asciilifeform: (around $maxint, and usually need blood connections)
asciilifeform: 'Kickstarter advisor and board member Sunny Bates doesn't deny the risks of pledging but argues the price of individual Kickstarter pledges is so low that even if fraud did rear its head it wouldn't be worth the legal action from a backer.' << amazing model. steal a penny from $maxint people - not a crime at all...
asciilifeform often wonder, of the $maxint places they could go - they go here .why.
asciilifeform: well normally the 'problems' generator is used very sparingly, because most folks lack $maxint
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one can theoretically try this in usa, but it will cost $maxint. and at the end of the day can end up 'having problems.'
asciilifeform: they do. golden toilet, cost $maxint.
asciilifeform: decimation: what you may not know is that intel sells this. and amd as well. for $maxint.
asciilifeform: if you have $maxint and want to grind a non-parallelizable problem - god help you.
asciilifeform: if you have $maxint and want to convert it to parallelizable number crunching - plenty of people are ready to help.
asciilifeform: decimation: it costs, allegedly, $maxint
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they're called 'apartments' and cost $maxint
asciilifeform: and mit rubber-stamped the bsd license release of the original cadr stuff, once priced at $maxint
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: had industrial utility (one of largest customers - 'american express') - but - smbx spent $maxint on r&d, relied on usg to pay for this.
asciilifeform: consider if you were to offer $maxint for antigrav device.
asciilifeform: let's give them some context, then. picture scenario where the $maxint in u.s. cryptologic work actually resulted in something useful. but, so useful that, like a thermonuke, it isn't fit to trot out on just any everyday occasion.
asciilifeform: benkay: ancient project. objective, in reality, is to bring on the wet dream of dod contractors everywhere: bullet costing $MAXINT.
asciilifeform: (summary: fellow worked a bunch of ancient software consulting gigs. owed $maxint in tax somehow. told that his little airplane would be sold to pay the debt. went spectacularly postal.)
asciilifeform: CVTs are still used in places where equipment costs $maxint. i personally ordered one installed in a lab where i once worked.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not hard to destroy $maxint camera if 10w+ laser aimed by skilled marksman.
asciilifeform: for so long as the racket of letting an average salaried schmuck borrow $MAXINT to repay for the rest of his life - the price floor will remain.
asciilifeform: a much smaller set actually provides $maxint of value
asciilifeform: kanzure: the way i understand it, this is not how markets actually work. if i'm the only one who knows how to build xxx, i don't get to collect $maxint for building an xxx. simply, xxx doesn't get made.
asciilifeform: ought to be, the ancient legend of 'penny - turn screw, $maxint - 0.01 - which screw'
asciilifeform: eh, it was never infinity. not even close to $maxint.
asciilifeform: can't wait for the exchange that keeps balances as 'unsigned int' and underflows into $MAXINT - epsilon when it gets cleaned out.
