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To state it a different way: yes, of course and without doubt their very presence affected biodiversity.

But you were talking about their practices, which tended towards custodial over exploitative. And overall these practices clearly supported biodiversity as a whole, otherwise we wouldn’t note the biodiversity of this region as anything special (see again the quote I took from your first article).

I apologize anyway for my slightly combative tone. I appreciate the resources you shared even if I haven’t had time to absorb them in full yet.

You said certainty but now you say probably. Which is it?

I never claimed that they had no impact, but it is clear that the impact tended towards neutral to positive because: a) the forest was still there; and b) it had the higher rate of biodiversity in the world.

Indigenous burns in California are recognized as being a net positive for the old growth forests and the biodiversity within. It doesn’t take a lot to extrapolate that the same was true in the Amazon.

> The forest itself, paleo-scientists of all stripes say, is much more domesticated than previously thought.

This implies that the biodiversity is a result of (or, at the very least, supported by) the indigenous practices, which is a far cry from your claim that biodiversity suffered from those practices.

Where can I read this certainty of destroyed biodiversity? That sounds like an extremely unsupported position, considering that the Amazon has the highest rates of biodiversity today.

The continued belittling of indigenous forestry practices contributes to out of control wildfires.

If you aren’t reaping of sowing, your labor isn’t in the fields anyway.

People don’t understand that there are ebbs and flows to a farming life. There is always work to do but no one is out in the fields much unless it’s harvest or seeding times.

Sniping means that bidders may have decided to put in a higher ceiling in order to avoid losing at the last second.

If there was never a worry about this, they could bring out (and decide) that ceiling only after being outbid.

The postmark must be on or before voting day. I cannot fathom how people have bought into this idea that they can be sent after the preliminary voting has happened.

A bedroom produced song versus a major-label, famous-studio song can have insane differences in price.

It’s always been a requirement to make it up in volume of spins. I don’t see how this is any different.

I assumed 5.0 was referring to using any of the 5.00x series.

The statistics speak a far different story, I’m afraid.

Right, but a counter point is the etherium fork. Only a handful of people stayed on the “classic” chain after that first DAO turned out to have a massive extraction bug in it.

It’s a privately owned company. This leads to an entirely different relationship between employees and the top layer of management.

You have to be very misguided to believe that the c suite in most companies is not engaged in n adversarial relationship with its employees, whether those employees are unionized or not.

I’m sorry but there is no way you can demonstrate a universal aesthetic. Your opinion of other people’s tastes does not reflect on their taste — it reflects on yours.

Agreed and well said!

Yes, this is what we do say when human traffickers are pardoned.

Definitely there has been a shift towards video content.

But I think there is a discoverability dynamic at play as well. Finding a blog post that isn’t garbage can be harder than finding a decent video on any given topic. This is clearly a feedback loop towards video but I think partly this is because up until now you couldn’t just create a spam video channel with the same ease that you could a spam blog.

My intuition is that if there’s no 2 dollar coin to go with it, there’s no way for it to gain practical traction.

In the US, change is already an annoying factor because sales tax is rarely included in eg, 4.99. So no one is jumping up and down to go from five slices of paper to five rattling coins.

MySpace collapsed in something like 18 months.

I don’t personally find “why didn’t you do it in X like everyone else?” to be very motivational for explaining my coding choices.

But antononcube has thicker skin than me so..

In that case, when would Raku ever be a better choice than something else?

I personally don’t see what advantages Python as a language (not an ecosystem) would have here.

Again, all of this comes from Ted Nelson. He also had philosophical antecedents, but in terms of software it was his dream of Xanadu that was the first hypertext system.

However, it’s worth pointing out that every attempt at Xanadu (under the name Xanadu) thus far has also turned out to be a fractional implementation of Nelson’s dream.

All of which were similarly fractional implementations of Xanadu.

Ted Nelson coined the term hypertext in the 60s.

Hypertext existed. Plan files existed. FTP already existed.

In fact, the only surprising feature of www is that no one bothered to include bidirectional linking, to disastrous consequence.

He didn’t invent anything either, though. www is just a less-than-half implementation of Xanadu.

EDIT: To be clear, I don’t intend that as a knock against Sir Berners-Lee. But the post I’m responding to invokes a false dichotomy.

And yet this very post positions Typst as a potential alternative to LaTeX. In other words, LaTeX is still in the top position.

Personally I think ConTeXt is a far superior tool, though its documentation is always trailing quite a distance behind its current capabilities.

Governments can equally allow private companies this same capacity.

TIL that no one has ever been in trouble for driving without insurance.

You would be truly surprised by how many people are doing exactly the same thing when it comes to releasing their music on streaming platforms.

This is not true. I’m sorry but the Splice userbase is hardly the size of earth’s music producing population.

TIL that the lime still wires