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[–] cabb 2 points 1 month ago

It's not hyped in the media, probably because it's Chinese companies doing it, but there have been massive strides towards creating humanoid robotics in the past couple of years. They aren't nearly to the point of being autonomous but there's a simple humanoid robot that's selling for 5900 today.

[–] cabb 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe first-time home buyer programs? But those are like 3% typically so it wouldn't get you there and that's before including closing costs, moving costs, and possible repairs.

[–] cabb 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cabb 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

By serving the content to an IP address from that country you are "actively doing business in that country"

[–] cabb 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Because by offering the website in the UK they are doing business in the UK legally speaking. So they have to follow UK regulations or face the fine of up to the greater of 18 million or 10% of global revenue. If they operated in a country that wouldn't make them pay up for UK fine and had advertisers based in the a similar country then they could ignore it but that leaves only a handful of countries and basically no advertisers.

No it isn't on the UK to block the company. It's on the company to comply with the law by either implementing age verification or blocking access.

[–] cabb 3 points 1 month ago

The evidence doesn't match the narrative he constructed in his head, so it's fake obviously.

[–] cabb 8 points 1 month ago

They tried that with Indiana Jones and people didn't like it very much.

[–] cabb 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd like to opt out of lemvotes

[–] cabb 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Soap was invented a long time ago - 2800 BC and the Romans made quite a bit of it. However it used lye so you wouldn't want to use it often.

The sanitation of Roman cities should have been pretty good by historical standards. Batthouses were common in the empire and people frequently visited them. Romans also had toilets with running water below them to take the waste away so in that regard they would have done much better than other societies.

The sewer system or lack thereof was the biggest sanitation issue for most historical cities. Back in the day it was difficult to create a sewer system since you need to minimize the slope at which the waste flows or else you have to do too much digging. Until Newton and Leibniz came around in the 1700s we didn't have calculus so you couldn't optimize a function mathematically and instead had to experimentally test it out. But, people didn't test things the way we do today - the scientific method was only formalized relatively recently as well. So this was more difficult to invent that you might think, and the invention has been lost several times over history.

Then once you figure out the minimum angle you have to discover a technique to dig at that angle. The simplest is to take two sticks and insert them into the ground, then tie a string between them that lies right on the ground. Then you can put the sticks this anywhere to see how deep you need to dig.

Since you mentioned 1500-1800, I'll mention that medieval London did NOT have a sewer system so people dumped their waste in the River Thames. Which is also where they got their drinking water.

[–] cabb 4 points 1 month ago

It says in the article that it's over 11 years

[–] cabb 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lmao I saw the android portion and thought that was just how much you had on your phone. Was worried about how many tb somebody like that would have on a nas

[–] cabb 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The majority of Hispanics don't like that term. Can you stop using it? It's close to a slur if not already a mild one and there's already a gender neutral term - Hispanic.

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