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geeostationon Garum Masala

Interesting you said Abrahamic religions, While impact of chrisianity on Europe, Middle East, Americas has been well documented.

There hasn't been much of discussion or writing about the extinction of cultures, syncretism, open border civs at the hands of Islam.

Greek / Roman / Indian influence in Eurasia to Indonesia is probably another tragedy that the world forgot.

Only pockets like Bali remain from that era now.

geeostationon Deliveroo is leaving Australia

didnt use deliveroo at all as i didnt know they were this good

geeostationon Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019

well, it shouldn't be "legal" for one or cartel corporation to mediate between content/data and its users. its downright dystopian.

geeostationon Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?

Rural Australian whites were shooting Aboriginals like Animals few decades ago :(

back on topic, we are still discovering new things about the aboriginal civilisation https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-19/fire-reveals-further-...

geeostationon A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming

why is this downvoted? seems very good counterpoint to private companies can do whatever they want.

The reality of the free speech online is that US constitution comes stapled with a "Terms of Service" by tech oligopoly

geeostationon The Race to a Trillion

its strange to Microsoft still in the race after loosing web, search, mobile and much of the developer mindshare

geeostationon Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCS

without end to end encryption. this is doa

geeostationon Apple open-sources FoundationDB

Cosmos DB on Azure has been doing it for a while now

geeostationon Adding ERC20 Support to Coinbase

Hopefully they'll get to alternative tech such as DAGs like the block lattice of Nano or Tangle of Iota.

Nano in particular could use a fiat ramp as the first and only crypto to be instant and feeless. Nano could be the one that takes cryptos mainstream - which is Coinbase's mission statement as well

geeostationon Deciphering China’s AI Dream

the scale at China can do things is different from japanese as a function of its population. 10% of japanese population investing abroad in an under connected world in the 80s is vastly different to 10% of Chinese buying up real estate in an connected world with access to lots of resources and information Japanese in the 80s simply didn't have.

Chinese also immigrate into other countries in vastly higher numbers than Japanese.

The japan, china comparison is close to false equivalence