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by qwytw 3y ago
It's silver though, so only about $26k (of course that's the least accurate way to compare modern and ancient prices). Gold wasn't that commonly used in the west back then.
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by qwytw 3y ago
On the other hand you could buy about 1200 gallons of olive oil which is less than $50,000 or 750 sheep which is might be about $300,000. Comparing modern/ancient prices get tricky.. To be fair though a worker earning 2 drachma per day
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by qwytw 3y ago
> democratic Calling it a 'democracy' is a somewhat of a stretch though (both according to modern and ancient definitions). It was a weird (from a modern perspective) form of a flawed direct democracy (the people's assemb
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by qwytw 3y ago
Ceasar is basically a family name though. I don't think there were that many Julii left at this point? So it might not have been that confusing. However if you were Publius/Lucius Cornelius on the other hand there were probably a
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by qwytw 3y ago
> So .. easily confused with Swedes then? Maybe not Swedes (who weren't exactly typical Romans) but with someone from Iberia, Italy, Sicily or Greece? Sure. Northern Africa wasn't exactly an ethnically homogenous region either.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Being studied by Americans and Australians. And therefore are also very likely to be descendants of those people to some (possibly non insignificant extent) extent.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> A number got a lot paler after many generations in the more northern parts, others less pale, and those near the Mediterranean were neither ghost white nor midnight black. IIRC the current theory is that genes responsible for white ski
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Tesla showed a Cybertruck beating a 911 in the 1/4 while pulling a 911. Yes, the slowest 911 you can buy. > And very clearly we've been talking about 1/4 mile time for this entire discussion. I'm not even sure wh
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Stock GT-R is 11.3. Slower than Cybertruck. That's a 2008 model. The current (2017+) one with > You just keep coming up with examples that show it's very hard to make a production vehicle that does a sub 11 in the 1/4
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by qwytw 3y ago
Somewhat I guess, if you want to keep the weight low, have decent handling et. (not priorities for the cybertruck). You can a Nissan GT-R for half the price which can do sub 11 seconds. A GT-R tuned for drag racing will be faster on a 1&#x2
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by qwytw 3y ago
To be fair the the 911 can do 9.9 Seconds. Tesla just chose a slower model/config due to obvious reasons (of course 911 Turbo S is more than 2x as expensive as the top-end Cybertruck).
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by qwytw 3y ago
It seems they just picked a slower config to make it look better. To be fair the Turbo S which does 9.9s is 2.5x more expensive than the base config/Cybertruck.
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by qwytw 3y ago
It's an ICE car though, if Ford manage to achieve this despite this massive disadvantage it can't be that hard.
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by qwytw 3y ago
As far as we know the Romans used a similar system to the Greeks, there were usually no physical school buildings but parents did/could pool money together to hire a teacher who would teach in various public spaces etc. There are plent
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by qwytw 3y ago
> There was an exception in Sparta, where education was part of the facist indoctrination, similar to the system in the DDR or USSR That's an interesting description considering those schools were only accessible to the elite rather
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by qwytw 3y ago
> In Rome, unlike, say, Sparta, there were no schools; teaching was all done in the home, I'm not sure that's true. Also when people think about Sparta they usually only consider about the upper class elite since almost the en
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by qwytw 3y ago
> CPU in your watch I'm much more concerned about the one in my head.
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by qwytw 3y ago
And make converting time between different time zones/countries even more confusing.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Unfortunate as that is it's not at all surprising. Comparing the median with the top 1% would be more interesting. The gap there is still quite significant: (for 40 year old men, unadjusted by race): 100th inc. prct : ~ 88 years: 75t
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by qwytw 3y ago
> That's not how publicly traded businesses are run That's not necessarily true. There are plenty of examples of public companies which have grown in more sustainable way while prioritizing their core businesses. > You are s
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by qwytw 3y ago
But it seems that 265 is pretty much the entire headcount of Weta Digital’s 'tools department' they have acquired back in 2021? From their announcement: "Unity welcomes Weta Digital’s world-class engineering talent of 275 eng
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by qwytw 3y ago
> And then there's the timezone issue as I assume most of the leadership is in the US. Well to be fair that didn't work out that well either... > also the employees Still almost dirt cheap by SF standards.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Well you can bounce them back and forth until they just quit on their own. Seems like a "great" way to reduce costs without having to "layoff" anyone and pay severance.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> When you do a hiring push: being open to WFH gives you a bigger pool to draw from Onboarding a large number of new WFH employees at the same might easily turn into a disaster though (for example if you "need" to grow your hea
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by qwytw 3y ago
The thing is that the business would have been perfectly fine without that nonsense. They have a core product which despite all its issues still have real demand it's not bloatware but something you can build a sustainable business on.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Then they even failed at that. Unity stock price peaked in late 2021 due to the general tech bubble and the whole "Metaverse" thing specifically. The Wētā deal was announced a month or two earlier and probably had no real effect.
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by qwytw 3y ago
I understood that they are still keeping the actual Weta "tools" part with it's employees? These 265 are just the people worked in the "professional services" part of the business and were doing actual VFX stuff for
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by qwytw 3y ago
> bboygravity is right. So you're saying I (or whoever) can can buy shares for less in one of the "dark pools" and sell them on the market and make free money?
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by qwytw 3y ago
> so even if there are (huge) trades you wouldn't necessarily see the price move. So you're saying there is an arbitrage opportunity and you can literally make free money? Because that doesen't make much sense.. You might
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by qwytw 3y ago
It could be worse, sure. But those rooms (at least some of them) don't have any windows. Why would you build something like that?

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