En una noticia anterior decía que el plan sería expropiar terrenos en El Pinar y Ciudad Vieja.
nachof
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Bueno, pero el valor se puede empezar a ver desde antes si lo hacés por etapas. Ponele que hacés el tranvía desde Plaza Independencia al obelisco, ya es terrible tramo que ayuda. Y de ahí lo vas extendiendo por Avenida Italia de a pedazos hasta llegar al peaje.
Claro que no me queda claro si es viable eso por el tema del espacio que piden para almacén de tranvías y talleres.
Ciudad de la Costa, Gianattasio a la altura de km 18 está imposible. Tuve que manejar por ahí y no veía los semáforos a una cuadra.
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That's a change that I noticed going from Twitter to Mastodon, and it's that the drama in the Fediverse is just way more fun to look at, because it's drama between instances and not drama between people. Like, in Twitter you'd see tons of bullying and people being shitty to other people. In Mastodon (and the rest of the Fediverse) the drama is between instances, and that means less personal stuff (less, not none).
So ultimately I sold it (to another person in that same group ;-) )
That sounds like an ideal outcome, since you still get to play it.
It's my favorite series of his. I read the first couple of Laundryverse books, and while they're fun, I'm not a fan of the lovecraftian horror thing. But Merchant Princes hooked me right from the start. Tons of politicking, and by the end it gets messy, like really messy. It's basically The Godfather meets Game of Thrones meets Sliders. And then the followup series (Empire Games) is a Cold War spy thriller with portals. You can just start with Empire games, it's written to be a separate series, but it does have massive spoilers for the original series.
If I want to play it with a different group, one the people who have it are not part of, then I consider buying it.
I've also bought some games that I just had to have because they were just that awesome. And then never played, because other people already have a copy, and sometimes they have more content or whatever. Terraforming Mars, for example, I ended up only playing it a handful of times solo, and then the app came out, and I haven't opened my copy since. I try to avoid doing this now, because it really doesn't work out that well.
Although I am considering buying Brass: Birmingham so I can decide when I want it to be available in a meetup. Also Spirit Island, but that's because I think I can get my kids to play with me.
The Lost Fleet series by John G Hemry
A note on this: the series is written under the Jack Campbell pseudonym. Took me a while to find. The first book is Dauntless
I think Charles Stross does this pretty nicely, although his science part is not very hard science. So he's basically not predicting anything, his science fiction is more of the "ok I know this is not real but what if it were" variety.
The Laundry Files series is "what if Lovecraft was right and there's magic math that can summon the old gods", but then add to it that we do have a way to do tons of math stuff in the form of computers. So of course what happens? Well, there are spy agencies tasked with controlling this, because we can't get rid of computers, too important, but also, we can't let that magic math run wildly.
The Merchant Princes series is "what if there was a way to travel to an alternate dimension". So what happens? The dudes from the alternate dimension, who are the ones that discovered the secret, and come from a medieval-like world, use that to smuggle shit. They can go near the border, jump to the other side where the border doesn't exist (or at least doesn't exist right there) walk a couple of miles, and then jump back to our world. They of course build a massive criminal empire on our side. On the other side, they bring our advanced tech gadgets back and they are a hugely powerful merchant family. There's also all the implications for security. You can jump inside any building as long as you know exactly where it is on the other side. And the shit the US government gets up to when they discover this exists is pretty disturbing (especially when you consider that it makes sense given what was done in the name of the war on terror).
Always a good opportunity to learn something new.
No, the Fediverse isn't free of crypto bullshit either.