1,951 karma · joined May 18, 2021
It is far from contentious, you are probably mixing up "premodern agriculture" with "pre-agriculture". Furthermore, as detailed in an article [1] referenced (and linked to) by this post, you are probably mixing up the labor paid as rent vs the whole of the labor required to survive
1 - https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-...
Italians will say this, then put a moka pot on the stove for five minutes until it's boiled through, and serve you the blackest, most burnt tar imaginable - stuff that could qualify as road building material - and then turn around and insult American food tastes whilst they've skipped two meals in favor of cigarettes and the lowest quality wine. But that's okay, because they have some expensive olive oil in a ceramic bottle for the last two years.
And you can't even accuse them of not having travelled enough, because half their young people are working across Europe, so they would know that there is better food out there in other countries - but they're doing that wine and cigarette diet so they remain ignorant and arrogant. They - you - are as bad as French people, but the rest of the world haven't discovered it yet.
You aren't gonna believe what ACOUP in acoup.blog stands for
I have no idea how you can read this and think that Bret doesn't a) have style (more than a little, even!) and b) a respect for his audience's basic knowledge.
"Devoid of incisive insight"? Are we reading the same thing? "Poorly edited" - okay, yeah occasionally I've caught a grammatical or spelling error but everyone makes these - even big newspapers - when you put out enough words. It's well edited, but short of perfect. Not the same as poorly though, not even in the same league.
Please control your observations for the people that spend time around cows and horses vs cats and dogs. As someone who has met a few farmers in their time, folks who keep livestock will tell you that cows & pigs have feelings. Sheep, ehh less than those two. And chickens? Even less.
Of course, the chance of death is always 100% in the end :^)
Because the sodium as dissolved in water is already at its lowest chemical energy state. Elemental sodium, very high energy, like a ball on a high shelf. Ionised sodium, like in salt water, is that same ball on the floor. Not going anywhere.
That's the why. And why we also don't worry about table salt spontaneously releasing chlorine ions - unless we introduce something unusual like bleach.
Aged steak - a famous Western delicacy - is partially rotten meat.
Of course, the market for enthusiast stuff like direct die watercooling and KS-series purchasers have a significant overlap <:o)
There used to be a business in selling these ultra performant ST chips to high frequency traders, who'd overclock the absolute crap out of them. Luckily, this is no longer a business. But these kind of products used to be the "waste stream" from them, left overs.
But now, the KS-series intel chips are for slightly insane gamers and overclocking enthusiasts with more money than sense. That's okay, there's a real market segment there. At our work, we buy the 14700K for dev machines like sane people.
Yes! I've definitely felt like this while using his website. Of course, today I just fixed it with
main { max-width: 720px; margin: 0 auto; }
but tbh, I don't want to install an extension to customise the css on this one site...
The actual transistors are around 40nm across [1]. They change the geometry of the features, either the shape of the transistor gate or even the method of power delivery. All really incredible features and worthy of awe. Just not actually making transistors with finger-countable number of atoms.
"We" - the Western voting public broadly, but also much of East Asia too - are the owning class. If you actually removed everything in our lives that depend on petroleum products, it would be a riot before the end of the month. I don't think people quite realize how much of our lives are propped up by the downstream products of oil. It's not just moving people in cars and most of electricity generation and wrapping our food in plastics; it's most of our food production (from fertilizer to mechanization), most of our biochem stuff (so much starts as natural gas), most of our infrastructure.
Without oil, the West is shivering in the cold, the shelves are empty, there's nothing to do, nowhere to go (or really, way to get there anyway) and practically no healthcare.
You square that circle, you let the rest of us know. But we won't (and should not) accept any future like that.
There are still ongoing improvements - but the pace has slowed, and those improvements are MORE expensive. This is how Moore's law died, not with an end to a trend, but a faltering curve.
There's rarely a single rat
1) It's physically and psychologically hard to end your own life 2) You aren't going to feel old, you'll just feel like you do now, but with an achey body and some brainfog. 3) A society that encourages old people to shuffle off this mortal coil is probably a bad one
Dunno, have you met people? Once the place is covered in trash, the next piece of trash has a marginal impact, so "we" wouldn't feel compelled at all. Just drop it wherever.
Didn't they realize Gary Oldman was the villain in Fifth Element?
It's actually less than 10%. I'd say closer to around 5% - as a custom watercooling enthusiast. 2-3% gains going from a great dual tower air cooler to an All-in-One closed loop (but extra noise from the pump) and another 2-3% gains for a great CPU waterblock and thicker, denser radiators of custom watercooling (and least noise of all, assuming you choose an appropriate pump speed).
5% performance gains, and 500% price increase <:o)
I mean, given we've shrouded almost every consumable item in them, for approximately 40 years (maybe more!) we can be whatever harm they do is minor.
Like, it's not carcinogenic. It's far below, say, asbestos. Or arsenic. Or thalidomide.
We can be extremely confident, whatever the effects of micro and nano plastics, they're not even close to those levels of danger