devmacrile

Yeah the process always struck me as just as much a barrier to exit as a barrier to entry (maybe even more so).

Awesome!

bute

Nice! Really like "When You\'re In Town".

If we are talking blitz though there is an argument to be made for the trickiness of the knight's geometry. Forks abound and no time to calculate.

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (Aspray) is a great historical account and details many of his other contributions (e.g. game theory, automata, but especially meteorology).

+1 on Mathematics, Form and Function

Would recommend reading everything in Collected Fictions.

Possibly because the U.S. provides the "best high school education in the world.. It's just a shame you have to go to college to get it."

-- Alan Kay, some anecdote I forget how to locate

Yeah - this is a very good point. At a certain point, the scale of economic activity has to bump up against the finite scale of ecological dynamics upon which it is dependent. As long as negative externalities are treated as such - something "external" - markets cannot be expected to efficiently allocate resources w.r.t. human welfare.

The idea of and faith in economic adaptation as described in the parent (price/demand dynamics) is greatly dependent on the assumption of underlying ecological stability (from which sufficient timeframes for adaption and resource alternatives are provided).