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Also, motorized blades and grinders were revolutionary for the categories of recipes they unlocked

This is analogous to an elevator that’s unidirectional

A lot of field studies on chimpanzees also indicate similar behavior (ie taking care of former leaders after they aged out of their prime)

I think we are undercounting how much silt gets deposited by major river systems over millenia. The ruins of Lothal, which was a Harappan port city contemporary with Ur are pretty …

The Persian Gulf would be a goldmine for this.

My thoughts exactly. In physical environments where people are bombarded with low-information “noise”, gatekeeping (ie credentialism) emerges as a natural mechanism.

Could this lead to a situation where user agents also need to have their identities verified with a certificate authority the way websites do?

All this needs is a song that starts immediately playing when this loads in your browser and you have a full nostalgia trip

Bell Labs like orgs can only exist within companies that are protected by a rock solid moat (ie ATT monopoly)

As opposed to sex workers in other countries? This article has a “every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes” or “In Japanese culture, killing someone is frowned upon” vibe to it.…

So was Europe. However, most European countries have not grown much since then. 2008 is an important year in divergence between the two

Paying people to alter historical genealogy records to hide caste origin was a fairly common practice in India, especially by new kings.

As a farang, you SHOULD pay 10x local prices.

We tend to underestimate how complex even pre Bronze Age kingdoms were. To rule them, our ancestors came up with an intricate way to let different combinations of symbols represent…

Rights to privately acquire land, create corporations, and sell across markets were extant across different civilizations throughout history. The Chola merchant guilds had formaliz…

Just got Arthashastra. It’s amazing. Han Feizi is next on my list.

Ive always wondered this: has a species have an evolutionary history where they originated in land but adapted to living in water and then adapted to living on land again?

I know that’s it’s established that some of the oldest civilizations started in Anatolia/Mesopotamia. Could it be because the dry climate there preserves old structures better than…

Solved problem, but not a scalable problem. Unless we can fork dang reliably N times.

Imagine the beauty of Boston city hall, but spread across the whole city..

The former Indian Prime Minister Narasina Rao used to code as well. https://princeezraj.medium.com/the-indian-prime-minister-who...

India doesn’t produce a lot of consumer goods. However, there is a good chance that the lab equipment and chemicals used were manufactured there. For some reason, most drain caps i…