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So they estimate economic complexity by the number of discovered Latin documents or inscriptions. Wasn't Greek prevalent in the East?

My personal theory is not that iron ended the Bronze Age, because archaeological evidence seems to show that iron became significant after the Bronze Age collapse. Instead, what if bronze accumulated to the point where more people could afford a metal weapon? Then some other event started the series of escalations and population movements. Unlike iron, bronze accumulates and is recyclable. "The blade itself incites to violence."

This is an oversimplification, I would not consider Orban far right and PB are more populist left if anything. And it's not all Russia's fault, in Bulgaria the pro-Russian government came into power after five years of self-proclaimed pro-Western politicians attacking the institutions for their own political gain. Well, it misfired.

I am just noticing how those ideas are present in Wizard of Earthsea.

What if the threat is not environmental collapse but hostile government?

Do you think that monitoring and surveillance are less of a problem in the US? In China?

Bronze pipes have been discovered in Roman-era settlements and even earlier sites. That's a long time before tobacco was available in Europe.

>Diátaxis is similar to DITA

I don't see it. DITA differentiates between topic types such as task, reference, concept, etc., but a tutorial or a solution guide will be a combination of those topic types. Here I believe the focus is on deliverables that are larger than the individual topic.

There are less than benign godlike entities in that imagined future, for example the Excession and some of the Sublimed. That adds an additional layer to the narrative.

I am sorry for jumping on this opportunity to be a smartass, but this type of armor predates the sarissa phalanx by almost 1000 years.

You can deorbit debris without physical contact, but you could argue the method results in a weapon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom

Not only that, people whose most fertile agricultural land is now under salt water.

Yes, we might need to shoot at them.

There is a non-zero chance we are headed for a situation where global warming and sea level rise will make hundreds of millions, mostly from equatorial regions, desperate refugees. It could be that an attitude of self-righteousness might become impossible to maintain. Friends come and go.

What are examples of good CMS software that you've used?

I would not put him in the same league as Lem. Or Banks or Reynolds, for that matter.

I had a titanium Tissot watch and it scratched easier than steel watches.

I'm starting to think some kind of shade megastructure in orbit might might be the only solution to lowering global temperature. I know that light exerts pressure and that keeping it in place would be a major challenge, but still.

You use Balkan as a synonym for Yugoslav, which is wrong.

Bulgaria and Greece are Balkan countries. How are they much smaller than Serbia?

Where's titanium on that scale?

Sadly, the "everything is bad" refrain which 10 years ago was invented by conservative eurasianists is today picked up by the new liberal left.

I will assume you're a fellow Bulgarian. At least find comfort in the fact that we've sold billions of USD worth of weapons to all those conflicts of the last 30 years. The part with the F16s is bullshit, as is most of your post.

German Parliament convened today, they will triple funding for the Bundeswehr.

I would recommend Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl and other books. Violent but masterful narratives about an unhappy future.

This thing again. I think all the misunderstanding starts from this one person misinterpreting Homer's "wine-dark sea" to mean blue. No. It means on the deep black sea.

I think Chasm City is his best book, but it requires context from other Revelation Space novels to be enjoyed fully.

What about armor?

I think shortage of metal was a problem during the bronze age. Because bronze is easily recyclable, my theory is that the Late Bronze Age collapse happened when everyone had a sword. In the Iron age, it's not a question of availability, but of technology, how quickly can you provision a sword and a chainmail for everyone?

It's worse than than, the author of the post owns a failed startup named LogSentinel and now he is desperate to escape into politics.