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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 far inland as well. Who knows? Maybe Giza was closer to the coast and was part of a major Nilotic coastal metropolis

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.