

ok good to know. you seem to be better informed than i am here
ok good to know. you seem to be better informed than i am here
i don’t know whether this fully explains it. germany, even after 1960, never really invested much into IT. we have one company here, infineon, which produces processors, but afaik they’re microprocessors for automobile, not PC-material. we do have strong open source software development here in germany though. (KDE, …)
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but but how does the spider breathe? there’s no oxygen below the surface.
nah i think consumerism is quite good. it ensures that there’s a healthy economy while also not really damaging the planet, once we’ve got renewable energy set up.
or what was it that you’re targeting on the right side of the meme?
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i agree with your point, but i still wonder why all of the IT was invented in america. very little software was written outside of it (at least in the early years)
So it’s not just efficiency gains, but fundamental gains in what’s even available.
If you’re talking about computers, computers were available in 1900, just that it was actually women (mostly) in an office doing the maths by hand.
Similar to the “AI” meme comment - “Actually Indians”
it was an example, not meant to be the final number, but yeah, excessive advertisement wastes resources and is a blight on society.
big improvements up to 4 species
interesting. is that why we plant 4 different types of plant on a field in a row? i.e. year-on-year cycle
Three Sisters in native american agriculture. (three is approximately four)
We could glorify the farmers and the workers
yeah that is a good point, but not 100% accurate i guess, at least not if you consider “workers” like typical factory or service workers
there was a lot of maths being done the last 60 years, if you consider software development a type of applied maths (which it formally is), and that doesn’t really fit into the categories of “farmer” or “worker”, since it’s non-routine task with no clear goal other than creativity, for which you might or might not get paid, depending on whether people will like it. that can’t really be encompassed into the concept of a “worker” i guess
and that stuff really matters. the US’ economy essentially grew since 1970 because of IT. real economy (production of stuff) stagnated since 1970 (in the US at least). you can see this clearly in diagrams such as this one where oil consumption (which is directly proportional to industrial output) stagnates since 1970. also note that IT companies are the highest-valued companies in the US stock market today, and that’s because they have tremendous significance in the US economy.
thanks, this answer deserves an award
yeah, sanitation is really important, and it’s easy to understand that once you consider that our shit is literally 25% live bacteria by mass. that’s more than a trillion, idk even what the name for numbers that big is. for bacteria, the quantity of bacteria you ingest plays a role (i think) in how dangerous the disease is that you catch, so if you eliminate the biggest source of bacteria, that reduces diseases a lot
advertisements are brainwashing. think about it: if a company spends $1K on advertisement, it expects to make at least as much through increased sales. That’s the money they steal from you.
genocide is a US tradition
oil with a little bit of crushed flour and salt mixed in
don’t forget the sugar!
Basically what unions would have given is if they hadn’t been gutted.
At this time, i wonder, whether “union” is just another term for your local friendly anarchists fighting for your rights? Because that’s how people use the term.
We live in the most exciting times in history
I definitely agree. It’s because we live in the most interesting times in history that there is so much work to do. It is not normal that the work never seems to end, there’s always just more work to do, and it’s because of all the inventions that are constantly made. They demand human labor to be developed, and that’s why we’re spending all our time in laboratories or office spaces, or in service industries serving these fields. It’s all caused by progress, and progress itself demands all of our attention. That is why we have no nature, not because of electricity. I guess
i … don’t really think that “dirt floors” inherently are a problem. sanitation back then sucked but mostly for the cities between 1500 - 1800, because before then big cities weren’t much of a thing and after that soap was invented. idk, maybe i am off about this. correct me if i am wrong.
(btw, does anybody know about the sanitary situation in ancient roman cities?)
but i agree with you.
The gains in efficiency over the last hundred years have been insane. Today’s crumbs are better than the whole cookie back then.
Last time i went to the supermarket, i paid 18€ for a whole bag of food. it was more than enough for a whole day. When i thought how much i had to work for it to pay for it all, it’s like 1.5 hours in total. That is not much. And the food is top quality. No toxins, rather fresh, very nutritious and very convenient to get everything in one place.
this makes sense from a mathematical perspective, because you’re diversifying risks so in a year where one type of plant doesn’t grow well, another can take over. so it’s more likely that there’s a plant in there that can grow well that year.
short note that presstv.ir is an iranian-run newspaper, so let’s better wait for confirmation from the UN or somebody less biased in this affair. still very interesting news though, and definitely imaginable.