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> why you would care about the price of tap water Because I have to ask and unless I'm explicit they'll bring a 330 mL glass bottle which is extremely annoying. That forces me to drink beer all the time just to avoid that which
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> why exactly would I want to visit Europe? To see stuff? US doesen't really have that have much besides nature worth seeing/experiencing from a traditional tourist perspective. Almost all the cities besides a handful are extre
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> the funds go to their projects instead. To me it just seems like relying on government funding to drive innovation in sectors where private companies have incentives to compete is extremely foolish.
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> If shit hits the fan and you have zero semi-manufacturing, then you are going to be pretty screwed. I don't really understand this claim at all. Chips are not exactly fungible, unless you force your local companies to use you &quo
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> about security and economic on-shoring > increases the likelihood smaller states can build locally and solves for most chip needs I'm not sure what does that mean? What specific chip needs that would that solve and what benefit
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However if Starlink can't compete with mobile broadband in medium (and sometimes even lower than that) density areas they don't really have much of a market. While there are certainly quite a few people in the developed world livi
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> I'm sorry, but the US installing powers that are favorable to it is not a conspiracy theory. It's a conspiracy fact. How do you think Pinochet and others happened? Yes, it was certainly a fact during the cold war however fore
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> history shows pretty well that the US only installs a power when they Instead of coming up with conspiracy theories we could consider what other options there are. There are effectively only three powers which could control Gaza if&#x2
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And people like you must learn not to think (if you do actually think at all) in binary terms all the time (and maybe consider reading a history book or two). Yes it existed, at a massively smaller scale. > Like you need a monetary incen
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Right.. it's also called 'news.ycombinator' which is certainly not an organization which would ever support abolishing copyright. Besides it's also a terrible idea, not having copyright would stifle innovation for years.
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> Unfortunately none of that is passed on to said audience I'm sure most people reading it understood that. > It would be comical if not tragic that we actually fund people producing such “research”. Could you actually explain wh
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Hypocrates specifically recommended doctors to boil and filter water before giving to patients to drink. Ancient Egytpians, Indians and Romans understood that boiling makes water safer to drink as well (Galen even suggested using boiling wa
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Hippocrates did suggest this approach of purifying water so at least educated doctors would've have certainly known that. Also it's not exactly rocket science most people would have probably understood that to some extent. At leas
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Well if alcohol itself is irrelevant why did they not simply boil the water before drinking it without making a beer from it? I think the fact that people just like to drink beer is a much better explanation of why did they drink so much of
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> You could boil plain water and be safe, but that wasn't understood until later Not sure that's true. We have evidence that ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans (and I assume other societies) understood that boiling water made
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> Pointing out that the Romans had slaves as if it somehow differentiated them seems misleading I'm sorry are you being purposefully obtuse here? >Because they didn't do anything substantively different in this regard? Any
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> it’s possible Nope it's not possible and it's more than obvious way. The cocaine content in coca leaves is 0.23% to 0.96%. Sugarcane has a magnitude or so higher sugar content.
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> 25+ for hard drugs, daily limits, So we can start with prescription drugs I assume? Unlimited access to OxyContin for everyone 25+. It's much safer than any illegally consumed opioids after all so what could go wrong? Oh wait.. &g
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> This is a description of virtually every ancient society in this region. Ok, I don't know why do I have to specify this but I meant the slave labor if hundreds of thousands (or millions) of foreigners they have subjugated (this wa
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Didn't Alexander actually "preserve" the archives in Persepolis by burning it since they were mostly on clay tablets as was common in the region? IIRC they were mostly administrative tax documents and ordinary Persians probab
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> would be drastically different without a Leninist government It probably would've been drastically different had the socialist-liberal coalition held on to power. It likely would've been overthrown in a couple of years politi
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If they actually just took a binary from OSX and stuck it into their app it probably wasn't the best lawyer
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> Even iPhone users in Europe tend to just use WhatsApp Europe is not that homogenous, WhatsApp isn't even the most popular messaging app in much of Central/Eastern Europe and Scandinavia (in addition to that iOS has a similar&
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> He wanted to pacify I'm not sure pacify is the right word. > but also for very legitimate self-defense reasons Not really. By that point the Celts weren't as much of a threat as they were 50-100+ years ago. If his goals we
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>Really was closer to a genocide. Yes but that was a pretty ordinary occurrence in the ancient world. I don't think the Celts were that much nicer when they invaded Greece a couple of hundred years earlier (or Rome/Italy itself
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> who destroyed what was left of the Roman republic Somebody else would've done it instead. It was a semi-permanent state of civil strife or even war for the past 100 years or. From the perspective of Roman (or even ordinary Romans)
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> The US median individual wealth figure is now over $100,000. It's higher than either Germany or Sweden To be fair you did pick some of the poorest "rich" West European countries. A median French person is about 25% rich
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> Turns out, amazingly, that at no point in history was killing people and breaking stuff the path to long, happy, comfortable and prosperous living Well to be fair for the upper class Romans it was exactly that.
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> but even in his day he was considered to be factually incorrect Some of what he said might have been and some parts probably weren't. > Cyrus it's pretty obvious he's outright lying He was telling a story from the per
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> and owning that much would probably have made you a very weathly person when owning 300K USD today does not. I guess it depends on whether we want to measure relative wealth to the rest of the society or what can you actually buy with

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