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• ilya187 commented on A game of consequences
  I tried canned cat food. If you are not a fan of salt (and I am decidedly not a fan of salt), it is perfectly edible....
• Jay commented on A game of consequences
  politics determines which part of the economy gets externalized, and which part gets counted. That turns out to be pretty critical. Very true, and relevant to the discussion a few posts up. Trade and immigration offer great benefits to residents of less developed countries, but impose considerable costs on the developed-country citizens with whom the foreign laborers most directly compete. The losers in this deal tend to be less well educated, less cosmopolitan in outlook, and are unlikely to live near major centers of finance or trade. We're currently in the middle of a struggle over whether and how their...
• dpb commented on A game of consequences
  I'm not much of a fan of salty food, but I will pass the message on next time I see him and see if he comes up with something worse :)...
• McIkye commented on A game of consequences
  i would say approach massively exploited in this discussion is fundamentally flawed -- denying escape and concentrating on a system of people based on people would never function. it has been proved however that "the vent" is a fundamental part of human brain function. what is necessary for the colony to survive and develop is anothercolony_. it shall be relatively simple to create multiple sites on say mars or the proverbial alpha centaury relatively isolated an governed by different authorities put that founding society... that providing the vent (that 95% of colonists will never use). however this is not the...
• McIkye commented on A game of consequences
  oh... and running your service as "root" is a very bad idea. it's not them 80s anymore...