ArkVark

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by ArkVark 6y ago
Herd Immunity: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-... 57% in Bergamo province with antibodies. Italian lockdowns didn't stop COVID - human immune systems did. This also means for every 1 d
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by ArkVark 6y ago
The problem is that there is no standard form of microtransaction on the internet. I'd happily pay 2 cents to read an article, which is a lot more than the website would receive in advertising revenue, but not $10/month in subscri
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by ArkVark 6y ago
How do you explain deaths in Sweden, UK, New York and other hotspots hitting essentially zero?
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Cut out the middleman - fund national healthcare directly with a tax on air pollution and sugar. The idea that nationalized healthcare (paid for by the middle class) will encourage politicians to tax the unhealthy food of the lower classes
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Contact Tracing is not recommended (and basically pointless) for mild respiratory illnesses like Coronaviruses because for the vast majority of people, they are asymptomatic or lowly symptomatic, and the spread can be extensive. Its only re
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Intel has been hollowed out by contractors and H1B workers. I don't think the raw talent is there anymore. The company is just running on inertia. AdoreTV has a video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxScl
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by ArkVark 6y ago
That's literally how herd immunity works. People with no or mild symptoms go out and spread the virus, people with heavy symptoms stay home. Virus is encouraged evolutionarily to be as non-symptomatic as possible. Unfortunately we have
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Lockdown kills too. In Australia there were about 700 excess deaths from January to April 2020 due to people being unwilling or unable to access normal medical care: https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2020/07/covid-1
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by ArkVark 6y ago
For the UAE overall crude oil makes up 28% of exports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_Arab_Emi... and Refined petroleum 15% If you want to see an Arab country that has run out of oil, look at Yemen
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Its also worth considering that Norway has a highly educated, intelligent population and an open, protestant culture. Countries without these traditions or a less educated population are more prone to corruption and mismanagement.
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The median age of death from COVID is about 80, and those people have serious existing health conditions. Statistically people in this group will have a life expectancy of about another 5 years. This is not a group that you have to worry ab
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Security Theater(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Atheists and Agnostics have the lowest marriage rates and the lowest fertility rates: https://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/chapter-3-demographic-pr...
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by ArkVark 6y ago
The wikipedia article on John Byng (the ultimate source of the quote) is fascinating, particularly this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng "Naval historian N. A. M. Rodger believes it may have influe
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Its likely that Viruses like COVID-19 have come and gone over time, and been completely unnoticed. The difference being now that we have much older and elderly populations, often with chronic health conditions and deficiencies, kept alive &
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by ArkVark 6y ago
And even if you had the solar power, what would you do with it? There is very little industry or value-add in Arabia outside of oil. It would be easier for Europe to just build solar power in the south of Spain, Italy or Greece.
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Not all demand is equal. If your customers are Indians, Chinese, and Filipinos, your ability to sell $100/barrel oil (needed to balance budgets in many of these countries) is much weaker than if your customers were Americans, Germans,
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by ArkVark 6y ago
I can find you the same articles pre-2020 with the cause being influenza.
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This is unlikely as they have the advantage of neither cheap labor, nor a highly intelligent workforce: https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php They are limited by an ideology/culture which discourages women from
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Assuming we capture about 10% of COVID instances as actual cases, then the US is getting 770,000 new instances a day. Stockholm burnt itself out with 20% of the population getting immunity (determined via antibody testing). So (328,000,000
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by ArkVark 6y ago
"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into inter
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by ArkVark 6y ago
Why does this feel like the USA cutting Japan off from metal and oil shipments months before WW2?
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The point is that instead of looking to reduce the population of the West and East Asia, which will have an impact on humanity's economic, cultural, scientific output, we should look at reducing populations (though education and family
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The top 10% is people who earn over $18,000/year, which probably includes most of HackerNews readers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/global... Keep in mind that this richest 10% co