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• Commented on Obituaries
  I'm from the US, so I'm legitimately not sure what you mean when you say that France & Germany "build shit" since I am not overly familiar with their work product: Do you mean shit as in "stuff", or shit...
• Commented on The permanent revolution
  In many ways though it seems that the recent changes we've seen make it rather difficult for powers to become to entrenched, at least in the suppress/oppress vein. I'm thinking of the Arab Spring events here. I'm not saying that...
• Commented on The permanent revolution
  Time to rewrite that pigeon protocol for wallabies: IPoWH (Wallaby Hop)...
• Commented on Why I don't self-publish
  Given an ebook-only format with distribution through Amazon, a lot of this production work could be skipped, though the end-product would be much, much rougher: Think spelling mistakes, some awkwardness on layout, crappy cover images, etc. The major problem is...
• Commented on Customer Satisfaction Survey
  Dear parent global corp: While I have so far been satisfied with your product 2012, I refuse to purchase Beta products and so I am only a recent adopter. As such, I can hardly render a fair judgment after only...
• Commented on Happy Christmas! Here is a flame war in a can
  Hey, don't bash it: given a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator I think Newton would have been the one to crack the lead-to-gold nut-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_noble_metals#Gold Though it seems likely he would have gone down the Curie death route shortly...
• Commented on 2512
  "Holy Fire" by Bruce Sterling predicts just such a bubble-wrap society...
• Commented on 2512
  Also, the rise of highly complex and highly non-deterministic systems could/would create a major problem: When things go wrong (or right, for that matter) no one really knows WHY. No one knows how they work. Heck, we already see this...
• Commented on 2512
  What about "soft" AI, such as REALLY good automation & planning systems? Stochastic systems that leverage the massive parallelism of very small, very power efficient processors? It seems like such things could be on the 50-100 year horizon, and their...