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China, the electrostate

I think this is similar now in most things. Music or blog posts etc. Yet when you try to discover something, for some reason it's really hard to find good quality material.

A few years ago there was mathematics progress in recommendation algorithms. Those could better things a lot. I foolishly disparaged the progress, as yet another way to sell us more content. I'm sorry for that. I've changed my mind since.

And some are born to that privilege. This is made painfully apparent in the Netflix social issues documentary "Outer Banks".

Eclipse used friction stir welded aluminum for its very light jet.

I assume it's a natural thing to happen if somebody gets a lot of power. If not being extra careful, they will automatically get surrounded by yes men and start drifting in odd directions. Happens to dictators too.

With democracy at least there's changing some of the people in power on a schedule.

Good. Too bad they're not in Ireland. The country might lack woodland for them to breed in. Artificial nests perhaps? (I think many countries should invest in biodiversity also, on a strategic level, for multitude of reasons, but resilience to pests is one.)

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Might be because of land travel in those days. I wonder how besides the large scale geography like mountains, the smaller scale and biotopes also affected it. Open farmland or steppes are different to travel than dense forests or cliffs. Even today, trade by land is still more constrained than by water, if you look at large container ships vs trains, and where most GDP is concentrated. Thomas Pueyol makes some nice twitter threads about this, how geography has shaped history. Of course simplified and with a chosen narrative, but something that the typical "great man theory of history" doesn't do.

Wouldn't some birds love to eat hornets?

Hard to find a good cassette player nowadays too.

I mean if 0.3% of your home was invaded by a cabinet, you could probably still live there. In reality it's a bit more since the 1000 square km involves fields and lakes, so maybe 1%.

A wolfpack territory is typically about 1000 square kilometers. The forest cut was 3 square kilometers. So while there might be effects, need to set it in context.