Martin Schröder

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• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Yeah. What for? They're a computer company. They're an advertising platform and want to sell ads. Hard without local offices....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  And the danger of London bridge falling down grows every day. Imagine a coronation with all of Charles' siblings (Andrew?) and offspring and relatives (Fergie?)....
• Commented on Roe v Wade v Sanity
  Assange is being held for bail evasion, IIRC. Not anymore. That sentence was served on 2019-09-22. He is currently held for extradition to the US and denied bail....
• Commented on Roe v Wade v Sanity
  Note that the last time the Dems had a 60+ majority of the Senate (filibuster proof) and a majority of the House and a democratic President was the 95th congress: 1977-1979. They didn't pass a law on Roe/Wade then -...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  You are ignoring Africa, where population is expected to nearly triple till 2100. Peak population might still be around 2100. But "Projections of population reaching more than one generation into the future are highly speculative"....
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Amazon.de claims there's an audio book: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09HCX9T9P...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Btw: Why are thee two slightly different listing for the Kindle edition at amazon.de? https://www.amazon.de//dp/B08QGM36KB/ vs. https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07Y8NWZRJ/ US vs. UK? The listings have different publishing dates, number of pages, sizes, ... Will there really be two different ebooks? At least...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Nuclear power gives you (essentially) unlimited range. Nuclear weapons give you (essentially) unlimited damage. You can have one without the other. AUS wants more range because the Pacific is LARGE....
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Didn't the RAN have serious problems staffing their subs? How will they get enough personal (9 boats probably need at least 18 teams) for the new boats?...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  ...once Chinese semiconductor fabs are able to compete on node size with TSMC. Which will happen in due course, but not before Moore's Law is thoroughly over: China is still on 28nm IIRC, while Intel and TSMC are on...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
  There is still supposed to be both a Democratic convention and a Republican convention. AFAIK these are optional and IMHO won't happen; the RNC and DNC will declare the candidates. What will be more interesting is the question of elections;...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
  What you have missed (or didn't mention) is the rest of the world, namely Africa, Central and South America, India, Russia and most of Asia (e.g. Turkey). The death toll there might well be enormous, especially in Sub-Saharan-Africa, where there...
• Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
  Shame, shame, shame. Would have loved to read that story. "Coldness wraps its dreicht, despair-stained phalanges around your heart and gives it a squeeze." - how do you come up with those pictures? In the sixth para you switch to...
• Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  100B$n is definitely enough to eradicate nuclear weapons; see To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal by Joe Haldeman....
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  Isn't parliament needed to make necessary legislation surrounding a no-deal brexit that's still missing? I.e. if parliament is basically suspended till November, is the UK legally prepared for that? I hope the Franco-German Brigade doesn't have to ride the Eurostar...
• Commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  One current benchmark for long form fiction is probably Alan Moore's Jerusalem, which clocks in at ca. 600k words. He must have worked on that for at least a decade. Do you have any idea how he managed to do...
• Commented on Typo Hunt: The Labyrinth Index
  109 from Orbit on a Kindle Paperwhite 2nd gen running Firmware 5.10.1.1...
• Commented on Sitrep
  Any news on your Berlin gig (looks at calendar)?...
• Commented on That sinking feeling
  Charlie, while your scenario for a NDB sounds right (you forgot that NI imports all its electricity from Ireland; London is seriously planning to ship over generators in case of a NDB), I think this will be averted: Soon after...
• Commented on Holding Pattern
  Work at the pace you can sustain; don't burn out again. And good luck with your mum. Keep us informed about Berlin, please - I'd like to meet you there, if possible at all....
• Commented on Happy 21st Century!
  The link about petty authoritarians is broken. I still hope that we (the human race) will be lucky, but my believe wanes whenever I think about the climate catastrophe we all choose to ignore. And I'm more and more glad...
• Commented on New publication dates (and audiobook news)
  The index is available for preorder from Amazon Germany....
• Commented on New Book Week!
  Will we see any signs of the US presidential elections of 2020 in TL2? Since we are in August 2020, the conventions are over and we are only ca. 10 weeks away from the elections......
• Commented on We get reviews (contd.)
  You're coming to 34C3? Hooray! If you want, you can have a small loyal posse following you. :-)...
• Commented on Empire Games gets a price cut in the UK
  Btw: Dark State is up for preorder on Amazon!...
• Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
  China already has a heavy launcher (which carries a bit more than the Falcon Heavy), a space station, a lunar exploration program, and is planning an automatic sample return mission for 2019(!). They will not carry a flag of the...
• Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
  I suggest to reread The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein - it partly deals with the aftershocks of Kathrina. The same will likely happen here, probably worse. I wonder how FEMA et.al. fits into the "Breitbard/Ayn Rand" mind - isn't...
• Commented on Attention Conservation Notice
  Why no Kindle editions yet? I'll buy you a pint on Thursday. :-)...
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  Since these worms are only possible since the NSA bought the exploits and horded them - do we know if the GHCQ also knew about these exploits and didn't inform the parties responsible for fixing them? I.e. are parts of...
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  For ones like those used in the NHS, you are talking about a man-year of technical staff effort (which has now been abolished, sorry, outsourced) and between a man-day and man-week for every user of the system. I understand the...