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  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Neptune's Brood
    We know that a nobel prize winner in economics is a big fan of your work. I know he said when reading an advance copy that it it was the best thing written on interstellar finance ;-). Did you chat...
  • Commented on Crass commercial interlude
    Any chance of there being, at some point in the future, an easy & reliable way of purchasing signed books? (sort of like what PJSMPrints does for Pterry?)...
  • Commented on Schadenfreude
    I read Debt: The First 5000 years after (I think it was you) you mentioned it on twitter. It certainly altered my perceptions of currency....
  • Commented on Schadenfreude
    William Gibson's term "Dunning Kreugerands" was such an apt description (and deserves to become its own virtual currency)...
  • Commented on And in case you think that wasn't bad enough ...
    When I learned that cuttlefish shapeshifter erotica sells on Amazon, I realized that while I would be surprised by the weirdness of things in the future, I'd just passed through some sort of jadedness event horizon....
  • Commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
    Word does integrate with Microsoft's version of CVS (TFS) and does support simultaneous editing assuming you put the right back end in place. There are also an insane number of Word add-ins that are used by people that do all...
  • Commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
    Companies these days will outsource infrastructure to the cloud or jobs to countries that pay lower wages if it will save a few bucks. The days of close level IT support are gone and any product that's needlessly complex and...
  • Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
    Suspect we need a great definition of what a working representative government looks like and how it functions before we can come up with a system that gives us one....
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