I have a feeling this is going to be an ongoing struggle. I've just spent the morning clearing it out, and removing the bot users. But I have a feeling the best defense against noise is signal. Right now there's not a lot of traffic in the forum. When there is more traffic the occasional SPAM will s...

Hey, welcome aboard. You know, if you're in Arizona and you ever hear Ernie talking about one of the social gatherings he has at his home, you should feel totally welcome to go. Random listeners show up all the time, and that's pretty much how a lot of us met anyway. His address is at the foot of th...

I've lost more Bitcoin then I will ever have again. But for me the question has never been whether Bitcoin was perfect. The question has been "compared to what?" The dollar is broken. So it always always always boils down to "What is the task" and "What is the best imperfect tool"

I think you're right about this. I spent more than one long night in meatspace trying to get through to him. I think there's serious problems with Ernie's idea of an immutable and anonymous reputation database. His so called "permanent record" had a lot of technical hurdles to achieve, if it's even ...

NancyCoomb wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 12, 2019 2:31 am

Crew shirts

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fezEUv4CXigjIv8bxpnAXbcTz_9sikBepJ6RHBT0l6c/edit?usp=sharing Primordial Bogg The Bogg are an ancient race of sentient plants. They don’t originate from any one planet, but evolved in the initial matter and energy soup of the Big Bang itself. Galactic tumbleweeds s...

I've got a treatment for a space whale plot in The Orville game that involves space pirates. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slkMJSRpgHvmGCBsw_WwnBb1Ydo5ubv1GSlrzU0yjTQ/edit?usp=sharing Megacephalus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3DiYspY1Q4 What’s in a name? Moby Dick was a sperm whale, or “ph...

Spartacus wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:53 pm

than i could count... not then

Thanks I'll fix it in the print edition.

What do you mean, "out of nowhere?"