ArkanExplorer

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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Its impossible to subdue a society little removed from the 7th century, unless you're willing to replicate the actions of Alexander the Great, Mohammed, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Abdur Rahman Khan: That is, slaughter or enslave all male
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Even if we recreated the entire Amazon Rainforest, it would only be equivalent in embedded carbon to 4-5x our annual human emissions: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazo... . We would have
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
You're right, its not dropping: its rising Egypt fertility rate 2006: 3.01 2018: 3.28 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location... Contrasted against neighbours Jordan and Saudi Arabia which s
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
I've read the whole study. TLDR: Correlation, not causation. Basically, they found that Customer A spent $100 on games, and consumed 50 units worth of Piracy. But Customer B spent only $30 on games, and consumed 10 units of piracy. The
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
In 2019 the American population increased from 327.2 to 328.2. In 2019 1.03million immigrants were granted permanent resident status. The American population increase is entirely driven by immigration. The fertility rate is 1.73. At some po
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
American population is driven solely by immigration, given that the average fertility is far below replacement. If you don't want one billion Americans, then you need to propose and support: - Ending refugee programs and withdrawing fr
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'Staggering' Doubling of Type 2 Diabetes in Kids During Pandemic(medscape.com)
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
They closed nuclear plants because of strategic-level corruption: Former German Chancellor Gerhard Shroder accepted a senior position at Rosneft as soon as he left politics: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-5446231
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm 474,000 of those deaths are to people aged 65 and older, so probably out of the workforce already due to retirement. And the rest would be those
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
If I could do a 4-day workweek, and not have to wear a mask, I'd happily work in an office again.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Have a look at the chemical composition of crude oil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Composition Its already 83% carbon by weight, and already in the ground, and already liquid. Its impossible to do any better
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Could high levels of CO2 be the cause? CO2 at 800ppm has a huge impact on mouse lungs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27721892 Could lower levels (400s ppm) have an impact on other parts of animals?
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
There was no hospital overflow. I live in Ukraine and even with a totally rudimentary health system and routinely ignored lockdowns, the health system functioned like any other flu outbreak. The temporary hospitals setup in the USA and UK w
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Its been the same with lockdown. Enforce totalitarian restrictions and tracking on the plebes, whilst the rich and connected routinely ignore or are excluded from the rules. Its possible that Lockdown is a ploy to distract from the trillion
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
The correct punishment should have been to ban them from manufacturing fossil-fuel-burning engines.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
But we're already going to be building those batteries anyway: Electric cars. What we need is a proper international standard for cars to be able to interact with the grid, to be able to charge and discharge based on grid conditions an
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
What's the end-goal of China though? Is it to engineer ethnic bioweapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon Or to figure out the genes for intelligence, health etc. and to modify their population with
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market) "In a form of what is now considered illegal front running and self-dealing, a bucket shop holding a large position on a stock, and knowing a client's
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
We still have widespread chip and computer shortages, and in some regions of the world electricity shortages, because of the amount of silicon and energy being wasted on mining.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
One of the biggest pollutants now in water are PFAS, microplastics, and other hormone disruptors. How to we get rid of those without needing to rely on expensive multi-stage filters that need to be replaced every 4 months?
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
EU Politicians pass anti-privacy legislation to 'protect' us from terrorism.... Which is caused by the open borders and migrant settlement programs promoted by the EU in the first place. Convenient isn't it?
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
That's basically a society without mass immigration - manual labour becomes more expensive, so educated people spend their time automating tasks and inventing and operating robots.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
The simplest solution remains to ban the formal exchange of crytpo for fiat, across Western nations. Its a lot harder to justify giant ransomware campaigns when you're paid in Amazon gift cards instead of easily exchangeable cryptocoin
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
I have internal statistics that 80% of Switch game instances are in handheld mode. Docked-only features like DLSS are unnecessary. Even with DLSS, the CPU heavily limits performance anyway. Indies are making so much money on Switch that the
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
China's fertility rate (assuming it is accurate) is excellent by the standards of other high-IQ populations, at 1.69. By contrast, Taiwan is dreadful, at 1.07. Eventually, China will be able to just sail in. The real threat to our chip
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
50,000 people petitioned France last year to recolonise the country: https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/06/over-50-00-sign-petition...
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
FSD is going to need more than just automakers - it will need roadbuilders. Specifically, building the roads, signs, and traffic lights to be machine-readable, not just human readable. Imagine if we could recreate the road network in softwa
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Most cities will spend more on pensions than on infrastructure - the average is 13.5% of total budgets: https://reason.org/commentary/city-budgets-bend-under-growin... The pension systems across the West are fundamenta
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Humans produce about 2tonnes of CO2 annually, and even at an industrial scale, CO2 scrubbing costs about $1,000/tonne: https://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/december/extracting-carb... . And that's at
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Playing the devils' advocate, is the key to affordable housing to allow neighborhoods, builders etc. to exclude by race? Folks might not be able to choose where they live, but at least they will get cheap housing? Is that a fair trade?

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