
JohnK
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Commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Take your time. "Charlie Stross is not your bitch" is not going to be a meme we need....
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Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
The problem with Brexit is not about the form of the Brexit we settle on, it's about how we learn to live with each other after. If we crash out, and things inevitably go to shit, remainers are going to...
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Commented on Catching Up
The YouGov poll released yesterday showed a very clear pattern of younger people voting Labour and older people Conservative. As expected. The trope is that people get less idealistic and more self-interested as they get older. Is that a fixed...
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Commented on Attention Conservation Notice
Is there a Stross upcoming books tracker somewhere. With graphical display of time to purchase? I can't keep up....
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Commented on The internet of decay
Washing machine jailbreak services?...
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Commented on The unavoidable discussion
Not much talk of social protections here. When I hear people like Gove, Grayling, Johnson and Patel talking about sovereignty I hear between the lines their annoyance at not being able to dismantle rights and the social state fast enough....
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Commented on Quiet in here, isn't it?
"A side-effect of this is that if you push a project along for 15 years, inconsistencies creep in—and are frozen in print in earlier books." ...but not necessarily in electronic formats, which is really interesting. Raises questions about whether something...
