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What did the Romans ever do for us?


I dont know who "us" is, but probably roads and writing?


I think reference is in order... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ


Ohhh, haha thanks, now it makes sense who "us" is ;)


Well obviously the roads, the roads go without saying, don't they?


Those aren't roman inventions…


Roman-built roads and the spread of Latin were tremendously important. Noone said they were invented by them.


Yes they did… they edited their comment after I responded and could no longer edit mine.

You just looking for an argument? Its important people know writing and roads weren’t invented by the romans. They are given way too much credit by Americans with imperial ambitions.


I mean, I guess the aqueduct was a nice thing?!


GePeTO1 does not make Pinnochio into a real boy.


You're a brain in a bucket. What is the nature of the bucket is up for debate


Your brain is part of a nervous system that extends throughout the "bucket". Body and brain aren't really separate.


I think the bucket is bigger than just your body.


No, many of these building are way under 80% utilization.


Can you reference where that figure is from? Because what I can find, SF has a single-digit vacancy rate: https://nainorcal.com/san-francisco-market-report-march-2023...


How many of those non-vacancies are corporate held air-bnbs where they can make more money for providing almost no service? Hint: it's not a handful. Landlords strategicly take units off the market in ways like airbnb to convince cities that their rents (and profits) are just.


Like Manhattan? They've built a lot, and it's getting cheaper every year


Manhattan rents tanked during the pandemic, but rebounded pretty quickly after covid subsided. Supply and demand is such that prices may rise even if you build a lot of housing if there's even more people that want to live there. Big supply coupled with even bigger demand will still see prices rise.


What is the value add vs using an LLM agent?


Ellipsis uses BUNCH of LLM agents internally. If you built your own code generation LLM agent you'd need to also build a way to execute the code that the agent writes, which is a bit of an engineering headache.

We handle this, the result is that if you set up a Dockerfile, we promise to return working, tested code: https://docs.ellipsis.dev/code#from-a-pr


I went to the top private school in my country

Cursive handwriting was not optional, same for spelling. Teachers would flunk people and no, there are no repeats at that school. From 200 in kinder, only 70 finished HS

You are on the right side, find people who give a damn about education.


HP DV2000 keyboard. Unbelievably good by modern standards, better than many older thinkspads


As opposed to where? At least they're trying, rest of the world has not build meaningfully either in quite a long time. Maybe only China



Thanks for posting the Baltica! I didnt know about that and Im excited now


> At least they're trying, rest of the world has not build meaningfully either in quite a long time.

Some of the rest of the world builds meaningful societies/economies. Ones that won't explode into civil war the moment that the firehose of oil is tapped out.

I understand that parts of the Middle East are trying to do that as well, but it's not clear what the effort results in.


> rest of the world has not build meaningfully

Is a giant (broken) ferris wheel "building meaningfully"?


Why not? Testing limits of engineering on our planet. Surely, some contribution was made to human knowledge by building/funding the wheel.


I was surprised how well it is working.

It's probably a less than 6 hour flight for 2/3 or 3/4 of the world population.


Nothing that is architecturally meaningful has been built in dubai. the heyday of architecture and capitalist megastructures is long gone, even though some interesting stuff is being built here and there, including china. Attention has shifted away from buildings and cities (i guess because people travel so much more) and into the virtual world.


Read the parent comment again, even taking the survey at face value:

"EXPERTS DECLARE EXPERTS' FIELD IS MOST IMPORTATN!!!!"

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