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by aksss 2y ago
> conquest engrained in their cultural DNA Perhaps nuance, but I believe the PIE people are presumed to have developed a cattle-raiding culture, which is just a raiding culture in general regardless of the wealth at hand (slaves, goods,
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by aksss 2y ago
There is a great book called "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language" by David Anthony, and in Chapter 10 he goes into some depth about horse domestication. https://archive.org/details/horsewheelandlanguage/p
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by aksss 2y ago
Or was/is slavery enabled by excess population relative to resources (no matter time and place)? When life becomes very cheap, etc.? I'm not proposing it is, just wondering about how it looks economically.
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by aksss 2y ago
"Multiple factors including hunting by early Natives, climate change, and disease are thought to have helped contribute to their demise. They disappeared around the same time as other large mammals like Wooly Mammoths." https:&#x
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by aksss 2y ago
I think to have an honest conversation about universal healthcare is to admit that it would cause health care rationing. Costs would be tighter across the board, and the best experiences of health care services enjoyed with (many) corporate
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by aksss 2y ago
This is why big business is not an ally for anything that makes health care cheaper or easier to engage. It's a great system for them.
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by aksss 2y ago
All else being equal, I'd rather see the pricing pressure done by market competition rather than enforced price caps benchmarked against some metric controlled by the industry (see Medicare Part D - gov. negotiates hard to only reimbur
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by aksss 2y ago
>"Create an account to continue reading" yeah, that's not happening.
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by aksss 2y ago
Just a bunch of mafias that want their cut, and governments are the biggest.
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by aksss 2y ago
I ended up fast forwarding through almost all the family-related drama. It did get absurd, as the seasons wore on they let the wrong writers get more and more pages. Just like star trek, space became a backdrop for a bland soap opera.
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by aksss 2y ago
https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/03/the-destructive-generatio... In between the Greatest Generation and Gen X - "Baby Boomer" was a name, but Destructive Generation seems to fit pretty well.
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by aksss 2y ago
It's also a hedge against SpaceX imploding/compromise/whatever. In that role, cost is less important than having a provably functional product. I'm not saying anything is likely to happen to SpaceX, just saying that havi
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by aksss 2y ago
> hunting big animals like mammoths and giant sloths, driving them into extinction as they went. Interesting read, and above quote shouldn’t distract from it, but I thought that theory was abandoned, or at least certainly not considered
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by aksss 2y ago
Yes, for me (as a recipient) it's about training the senders. Keep their expectations for fast replies low by developing a track record of not responding to texts for variable amounts of time, that sort of thing.
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by aksss 2y ago
Al Gore
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by aksss 2y ago
This is where Morgan Freeman can clean up with royalty payments. Who doesn’t want Ellis Boyd Redding describing ducks and math problems in kind and patient terms?
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by aksss 2y ago
Or a battery.
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by aksss 2y ago
The deployment model is very different, and within that model, the capabilities are far different. Comparing Shelly's system to Vue really starts with understanding your requirements and long-term automation plans. I think the key diff
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by aksss 2y ago
Surprised there’s not more mention of Shelly monitors in these comments. They’re great for whole house (service entrance) and circuit power monitoring. Pretty open integration, OOTB integration with HA. I think it makes more sense to use “d
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by aksss 2y ago
I think the aliexpress link for the display is busted (as they do). A natural integration would be with Home Assistant. I’m not sure if the Earu breaker has an OOTB integration with HA yet, beyond doing something like Zigbee2MQTT and config
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by aksss 2y ago
Spotify on CarPlay is great, the only thing that perpetually pisses me off (maybe an apple thing?) is that lists of items (playlists, podcasts, etc) are truncated in carplay, presumably as a safety thing? I then have to pick up my phone whi
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by aksss 2y ago
What, you don't like the full screen modal ads in the app for new and irrelevant music? The pointless stock video loops? Value, baby!
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by aksss 2y ago
Yep, sometimes there are hills that also cause trains to go faster or slower depending on the incline. Fascinating world out there. Speeds are regulated.. Here's some reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_spe
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by aksss 2y ago
> the core C-based stuff Plug for https://www.nanoframework.net/ https://github.com/nanoframework/nanoFramework.M5Stack
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by aksss 2y ago
The weight and speed limits are a regulatory matter in the US, as there's a safety factor at play. Derailments of cargo tend to be... messy affairs.
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by aksss 2y ago
I don’t think cargo trains ever go “fast”. But it is slower than normal in the US anyways. I think in US max speed for cargo is like 50 mph / ~75 kph, and this train is going along at 46 kph assuming constant motion. In reality, it’s f
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by aksss 3y ago
Elephants don’t fly?
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by aksss 3y ago
Send them on a barge across the Med, and German-funded rescue boats will drop them off in Italy or other coasts in Europe. Tattoo them with "To Germany with Love" and a few might find their way there. Hannibal brought elephants ov
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by aksss 3y ago
Yes, it was eaten and is eaten. It's red meat. It's calories. Of course humans ate/eat it. The oldest evidence is 1.8m years old. According to wiki, in 2007 it seemed to be selling for like $5-6/lb in Africa.
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by aksss 3y ago
Canadian MAID support line?

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