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user-inactivated  ·  2924 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "The implicit premise seems to be that there are barbarians on only one side of the trade debate."

I leave predicting the future to people who do TED talks. I'd like to think something more like designing a distributed system in computing than a science, where you start with the properties you want it to have and then figure out a protocol that has them. Then everyone knows it's all a game and they can make up a new game if the one they're playing turns out not to be very good.

Something something flying cars and robot butlers.