> We aren't that far off from the Egyptians that were using hundreds of thousand...

gruntmaster9000 on March 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

> We aren't that far off from the Egyptians that were using hundreds of thousands of slaves per pyramid. It's a good thing that we've transcended the necessity for hundreds of thousands of slaves when raising buildings, don't you think?

False, they were skilled, paid laborers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_t...

Apologies for being irrelevant to the main point, but this is a tired myth.

bad_user on March 21, 2014 [–]

Interesting. Thanks for the link. Is Wikipedia great or what? :-)