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Commented on 2010: Part one
I second Burning Man. You don't have to stay for a whole month. Two weeks will probably do nicely. Travel: Bhutan. There are alternatives to Bhutan in remote areas of Nepal or Sikkim, but that means walking up mountains. Bhutan...
Commented on What are the long-term consequences ...?
Since many people might not know the current cocaine prices: I'd expect 100-140 EUR/g in Berlin. Since this is definitely not pure, expect a share of 5-10% of retail for the Columbian whole salers. §35bn/year is plenty money to buy...
Commented on What are the long-term consequences ...?
Dave @30: In bad neighborhoods in Columbia/Venezuela cocaine has a street value between 1-2$/g. In Galicia, where much of the European cocaine enters, whole sale prices are supposedly 25k EUR/1 kg (which might be enough to produce 5kg of street-level...
Commented on It's a crime
What you mention here are rule sets, that collectively constitute a metastructure. If the dominant metastructure is a tribe, you kill anybody who's not part of your tribe. You are even free to eat him. Within the metastructure "humanist society"...
Commented on The myth of the starship
Paul@158: "missing some trick" I assume with AI you mean AGI in this context. So let me lay out a building instruction for general intelligence: You need a food source, a permanently running virtualized self-model that contains at least the...

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Charlie Stross commented on 2010: Part one
@232: I live in a city centre, with sky glare, in an apartment (no back yard with a view of the sky). Ten miles north there's a refinery with gas flares. So: view of sky? Pretty poor. @233: the nearest bodies of water are unsuitable for model boating -- viz. fast-flowing or tidal. The nearest lake is a good two to four miles away which, to someone whose main form of transportation is walking, is somewhat unattractive. @236: Already growing carnivorous plants on the only windowsill that gets any amount of sunlight....
Feòrag commented on 2010: Part one
Chris M@240: I also have several model hovercraft, including one home-built one, and the infamous Black Tentacle....
Charlie Stross commented on 2010: Part one
deaks, it's more likely that the night blindness/retinal damage, or the cardiovascular issues, would be enough for me to fail a medical. NB: I hate and fear roller coasters. I am not an adrenaline junkie; quite the opposite....
Charlie Stross commented on 2010: Part one
Brian H: No charge points in the UK. I couldn't install a charger in my garage because I don't have one -- like 95% of the folks hereabouts, I park on the street, because this town predates the automobile by a few centuries. My typical driving task is to (a) carry two humans plus luggage on a 600-mile road trip (not suitable for EVs), or (b) carry human plus large lump of furniture home from IKEA (not suitable for sports cars). I am not made out of money. Even if these were not insuperable obstacles? I don't enjoy driving!...
Charlie Stross commented on 2010: Part one
Brian H: seriously, I dislike automobiles. Not just the act of driving, but the fact that other idiots are routinely allowed to apply their makeup while yacking on the phone/watching TV while maneuvering a couple of tons of steel and explosive fuel in the presence of vulnerable pedestrian fleshbodies. Never forget: in the USA alone, human-controlled road vehicles kill and injure a 9/11's worth of people every six weeks -- many or most of whom are innocent third parties. Fewer over here (we have stricter driving standards), but it's still about 3000 dead and 12,000 wounded per year. In the...

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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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