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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Except Egyptians are/were more related to “white” Mediterranean Europeans than subsaharan Africans, at least in the lower Egypt. > didn’t believe that people of African descent Sounds like an absurd take considering how fascinated E
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I think IP laws are one of the best things that ever happened to human civilization and are responsible for a significant proportion of progress over the last 200-300 years. Even if at this point they are a bit too excessive in some cases.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I’m not sure that most books are at all fungible. Also do many book authors actually publish under Creative Commons?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Even where I am now, i know there's brothels and presumably private sex workers and if i want a massage I go and I book a massage. I don’t think many people would be able to mix up these places after seeing them. If you only wante
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
But you didn’t really say anything besides it being ‘impolite’.. which is rarely the best reason to not do something
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> At some point, internet connections will be fast enough to make them indistinguishable form a local machine Has latency really improved that much lately? At least for gaming latency has been more or less constant for me over the last ~
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I guess the top in the case might be the datacenter and stuff like A/H100 which have totally obscene margins compared to any consumer grade GPUs
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
EVs with swappable batteries would be inferior to those with fixed ones in many ways (weight/size/aerodynamics) the swapping part and all the related infrastructure would be very expensive. I just don’t how could this ever be comp
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Maybe 120V AC isn’t l objectively the best Just like miles and gallons..
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Isn’t that wildly dependent on the cost of electricity and gas in the area you live in?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
If you adjust by inflation oil is now cheaper than it was between 1980 and 85.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
And also hiding your app in search results behind a list of junk unless you pay Apple extra. Which is pretty much extortion. That and their curation and vetting process turned into complete garbage over the last few years.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> I'm still waiting for European-style health care in the US. ;-) Different European countries have wildly different healthcare systems. e.g. the Swiss system is privatized to an even higher degree than the one in US.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> - a checkmate to most 3rd party external monitors Why? Their display is extremely niche and iMacs aren’t really a big deal these days either
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> I'd see the ban on firearms and control at the frontiers as the #1 reason there's so few violent crimes. However we have countries like Switzerland were firearms are widely accessible (IIRC according to estimates more than ha
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> let’s not forget that we live in a country that became a world power under a social structure that was much more rigid and repressive than the one we have today. Was it significantly more rigid and repressive than in other countries at
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
It’s also a tiny country which happens to be a dictatorship where these drug laws are fairly easy to enforce. Also I’m not convinced that executing people for non-violent crimes is a good tradeoff in the first place.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Police patrol will catch you walking down an empty street at 3 AM with a kitchen knife in hand. That’s really not the (main or significant) reason why Japan has a low murder rate. Many European countries where there is little societal
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Maybe they are permanently stuck in the 80s and only allow baggy suit pants. Or I guess… it’s probably a bit darker and they are not talking about a western country.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Most good developers can build apps faster without an ORM or a framework Can they though? Especially if there are several developers working on it. Or are you saying that once they start using frameworks they are no longer ‘good’ devel
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Minecraft Was bought by MS almost 10 years ago. No way I would describe as an indie game at this point.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
You can’t redeem them for a fixed amount of oil so I would say this is quite different.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Isn’t it about 27.5 years in the US (for accounting purposes)?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
So are you saying that they weren’t nomads when they migrated to India (or invaded it)? > Bhagavad Gita is a short read, you can read and find there are no mentions of nomadic lifestyles in that. Which was written between 5th century BCE
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
How? 5-10 years for 5-10x less seems like a better deal cost (if not environment..) wise. Even if you ignore energy usage.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Real inflation is also about double the rate of the official numbers IMHO, It’s funny that one reason CPI hasn’t increased as fast as nominal prices in some cases is because it also factors in the quality of goods. e.g. modern cars are
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Who pre washes vegetables before putting them into the fridge? Wouldn’t that significantly decrease shelf life?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Gold tends to last longer than your average nation state. I’m not sure how that’s useful. The capability to produce goods and services seems a whole lot more real to me in terms of value than gold (the value of which would collapse any
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I’m not sure how do these things contradict each other? Nomadic civilizations can definitely transition to almost fully sedentary ones and ‘start building palaces’ while preserving some of their cultural history and social norms.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
True but something like this is hard to accomplish without a centralized state or other institution which encourage assimilation. Prior to that it’s more likely that the invaders killed and/or subjugated most of the mean and put themse

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