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And that top 20% is the one pushing for all of these insane COVID restrictions - with the closure of schools being the most idiotic. COVID is less harmful than influenza for childr…

You improve the standard of living for these people by making it culturally and technically acceptable and possible for them to have zero or one child, instead of six or seven. The…

Because the 30% 'Standard' commission is fundamentally uneconomic. Independent publishers cannot thrive, when they could simply be acquired by a platform owner (ie. Microsoft) and …

The illegal immigrants going to Europe are not legitimate refugees - they are overwhelmingly male, of working age, and pool funds from their home villages to pay people smugglers t…

And now we have the War on COVID.

Its not a 1 in 100 year event, its a once a decade event exaggerated by a hysterical media and exacerbated by an aged and unhealthy population, and weak regular flu seasons for the…

Europe generates a lot of content, but owns none of the platforms. Lower commissions on those stores would translate directly to higher profits and investment by those content crea…

COVID has leapt from the realm of science and reason into fear and hysteria. If we 'saved' 1 million elderly people from dying of COVID, and they instead died over a period of time…

I think the inevitable move here is for the EU to enact a maximum % commission for platforms above $1b revenue, at something like 20%. Maybe for sales from that region or for devel…

IoT devices are cheap and tiny and so are rarely on the latest cellular standards. Your typical IoT use case is smart metering and logistics - hardly big data users. In most of tho…

I struggle to see anything Fascist about Donald Trump. I'm significantly more concerned about the role of BLM, woke politics, and the rise of Leftist racism, which is basically par…

The point of 5G is to allow carriers to serve more data with the same amount of spectrum. Usually that leads to consumer benefits in the form of a cheaper rate per megabyte. That's…

The economic migrants that have travelled to Europe illegally are mostly illiterate and with few skills. They are consistently borne out to be at the bottom of society and over-rep…

The EU is not a great place for innovation, period. Here are the major problems: 1. No common language 2. Incredibly high taxes, particularly sales taxes 3. Unfinished transition o…

The simplest explanation for Madrid is that it locked down too early, and herd immunity (which seems to occur at about 20-25%, based on Antibody testing of New York and Sweden) was…

You are paying for your Dad's pension, and for the Government services consumed by millions of migrants. Those same migrants increase labor supply (thus lowering the equilibrium pr…

The missing component is the need to integrate Electric Vehicles into the grid on a fundamental basis including selling electricity. We need a technical, regulatory and user regime…

The reduced number of potential children is offset by the significantly higher net increase in emissions from moving from a poor country to a rich country, and participating in a m…

We'll struggle to address this until we get the global population under control, particularly in the 3rd world where regard for the Environment is much lower than in the West. At l…

Have we seen much true tech innovation from China that is not just building on existing US, Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, European technology and products?

America is under-investing in technology and investment because the US is increasingly filled with people who aren’t American, and don’t ever aspire to be American – they just want…

The solution is point-to-point, subscription-based and private autonomous minibusses, which generates routes based on demand and can seat 10 passengers. Cities should subsidise the…

Because without fancy, bespoke packaging people will be less inclined to buy copious amounts of junk food. We need to fundamentally rethink our entire food system. For example, hav…

Banning Instagram and Tinder would be great for America and the world. Get people, relationships, and social networks back to reality.

The bigger questions is why waste $7,000 on this when that sum could have gone to your heirs?