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Carbon Capture Just Got Way Cheaper(medium.com)
3 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
They point out it was not chattel slavery though. But labour costs certainly must have played a role. Adam Smith remarked in his book the Wealth of Nations that Chinese workers seems to have much lower pay despite China being no less develo
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
China did have an agricultural revolution however in the the 1600 to 1700s which cause a very rapid population growth. And even before that Chinese agriculture was far more efficient than European agriculture: They could grow multiple times
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Removing the husk is not as labour demanding as grinding the grain though as far as I understand.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I spent only about half an hour with Swift UI to decide it was bot worth it. Looks sleek but the underlying technology is too complex IMHO.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
They could not evolve manufacturing as they lacked the water situation to have waterwheel driven factories like England. They also lacked coal. Even if they had had financial capitalism it would have made no difference as they lacked the ma
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I don’t believe slavery was ever as prevalent in China as in Europe. Complex rice farming discourage the use of slaves. Chinese farmers usually had a more independent position than in Europe. European peasants ran away to towns in medieval
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Chinese rivers typically have too large variation in water flow which makes the river poorly suited for year round usage for transportation as well as for water wheels. Chines water management has through history been all about protecting a
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Author here, I didn't conveniently skip over England. In terms of the Industrial revolution I have written about why England industrialized first: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/why-england-industri... Bu
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Author there, that is something, I thought about covering but it is a larger topic that probably needs its own article. It is not merely about the advantage of the latin alphabet, but also about the screw press which was not known in China,
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The Missing Chinese Machine Revolution(erikexamines.substack.com)
65 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|32 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I know Northern European farmland could not utilized well until the development of the heavy plow which better dealt with the wet heavy soil, but how is that relevant to the article? Also the lentil and bean cultivation of medieval Europe i
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How Did Technology Help Create China’s Historically Large Population?(slate.com)
2 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|3 comments
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Did the Teacup Hinder Chinese Scientific Progress?(erikexamines.substack.com)
4 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
No, you can use a macro which makes your structs slower but changeable. There are several Julia packages offering this functionality.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
You can use a macro for your structs to make them changeable while prototyping. I think it is called @prototype or soemthing. You need a package for it. Google it.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Puts the claims that the nuclear industry is over-regulated in a different light. Maybe it is, but this article clearly show why it had to evolve that way.
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Tesla Is Using a Surprising New Battery(medium.com)
3 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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OOP code in Carbon, C++ and Go Compared(erikexplores.substack.com)
1 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
One unusual alternative you may not have thought about is using Godot Game Engine. Before dismissing it, consider this: Godot engine is shockingly small for what it does. The download is about 30-40 MB. The GUI designer tool is second to no
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I write native GUIs in GTK using Julia at the moment. Julia is one of the most modern languages you can use today. Multiple-dispatch, very functional, modern package management and virtual environments, high performance, modern sophisticate
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Hydrogen makes sense for long haul, ships, trucks and possibly airlines. Ideally we just bring back hydrogen airships. Hindenburg was primarily caused by flammable paint, not hydrogen.
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When Military Might Relied on Urine(erikexamines.substack.com)
2 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|1 comments
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How the haber process prevented early allied victory(princeton.edu)
1 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Because you don’t need them in other languages.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
This is one of the more interesting reads I have done lately. The idea isn't really all that earth shattering or novel, but I liked how Nadia articulated the whole idea. While Trump isn't mentioned I cannot help but think of him.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Yeah this Molten Salt reactor is really cool. They are aiming to burn other nuclear waste as well: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/yes-clean-nuclear-power-exis...
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Generic Map, Filter and Reduce in Go(erikexplores.substack.com)
2 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|1 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Implementing higher-order functions in Go using generics
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
My admiration for Elon Musk has really taken a nose dive. He is on complete opposite trajectory of Steve Jobs which tried to make himself less of an asshole. Elon Musk is going the opposite direction. Maybe getting kicked out of Tesla would

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