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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
They have to justify their existence and maximize growth and headcount. In this case I’m not sure if it’s the politicians themselves as much to blame as the EU apparatchiks and lobbyists
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> established to provide mutual economic and military security in Europe Yes and it was/is very successful at that. The overpaid and incompetent bureaucracy in Brussels seems to be mostly tangential if not detrimental to that. Also
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
To be fair the slave trade (both Arabic and Atlantic) exerted (possibly) very significant downwards pressure on population growth in Africa during multiple centuries prior to 1900.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
It’s still extremely unlikely under normal circumstances. Serious attacks by non feral/mistreated dogs are still a freak incident. You’re about as likely to be killed by a lightning.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Some dogs might, others are not necessarily much more likely to behave that way than some humans.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
That doesn’t mean that the overwhelming majority of well-trained dogs belonging to non-aggressive breeds are not almost entirely trustworthy under most circumstances. Of course unnecessarily risking the life of your child is still a horribl
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Wouldn’t wolves generally be significantly less dangerous because they are generally more skittish and avoid being near humans? One of the main issues with feral/wild dogs (or wolf hybrids) is that they are much less afraid of humans a
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Would you pay the extra $10k or $20k for the custom built interface, though? It’s only $1000 if the majority of buyers are willing to pay that (which they are not).
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
If you’re fine with having the same QoL as the people living in those societies then sure… why would anyone want to though? > People would walk wherever they had to go Or had their slaves carry them in a litter
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Not necessarily, they aren’t making much money from this. They really just want to negotiate a better deal not to prevent Qualcomm from building their own cores..
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Qualcomm would just probably develop their own proprietary cores with patented/proprietary extensions (because why wouldn’t they?). Crippling the ability of other RISC-v chips to run the software built primarily Qualcomm CPUs. Now at
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> but it has continued to do well despite all of them Financially they haven’t really been doing that well, especially no compared to other chip designers, they are basically making peanuts.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> "bottom" which in those times was slavery Slavery was a legal status. There were plenty of poor laborers with no property in Roman cities..
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Also pretty much all of the claims in the last few paragraphs are entirely unfounded, we simply don’t have even remotely enough information to make any of them…
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Until well into the Imperial period women didn’t even technically have their own names. They based all called Julia, Claudia, Cornelia etc. which was just the female version of their father gens. If you had 3 sisters sisters you’d just be C
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Yeah, but that was the case in the western world until the 1900s. I doubt someone would describe France in the late 1800s in the same way though (and they didn’t get the right to vote until 1944).
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Probably mainly because it’s relatively underdeveloped Wikipedia article and we have very few surviving sources from the Roman period compared to the middle ages (and I’m pretty sure the list of Greek women or any place pre ~1000 AD would b
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Well Irene managed to usurp the throne in a similar way to most male emperors (by scheming and murdering her opponents, even if one of them happened to be her own son…) and even managed to rule on her own right for a while. Which was extrem
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> worse roman civilization must have been for women that they apparently When it comes to women rights the Romans were relatively progressive (possibly unintentionally) by historical standards. I think certainly an improvement over the T
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> You're turning it around Well.. that semantics, which is not something I have any interest in arguing about. I’ll restate, I’m certain that we care about the environment and sustainability much more than the Romans ever did. >
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Sure, but that was not my point So it’s a bit of an apples and oranges comparison because they serve very different purposes? > We literally care more about profit (GNI) than our survival (climate change, energy crisis, biodiversity
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
So you’d rather the poor be even poorer as long as the rich wouldn’t control as much wealth or didn’t exist at all?
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
The Roman roads wouldn’t be pleasant to drive on at all. Also the Romans certainly must have been more obsessed by profit than us? They state was built on subjugation and enslavement of basically all the people they came into contact with.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Also the types of roads the Romans were building wouldn’t be particularly useful or pleasant to use.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
To be fair England was a complete backwater in Roman times, just like much of Europe away from the Mediterranean. IIRC by the 1000s Germany, France and Britain had already well surpassed their Roman population peaks, Italy on the other hand
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Medieval Europeans were able to increase crop yields (given same conditions) compared to the Romans without an industrial revolution. There was still a lot of space for (in hindsight very simple and obvious compared to steam engines) innova
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> their control and not related to safety" I think the AND is very important. Issues as the one described certainly seem to be in the control of the airline (not detecting them during maintenance etc.) Also rebooking and/or pro
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Well yes, I certainly agree that one can enjoy a considerably higher QoL (in certain aspects at least) while spending the same amount of money in a reasonable stable country yet economically underdeveloped country. > I don’t care whether
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> The abundance of small artisan coffee shops, mom-and-pop tool stores, custom furniture manufacturers, metal workers, etc. I was shocked to find out, when I ordered an office table on Rozetka (Ukraine's version of Amazon), that the
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
It’s not like the pace of technological progress was particularly fast in the Roman Empire and the decline had already started ~200 years before its western half was dissolved. Its collapse wasn’t exactly some straightforward event, it had

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