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  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    This sounds like a really fun story! I'm looking forward to reading it :)...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    (Some UNRWA staff in Gaza are alleged to have helped militants, but even if they did it is not proportionate or reasonable for the US, UK and other Israeli allies to cut off funding to the UNRWA)...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    That one's no mystery. That's the Israeli government up to its normal propaganda tricks....
  • Commented on Summer webcomics
    Tiger Tiger is a very good low-fantasy age-of-sail story about an heiress who impersonates her brother to steal his merchant ship so that she can study sea sponges in a far off land. It's fun, it's stylish, it's queer, get...
  • Commented on Pass or Fail
    A film containing only women who only ever talk about men would not pass the test. If they ever talk about something other than men then it would pass....
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    Oh, or was it just that the state would take a stake in all large companies? Anyway, if you want to do that you should be open about it and explain why it's a good idea. I was disappointed that...
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    That was a separate policy that I didn't really support. I think if you want to increase corporation tax on large companies you should just be open about it. I'm talking about Corbyn's proposals for bringing utilities and public transport...
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    Yes, especially since "REAL Socialism"TM involves the state owning all the (significant) means of production & distribution, with only minimal Private Business. I don't think that's true. Socialists usually want the means of production to be democratically controlled, but...
  • Commented on A Quick Infomercial
    I'm really excited to read Invisible Sun! Thank you to you and your editors! Looking forward to reading about how the socialists try to bring democracy to the USA and I've always enjoyed the developmental economics aspect of the series....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    On topic, I think I might go for political change by example. Companies I control would cut exec pay dramatically and introduce meaningful workplace democracy and high wages to demonstrate that it can be done. This would be followed down...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Sociology is bad Sociology is a valuable field. Of course there is a fair chunk of more or less useless work, but I've known quite a few "hard science" academics who also definitely produce junk science. It is unreasonable...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    The obvious answer is that racists who are in public competition with non-racists win. The right wins if it can make being racist an attractive property in a politician because they can campaign on that while their opponents can't without...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    Lots of misinformation here about Labour and it's Brexit policy. The policy does change over time, but not as much as is made out. Current policy is that Labour will vote for a second ref amendment the next time the...
  • Commented on Tentative hypothesis
    UI latency on Linux is bad GTK3 is higher latency than GTK2, and GNOME shell is kinda laggy; but i3wm + xterm is still pretty low latency and firefox in linux certainly feels no slower than on windows, to...
  • Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
    What message would you like Corbyn to receive? Labour policy is already to campaign for a referendum on any brexit deal and to campaign for remain in that referendum if the deal was negotiated by the Tories. If Labour gets...
  • Commented on Deaths and Deadlines
    Infant mortality pre-5 dropped precipitously throughout the 19th century, as did maternal death in childbirth: from about 50% (around 1800) to 20% (by 1900). Neither the infant mortality rate or the maternal mortality rate were that high for the...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
    So I'm convinced that Dr Armstrong et al feel like Mandate is the best way out of the immediate crisis, but not convinced that the Laundry has just given up all initiative to Mandate. I think the Laundry would be...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
    I'm really interested in what Continuity Ops and Mandate think of each other. Laundry apparently decided it needed Mandate to kill Schiller and maybe they also decided they couldn't take over the country themselves. But now that Mandate is in...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
    It's mentioned several times that the auditors have an unusual role in the Laundry. They clearly have the authority to command Mahogany Row and to audit/interrogate any member of staff. I think OGH was just having fun in the early...
  • Commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
    Charlie has minds in a box with a solar sail in their own singularity novel Accelerando. Mind uploading gives you a completely different universe, though, so it's definitely cheating ;) I don't think it follows that singularities necessarily have anything...
  • Commented on Things Can Only Get Better! (Part 1)
    There's apparently a user script that does something similar[0], but looks like iOS Safari is reasonably locked down... If you have a jailbroken device you can get something called "Userscript Loader". If you don't have a jailbroken device, some iOS...
  • Commented on Things Can Only Get Better! (Part 1)
    Re: losing comments when page reloads Use the "lazarus form recovery" addon for your browser. It saves the contents of forms in a database and automatically fills fields with the saved responses (deleting after some amount of time, db optionally...
  • Commented on Constitutional crisis ahoy!
    Seems a bit optimistic to think that Scotland can stop the UK leaving the EU. I kinda doubt Sturgeon could get away with anything that undemocratic. Also, as Graydon @22 says, it looks a lot like the EU has made...
  • Commented on What Goes Around...
    Welcome back! Afraid I can't comment usefully on whether it's a sea change or not, but perhaps I can ask a quick question. I've just bought the story bundle and enjoyed the excerpt of Tides of Darkness. Would you recommend...
  • Commented on Silence this week ...
    I expect I'm not working from your mindset... :) I certainly wouldn't want you to expose any vulnerable sources, but was hoping for some generalities. Thanks for the posts!...
  • Commented on Silence this week ...
    Hadil Benu has boasted a few times about their research prowess. A number of other commenters demonstrate considerable ability on a regular basis too. As well as being an occasional contributor to these comment sections, I'm a researcher looking at...
  • Commented on <i>Hot Earth Dreams</i>
    @Frank Re: Epub production, What format is the manuscript in and how did you make the mobi?...
  • Commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
    "felt/feel like I did" Meant "like you did"....
  • Commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
    For what it's worth, I have praised your work repeatedly and enthusiastically to friends and family over the last week without mentioning my concerns about copy-editing or editing. I think my first comment here annoyed you, and I think I...
  • Commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
    Unfortunately for proof reading, I really enjoyed your book and raced through it pretty quickly on holiday. I'm afraid I didn't take notes for corrections. The most common issue for me was what I perceived as missing words, rather than...
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