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I'm a CS undergrad at a huge university. I'm here to learn some things.
I loved the premise of that series. Great source of worldbuilding porn, less great source of story arc and character development.
I recall that in the expansion between worlds people with skills like medical training, agriculture and craftsmanship were valuable to settlement parties. In contrast, Helen Green's programmer father had to retrain in something like farming to be a viable member of a settlement party.
My CS program contains a 1 credit hour course on ethics in computing. I believe this is required as part of the ABET accreditation process: http://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/cri...
I really don't understand why I can't be allowed to speculate/gamble/hedge on geopolitical events.
There was an interesting Planet Money episode lately about the history of betting on US presidential elections - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/21/433557935/episo....
It hadn't occurred to me before how much participation in the public sphere gambling could (and previously did) generate.