and a foolish way to do this. the latter - e.g. ussr, where my father and countless other folks copied consumer gizmos from the west. smart way: develop tech that was entombed in patent hell in the west and never really hatched
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: cat is the ways she likes, wild, free
asciilifeform: testable as genuine with a dollar's worth of gear.
asciilifeform: a NdFeB or SmCo magnet would likewise make a very 'solid' coin, from that perspective
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i suggested it as 'coin' simply as thought experiment in generalizing the 'use-value' of btc. that is, material that cannot be confused with anything else (Hg, for instance, on top of being rather common, can be substituted with 'gallinstan' alloy. but you can't raise melting point of Ga by mixing in impurities - only lower it)
asciilifeform: predictable until some bozo starts buying by the megaton.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: also helps to remember that this 'gold' is approximately as abundant as lead in the earth's crust. but, considerably more energy-costly to extract (byproduct of Al refinement)
asciilifeform: i'd leave this gedankenexperiment on the shelf. just because you can, doesn't mean that you must. but, on the other hand, nobody's gonna play tungsten games with 'gold' that's liquid at 30c.
asciilifeform: it'd be a shame, though, GaAs is costly enough as it is.
asciilifeform: TomServo: that's the other kind of animal. reminiscent of the folks who still try to weasel their way into usa
asciilifeform: insult to animals. they sometimes have the sense to run.
asciilifeform: what really boggles my mind is all the folks (e.g. a. schwartz) who were turned loose, with the understanding that they'll report to jail at appointed hour, etc. and no radio collar, etc.; now, they probably won't be permitted in an airport, but mexico is not so far...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't help but wonder where this one stood
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did anyone ever step up to your 'judge biography' challenge?
asciilifeform: btw this kind of thing is a schoolbook example of what 'xxxx can also have problems' means.
asciilifeform: what kind of trouble warranted his removal - and by whom, in actuality, he was removed - we (or at least i) do not know
asciilifeform: pankkake: it 'worked' in this case - for removal of troublesome bureaucrat by another of his species
asciilifeform: want public firing squad, gotta go to cn, just like for cheap pcbs.
asciilifeform: a lizard goes to the clink when a fatter, more senior lizard wishes it, and not at any other time
asciilifeform: the others remain on their thrones, on account of their 'playing ball'
asciilifeform: chetty: what i'm suggesting is that this particular specimen 'needed to have problems' - for some reason obviously not stated in the gov. press release.
asciilifeform: chetty: i'd be surprised if every judge in usa weren't guilty of these and other crimes. but this one is removed. --> for reasons.
asciilifeform: rp doesn't - all it does is reposition x11 windows created by other progs
asciilifeform: benkay: perhaps i did not explain well. most wm actually draw something of their own on the screen - window boundaries, toggles, clocks, etc.
asciilifeform: there are other tiling wm, but they all seem to insist on being 'better' - i.e. actually outputting something extra
asciilifeform: not everyone can apprentice with a master in meatspace, sure. but anyone could... read?
asciilifeform: better - sure. but when you come across a lamer - he's already paying what a very reasonable education would cost - the price of his net connection.
asciilifeform: chetty: somehow people once imagined that not having to travel over sea and through jungle to visit the experts - would solve this.
asciilifeform: '...what I find among the modern novices is that they do not feel the same way about the experts -- they want an expert-free world where their ignorance is not painful, where their inexperience is not used against them, where they get all the jokes, where nobody uses literary references that elude them, where every one of their ideas is accepted by their peers as just as novel as they think it is...'
