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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Who owns a huge chunk of Cuba? Certainly not the US. Unless you think 45 square miles is a “huge chunk”. > fully inhabited continent Not trying to downplay the atrocities but the population density in North America was very low when
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> The slave South couldn't even make shoes In part because they didn’t need to, they could just buy them and other goods the from the north/Europe and focus on the production of cotton which was more profitable and lucrative (t
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Slavery wasn’t really that profitable outside of the cotton belt, though. Yes there were still slaves in the North until the early to mid 1800s but it’s not clear that its impact on the economic prosperity of those states was ever particula
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Because I think its clear that the reason the rest of the Americas didnt become wealthy like North America is because of the same habit of plunder that made the US rich but instead of that wealth being sent to Boston or New York or whe
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Well there was a 200-250 year gap before they built those factories. Per capita Americans were already significantly better of than average Europeans mainly because of much higher availability of land. It’s hard to imagine enough capital a
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The Roman empire certainly primarily didn’t get rich by looting material goods. Land and slaves were much more important. > Along with tribute from the people they conquered.) Or rather taxes based on land (which was the primary “resourc
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> wealth being sent to Boston or New York or wherever, it was sent back to Europe Pretty much all states in Latin America (outside of the Caribe’s) very independent in the early 1800s, so US had a 20-30 year advantage at most. So that do
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Isn’t the RISC vs CISC distinction a but blurry these days with both ARM and x86 adopting a lot of stuff from the other side?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Yeah, but it was one company subsidized by the government using its influence to bring down another company which was even more heavily subsidized by their respective government (not that it would have been possible to break into this marke
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
There are plenty of Airbus planes in the US. Nobody is directly prohibiting competition it’s just that no private company could ever catch up without massive a amount of government funding.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Airbus has a 5-10 year backlog for many of its models so it’s not like airlines have a choice.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It’s really not at all obvious that Boeing is more at fault in this specific case than the airline/maintenance company.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Is this a brand new airplane or caused by some design flaw? Because if not everyone should probably be blaming the airline/maintenance company. Certainly not downplaying Boeing’s massive screwups but it just seems that every single inc
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
But then that would apply to every company that has datacenters and provides services both in US and Europe?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Vendor lockin That, but also lack of feature parity. Unfortunately Libre Office is just not very good
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I guess MS could just find a way to guarantee that any data is only stored in data centers in Europe. It shouldn’t be too complicated and I don’t see how could they be considered to be a foreign cloud then.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
To be fair in certain cases the cost might be very high and considerably higher than whatever the license/subscription fees paid to MS are. e.g. Libre Office doesn’t really have a drop-in replacement for Excel (for non trivial use case
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
For comments yes, but can anyone actually downvote stories?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Botswana’s government website seems to imply that many elephants migrated there from the north because they were much safer from poachers there than in Namibia, Angola etc. or rather that they used to seasonally migrate across the border bu
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> But it turns out it's not. Right. That’s certainly a very convincing argument.. > People were already making the same argument in the late 1800s And they were already partially correct. > You oughta read the book :) What boo
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
They do. What about the remaining 50-98% of wealth? This would do barely anything to solve the current problems related to inequality. The 99 years would just be priced in and everything would more or less stay the same. All of that Georgis
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> All wealth (which is definitionally excess productive power) ultimately accrues to land value, so this is the only point of intervention you need. that was generally accurate prior to the mid 1800s. I don’t see at all how this would b
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Where are talking about when it was supposedly burnt during the civil war with Caesar/Cleopatra? Or some other event? > for hundreds of year > Truely heartbreaking to think about about all the information we could of gleaned abou
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Only since 2011. That scandal started long before that
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> The european countries don't really have distinctive minorities from their neighbors Well… I wonder how that happened since it certainly wasn’t the case until the period between the mid/late 19th century and the 1940. I guess
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Historically nothing sets up a country better for future success than lots of immigrants That might be mixing up cause and effect…
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> There might be a middle point between everybody voting and one person voting that would be more optimal. That’s called an dictatorship. Absolute unquestionable authority is a myth, even Stalin relied on the support of others to stay in
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> library of Alexandria Its importance and size are massively over-emphasized though. We aren’t even sure if that were that many books left there when it was supposedly destroyed.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The middle ages, not sure there were many East European slaves in pre-Islamic Arabia. Also plenty of them were “imported” into the Byzantine empire and Italy. After the Vikings Venice and Genoa mostly controlled the slave trade in the Easte
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Babylon and its fired clay is a bit of an exception It wasn’t just Babylon but dozens of other civilizations in the region. IIRC we have a lot more Assyrian tablets because Babylon and their allies sacked and burned the Assyrian capita

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