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by wwtrv 4y ago
As a counter point I live in the Baltic states (however I think the situation is very similar in most ex-communist countries in eastern Europe) and free market capitalism has worked relatively exceptionally great here. Both for cellular and
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Religion provided a rules based framework on how the world works, it might have been absurd (from a modern viewpoint) and has largely outgrown it's purpose but humanity had to start somewhere and it's hard to imagine modern scient
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by wwtrv 4y ago
That's true, the decline in literacy was significant, but this is to large degree an outcome of the collapse of urban populations, even during Roman times there were relatively few literate people in the countryside. And "almost a
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Population replacement seems to had been significant but in no way total, the ancestry of modern the population of eastern England (which was conquered/settled first) is around 40% Anglo-Saxon/Continental Germanic (however the inf
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by wwtrv 4y ago
We have very little first hand evidence about almost any historical figure every existing, for oldest surviving written source about the Second Punic war and Hannibal's invasion of Italy was written at least 50 years after it happened.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
We know remarkably little about the Phoenicians, though. So it's not really a fair comparison, based on what we do and by modern standards Merovingians would probably be considered to be more civilized.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Well there was a collapse, but it "only" lasted for 100 to 200 years and no anything close to 600. Populations in Mediterranean and European decreased sharply between 5th and 6th centuries due to the plague and climate change and
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by wwtrv 4y ago
There is archeological evidence that Saxons and other Germans had started settling in Britain well before the Romans officially left. They had almost successfully invaded Britain back in 367. And many had settled in Britain and seemed to be
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Technological progress didn't really stop when 'ancient' civilizations collapsed. First of all it was hardly happening in the first place, most people were subsistence farmers and their lives hardly changed when the Library o
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by wwtrv 5y ago
The laptops with 2 or 4 Gb of RAM (e.g. Chromebooks) are also likely to have Celeron or MediaTek CPUs which might struggle much more than that, also unless you have multiple tabs open 4GB of RAM might not be that bad. And given a choice bet
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Well originally Moscow was a ‘colony’ of Kievan Rus. Of course much has happened in the subsequent 800 years but historically there was no clear line between being an Ukrainian and a Russian. I’m not trying to imply that Ukrainians are Russ
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by wwtrv 5y ago
The wolf population in Italy is relatively large (compared to other similar countries) and quite spread geographically yet there hasn’t been a single recorded attack on people since at least WW2. Edit: I was wrong, there has actually been o
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Wolves are very risk averse and generally only attack pets or livestock ( as long as they are not roaming alone in the mountains unprotected ) if they have no other choice (i.e. their natural habitat was destroyed). The last thing wolves wa
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by wwtrv 5y ago
So if the airline asked him to leave mid flight he’d also be trespassing? They let him board the plane and that’s it, if the airline can’t figure out how many people the can fit on a plane before everyone is seated that’s entirely their pro
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by wwtrv 5y ago
The price has skyrocketed, it’s real value is negative
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Why would the regulators ever approve this if they rejected Nvidia’s bid?
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by wwtrv 5y ago
> China didn't want to trade much except for silver and opium The Manchu Qing government wanted this, many Chinese considered them to be foreign oppressors not much better than the British and the French and were happy to trade with
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by wwtrv 5y ago
All of those inventions were not stolen but rather spread organically across Eurasia over several decades or centuries until they reached Europe.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
That’s largely a misconception, Chinese authorities seazing illegally smuggled opium did spark the first opium war, however France and Britain did not invade China so that they could force Chinese to buy their opium. They wanted to force Ch
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by wwtrv 5y ago
> Piracy is legally similar to a non-organized blacksmith setting up shop in a city where every blacksmith must be member of a certain guild to work. No. It’s legally similar to a blacksmith copying another blacksmith’s designs and putti
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by wwtrv 5y ago
> When Chinese were ahead, European stole and smuggled manufacturing technologies from China. Not disputing this but what technologies did Europeans ever steal from China? I’m only aware of tea and silkworms..
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Germans (or at least their politicians) would be happy to sell most of Eastern Europe to Russia one way or another. France doesn’t care that much. UK does, but their conventional military capacity is limited and them leaving the EU also co
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Until the mid 19th century rather. By 1900 it was already the second richest country per capita in Europe (only behind UK and only Belgium was slightly ahead as well throughout most of the 19th century). Then again almost all European count
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Well earlier in the war France and Britain were considering sending an expeditionary force to Finland to help them fight the Soviets. Sweden did not allow them to use their territory to pass, because they feared that the Allies would occupy
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by wwtrv 5y ago
What kind of engineering? Civil, electronics, aerospace, software, mechanical(watch)?
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by wwtrv 5y ago
One might argue that you shouldn’t need a manual to do many of the things on Linux you definitely need a manual for.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
But they are obviously less healthy?
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Well historically Christian-Democrats (not only in Germany) tended to be centrist or even left leaning economically.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Public disclosing it seems to clearly fall under the ‘ Act for the common good through the prompt’ since SEGA’s user are the real victims in this situation and have the right to known that SEGA us incapable of keeping their data safe.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
In this case SEGA, due to their incompetence lost a bunch of car keys owned by other people despite claiming that they’ll keep them safe (and having a legal obligation to do so under GDPR). So I don’t see any problem with publicly exposing

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