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a111: Logged on 2016-12-22 23:57 asciilifeform: we had this with at least 1 d00d who i respected (spandrel/'bloody shovel')
asciilifeform: we had this with at least 1 d00d who i respected (spandrel/'bloody shovel') ☟︎
asciilifeform: this is why i was sad to see spandrel drummed out, he was potentially a window into the other things.
asciilifeform: i find it to be such a thing. e.g., spandrel from earlier thread, is quite readable.
pete_dushenski: speaking of spandrel (but not spandrell), i was just reading about the different types of spandrel glass. turns out there are more than a few ways to hide the slab end, mechanical, and electrical systems using an opaque curtain wall insert. the glass on these opaque sections is usually tempered because they get so hot with waste heat and greenhouse effect that they could crack from thermal shock. also, vo
a111: 8 results for "spandrel", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=spandrel
asciilifeform: $s spandrel
asciilifeform: spandrel!
pete_dushenski: s/spandrel/vestigial << hungry brain hard at work !
pete_dushenski: it's much too expensive an action to be a spandrel
asciilifeform: perhaps spandrel is wrong word.
mircea_popescu: it isn't. you're saying it's "a waste of time", a spandrel merely means "not directly resulting from selection"
asciilifeform: not that 'stage 1+2 is a spandrel' is a proven hypothesis, of course. merely that it has not been tested. i suspect that it can be proven.
gribble: Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)>; Evolution The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian ...: <http://faculty.washington.edu/lynnhank/GouldLewontin.pdf>; Adaptations, Exaptations, and Spandrels - Social Sciences Division: <http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/webdocs/spandrels.html>
asciilifeform: ;;google evolutionary spandrel