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by maxwell 2y ago
What if the infrastructure is (economically) unmaintainable? Ancient Rome had a million people at the turn of the 1st century and was the financial and entertainment capital of the world too. People lived and stayed there too, until they di
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by maxwell 2y ago
Historically the way to deal with legacy urban design like this was to, you know, build new cities. Alas, we stopped founding new cities over a hundred years ago in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_
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by maxwell 2y ago
CRTs are still in production. https://www.thomaselectronics.com
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by maxwell 2y ago
Reminded of the guy who straightened his teeth in 16 weeks for $60 (with access to a university 3D printer): https://amosdudley.com/weblog/Ortho
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by maxwell 2y ago
72 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=max3bL3bTbg
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by maxwell 2y ago
It's always the accent that gives away time travellers. Only real possibilities to avoid exile/asylum/imprisonment/execution for most of history would seem to hinge on predicting celestial events and making gunpowder, as
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Set where? Gambling was criminalized in the UK in 1541 and Europe's first legal gambling house didn't open until 1638. Maybe they learn roulette strategy and show up right after Pascal invented the roulette wheel while he was tryi
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by maxwell 2y ago
Modern civilization is multi-special. From a calories-per-unit-of-labor standpoint, dogs and cats have now clearly eclipsed humanity, using their emotional intelligence to create a post-scarcity Marxian utopia where they can mostly do whate
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by maxwell 2y ago
Chickens are bipedal. There are tree frogs with opposable thumbs. Elephants and cetaceans have strong social behavior. Other hominids have all these. What other animals make fire? Cooked food was the game changer. https://www.liv
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE
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by maxwell 2y ago
No, the center of European power needed printing presses for their own propaganda. Instead the center of European power banned heretical works with the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and executed heretics like Giordano Bruno, Jan Hus, Michael
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by maxwell 2y ago
How about data URLs?
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by maxwell 2y ago
Risk profiles change though. Option 1 was a better bet in the late 1970s and early '80s, when the Old Hollywood franchises had been thoroughly wrung out and demand was there for new experiences.
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And that's illegal under federal law in the United States, hence the antitrust suit.
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Demanding surveillance and censorship for safety and the children.
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"Comes with NO GAMES"?? I switched to Mac for Apple Chess. And I was very glad to hear yesterday that they've committed to putting all of their wood behind it going forward.
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The Earth™ Font Set(elfring.com)
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by maxwell 2y ago
Read it on first pass as "Neanderthals," didn't rescan until I hit "Roads & Railroads"! This looks nice. I'd like to see a rendition for each United State (and for other hominids!) but taking a quick peek a
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Laboratories of democracy.
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by maxwell 2y ago
Hence the calls for crackdowns on speech under the guise of "safety," i.e. only the multinational-approved models are to be deemed "safe."
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by maxwell 2y ago
Gear trains are the killer robots' weak point, eh? Good to know.
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They were called such due to the decline of written material: the written record went "dark" compared to antiquity and then modernity. Definitely in another dark age in that sense, due to the postmodern decline of meaningful writt
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by maxwell 2y ago
Executive dysfunction seems the root issue. Tim, Phil, and Craig have been running on Steve and Jony's fumes for years, and now have no ideas beyond incrementing numbers and buying back stock. It's like ol' Gil all over again
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My Gen A son enjoys his Meta Quest and jokes about the Vision Pro.
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USPS
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Deep-sea expedition captures images of creatures in Pacific mining zone(cnn.com)
2 points by maxwell 3y ago|0 comments
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Deep-sea mining's future still murky as negotiations end on mixed note(news.mongabay.com)
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by maxwell 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea_mining
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And with comparable privacy.
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Product tying violates U.S. federal law(law.cornell.edu)
4 points by maxwell 3y ago|0 comments

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