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What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by moltar »

gkya wrote: post #27
skookumchuck wrote: post #19

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This is the result of free markets. Centralized economic planning is simply unable to deal with the complexity.

Wut? Do you really think you can convince me that USSR did not have toilet papers or pencils? Or send the first man to space? This is not about what economical model is better. People can collaborate both under central economic planning and through free markets. One might certainly be more preferable to the other, but that's totally a different conversation (I'm not a fan of either, for the records).

They/we did, of course. But the supply never matched the demand up or down. Usually it was lack of.

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by purple-again »

legitTrolling wrote: post #126
lainga wrote: post #99

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This is the 6th post I have seen this week along the formula (1) I am from Europe and I went to America. (2) Americans do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing. (3) The cause must be a character flaw shared by all Americans (security and puritanical reasons...?).

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No doubt diversion of purpose clashes as well. I don’t particularly care what the owners thought HN would be or how they think it should be run. I found a better reddit (because tech and politics was already most of what I was interested in) and so I stayed here doing what I did on Reddit. The whole ‘SV startup’ thing is just an annoying undertone I have to filter out (yes I know what ycombinator does) as I navigate the site.

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by jjeaff »

adrianratnapala wrote: post #159
__s wrote: post #89

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There's regulations on minimum gap size (had a client in the industry) https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/26620/why-do-publ...

Ok, so cost and cleanability might be incentive so have doors like that, but not incentives to make regulations. Those regulations likely there for "decency and safety". E.g. to discourage people having sex, or to make it more obvious if someone passes out. That is: the regulations really are there to make reduce privacy. There might be good arguments for reducing privacy, but that is still the proximate goal of the…

I've heard that they were more to discourage illicit drug use than "indecency".

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by lemiffe »

f1notformula1 wrote: post #140
lainga wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the 6th post I have seen this week along the formula (1) I am from Europe and I went to America. (2) Americans do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing. (3) The cause must be a character flaw shared by all Americans (security and puritanical reasons...?).

Replace with: (1) I am from $region_X and I went to $region_Y (2) $region_Y'ers do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing (3) The cause must be a character flaw shared by all $region_Y'ers ( ). and your statement is still valid about this formula. I think we tend to preferentially notice them when we're in one of the two regions involved, but in general the world (and so the internet) is full of this sort…

PHP dev? ;)

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by andrewwharton »

tzs wrote: post #150
pwython wrote: post #108

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Eh, when someone says "it sure feels strange, and very difficult to get used," it doesn't have to be negative. You can take it as a "character flaw" jibe, but it's really just an observation. source: American that is still in shock by septic tank users that have to throw their feces-paper in the trashcan.

> source: American that is still in shock by septic tank users that have to throw their feces-paper in the trashcan. What? Where/when/why is that necessary?

Greece/present day/crap plumbing.

https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/europe/greece/toil...

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by jjeaff »

pwython wrote: post #108
lainga wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the 6th post I have seen this week along the formula (1) I am from Europe and I went to America. (2) Americans do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing. (3) The cause must be a character flaw shared by all Americans (security and puritanical reasons...?).

Eh, when someone says "it sure feels strange, and very difficult to get used," it doesn't have to be negative. You can take it as a "character flaw" jibe, but it's really just an observation. source: American that is still in shock by septic tank users that have to throw their feces-paper in the trashcan.

That's only if your septic tank is improperly sized or otherwise malfunctioning.

Around 20% of homes in America have their own septic tank. And essentially all of them flush their toilet paper like everyone else.

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by jjeaff »

tzs wrote: post #150
pwython wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, when someone says "it sure feels strange, and very difficult to get used," it doesn't have to be negative. You can take it as a "character flaw" jibe, but it's really just an observation. source: American that is still in shock by septic tank users that have to throw their feces-paper in the trashcan.

> source: American that is still in shock by septic tank users that have to throw their feces-paper in the trashcan. What? Where/when/why is that necessary?

When you have an undersized septic tank, this can become necessary. But not necessary for most.

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by bandrami »

adrianratnapala wrote: post #159
__s wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's regulations on minimum gap size (had a client in the industry) https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/26620/why-do-publ...

Ok, so cost and cleanability might be incentive so have doors like that, but not incentives to make regulations. Those regulations likely there for "decency and safety". E.g. to discourage people having sex, or to make it more obvious if someone passes out. That is: the regulations really are there to make reduce privacy. There might be good arguments for reducing privacy, but that is still the proximate goal of the…

I think the end goal is making it harder to do heroin in a bathroom.

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by OtterCoder »

jklinger410 wrote: post #127
legitTrolling wrote: post #126

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>Pretty sure HN is suffering from serious forum sliding, and it's just time to move on to some other aggregator. Has to be a better solution than this imo.

If there is, it's been a long time coming. The Eternal September started in 1993, and has been repeated across every social site or service ever created since then. The only way to avoid the flood is to leave before they arrive.

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

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Post by hiccuphippo »

lemiffe wrote: post #164
f1notformula1 wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replace with: (1) I am from $region_X and I went to $region_Y (2) $region_Y'ers do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing (3) The cause must be a character flaw shared by all $region_Y'ers ( ). and your statement is still valid about this formula. I think we tend to preferentially notice them when we're in one of the two regions involved, but in general the world (and so the internet) is full of this sort…

PHP dev? ;)

Another stereotype? It could be Perl or Bash.
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