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I know a few of them, they are all game developers.

Technically, this would seem true for a lot of things.

Well, we have progressed to philosophers like John Gray (the author of Straw Dogs, not the relationship counselor who wrote that Mars/Venus thingy), though he would presumably argu…

Make or commission an observational sculpture from nature, a bust being the most common example, carved in stone or cast in metal.

People are providing a useful service and getting paid, the madness, the madness!

Also true.

Not adjusting your overall rules to the actions of single bad actors can be fatal. Single bad actors can sometimes wreak utter havoc.

I've been working a theory that what we are seeing in the last 10 years or so is the escape of these techniques from government into private industry. With a single powerful player…

With the ones powered by sails, it sounded to me like something out of a Studio Ghibli film.

>Each island house has its own wagon — some used to be wind-powered, using sails, but today they run on diesel. Is that pretty standard?

>It was a thoughtless mistake to bring the explosives on the plane Certain thoughtless mistakes are worth fining a company into oblivion over and maybe jailing some people for a bi…

>the actual number of people attempting to zero the amount of oil they use? Much lower than claimed concern. How do you know how many there are? Anyone doing that couldn't travel e…

> "If people were deeply individually concerned about the risks vs. rewards of these technologies, they'd stop using them." Why do you think that? It clearly doesn't apply to stuff…

Mass surveillance is not really for investigating individuals. The game being played is not '1984', it is 'Foundation'. It is for steering entire societies, and this works far bett…

Don't use *.io anyway. The domains are being sold under a very morally dubious arrangement, given the UK kicked all the people off the island of Chagos and gave the domain registra…

The cod wars between the UK and Iceland would suggest that fisheries policy is often not exactly the most calmly rational of human endeavours.

>Rather than developing the more creative innovations which bring together disparate pieces from other areas into new ones. Go buy a copy of the Three-Body trilogy by Liu Cixin.

>induced demand, where adding capacity can actually create more demand. The timeline on induced demand for number of houses required has to be pretty long. Also, if you are worryin…

Did anyone sensible think automation was largely responsible for the job loss in the richer countries? Manufacturing has chased cheap wages globally since the 1960's. I always thou…

I just looked on the news. Apparently none of that matters.

That was put well enough to make me wince on reading. Ever thought of going into politics?

Without that view, we wouldn't have most of the works by Kafka.

>If the author changes his views, it wouldn't be acceptable for someone else to print new copies of the book. That depends entirely on the publishing contract's rights reversion st…

"so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?" This brief fit of apparent competence i…

It meshes well with reality though.