asciilifeform: ific Bondo, sanded to perfection and painted with meticulous care.'
asciilifeform: 'The basic problem is that the robber-barons of Silicon Valley, unlike their Victorian forebears, do not realize that, if they want all this science, they will actually have to pay for it - themselves. Instead, they look at their tax forms and think: I gave at the office. But they didn't. They gave to scientocracy. Now, they need to figure out how to patronize science - or there will be no science. Just scient☟︎
asciilifeform: just about every interesting technology attributed to a mega-organization was done on 'stolen time.'
asciilifeform: same for any idiot organization - see history of 'unix'
asciilifeform: it seems odd, to say the least, to lump together projects done on embezzled government coin, and ones planned/ordered by bureaucrats.
asciilifeform: i'm genuinely curious if any of the 'alt workfunction' folks are going for something other than 'equality!11'
asciilifeform: if you're willing to sign under 'i wish victory to botnet artists but not semiconductor makers', you can work with that.
asciilifeform: there's possible merit to the experiment if you have a specific enemy in mind, who Must Die (tm), rather than some foggy notion of 'equality'
asciilifeform: that is, even a hypothetical permanently 'asic-proof' algo rewards... botnets.
asciilifeform: and the lamers aren't going to like who that turns out to be
asciilifeform: the problem with any such experiment is that, ultimately, 'the race is to the swift.'
asciilifeform: here's another crackpot idea. a very 'slow' mailing list, where it costs 1 btc to post. a few days later, you get it back on the sending addr - if you're nice.
asciilifeform: entire US gross national product would be spent on the land boat. Of course
asciilifeform: had doubled every six months: five more years like the first two, and the
asciilifeform: Congress now began noticing how expensive _Leviathan_ was getting. Costs
asciilifeform: (though thousand-mile flexible pipelines were considered).
asciilifeform: would never be able to stray more than fifty miles from a major water source
asciilifeform: accommodate huge water tanks holding whole lakefuls of water. Even so, it
asciilifeform: found the best to be ordinary water. The _Leviathan_ was now redesigned to
asciilifeform: before moving. After months of experimentation with expensive agents, they
asciilifeform: agent to hold the topsoil in place; _Leviathan_ would spray the stuff out
asciilifeform: solve the topsoil problem. A chemical firm then went to work on a binding
asciilifeform: expensive monitoring equipment to regulate each fan, but this never seemed to
asciilifeform: dust storms and buried small towns in soildrifts. A computer company suggested
asciilifeform: powerful that they blew away the topsoil for miles around the craft, created
asciilifeform: which were to lift the craft were at first too weak, then (redesigned) so
asciilifeform: From the start, there were problems called "teething troubles". The fans
asciilifeform: while the bill was railroaded through.
asciilifeform: who continued to oppose it was sent on a factfinding mission to Antarctica
asciilifeform: _Leviathan_ itself would crush down anything in its path. One junior Senator
asciilifeform: commercial arguments rolled the project over all opposition as one day
asciilifeform: millions of workers. The combined force of industrial, political, military and
asciilifeform: would devastate any land over which it happened to hover. But by now the Armywanted it as badly as any of the dozens of states, thousands of companies and
asciilifeform: were objections that _Leviathan_ would cost too much, would be a sitting duck,
asciilifeform: Both houses of Congress shoved through the necessary legislation. There
