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by nemo 3y ago
>The Romans sacked Greece and killed Archimedes. All you have to do is look at the rate of mathematical and technological progress before and after Rome to see that Rome was a dark age. So you really ought to take look at technological p
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by nemo 3y ago
I'd originally replied without really knowing anything about the topic, just noticed that you were avoiding responding to a specific point. Now that you're using dishonest framing like volume rather than mentioning cost. I looked
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by nemo 3y ago
The argument was created by a churchman for churchmen, it wasn't intended or used as a popular argument, but it's worth understanding that c. 1000 CE this argument seemed compelling to literate folks who were introduced to it. If
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by nemo 3y ago
That's bronze. I'd assume any brass/bronze/copper to corrode away, that's what it does naturally. Now consider gold, stainless steel, and the many other inert materials humans work with. I assume 10,000 year old gol
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by nemo 3y ago
The person you were replying to and the article you posted both make a point you're not addressing: >Critics allege that the most important subsidies to the nuclear industry have not involved cash payments, but rather the shifting o
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by nemo 3y ago
At this point whenever I'm on a walk I clean up any plastic litter I spot and dispose of it. I live not too far from some creeks and retention ponds along a local flood plain where I know my neighborhood's storm drains are headed.
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by nemo 3y ago
It's sold already: https://jalopnik.com/concorde-engine-finally-sold-on-ebay-af...
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by nemo 3y ago
We have fossils that are > 3 billion years old. While subduction does steadily erase the past, not everything subducts. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craton
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by nemo 3y ago
There's more. At the same time oil well holes are drilled many orders of magnitude deeper making them cross thousands of strata rather than being limited to a meter or two. Most oil drilling is in areas prone to subduction but there ar
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by nemo 3y ago
It is a very long time, but we still do have a lot of fossils, and with many human artifacts they won't fossilize so much as just sit there in their strata - we make artifacts that don't even need to fossilize since they are alrea
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by nemo 3y ago
It’s well worth reading about this. The ways that scientist have determined these things are complex but easily discoverable on the Internet. Also, while I was using hundreds of millions because that was the timeframe of the original questi
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by nemo 3y ago
While it is true that over deep time less and less survives due to subduction not all areas do, and human activity covers vast surfaces now leaving many artifacts and traces. You should also consider that we do have fossils from > 3 bill
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by nemo 3y ago
We have fossils from the Cambrian period ~500 million years ago that include many traces of holes from burrowing animals. We've identified animals from ~500 million leaving many different kinds of traces as well as from fossils. 500 mi
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by nemo 3y ago
As soon as coins appear in a geologic stata they become the most common archaeological artifacts found from humans, and at this point we've got hundreds of billions of them spread all over the globe with many becoming lost in spots whe
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by nemo 3y ago
Coins in the right conditions last two thousand years easily (I collect ancient coins, have some that are 2500 years old that are in excellent condition). I expect in the right conditions some would last a few hundred million years. There&#
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by nemo 3y ago
Letter O vs zero is really bad indeed. Also the parentheses characters are very poorly done - far too similar to the square bracket characters.
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by nemo 3y ago
Teleprinters/teletypes go back further than you think. The first were in the 1800s. By the early 1900s teletypes had already become standardized around the time IBM developed the 80-column punchcard.
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by nemo 3y ago
Lower-cased letters have both ascenders and descenders. Fitting both of those in 8 pixels is doable but leaves you with either the clipped ascenders or mangled descenders that you see in old 8-pixel lower-cased typefaces - your method works
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by nemo 3y ago
While this account comes from Plutarch, Suetonius also relates the same story. Suetonius, of course, was much more interested in a good story than any concept of truth and was writing in roughly the same period as Plutarch relating tales to
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by nemo 3y ago
This dark earth is often referred to as terra preta which has been a subject of study for a long time. The debate on whether it was intentionally made vs other explanations has been going on for a while, the posted article adds more to the
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by nemo 3y ago
I used to ROM-boot my Classic back in the day, it was nice to have a built-in recovery volume. These days if you use a Mac Rom-inator II[1] it supports booting System 7 from ROM, and it'll even create a RAM disk the system boot from, m
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by nemo 3y ago
Please do not drag in unrelated, tangential threads, especially flame-bait material like this. Regardless of what you believe about the original topic, dragging this into totally unrelated threads only creates problems and is a disruptive b
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by nemo 3y ago
Old person here - this does not resonate with my experience at all. It's been the middle class driving consumer technology since the '60s at least. The stuff that was "solved" almost always turned out to be breathless re
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by nemo 3y ago
I just meant that there's real hard physical limits to computation, though those are both tied to the finite resources available to people, and also the willingness of society to invest finite resources and energy on computational work
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by nemo 3y ago
>Is there some limit where AI just can't get better? Yes, without question. There must be, in fact. Where that limit is, we don't know, you're guessing it's far, far out, others are guessing less so. At this point the
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by nemo 3y ago
The advertisements were what was driving the counterfeiting. It was by giving Apple a page without third parties injecting ads into it that they handled the counterfeiting issue.
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by nemo 3y ago
I keep records of butterfly sightings. This is the worst year I've ever seen by far. In a normal year queen butterflies are one of the most abundant migrants. So far I have seen 0. I've seen no swallowtails of any species at all,
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by nemo 3y ago
He was using glyphosate as a weed-killer and getting it on his hands and feet. Way higher levels of exposure than any foods. Also if you're afraid of glyphosate, the Roundup-ready crops are the ones to avoid especially - soy, corn, can
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by nemo 3y ago
>falcon and all of spacex is based on ignoring advice from others, especially “industry experts” Not in the least. SpaceX hires a lot of rocket scientists who are industry experts. They're more agile than the entrenched players sinc
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by nemo 3y ago
SpaceX and Tesla both enjoyed most success despite Musk's continual rank incompetence by isolating him as the figurehead money guy while puffing his ego letting him cosplay a rocket scientist/tech expert for the press. At both com

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