Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"
We are, after all, homo economicus. - Charles Stross
We are, after all, homo economicus.
- Charles Stross
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was des… - Charles Stross
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was des…
More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market. - Charles Stross
More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? - Charles Stross
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. - Charles Stross
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion er… - Charles Stross
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion er…
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we calle… - Charles Stross
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we calle…
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and… - Charles Stross
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and…
What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cl… - Charles Stross
What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cl…
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