[mazork]

The article was interesting, but am I alone thinking that those tenebrous, click-baity titles are bad ?

[raldi]

Agreed. How about, "A visit to Germany's indoor tropical resort"?

[grey-area]

He's not really just talking about an indoor tropical resort.

[raldi]

Oh, then I must've given up before I found the part where he reveals his point.

What is it?

[icegreentea]

He's using it as a tool to think about the implications of space colonies - with the major point being that he believes that space colonies must implement some level of high fidelity individual tracking and monitoring for security purposes / that people would likely accept that loss of privacy for various reasons.

[raldi]

"Life in space would require privacy sacrifices"

[judk]

"Life in high-density civilization will require privacy sacrifices"

[z0r]

It's a good thing you don't write science fiction for a living :)

[gaius]

Also while I enjoy his writing, I feel it's in bad taste to submit your own stuff. It seems pushy.

[jacquesm]

You mean like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3651482 ?

[gaius]

Yeah a thousand days ago, nice one.

[nitrogen]

If you are not an established name like cstross or jacquesm, who else is going to submit your stuff?