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Or even the Roman Empire itself. > an empire is a state where the core ruling population exercises control and extracts resources from a periphery which is composed of people other…

The main issue is that they are very careful not to frame it like that. In broader contexts, it's always framed as something like "do you favor limiting children's access to social…

> Rather, hopefully, Iran will be to the US what Turks were to Byzantium. An invading force that settles within it and ultimately destroys it before launching expansionist invasion…

Arguably, Rome itself is such an example. Over the course of its long history it was repeatedly pushed to the brink of ruin only to slowly build back up without ever quite reaching…

>It's harder to play baseball or football without all assortment of costly bats, helmets, gloves, et cetera In practice, casual football isn't any more resource heavy than soccer. …

Can they? In most places with any sort of economic opportunity, I have a very hard time believing that part time earnings would get you housing on par with a full time earner in 19…

>For example, the vast majority of people choose to retire once they reach the age where they are able to collect enough from their pension that they no longer need to work in orde…

>but most states do not have a per se ID Out of curiosity, do you have a source or list for this? My own home state and those around me that I've spot checked all have a state ID a…

Pertinent quote: >It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel. Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire fr…

>Many kids who placed highly in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search ended up winning Nobel Prizes later in life Do you happen to have a list available? I saw a few among the win…

I remember reading about this when it first happened. Glad there was at least a somewhat positive outcome. For reference, here is the HN thread shortly after the arrest: https://ne…

> how much sugar water people buy, cases and cases One confounding factor here is that oftentimes the price is only reasonable in bulk. I don't know about walmart, but around me th…

Yes. As far as I'm aware the person I responded to was mistaken about that. My own point was that commercial farming in the rest of NA (and possibly even parts of Mexico, I genuine…

>So it's native to the new world, but not native to North America? My understanding is that the wild turkey was common throughout North America, but was domesticated in Mexico, and…

Just about a year and a half too late for https://longbets.org/712/ Although from the article, it sounds like this might not be servicing a wide enough area to win the bet even if …

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>My sense is actually that the reason he talks that way is to make sure that people who consider themselves "on the left" don't mistake him for being someone "on the right" If so h…

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Is this really viable for something like Uber, where most rides aren't really meaningfully better or worse?

I imagine it would work out roughly the same as if security camera footage was copyrighted, but as far as I can tell there really isn't a clear precedent in the US for this. The mo…

In addition to that, if the Why ever changes (maybe the issue was in an external dependency that finally got patched), you'd have to update the name or else leave it incorrect. Mil…

To elaborate on your points some more: the basic building blocks of contract law were already well established by the time Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball came about. The main questi…

>And you're expecting them to make pennies? I don't think the person you are replying to was expecting this. Rather, I read their comment as agreeing with you that the benefits and…

I also enjoyed his similar series on generating a procedural city: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940

Unless I'm mistaken, this strikes me as a really incredible claim. To the best of my knowledge, Rome didn't make much use out of cast iron. Iron has a very high melting point, it's…