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SticksAndBreaks | 9 years ago | on: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

It seems Diamond Age is not so far away by now. Emerging are the phyles, tribes of ideas, some social democratic, some autocratic. Welcome to europe candaduu.

Also, you can loose your nation and citizenship, if you turn to other ideas. Become a communist and you become a north korean or venezuelian, become a djihadi and you are a ISIL or Saudi Arabia citizen. Be a bleeding heart bug liberal- and you are a Californian or Israeli. Maybe this is where we are going.

It would be interesting to see, the inter-phyle interaction. Today, the amish phyle and the californian phyle came to a trading aggreement, where upon the Californian phyle would protect the Amish phyle in return for a scholarship on californian schools for the brightest of the amish decendants.

SticksAndBreaks | 9 years ago | on: What do slaveholders think?

The same that capitalists think. Those mongrel are so much better of due to my hard work. They have food, shelter and something to do with there lives. Else they would vandalize on the street.

What if a slaveholder is a slave? Can dependancy hell apply to a owned person?

SticksAndBreaks | 9 years ago | on: Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality

Is a addict really that much worser off? At the end, all that remains of life, is sugar encoded eletricity in a jelly-fish on a walking sausage. They dont make copies of themselves though.

My grandfather had a collague, who build a fast-breeder reactor in germany. Then the political climate changed and the reactor- brand new was deconstructed, and the whole thing reverted to a grass-farmland.

Noting but memorys to show for it.

SticksAndBreaks | 9 years ago | on: Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?

Just put into the faces video some random looping guy GIF. And you can kick the usual horny teenager. You can not have a video at all, and not use a microphone- just chatting. The internet is asexual by nature which is great. Your argument is invalid, there is no problem there, except for one group demanding social controll over all others.

SticksAndBreaks | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

PLC Programming is years behind when it comes to software engineering, developing, testing and speed of deployment.

A system that would allow for Change related Issue-tracking on the CAD-files of the controlled machine. A language that would enforce component-class interfaces, thus preventing information duplication. A proofer that validates the resulting DEAs for correctness.

SticksAndBreaks | 9 years ago | on: Molten Salt Reactor Claims Melt Down Under Scrutiny

Geo-strategic irony: Because everyone has a secret nuke lying around, nobody engages in conflicts any more- thus the usual social tension valve beeing unused, leading to civil wars instead of the conventional wars.

TL,DR; Iran vs SaudiArabia turns with nukes into, Iran <-> Iran and SaudiArabia vs SaudiArabia.

Short term gain is long term pain.

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