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Aye. I was at my friend's grandparent's house (he grew up in his grandparents house) as a youth, probably 11 or 12, and his grandfather mentioned he was offered to join the masons …

Yes and no. Yes in the sense that there was a formal pattern for learning that developed from 3k bc - end (right around 1800bc) which typically included a combination of math (frac…

"In short, machine learning methods are in place, but accessible data is not." "Finally, one must address the concerns of various commercial stakeholders." "A few chemical database…

How do you arrive at 10%?

Heidegger, Hitler, and Wittgenstein were all born in 1889 Hitler and Wittgenstein attended the same school even The Wittgenstein family also had all of their funds invested in Amer…

IIRC he had started this diet (eating only raw carrots and strawberries) before he founded apple with woz

You have some very detailed reasons why Thucydides would side with the Athenians; I appreciate that. > Finally, if you want to argue that he'd say the Athenian empire was dangerous…

> but the river is gone too. The Sumerians were well known to forcibly reposition the local rivers of which there were many in the flood plain. There are probably plenty of areas w…

A healthy chunk of the Sumerian texts we have today are training tablets. Scribes would copy these tablets much in the same way we copy sentences today to learn to write today, wit…

Because there were so few people. The inverse of your question is why did technology seemingly explode beginning around 10k years ago? And the answer to that is simple: the Milanko…

And yet Zizek offers himself as that exact contradiction: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/zizek-has-a-lot-to... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UOM3C3q7II Zizek is certa…

Because of Egyptian inscriptions. If it was only one group, why do Egyptian inscriptions list 5+ groups? Here's the relevant article section: "The Philistines (known to the Egyptia…

Well said

Well written article considering the very diverse time frames and sources. "Around 3000 BC, a group of savage tribes now known as the Indo-Europeans invaded Europe from eastern Ukr…

Wow! This is really cool! Is the entire nutrient cycle automated, or are there some parts which have to be manually done after the initial germination for foodstuffs? Are there mac…

If you aren't using stablecoins then you are paying with volatile assets. If the assets are more volatile than usd, and if the cost of said volatility is greater than potential sav…

If I'm not mistaken, the source for Columbus visiting Iceland was by his son Ferdinand (who said his dad left notes laying around and his son figured out he was talking about Icela…

Columbus made a voyage to Bristol in the UK and certainly came across merchants who had travelled in the northern reaches, Iceland in particular. It is suggested that he did indeed…

> Real problem and solutions: - energy -> Need hydro or nuclear. Everything else is just marketing bullshit. Agree in general, yet from what i've read most of the worlds hydro (rea…

this 100% 1 hour each morning when your mind is the sharpest and most ready is so much more valuable to me than 3 hours late at night when i am tired from the work of the day

This is a rideshare capital vs opponent capital legal battle. Any claims to doing this for the drivers is absurd; different drivers want different things, and for that, you would h…

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>>In those cases were I dealt with the origins of "Europe" I started even earlier than the Sumerians: with the end of the last ice age. I applaud your breadth. The vast majority of…

>>These are words that you can imagine coming out of the mouth of a figure like Lincoln or FDR. Pericles reaches into many of the same ideals we still venerate today. I've never se…

>>We simply don’t have a lot of records about ancient Egyptian scholarship before the Hellenistic period. Agreed. As robbiep mentioned, this is probably because of Alexander in gen…