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Sure: "40 hours a week" for moderns is also an underestimate.* But the figure everyone goes around repeating about hunter-gatherers is a more dramatic underestimate. The accurate !…

This "original affluent society" hypothesis is much-promoted but much of it just isn't true. Lee's numbers explicitly counted only the initial foraging of the mongongo nuts, i.e. n…

I made a tiny app to solve this kind of disagreement; I was annoyed by the unjust dominance of the ENIAC over Hoelzer's 50 Jahre Computer and the Z3, but also over the Manchester B…