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by beerlord 8y ago
If you’re not going to have kids, there will simply be fewer people next generation who will share your concerns about the environment. If you absolutely want to minimize your environmental impact to the extent that you think reproducing is
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Australia's climate policy is simply its population policy. The country has hit 25 million people 33 years earlier than planned, due to very high levels of immigration from India and China.
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TLDR its basically just a concept car. Still years behind Tesla. Where is their billion-dollar battery factory?
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As long as websites are funded based on eyeballs, this will continue. We need to move to a model of micropayments, where I can pay a few cents easily (and automatically) to visit a site or read an article. The total amount could be aggregat
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India is going to be buckling under overpopulation, whereas China had already tackled that decades ago. Parts of India will be uninhabitable due to climate change, and there are already major water shortages. However the Government does see
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For the money they're charging, they could have at least thrown us a bone by including HDMI 2.1 VRR, or ideally even adaptive sync. Nvidia users still have to pay an Nvidia-tax to access expensive G-sync monitors, which are far fewer i
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Why Windows must die. For the third time(zdnet.com)
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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/report-uyghurs-in-ch... Apple not required (nor would an iPhone be affordable - Sinkiang is one of the poorer regions of China).
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This is probably why: "We have to conquer our own country and purify it of all infidels. Then, we should conquer the infidels' countries and spread Islam. The infidels who are usurping our countries have announced war against Isla
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Or perhaps we can finally disentangle ourselves from that region with an electrified vehicle fleet?
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That is set to happen at Gamescom in only a few weeks.
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Plus a lot of technology, scientists and engineers taken from Germany. For example the AK-series of rifles were in 'production hell' until the Russians put the captured Germans responsible for producing the STG-44 onto the task. M
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India has a gender imbalance, and no one-child policy. The problem is a social preference for sons over daughters. What should happen is that the families of women are given money and houses by their daughter's husbands. Then girls wil
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Its just a matter of time before that happens. How many gamers who aren't on a plane, in a train or in a base in Fallujah don't have constant broadband access? I think those instances are being reduced yearly all around the world.
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Which is why Steam would never do that. All they're doing is hosting a few gigabytes of files on their CDN. Why would they ever voluntarily remove a game unless it had broken some kind of law? Even games that were removed from Steam li
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by beerlord 8y ago
Can Blu-Rays be manufactured to make each disc unique, with an embedded code that is used to link a license of the game to an account? Then the publisher could simply decide to disallow games from being activated on another account. Or, bun
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Thanks, didn't realise that. Its a shame that the Microsoft store is so terrible. https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/07/a-new-micr...
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Look at the equator: http://thwack.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/images-of-world-... And look at the countries with the highest fertility rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of
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I just hope its not another store with a 30% commission. If they're charging developers 15% or less, I'll definitely get on board. Valve need to up their game though. Their approach of 'anything goes' when it comes to al
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The majority of corn is used for Ethanol production: https://www.forbes.com/sites/austinfrerick/2018/08/06/10etha... Which has negligible environmental benefit, and is a pointless long-term strategy
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Well presumably we could still collect, dry and burn what accumulates on the shore, and the rest would fall to the seabed. If the alternative is a hothouse Earth, with large sections of the planet rendered uninhabitable, geoengineering sche
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Can we bio-engineer seaweed which doesn't decompose and can't be eaten? Its not a joke - these were the circumstances of early Earth, before microbes evolved to digest lignin and cellulose. Trees would fall and not decompose, even
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Reminds me of British fears of a Nazi chunnel being dug to invade the island. Apparently it could have been used to transport 300,000 men per day. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/britain-feared-nazi-chunn...
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India has banned single-use plastics (starting 2022). https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/single-use-plastic-ban-... Other countries simply need to do the same. France has banned certain single-use plastic items start
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Population control organised by humans (in exchange for 200 bucks) is going to be much more pleasant than population control organised by mother nature.
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India 1975: 621 million people India 2018: 1.358 billion people India 2038: 1.615 billion people https://www.populationpyramid.net/india/2038/ India urgently needs population control, perhaps schemes funded partly
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Particularly when electric vehicles are more widely adopted, and gas tax revenue falls. Road use can be directly taxed, with time of day usage too, which should allow far more efficient road usage.
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Its interesting that if you watch Mad Men, this was actually discussed in a show set even in the 70s - that precise targeting and media would outpace any creative work.
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Land is another good one to tax. It can't move or be hidden.
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What stops you from offering a meal for 10c for your staff only? Who determines the monetary value of a meal which would normally be free?

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