This means prehistoric humans persistence-hunting wolves is canonical to the crazyness2400verse.

Most Nazis predated the Nazis, the Nazis were only around 20ish years or so.

100% correct. If AI somehow replaces junior devs, someone will have to train them in substitute for paid real-world experience.

Governments accepted crops. Long after the invention of currency, governments still took their cut in wheat. What kind of money is a peasant going to have? All the king’s horses eat grain. This obsession with tax is a weirdly libertarian lens on a history that’s mostly anthropology.

States are the reason everyone uses currency. States are fundamentally an army that wields its power to pay itself, and currency is a huge force multiplier for projecting power (and therefore paying itself).

The problem with crops is that they’re hard to transport, so if you and your army try to go conquer some other land, and if the army still insists on being paid upfront (it does), then you have to haul the food, using people/animals that eat some of the food they’re hauling. Now you’re facing sharp logistical limitations analogous to the ‘tyranny of the rocket’ equation, where carrying food requires more food to feed the mules, and carrying that extra mule food requires more mules which requires more mule food.

Currency solves that whole issue. The state forces the farmers to pay tax via currency, and so the farmers need to sell their crops for currency that they can pay tax with, and so now the soldiers can buy food from the farmers with the currency the state pays them. Carrying currency along with the army during a march is a relatively simple problem.

And sure, farmers could trade with currency even if the state didn’t exist, but ultimately farmers don’t actually want to trade with others - they want to be self-sufficient (within their local community), and what few trades they do actually require (e.g. buying salt, if they live inland), can still be done with crops. And do note that salt is incredibly value-dense.

Also, currency is mostly useless for farmers - what they’d mostly want to buy is food, during a famine. But if there’s a famine, everyone is hoarding food instead of selling it. So the currency is useless to buy food. Which means other farmers would be even less willing to sell the food they’re hoarding. It’s like the opposite of “don’t look down”.

Okay, counterpoint: If fascists can’t produce decent engineers, then why did the US hire the nazi rocket scientists after WW2?

and Chinese companies are not actively bribing EU governments for months

Is the US doing that? What are you referring to?

The price has nothing to do with patents, it’s economy of scale - LCDs ship at a rate of billions per quarter, and are included in every device under the sun, whereas e-ink screens basically only ship in niche luxury devices (ereaders/enotes) that can be replaced by your phone and an ipad respectively. As a result, LCDs ship several orders of magnitude more screens, and reap the resulting economies of scale.

Yes, EInk corp has patents, but that doesn’t prove that the price is caused by the patents.

Currently, our best hope of seeing prices come down is 1) if the fast-multidye tech (i.e. the Gallery 3 thing) takes off enough to give e-notes mass market appeal (color drawing and comic book reading could be huge, maybe) and thus some extra economy of scale, or 2) if GoodDisplay’s DES screens get their PPI up to 300 and thus are able to compete in the ereader space against E-Ink’s MED.

DES = Display Electronic Slurry, AKA the cofferdam tech. It’s a different method of creating an e-ink screen that (apparently) doesn’t touch E-Ink’s patents, and it works by creating a grid of ditches to be filled up with the e-ink liquid and ink (where 1 ditch = 1 pixel). In contrast, E-Ink’s MED (=Microencapsulated Electrophoretic Display) produces self-contained microcapsules that have the liquid/ink sealed inside, and then the microcapsules are sprinkled onto the screen’s pixel grid like Hundreds And Thousands, and each microcapsule is substantially smaller than a pixel, and each pixel toggles several microcapsules. The microcapsules sometimes overlap the border of the pixel grid (since they’re a bunch of packed circles basically), which breaks up the straightness of the pixel grid and is what gives E-Ink screen their ‘grainy’ look where DES screens are more noticeably checkerboarding. This could potentially give MED a long-term aesthetic advantage, although that might turn out to be a non-issue for DES with sufficiently high PPI.

The advantage of DES is that because it skips a layer (the slurry is directly on the substrate, rather than in microcapsules on the substrate) it could potentially be higher-resolution(/PPI), and higher contrast. Also possibly cheaper, since it might be able to skip a manufacturing step of making the microcapsules. Maybe.

This is bullshit. Roman public fountains and baths didn’t require any sort of license, the fountains (which were used for fetching water for personal use) had priority over baths, bathing in fountains was strictly forbidden, and also why the fuck is he getting water directly from a cistern? Those aren’t even publicly accessible.

Also, why bring an amphora instead of just a bucket?

No feedback when hitting enemies, besides generic blood splashing and maybe a stumble

Way more health than is necessary or interesting on enemies

Combat system is mindless and boring

Quests are full of “go to this cookie-cutter dungeon, clear it out and bring me the MacGuffin at the end” on loop.

The game has lots of bugs that were in the previous 2 games, and were patched in the fan-patches of both the previous 2 games.

Linux is not on mobile. And before anyone says “Android/LineageOS is Linux”, 1) Android is proprietary (and AOSP is not a real substitute for Android), and 2) LineageOS isn’t a substitute for Android without microg, and also isn’t Linux (last I checked, app development on LineageOS REQUIRED ANDROID STUDIO for the signing bullshit).

Now, if anyone says “Linux is on mobile, I daily-drive my PinePhone!” (and is actually being honest), then congratulations and I respect the hell out of you but you’re more of a masochist than Drew Devault and that makes you a unicorn.

That’s a weird as heck christmas song.

If you take venture capital, you sacrifice your ability to not be greedy. Could Facebook have even existed without VC? Facebook didn’t have ads during its startup IIRC, which meant they had no revenue.

Valve was the first, their business model was basically removing retail (the actual reason for Steam was to make updates trivial, so a Counterstrike update didn’t break half the servers for 2 weeks), for everyone after Steam the business model was removing Steam by replacing it with a Steam clone.

So you can play videogames while burning disks? Idk.

I hate how /e/OS’s ‘BlissLauncher’ doesn’t let you leave an empty space between icons on the homescreen. I don’t know whether switching to a different launcher will break /e/OS’s widgets etc, and it bugs me just little enough to ignore it. The worst thing is that because you can’t leave gaps (unless you leave the bottom row partially blank, which is dumb because that’s the most important row), moving any app requires swapping it with another, which requires a minimum of three app-drags. In practice four, because draggin one app onto another will turn the icon into a folder with the two apps in them, so you’ll have to open the folder and drag em both out.

I hate it so much. Why can’t they just make a normal homescreen?