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• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  So my guess would be that if I buy the Kindle version plus the narration as an add on, you'll get less for the narration than if I buy the audible version outright, but have no idea what the author's...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  Just ordered the audible version. Out of interest, do you know what the royalties structure is for kindle and audible? I know that when I'm out of credits it's often chapter to buy the Kindle version to get a discount...
• Commented on Outage report
  So GAE is part of Google Cloud Platform, which is their competitor to Amazon Web Services (i.e. renting out their excess compute, which has become high business. Specifically it's their "serverless" computing offering where you run an application, and they...
• Commented on Outage report
  Given you've spent your hardware budget on writing equipment, have you looked into what it would take to run the blog on Google App Engine or similar? Depending on what powers it under the covers, it could be an incredibly...
• Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
  My guess would be that it's about the fact that most women work too in the Commonwealth, and it's not necessary that a cohabitating could would work nearby....
• Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
  Well, reading through over 700 comments is enough to make me regret taking my time over the book, although it felt right to savour it. A few of my own notes on comments, with the caveat that I mostly listened...
• Commented on The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
  I (agnostic atheist) personally have no problem with the mind as a concept, but I've had discussions with hard determinists who are convinced they have no mind and are only having the illusion of thought based on things deterministically happening...
• Commented on The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
  I got that much, I just wasn't sure on the spoiler policy so early in the thread, hence saying it was off screen rather than clarifying he was a different character with a gender swap (and before it became an...
• Commented on The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
  I don't know whether it's just me, but I always for the impression that in The Jennifer Morgue Bob thinks he's Roger Moore while it turns out he's actually offscreen in a Brosman or Connery film. Did you have any...