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Commented on I ain't dead
Combining two comment streams, I see following the adventures of Elon's Rocketeers a suitable antidote for the depressing stupidity and backwardness of so much of the rest of the world (reopening things when you still have thousands of deaths a...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
US rural communities suffer from density problems of a different sort. We are down to zero new cases for multiple days in multiple states now - eradication across the whole country looks viable. Even NSW is down to 6 new...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
Heteromeles, the point is to prevent transmission between people not food etc. Now it's a might easier here in Oz because there are already obvious physical barriers between city-states, but for the durations we are talking about it's still perfectly...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
The bit I didn't mention is it works best from a basis where the absolute number of new infections is already low (say single digit new cases per day). That way you still have a reasonable probability of stamping it...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
Just to point out, but there is one approach that I think can work. Basically you really lockdown when you lockdown - people staying in homes for two weeks. Nobody on the streets except the police, etc. Then at the...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)