ArkVark

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by ArkVark 6y ago
Try thousands of years due to differential evolutionary pressure, population bottlenecks in Europe and East Asia and interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovians.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.468... EROEI of 1.07 from this metastudy for Corn Ethanol. Society needs at least an EROEI of 3:1, so corn ethanol, at least, is a boondoggle.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Its becoming apparent that the people dying from COVID are fundamentally unhealthy in the first place. Its a shame that we are so focused on locking up healthy people and shutting down societies and economies, instead of improving diets and
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by ArkVark 6y ago
The fertilizers used, the soil degraded, and the runoff from it all into water sources, plus the fact that the energy return is barely higher than the energy investment (or in some cases actually negative) means that Biofuels are already de
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by ArkVark 6y ago
It looks to me like EVs are completely ready for prime-time, and the only thing holding them back is the inertia/greed of major manufacturers (who cannot sell spare parts or expensive maintenance regimes for them as easily). Its just a
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by ArkVark 6y ago
It ends up like an Uber, but cheaper since you have no driver and are sharing the vehicle with other passengers.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Hub and spoke public transport is dead. It relies on huge infrastructure investment and open access. The future is autonomous minibusses with algorithmically-derived live routes, served on a subscription basis by private companies to privat
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Fortnite players on iOS might move to any other device instead to play, where Epic has lower commissions. That's a win.
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70% of Indie game developers are not making enough money to cover Living Costs(reddit.com)
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by ArkVark 6y ago
If we're supporting millions of COVID survivors, it might be a further argument to limit air pollution - banning coal and oil burning in power and transport, for example. I had Asthma as a kid but COVID has triggered it back on again.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Absolutely! But a €5,000 small EV with a max speed of 60km/h and a range of 100km would be totally fine for that. Step it up to a €10,000 slightly bigger EV with 80km/h and 200km and you satisfy even inter-city use. Renault offer
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by ArkVark 6y ago
The problem is not Amazon, the problem is local rents. If we encourage mixed-use zoning, ie. 3-5 storey apartment blocks with the ground and first level for commercial and office use, we'll lower rents and reduce commutes.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Not just that but even a Model 3 is a huge car in Europe. The streets here are narrow, garages are smaller, parking is precarious. Its just too big. Additionally outside of the Autobahn, you're driving through congested city streets
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Parts of London and Paris now do resemble crack dens -- but its less about the density and more about the people living there, notably the changing demographics taking place in those cities in the last decade.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
This just penalises the little guy who can't setup alternative infrastructure. Digital stores above a certain size (eg. above $1b in annual global sales) simply need to be regulated by Governments, with a maximum % commission for devel
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Mass deportations are a simpler solution. Crime and welfare use are disproportionately linked to non-citizens from specific regions and countries.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Is there any word on whether this patient is actually symptomatic? How does their re-infection compare to the first?
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Ubisoft - Blizzard - Valve - CDPR - Microsoft - Sony - EA - Paradox All publish their own games and either own their own platforms or are big enough to negotiate lower commissions from other platforms.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
If those institutions are completely staffed and run by Europeans, protected by European security forces, you will jumpstart the development of the country by several decades.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Canberra is an isolated, artificial city, where everyone who lives there works for the Government or provides services to those workers. Inside Canberra itself, the embassies are all clustered together. Its secure by design.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
There are many things you can do like that - that basically just represent increased overhead and non-game activities. If you follow all of that logically enough - you start to wonder, why even work in game development? Indie development ri
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by ArkVark 6y ago
I'm a developer who sells on Steam. With a 12% commission instead of 30%, my actual profits would be about 50% higher and I would invest more money into post-release updates and support, and pay my staff bonuses. People are generally s
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by ArkVark 6y ago
If politicians really want to improve things for the working class: then lower sales taxes, extend land taxes (remove loopholes), support and encourage higher-density housing (including rooming houses), ban sugar, stop legal and illegal imm
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by ArkVark 6y ago
20% of the African population is dependent on food aid. There are now more Africans living in Poverty than at any time in history. How much of our agricultural bounty is sent as food aid, and serves to create only more hungry mouths? Disabl
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by ArkVark 6y ago
We should cease all food aid, and replace it with education, contraception, and abortion for women for starters.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
This is the problem with a lack of land and property taxation. Elderly people will hold onto assets forever, until death essentially, whilst the building and society collapses around them. Meanwhile they demand a huge amount of welfare and
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by ArkVark 6y ago
For many developers its better to work in these auxiliary jobs, instead of game development, because Game Development is made fundamentally uneconomic due to the ~30% commissions charged just on platforms. Additionally B2C sales attract hug
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by ArkVark 6y ago
What about growing genetically-engineered 'nutrient algae' in giant pools, and processing the resultant biomatter into bars for consumption? A layer of glass could even be put over the pool to control conditions. If we're pur
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Lebanon is increasingly a Muslim country - many of the Christians have left. In 1932 51% of the population was Christian, in 2017 only 40%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Lebanon Lebanon also has proble
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by ArkVark 6y ago
The response to COVID is fundamentally irrational, when we tolerate 'an invisible menance' that kills 100,000 Americans each year - much more than influenza: Air Pollution. https://www.usnews.com/news/national

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