As a professional videogame programmer, I can assure you that it's fairly newsworthy when a game designer uses math to solve problems like these.

There's more math in the corniest Free2Play game than there is in Witcher 3.

As a professional videogame programmer, I'm guessing you've heard of Eve Online. I'm just guessing here, because I'm not a professional videogame programmer, but I'll just bet they used a little math in the same way. Over a decade ago.

Anyway, my point was that I would have thought Slashdot readers would be beyond getting all excited when someone is discovered to be "using math". In programming an economy-simulator.

Just like most really rich guys. Trying like hell to clean his dark soul from what he did to get that rich.

In the United States, we like a good redemption story.

Or don't you believe in redemption?

Wait a minute here. Is there an editor so clueless that they thought the notion of a game developer "using math" is headline-worthy? What's next, a story about how "programmers" are "using math"?

I'll bet they used "physics" and even "engineering" too!

What the hell?

I had a solar powered and wind powered home in the Michigan Upper peninsula. where we average 30 FEET of snow in the winter.

It is absolutely doable. You cant be a bran dead sloth like the typical american though. you have to do some maintenance. About 20 hours a years worth.

Then the windmills will be turning like hell. Because when the sun is not shining the wind is blowing.

Many people have lived off grid with DC for most of their needs for decades. This is not new in any way.

Just like most really rich guys. Trying like hell to clean his dark soul from what he did to get that rich.

Carnegie was a horrible horrible human being, he tried to buy his soul back with all the "giving back".

I think Robert Rhinehart is just trolling us. Who could possibly hate kitchens as much as he does? Check out his blog and tell me he's not either a troll or has some serious static in the attic. The section on kitchens is particularly illuminating.

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=133...

With no fridge, no dishes, no microwave, no oven, no range, no dishwasher, no utensils, no pests, no cleaning products nor dirty rags, my life is considerably simpler, lighter and cleaner than before. I think it was a bit presumptuous for the architect to assume I wanted a kitchen with my apartment and make me pay for it. My home is a place of peace. I don’t want to live with red hot heating elements and razor sharp knives. That sounds like a torture chamber. However, it’s not a total loss. I was able to use the cabinets to store part of my book collection.

Wait a kitchen is a "torture chamber"? Slow your roll there, big boy.

I mean, if he wants to make his life "simpler, lighter and cleaner" he could just tear out his bathroom and use catheter. It'd be about as much fun as living on Soylent 2.0.

I was being ironic too.

I think it was more like 20 million...

That may be. The official numbers estimate 10 million military and 14 million civilians. Either way, without Russia soaking up everything Hitler could muster against them, there might well not have been enough time to plan for a Normandy invasion before England was gone. The costs were horrific, and Americans who forget that it wasn't just G.I. Joe that defeated the Nazis dishonor themselves.

I mean nobody would dare say Black people shouldn't be pissed about Colonialism. Ooops this comment is likely to get censored due to "racism" but then again nobody will care, "OMG CENSORSHIP ON SLASHDOT. Racism ohh okay no problem then."

Geez, man. What are you so upset about? You better take care you don't have a stroke worrying about all that.

I was only in Istanbul once, and only long enough to have dinner, fall asleep and run to the airport. But my Serbian monther-in-law has some very strong opinions about Turks. She's usually such a sweet little old lady, but don't get her started on the Turks. I mean, the Ottoman Empire was gone before she was born, but damn, she's still mad about something.

It's 102 degrees in there, the women all have it adjusted to insane warm levels and are STILL wearing sweaters in the summer.

I swear that I saw a couple of geckos running across the floor last time I dropped off company credit card receipts.

You're confusing "totalitarian" with "authoritarian". Authoritarianism is the lack of limits on state power. Totalitarianism is when the state actually uses that lack of limits to institute a pervasive, total control of the populace in all aspects of their lives. Remember that the word was actually used in its proper meaning in a positive sense by the very people that we recognize as the first conscious totalitarians today: Italian fascists. Mussolini defined it as "everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state".

Once they have located an attacker, having privately owned armed drones would be very handy. if the attacker is a nation state, even more aggressive measures could be used.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership gives them the right to use "even more aggressive measures". It's called "corporate sovereignty" and it will be our undoing. Basically, it says that a corporation can sue governments for damages for any law that might conceivably cost them money.

We already have a mercenary military. Imagine the armies the Fortune 500 will put into the field, and the mischief they could create.