I understand it's maybe a bit of an uphill battle to support a software stack that the OS/hardware vendor itself doesn't support, but:
1. telegram/whatsapp do, so it's definitely possible.
2. The point is not to add new features, but just to leave the current version be without deprecating it.
There is probably a bit of a development burden in keeping old versions up, but I don't think it's that big: they could even let the community take care of that…
3. But most importantly, "the iphone 6 had a good run", so the natural continuation to that sentence is "so let's discard all those working devices" ? wtf?
I think that from a company that defends "public interests", some more thought should be given to not wasting energy, time and money forcing people to upgrade working smartphones…
Yeah, i'm thinking of getting a oneplus 6 since it's kind of the best supported by pmOS, and I can also just install some privacy friendly android rom in the meantime.
Sorry, I didn't mean English more than British (the distinction being a bit too subtle for me to make). It's "par for the course" I guess for a national broadcaster, but:
* That doesn't mean it's not less than ideal.
* It's something one might want to bear in mind, when listening, since it might introduce some kind of a bias to the whole thing (maybe the other comment about number of episodes about european vs african history is a good argument in that direction)
One thing I am slightly wary about after listening to quite a few episodes is Melvyn Braggs seems to be a bit too patriotic oftentimes.
It's nothing really obvious, but you hear a lot of "we" when talking about positive aspects of english history, and a lot of focus on all english innovations compared to other countries. Maybe I'm wrong though.
The faq helped, thanks!
So, an example of typical use would be, say, as the internal ledger for a company like (transfer)wise, with lots of money moving around between accounts?
But I understand it's meant to be used internally to an entity, with all nodes in your system trusted, and not as a mean to deal with transactions from one party to another, right?
It's hard to understand what tigerbeetle is about. Can anyone ELI5 it for me?
As far as I can tell, it's some kind of a library/system geared at distributed transactions? But is it a blockchain, a db, a program ? (I did look at the website)
In my opinion, having it baked it into a language you use allows a sort of internalization of the concept by practice/use. You don't just get the idea, but get a feel for it.
I don't have a strong opinion on the subject, but I believe/hope it should be possible to be accessible and entertaining while still being academically "acceptable" in terms of references (which doesn't need to be of the form 1 claim, 1 reference) and without taking misleading shortcuts or trying to sell your new universal theory of history, but sticking to consensual understandings and/or prefacing your novel ideas adequately.
I guess it sells better if you can make your audience believe that your theory explains "everything".
Having read the book, it's a better feeling to think that you now understand the gears of history through this new lens, rather than it being just a complex jumble of interconnected stories/phenomena.
It's a question I share, so I'm happy to see answers popping up.
As for my personal experience, I've read parts of "Philosophy before the Greeks. The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia" and "A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000 - 323 B.C" by Marc van de Mieroop and have quite enjoyed both.
They both seem to have favourable reviews.
As far as I understand, Ian Morris's books are not taken very seriously in the academic world. I've read the first part of /Why the West rules/ and must admit that it reads a bit like trying to push a narrative: spinning up facts the right way to make them support his ideas and asserting universal truths without much backing… but I think I'm biased by the reviews I checked before reading the (first part of the) book.
I understand it's maybe a bit of an uphill battle to support a software stack that the OS/hardware vendor itself doesn't support, but:
1. telegram/whatsapp do, so it's definitely possible.
2. The point is not to add new features, but just to leave the current version be without deprecating it. There is probably a bit of a development burden in keeping old versions up, but I don't think it's that big: they could even let the community take care of that…
3. But most importantly, "the iphone 6 had a good run", so the natural continuation to that sentence is "so let's discard all those working devices" ? wtf? I think that from a company that defends "public interests", some more thought should be given to not wasting energy, time and money forcing people to upgrade working smartphones…