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Although since being here I obviously haven't learnt how to write properly!...
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I actually learning more from reading this blog and its associated comments that virtually anywhere else. There are some seriously knowledgeable people here. The discourse is indeed courteous, even when discussing such dismal and divisive topics as the apocalypse ;)...
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" it is also a spot from where you can hurl warheads at basically anyone in short notice " Correct me if I'm wrong but can't we do this already using a number of various methods? The choke-point isn't really...
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I'm surprised at the lack of comments about development into space! I realise that the cost of mass migration into space is currently prohibitive (in addition to the inherent risks to health and safety) but a concerted effort towards the...
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Some sort of Kurzweil-ian singularity event may tip the scales back in favour of the individual and I have to admit that most of my faith still lies with science for a solution but whether or not such a paradigm...
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It's Mad Max all the way! The Ukraine is rapidly turning into an extended 'Call of Duty' cut-scene. I'm getting my three year old daughter signed up for Karate and gymnastic lessons asap!...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
Your Fuller crib sheet is indeed timely! I'm just reaching the crescendo. Have to say I really enjoyed your florid description of Bob's mind-state following his kidnap and subsequent snacking on by Jonquil (what a great Sloane name too). The...
Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
Transitions was a rollicking tale....
Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
Once I'd figured the whole people-as-data thing (you really know your sys admin Mr. Stross) I was totally amazed at the level of fluidity this concept allows. I think Glasshouse is one of the first sci-fi novels to give me...

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David L commented on Generation Z
Did you factor services into these numbers. In the US the lot costs typically include the road/path/trail to the lot, water, sewer, power grid, phone/internet/entertainment, etc... All of these add to the cost of either the lot or the house....
Keith commented on Generation Z
Re: Thanks, SFreader. It was interesting. -kh...
Keith commented on Generation Z
Thanks to you too, Charlie. It sounds like most transportation costs are relatively fuel-price inelastic, with the possible exception of automobile pleasure-travel. Consequently, we're unlikely to see dirigibles replace airplanes, or solar-hybrid sailing ships replace hydrocarbon-fueled ones. Is that correct?...
Charlie Stross commented on Generation Z
Yep, that's roughly correct. The weird thing about air travel is that, yammering about how much fuel it burns aside, if you calculate how much fuel it takes to ship bodies between continents on a modern wide-body jet airliner per passenger-seat-mile they work out somewhat cheaper than an ultra-compact diesel-engined automobile. Sure, a Boeing 747 would burn 3 times my weight in kerosene shipping me from the UK to Australia; that's because Australia is a very long way away and if I drove there instead the car or motorbike would burn even more....
paws4thot commented on Generation Z
Even that's only part-right. Sure it's right for your car or mine that can manage roughly 60mpg at an economical cruise, but an LWB Transit will carry 15 people rather than 5 (including driver) and that gives us 450 miles per passenger gallon rather than 300....

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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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