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by qwytw 3y ago
And you have to go back 4000 - 7000 years to get to a time when "diets were mostly meat" in Europe and the Middle East.
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by qwytw 3y ago
You mainly eat a grain based diet. Consume 2000+ calories and manage to "enter" ketosis? That's extremely remarkable...
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by qwytw 3y ago
Well it was. Supposedly it cost about the same as wheat by volume (and salt is ~50% more dense). So it was dirt cheap.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Mainly for the officers though. Of course kind of makes sense considering conscription became a lot more common in the later periods.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Back in the day people used a lot more salt than we do.[0] Nobody needed 4-10kg salt per day (what a semi-skilled labourer and above could supposedly afford by ~300AD). The cost of salt by volume was about the same as wheat. So it was
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by qwytw 3y ago
> in 235AD, a legionary was paid about 1350 denarii per year. > 301AD, price of salt was capped to 100 denarii for about 17 liters of There was massive inflation (by premodern standards) during those 70 years. The price edicts also
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by qwytw 3y ago
> ketosis frequently Considering their diets, which were very high in carbohydrates (not sugars though) compared to modern diets that seems highly unlikely. Can you actually ever enter "ketosis" if you're mainly eating bre
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Whereas a nuclear power plant can (and does) act as the backup But AFAIK you can't just turn nuclear plants on and off again based on demand like you can do with gas. So it's not really a backup.
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by qwytw 3y ago
And all the direct and indirect subsidies for them are not a tax on urban populations? What else is a "is essentially a wealth tax" on ranchers? They graze their cattle on public land yet so much of it is taken up by unproductive
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by qwytw 3y ago
There is a solution, guards dogs. Pyrenean Mastiffs, Caucasian Shepherds etc. work pretty well in deterring any wolf attacks. Wolves are very risk averse and will go for easier prey as long as it's available.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> They only returned to profitability once they promised to be as open as everyone else: having intel They were profitable in the early 2000s with PowerPC and they probably would've stayed on it had it remained competitive with Inte
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Which is mooted with single payer. As in doctors, nurses, and other personnel will accept lower salaries because they won't have any choice? I'm not sure that would work in the US. Also, there are relatively efficient non-sin
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by qwytw 3y ago
> companies are immensely profitable That's not necessarily true. If all the for profit insurance companies reduced their profit margins prices wouldn't go down that significantly. I think it's mainly the extreme inefficie
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by qwytw 3y ago
It's not the same thing. If Microsoft was selling both the hardware and the software. IIRC the US antitrust case was mainly based on restrictions MS imposed on the OEMs. No OEMs, no issue really. Which sort of makes sense. You don&#x27
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by qwytw 3y ago
I think it varies by entitlement?
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by qwytw 3y ago
> It’s pretty clear that treating housing as an investment and not as a fundamental right has led us No, it's pretty clear that insufficient supply in certain areas has led us here. Treating housing as an investment is just a sympto
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by qwytw 3y ago
What do entitlements have to do with not asking for user permission though? Seems like separate issues.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> and nvidia would have only been a bit-level player in the LLM craze we are now in Why? They were the only ones taking GPGPU seriously? AMD completely ignored it for years and Intel only became serious about GPUs very recently.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> No, Nvidia just found themselves in a lucky situation. Well yes and no. They were certainly lucky to be at right place in the right time. But they were also consistently investing into CUDA and the AI/ML ecosystem while their com
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by qwytw 3y ago
You did. Daily limits is a silly idea that's trivial to workaround (effectively users will just end up paying markup on anything above the 'daily limit').
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by qwytw 3y ago
> all the money we spend on the dea and other drug enforcement could be instantly recouped. Billions for those d.a.r.e clowns ALONE. No. That can't happen unless the tax are extremely high which makes black market drugs more competi
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by qwytw 3y ago
I think I somehow managed to reply to the wrong post/comment.. It was supposed to be a comment on https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/history/ancient-economies...
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by qwytw 3y ago
Well.. I'm European, it's only half a joke though.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Debts just need to be cancelled. It's AFAIK that's unconstitutional in the US at least.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election Historically this was almost always a terrible idea under most circumstances. This would be even worse due to perfectly obvious reasons (just like the debt limit nonsense).
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by qwytw 3y ago
Except it was the civil war that caused a debt crisis in Ancient Rome and not the other way around. Repaying debts is somewhat hard when most of your productive assets are destroyed or completely devastated. Debt forgiveness was a common in
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by qwytw 3y ago
Seems like an extremely poorly written article with an agenda. Specifically the Roman Republic ~100BC had massive issues which were not necessarily directly related to some "Sovereign Debt Crisis" at the time. Which conveniently
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by qwytw 3y ago
It wasn't even on the Mediterranean at the time (or rather French was spoken in the North of modern France back then). People on Mediterranean coast of France were speaking Occitan and other dialects which were more closely related to
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by qwytw 3y ago
> to the language that was used around the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as the main language of commerce. Which was a language that was barely related to modern French (besides belonging to the same Romance language sub-branch which include
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Well, Lingua Franca == Frankish Technically no. Especially not the northern dialects which modern French is based on. Arabs/North Africans/etc. just called all Western European Franks. The actual dialect/pigeon language

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