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> the devil is in the details Well yeah :) Any ideas on how the board is chosen? Does the majority(only) owner / CEO of the p-corp do it?

Sincere question: what do you believe should happen when a company becomes successful? You make excellent criticisms and I've had similar thoughts. But I never really understood wh…

Why does anyone think the goal is a place for billionaires to flee to? Where does this come form? All initial efforts in the solar system will be extremely arduous. No one serious …

Permutation City's dust theory was the first idea that made me think: oh maybe something like that. It ties in with the whole "why isn't there just nothing" - total nothingness is …

Carter-Zimmerman polis vs the rest of the Coalition

1969-2004 was the golden age ;-) When Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series (super fun to read) was being written.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/26/windscreen-ph...

Bands want people to come back to future concerts. Yes I understand. My point is that is just one of many factors influencing how bands price their events. And that range of factor…

I did not say you did. I mentioned record sales because the balance of from where artists revenue is coming is pushing artists to get more of their money from their gigs as other r…

> Bands don't generally want to maximize revenue from any given gig They do more nowadays. The old model of touring to drive demand for record sales has been turned upside-down. It…

That is not correct. Some artists sign deals guaranteeing them more than 100% of total face value. Others put tickets on the secondary markets themselves. If any system does not fu…

Scalpers neither increase nor reduce total demand. Scalpers are not going to the event themselves.

The UK and Canada are not republics. There's no need to clarify "pure democracy"as no one thinks any modern democratic country is a pure democracy. All modern democracies are repre…

Are the UK and Canada republics or democracies?

I have never commented anywhere about Capistrano. But, it has been part of a toolchain that has brought me success and improved my life. Thank you very much for all you have done.

> Our highest court has ruled that our voting system > is against our contitution. Twice. What an embarrassment. To be fair the ruling is part of your voting system needs to be twe…

She was interviewed on CBC radio recently: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/The+Current/ID/2252831223/ The piece has a lot more details plus interviews with women working in the gami…

Dynamic pricing. No such thing as "face value" for a plane ticket. Ability to schedule more flights in the same day as demand increases.

Agreed. I read them as slowly as I could manage over the course of about five years. Even 21 was a great read. I was blown away that I was still maintaining the same enjoyment 15, …

For a peak into a future with 'ongoing diagnosis' see the very cool Greg Egan short story Yeyuka: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/yeyuka.htm "So why did you go into medicine?…