ArkanExplorer

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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
That's the point, its impossible. We cannot force individual consumers to become chemists, and interrogate every material they come across. In many cases the materials are completely unknown. Is the PFAS used on a Big Mac burger wrappe
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Regulating and managing consumer chemicals after the fact is no longer sufficient, and in some cases counter-productive. For example, bans on long-chain PFASs (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has meant industry has just switched to sho
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
For COVID to have an impact on the gene pool, it would have to be killing people within reproductive age. As of February 2021, only 11,000 people in the USA under 45 died of COVID - and most would have been very sick with existing health c
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
How could that possibly be a privacy concern? A lot more private information is already placed onto the street, in public: the contents of your garbage cans.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
30% made sense when you were getting white-glove service from the platform owner, when that platform was actively building out new features, when there was little competition from other software, huge growth in customer base, and when bandw
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
I think its difficult to extrapolate this based on the success of a single game. What is clear, is that the 30% commission charged by platform holders is absolutely stifling creativity and output, in apps and games. Plus, the extra costs fr
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
France's immigration policies (or, outsourcing them to people smugglers) are the fundamental failure here. Parts of the country now appear indistinguishable from North Africa. As the demographics change, the rule of law and culture tha
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
France charges 5.5% VAT on food. Why not cut a bit from their welfare budget and reduce this to 0%?
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Does this also mean that the dev (or their payment provider) will be responsible for managing VAT?
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Without politicians and the media driving insane levels of fear, COVID would have come and gone, explained simply as a 'serious flu season', like the kinds we have faced about every decade: https://swprs.org/wp-con
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Hi Glenn, how are you finding hiring for product-type roles right now, at this stage of the pandemic recovery? I'm interested in moving to the USA from Australia with the special E3 visa* available to Aussie professionals, but I suspec
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Lack of curation doesn't really matter for apps, where the user will find the software independently, and just use the MS Store for the final download. And for games, the curation will be where it matters - on Xbox games pass.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
One of the overlooked factors of Tertiary Education is housing costs, and taxes. Ok, I make 30% more with my degree, but all of that is swallowed up by increased rent/mortgage costs (since White collar jobs are usually restricted to a
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
The core innovation is financing and operating the game (Friday Night Funkin) outside of the Valve/Apple/Google monopoly of their respective platforms, and thus freeing up the 30%.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
15% seems like a reasonable maximum commission to place on all large digital platforms, that don't also include a physical service or hardware as part of the deal. I hope Steam, Google, Apple are next, for example.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
NZ (and Australia) are extractive, colonial societies. Since original settlement, they had a surplus of males, due to immigration (this is still the case). You can see this by comparing the populations in 1950: https://www.popula
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Look at the death rates in Sweden, and the fact that COVID seemed to be floating around for months in Italy etc, before anyone took notice. A critical part of the COVID scenario has been the fear and lockdown, which far exceeds justificatio
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Just a few months ago, the 'lab leak hypothesis' was itself a conspiracy speculation. Now its an accepted possibility.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
I agree - but if Bitcoin and other crypto is reduced to the role of buying drugs and other contraband, it would suggest a price $200-$500 (as it was back in 2014 when that was its primary use), not $33,000.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Is it possible that China sought to actively spread COVID (the virus, and the fear) throughout the world in late 2019/early 2020? For example, allowing people to fly out of China freely, accelerating the departures of 10s of thousand
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
CO2 analysis of train travel needs to take into account the cost (and emissions) of building and maintaining the rail network. The other factor is that air travel is consistently profitable in the EU, without subsidies. But the reverse is t
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Ok, so lets imagine that Btc/Eth fall back to pre-COVID levels. This means that a huge amount of people will have lost money, and electricity and hardware will have been burnt up for minimal or negative gains. What is the point of main
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Just 55 percent of the world's crop calories are actually eaten directly by people. Another 36 percent is used for animal feed. And the remaining 9 percent goes toward biofuels and other industrial uses. https://www.vox.com&
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
We're going to spend the next years, or decade, dealing with the fallout of these lockdowns. It seems like politicians in some countries are keeping the charade going, just because they don't want to start dealing with the post-CO
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Is it good for society that dating is being monetised? Does this shift to online partly explain the recent declines in birth rates in the West? Should we ban online dating, or regulate it?
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Placing sanctions on Iran is good for the planet, since it reduces oil production (Iran's oil exports are down 70% since 2017). Keeping the price of oil high will encourage the transition to EVs.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
This is just a huge amount of labour, and it proves that home cooking is fundamentally inefficient (unless you have a large extended family). We should be able to eat healthy sprouted foods like this centrally, at communal kitchens. There i
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Saving money doesn't make sense in an inflationary environment, where credit is easily available, and interest rates are 0%.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
The USA is actively ending those programs because all of the people in the 'gymnasiums' are Jewish/White/Asian, and this is seen as politically/socially unacceptable.
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by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
This is a problem with university education generally, non-technical PhDs are just the epitome of it. We are graduating far more people in various fields than are actually required. We need to scale back education at all levels to match act

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