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  • Commented on The referendum question
    Oh yes, Neuromancer had all sorts of crazy dissonances! It was (AFAIK) the first book to mention cyberspace, but everyone still used phone boxes! Which books by Charlie had bitcoin in? Either I haven't read it/them, else the use slipped...
  • Commented on The referendum question
    The Greg Mandel trilogy is good, with some very interesting political views, very conservative in many ways, yet with very liberal aspects. Re-read them recently, and found the tech quite prescient in some ways - everyone has stuff exactly like...
  • Commented on The referendum question
    P.S on a side-note (and completely off-topic), I have just got to the part in Hannu Rajaniemi's latest book where there is a spaceship named Bob Howard?! Coincidence , flattery, or an in-joke? I'm guessing not a coincidence - I...
  • Commented on The referendum question
    I agree with pretty much all of this. Well done Charlie, both for your vote and also explaining your reasons. I live in the deep south (Sussex that is), but if I had the vote to break up the UK,...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    I agree with most of this except: "Bitcoin's utter lack of regulation permits really hideous markets to emerge, in commodities like assassination (and drugs and child pornography)" Really, BTC allows them to emerge? Because there were not markets for assassins,...
  • Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
    The moment I read about the NSA/GCHQ agents in WOW I thought of you Charlie x I cannot wait for the new Merchant Princes book! FWIW, if I lived in Scotland I'd probably vote for independence - it could hardly...
  • Commented on What have we learned?
    But didn't we already know that? When Archimedes said "Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth" isn't he also talking figuratively, not just literally? One of my other favourite authors (other than...
  • Commented on What have we learned?
    'We' learned nothing from this (though we're learning alot from Snowden & Manning). 'They' learned they can get away with mass-murder and trampling over 'our' 'rights' in the cause of maximising profits......
  • Commented on The latest news
    V JNF GUVAXVT ZBER: VS LBH JNAG N CVPGHER BS GUR SHGHER, VZNTVAR N OBBG FGNZCVAT BA N UHZNA SNPR - SBERIRE....
  • Commented on The latest news
    Woop! Been waiting to see where the Merchant Princes is going! Yeah, keeping ahead of the singularity must be hard as a sci-fi writer......
  • Commented on The latest news
    Yep, that was the irony... [more serious tone] On the other hand, with more than 10x the budget of PRISM they still can't actually 'crack' encryption, they can only do what was done to Gevulot; circumvent it with hacks inserted...
  • Commented on The latest news
    What we need is Gevulot! ... fuck, just remembered how that book ended :-/...
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