The clay tablets we have from the bronze age themselves seem only preserved by chance. They are found in store rooms in layers of cities that suffered widespread destruction, accidentally firing the clay records. So what we have is kind of sporadic, some letters from one king to another here, a bunch of apparently unremarkable palace economy bookkeeping there, then we tie it together with what we learn from archeology (and most exciting in recent times, from genetics). We also have a lot of stone stelas. But they certainly didn't leave us a well preserved big picture. I imagine future people would see the same story for us: A big stone inscription here, some documents accidentally printed on very high quality stock stored in an accidentally optimal place there, etc.
Another fun glimpse: It has been speculated, based on evidence in the Uluburun shipwreck, that some bronze age societies used a wooden book-like object with wax or clay faces as an easily erasable notepad. Whoever owned that may have thought about it the same way we think about electronic records blinking out. Or maybe they didn't think about the future at all.
Most clay tablets pulled out of the ground are unfired. The act of removing unfired tablets that have been in the ground for so long kicks off some decay, so it used to be common to fire excavated tablets to preserve them. There's modern conservation techniques that remove the need to fire tablets, but those techniques post-date the lawful flow of material culture to western museums, so pretty much everything you'll see is fired. While fires in antiquity might have inadvertantly helped preserve some tablets that might not have otherwise survived, this is hardly the most common case. The talk of fires preserving tablets is mostly used to illustrate the stark difference in durability between records recorded on clay and records recorded on vellum or papyrus.
Investors were offered chunks of FTT token that would vest long before any company liquidity event, in addition to company equity. So they were also buying into a speculative directional bet with faster returns, that they’d almost certainly get to dump on the market when insider info hits their networks. Not sure what the original source is but it was reported by Barron’s today.
The language in the law says that email providers cannot do something "impeding the transmission of email messages based on content." So, they can probably give you tools to allow/deny emails from addresses you can enter, at least. Given that spam filters blocking fundraising emails from conservative groups is already something discussed among conservatives, it seems at least plausible that making spam filters illegal was actually intended here. I guess we'll find out as soon as someone sues (or the supreme court throws it out).
Is this for your sales team in the US or your engineers in Ukraine (based on your open positions)? Do you manage engineering remotely but make them come into an office together?
Which doctors specifically are you referring to? There really wasn't any scientific controversy about the effectiveness of these drugs, it was mostly social media controversy by non-scientists.
"But as we’ve also seen, these pushes for social change have led to backlash tinged with racism and misogyny — most notably through Gamergate, the unfortunate 2014 movement that essentially underpinned the rise of the alt-right, codified harassment campaigns against women and people of color for years, and helped give rise to the ideological polarization of the internet."
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... blah. I saw the Hugo, I picked up the book. It was that simple for me. I didn't know the race OR the gender of the author. The fact is that there isn't a single novel (or coherent) idea in there.
awarding all 3 books a win was a massive mistake. the first book was interesting but the quality dropped off precipitously from then on, 2 and 3 were very poor in comparison. bizzare that they were winners. tbf both the hugo and the nebula have nose dived in quality recently, there is a preponderance of bad YA squeecore which is very off putting. absolutely dont agree with any of the various *puppies reactionary views but at least reward some good adult writers instead of the tripe thats been wining lately
