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Here's an idea on how to handle the UK if they decide to back out of Brexit, whether it's cancelling it or applying to get back in after Hard Brexit proves to not work well: If the EU wants to...
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Is this idea you're toying with that "social realist steampunk" you mentioned on here a few years back?...
Commented on New Book Week!
Wait, the commonwealth's world was stuck in gunpowder and sail mercantillism and not merely delayed a century? From my reading of the situation in the first set of merchant princes book the technology level seemed 1920s to 1940s as of...
Commented on Crib Notes: Empire Games
Increasing the food surplus enough to at least give a halfway decent shot at industrializing. China OTL after 1500 shows that new world crops were helpful but not a guarantee....
Commented on Crib Notes: Empire Games
Yeah, I just don't see it. Ken MacLeod's scenario with Spartacus's creating early capitalism, then somehow leading to WAY early industrialization doesn't work. Kewl but sadly implausible. IMO you need the old world, or new world areas with "easy" industrialization...
Commented on Empire Games Black Friday promo (UK only)
Seconding Marino's quesiton here. Going by the areas conquered/owned by New Britain/The commonwealth why scottish-influenced and not spanish-influenced? With (non-protestant) europe being unreliable for immigration purposes there'd be lots of latins moving north from the new territories. Even if they're...

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Greg Tingey commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
Matt S @ 1266 Also a lot of people voted as a "Protest" ( Stuff the lot of them, I'm voting "leave"! ) without realising that IT REALLY MATTERED - the inverse/reverse of the "politicians taking a serious long-term decision", referred to by Troutwaxer @ 1257! gasdive @ 1288 In other words, one of many partial solutions, almost all of which need acting upon, to a greater or lesser degree. Won't argue with that. Brexit D Tusk has suggested a YEAR extension, simply because everyone is running out of time. Obvious sub-plot is that the longer it is delayed, the...
Kliment commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
Tusk has PROPOSED a year's extension, terminated automatically if WA passes, contingent on a) UK holding EU elections, b) UK asking for such an extension and c) MS agreeing to this plan. If the WA passes during that period the EU would hold a bunch of byelections to replace the UK MEPs....
Kliment commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
And May has requested an extension until end of June, which has already been rejected by the euco once, and is not enough time to do anything useful. On the plus side, she's also committed to holding EU elections, as long as she reserves the right to cancel them ONE DAY BEFORE THEY HAPPEN....
WaveyDavey commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
Ouch. Thirty quid is a bit beyond me for something that looks like it might be fun....
Charlie Stross commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
This thread has gotten cumbersome and is bogging my server down, so please feel free to continue the discussion here....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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