@ZachWeiner if there were trade routes set up between planets, how would the appreciable speed-of-light delay affect the economics? is there a way to standardize interest rates across inertial reference frames?
@MoiraDonegan as soon as I started reading about this guy I was thinking of IBWTR. grateful for your pod for giving me some context and vocabulary with which to think about this shit
@ZachWeiner incidentally, this is also where silly "rules" of english come fromΒ β educated fusspots establishing arbitrary conventions based on how latin worked is how we got the notion that you shouldn't start a sentence with a preposition, for instance
@ZachWeiner I agree with the people who say this is from latin and greek training. The joke about reading cicero is that you have to read a lot of nonsense before getting to the verb at the end to figure out what's being said, and 19th c. english has a similar quality
@kate_manne it doesn't yet seem to be available on https://t.co/WyVpWAUFdb. do I have to preorder through one of the giant companies or should I just wait a couple days?