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Comment · 19 days ago
So they estimate economic complexity by the number of discovered Latin documents or inscriptions. Wasn't Greek prevalent in the East?
Comment · 1 month ago
My personal theory is not that iron ended the Bronze Age, because archaeological evidence seems to show that iron became significant after the Bronze Age collapse. Instead, what if bronze accumulated to the point where more people could afford a metal weapon? Then some other event started the series of escalations and population movements. Unlike iron, bronze accumulates and is recyclable. "The blade itself incites to violence."
Comment · 4 months ago
This is an oversimplification, I would not consider Orban far right and PB are more populist left if anything. And it's not all Russia's fault, in Bulgaria the pro-Russian government came into power after five years of self-proclaimed pro-Western politicians attacking the institutions for their own political gain. Well, it misfired.
Comment · 9 months ago
I am just noticing how those ideas are present in Wizard of Earthsea.
Comment · 1 year ago
What if the threat is not environmental collapse but hostile government?
Comment · 1 year ago
Do you think that monitoring and surveillance are less of a problem in the US? In China?
Comment · 1 year ago
Bronze pipes have been discovered in Roman-era settlements and even earlier sites. That's a long time before tobacco was available in Europe.
Comment · 1 year ago
>Diátaxis is similar to DITA

I don't see it. DITA differentiates between topic types such as task, reference, concept, etc., but a tutorial or a solution guide will be a combination of those topic types. Here I believe the focus is on deliverables that are larger than the individual topic.

Comment · 2 years ago
There are less than benign godlike entities in that imagined future, for example the Excession and some of the Sublimed. That adds an additional layer to the narrative.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am sorry for jumping on this opportunity to be a smartass, but this type of armor predates the sarissa phalanx by almost 1000 years.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Not only that, people whose most fertile agricultural land is now under salt water.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, we might need to shoot at them.
Comment · 2 years ago
There is a non-zero chance we are headed for a situation where global warming and sea level rise will make hundreds of millions, mostly from equatorial regions, desperate refugees. It could be that an attitude of self-righteousness might become impossible to maintain. Friends come and go.
Comment · 2 years ago
What are examples of good CMS software that you've used?

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