The dog probably as well - and both horses and dogs are similar to people in that they are great at traversing long distances.
Horses also have semi similar more specialized analogues - you could argue Camels filled a similar niche for very dry areas. And other animals like Goats/Llamas/Alpacas for mountainous areas.
Fire, pets, electronic chips, all advanced human civilisation step by step in different stages. It's hard to estimate the relative importance of each.
Speaking so generally, the ancient Greeks noted that all these are means for achieving higher goals. How many people think about that today? Quantity is not followed by quality.
It was the cat, those little fluffy bastards walked into a human camp about 10,000 years ago and kicked everything off. That's why the Ancient Egyptians revered cats as Gods /s
Like, without cats storing grain becomes so, so much harder; maybe basically impossible/unfeasible. Without storing grain you don't get cities as easily or as long.
Same with transporting food by boat; you gotta have a cat on your trireme or what are you even doing Andronikos.
Countless poets, writers, scientists and artists have been directly inspired by cats. I could easily believe yoga was inspired by them too.
It seems likely that models, royalty, and the concept of grace itself are all directly inspired by cats.
And then there's the profound cultural significance of Toxoplasmosis over the millenia; cats are (usually) calming; introverts can hang with cats all day...
There are certain personalities that are often attributed to modern sources, but haven't we always had that weird eccentric dude(tte) living in a shack that has a predilection to collect herbs/mine rocks/watch the skies/you name it, that isn't thought much of or seems productive until someone gets sick/needs ore/wants to know the weather/etc?
All that said, what did crazy cat people do before cats???
> haven't we always had that weird eccentric dude(tte)
I would bet the first human to do lots of stuff was that weird eccentric dude(tte). Who else would come up with writing, or words, or carry fire, or wear clothes, domesticate a wolf, etc.
My understanding is Congress critters are immune from insider trading laws and their offices don't have to follow minimum wage laws. Hard to see such a law from actually affecting them.
All of the major freeway expansions I have experienced required at least two years to complete. During these periods, lanes in the construction zone were heavily constricted, resulting in all of the roads surrounding the expansion project being completely filled with stop-and-go traffic during peak hours until the projects were completed, which seems to suggest the number of lanes makes some kind of a difference in something, somehow.
The authors seem to suggest that demand for roads is infinite, as expanding roads merely increases the number of trips people choose to make, thus infinite expansion will result in infinite trips.
These analyses always appear to me as if they are without any understanding of how humans actually behave, resulting in nonsensical nonsense "laws".
> The authors seem to suggest that demand for roads is infinite, as expanding roads merely increases the number of trips people choose to make, thus infinite expansion will result in infinite trips.
Agree. They literally claim this with “increasing lane kilometers by 1% will increase VKT by 1.03%” but subtly acknowledge that this fundamentally doesn’t make sense with the hand-wavey “any feasible increase in roadways will have no impact on congestion”. Keyword feasible.
The real law doesn’t seem to be that congestion rises to meet capacity but that no one will ever fund enough road expansion to make peak congestion low.
So, if instead of installing a bunch of apps, setting up search filters, and refreshing browser tabs on my phone ever 15-30 minutes, then the instant something meets my parameters I immediately leave work and, if possible, make a deposit on a new place, I open an app and find 5000 places meeting my requirements, meet them when I'm not working and on my time, and tell them I like a different one better so I'll hold off before making a decision, makes no difference on the price?
The author should check to see if the HTTP response body contains "nginx" or "apache" and just filter those out. Seems like at least 50% of what I'm seeing.
Also would be nice if there was a hotlink to view the original site directly from the index page.
The search page lets you add multiple exclude filters to the aggregation pipeline. So as you filter common strings, the interesting results bubble to the top.
If you click the image it should take you to an info page on the service.
"AI" is readily abundant all over the place, yet has no profit. I no longer believe the observably false claims that profit is somehow causal to availability.
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