Maybe this was almost like an early version of blockchain where earlier holes were no longer used for some reason and only new holes were used and this allowed you to continuously build up a history. In other words maybe we each row was a new year and required both sets of trading partners to participate in its creation

The article implies that the hillside location is something of a meeting ground between the riverine populations and the mountain population

My personal take is that it's easier for me to read your sentences if you help me see where they begin and end and this is part of capitalization's value. So at least for me your goal of putting ideas in my mind may be a little less effective

It's just that this is how everyone types when typing quickly in a text message on their phone. Not much to see here

Yeah, I think this is the real answer here, not the elaborate social signaling/insider conspiracy takes. These are people who are communicating non-stop and are mostly are boomers who did not grow up on keyboards.

Once liberated this economy is going to roar

If you think the US has an interest in either Iran OR Iraq being dominant in the region without, at BEST, being completely subservient to the US, you may want to review how you think this will turn out.

What he said and what you say do not contradict each other.

Iran can be a puppet of the USA and have a great economy as well.

See also: Japan or South Korea.

s/US/Israel/g

You get downvoted, but you have a point (the downvotes may be due to the interpretation that this dumbfuck war will liberate anything, which indeed would be moronic to believe).

However, if Iran was able to operate as a free economy, it would easily be the size of Germany, if not larger.

I wonder how much of this is religions

I like how it's posted to a twitter URL.

Lack of caps really grinds on you by the end.

Anyway not unexpected.

I hoped the article would be be a meta-discussion of "time" and perhaps relativity or some other phenomenon. Sigh, it's an investment thesis saying "This Time is Different" is a risky bet.

That sounds like an interesting article. You should write it.

Or have an LLM write it and then we can judge whether the OP is wrong about whether "this time is different".

A mix of perspectives in here that feel inter-related. The maker movement state-side leaned more "fun or artsy" while the real maker movement you could argue was thriving in China. Another darker way of looking at it is: if the maker movement was really believed to be a way to bring manufacturing back, it was effectively cargo-culting that by focusing only on a narrow set of building blocks. Maybe it's similar to building your own PC from parts at Fry's back at the day: that felt good... and you did feel you were really making something. But you were really doing final assembly and abstracting out the complexity of building those building blocks that went into it.

Anyway I think we are seeing a scenius phase -- it's just happening everywhere all at once on a world stage. And it's exciting. As with any moment in time there's a ton of experimentation and a small number of break-out hits. Also the pace of change means there's less staying power for a break-out hit than there used to be.

But the quick break-out hit phenomenon is particularly applicable for things that are more about the attention economy and less about the boring hidden things that traditionally have been where the economy's silent toil is really centered.

All of this makes me feel the author is too close to the creative end-consumer layer e.g. "make something flashy and cool whether it's a 3d-printer in a 5th avenue dept. store window, or a new app front end" but perhaps less focused on the full depth of things that really exist around them.

This really resonates with me in that a lot of NYC's "tech" circa 2013 was 3d printing oriented, much more so than in Silicon Valley. And I wondered why? but then it was a reflection that tech in NYC then was more about marketing, story telling, and less about the depth...

Obviously you had the west coast makers, you had the burners, so I don't mean to conflate all these differnet things. But the idea that Maker Faires were really about bringing manufacturing back... I don't know I think it was more about the counterculture, about having fun. I think that's coming back to tech right now as well in a sense. Even if it's also got dystopian overtones

Appreciate this re: maker movement perhaps being too aesthetically oriented and hence missing out on perhaps the real scenius

So it's driving global economic growth just not US if you choose to exclude imports. Got it. Headline should be focused on economics of infrastructure build out. As framed it's too broad