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by michael9423 2y ago
15 years ago, lots of things were possible. Most people were using firefox, it had like 30 or 40% market share.
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by michael9423 2y ago
The way I see it, there was a time when FF had the chance to not accept the google contracts and go 100% independent with their own search engine or something similar. This would have resulted in FF actually siding with users. It would have
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by michael9423 2y ago
Yes, archeology in Egypt is tightly controlled by the ministry and people like Zahi Hawass. The roots of egyptology are in Europe, Napoleon founded it. Egyptology has been an industry for Egypt for a long time, because Egypt depends on it.
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by michael9423 2y ago
Because the people pouring billions into policy changes that should be done transparently by tax-payer money also are the same who make the world an objectively worse place by creating a toxic work culture that leads to mental health declin
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by michael9423 2y ago
You solve this by dissolving all non-profits and seperating the state and the private sector completely. All tax money must be spent by government organizations or call for bids. Something like this should be illegal: https://www
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by michael9423 2y ago
So much about DuckDuckGo's claim that Bing is only a part of their search results.
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by michael9423 2y ago
Actually, it's the opposite. At the level of automation we've reached, labor is worth, per hour, way more than 100 years ago. The problem is just that this value is siphoned off by shareholders who do not have to work to receive t
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by michael9423 2y ago
Why do you hesitate to interact in the presence of misguided comments? Shouldn't those motivate you to provide the "correct" perspective so people can learn? Even comments looked down as misguided by mainstream academics can
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by michael9423 2y ago
You have to understand that recycling is probably the most corrupt industry that exists. This is due to the broken incentives that go against all free market principles. Recycling companies are actually paid to process plastic waste. And th
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by michael9423 2y ago
If you are talking about chemical processes, that's not economically practical. It only happens in the lab, not in the real world.
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by michael9423 2y ago
Yeah I'm talking about the household waste people are told to separate into their bins.
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by michael9423 2y ago
Plastic resins lose quality in every recycling process (impurities, residues, etc.), so during "recycling", pure new plastics is added. Even in PET recycling - which is the most effective "recycling" process that exists
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by michael9423 2y ago
I don't want to move any goalposts, I completely agree with your previous posts. In some European countries like Germany and Switzerland, waste collection has been almost perfected, there's not much to complain. But we still have
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by michael9423 2y ago
There's lots of plastics pollution in the west - including from tires, from people throwing stuff away, and from microplastics in the water. It's just not visible immediately. But you can actually easily collect hundreds of kilogr
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by michael9423 2y ago
Actually plastics is the most ecological and economic way to package things. Nothing comes close. Because people throw things away all the time, and producing things out of cotton, wood, glass etc. takes way more energy. The price of someth
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by michael9423 2y ago
Plastics can't be recycled. Even the best quality HDPE resins can only be down-cycled once, and are turned into pens, toys and other low quality plastics stuff you don't want to have close to food.
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by michael9423 2y ago
In an ideal world, people would use natural and durable materials, mostly wood, glass, steel. Stuff that does not hurt living beings. The acute problem is not plastic production, although that's an issue. But the industry invented the
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by michael9423 2y ago
Poles and Germans even got along after the partitions. Of course the Germanization of Poles happened, especially after 1873. The process of Polonization (Lithuania, Ukraine, etc.) has a rich history, because Poland was part of a multi-ethni
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by michael9423 2y ago
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (not Poland) was partitioned because it consisted of so many different cultures, had massive conflicts within (Targowica Confederation, the Polish nobility fought back against the constitution, causing the
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by michael9423 2y ago
The study is not about shared origins. Everyone knows that many stories have shared origins. To know this, one just has to analyze the historical texts and development of certain stories during the last hundreds of years. The Babylonian con
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by michael9423 2y ago
The authors claim to be able to show that "oral traditions probably originated long before the emergence of the literary record" and trace back a story to the Bronze Age. As I just explained, this is impossible to do with linguist
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by michael9423 2y ago
Historical linguistics is based on the analysis and comparison of written documents and existing languages (so-called "attested languages"). Past languages are infered either from different languages (comparative) or from a single
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by michael9423 2y ago
This is not good research, unfortunately. It is impossible to trace back the origin of stories in our past without either written documents or oral traditions. Everything else is made up correlations and patterns. A sentence like "The
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by michael9423 2y ago
Which argument specifically? Your sarcastic overtone make it difficult to detect an actual argument. Your general remark that Polish art disappeared from Poland is true. Your implication that only Germany was responsible for that is wrong.
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by michael9423 2y ago
My original argument was: "and most of the knowledge lost in the war in todays Poland was actually knowledge of german culture and heritage" to which I gave a reference that makes a good case for this to be indeed true. You chose
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by michael9423 2y ago
> Mr. Garber, the Second World War was also an inferno for German book and library culture. Do we now know more or less exactly what damage and losses occurred at which collection locations in Germany? > Yes, most of the damage is kno
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by michael9423 2y ago
"European Countries before the Napoleonic Age were quite a bit "intertwined"" Excellent contribution. Marion Gräfin Dönhof talks about this, a descendant of both Prussian and newly turned "Polish" political eli
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by michael9423 2y ago
All war is state terror. As the great Sebastian Haffner wrote: "European history knows two forms of terror. The first is the uncontrollable explosion of bloodlust in a victorious mass uprising. The other is cold, calculated cruelty com
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by michael9423 2y ago
Not only in Germany. Poland got looted by the Nazis and Soviets from both sides.
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by michael9423 2y ago
Yes indeed. When governments lead wars against each other, it is the populations that suffer, and knowledge and culture get destroyed on all sides.

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