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IronRanger
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Comment #25481149
Winter air pollution is a factor - COVID particles hitch a ride on particulate matter: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/24/coronavi... And air pollution weakens imm…
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Comment #25481085
Australia has added AUD$500 billion in extra debt from this pandemic: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-06/budget-2020-tax-cuts-... Or $20,000 per citizen. If that amount was spe…
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Comment #25465650
They're not pulling it due to seizures, they're pulling it due to CDPR offer refunds, when the Sony policy is explicitly no-refunds if you have already played the game.
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Comment #25448774
And Norway's Prime Minister says they acted too harshly: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/30/coronavirus-norw... You can find news articles that spin anything positively or…
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Comment #25447860
Sweden has had a lower per-capita COVID deathtoll than European states with heavy lockdowns. Lockdown South American nations have had about the same COVID toll as non-lockdown nati…
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Comment #25435880
The major underappreciated factor for this release is the impact of COVID lockdowns - particularly enforced WFH - on the final development of this title. For me this is the single …
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Comment #25430835
It would be more effective to just regulate the maximum % commission that these platforms are allowed to charge. Set it at 5% for developers located in the EU, and be done with reg…
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Comment #25428682
We can't wait decades for that process to play out. The environment doesn't have the time. Offer young poor men with one or zero children a vasectomy: and give them a bicycle, a sh…
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Comment #25428578
The solution is even simpler than that: encourage poor people to have one or zero children. Cash handouts to encourage poor men to receive vasectomies for example.
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Comment #25425426
At what point does this whole charade end?
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Comment #25423599
Because all of the wealth inevitably accrues to the platform holders. 30% of gross revenue is fundamentally a poor deal.
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Comment #25423549
And until we end the H1B visa and only allow Americans or American allies to run the IT systems of companies in America.
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Comment #25372332
And who is going to come in and fix this water infrastructure, the British? The fact is that environmental conditions worsen each decade in India and quality of life is lower than …
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Comment #25372141
Then why are they not massively ramping up ICU capacity? Surely the 'cost' of doing that is less than the 'cost' of shutting down huge sections of society? Why don't we have the sa…
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Comment #25372090
With the core factor being that there are more people than the water supplies can support. The solution here is a one-child or no-child policy, just as in China.
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Comment #25331894
No, but with the 15% commission tier for <$1m companies, you can expect an Indie renaissance.
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Comment #25313047
People should be able to go out on their own terms, instead of deteriorating in an aged care centre. It should be completely legal for those aged 80 and over, for example, to seek …
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Comment #25312427
There was no spike in deaths in November in Sweden: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps Weekly snapshots are too volatile. If everyone who was going to die in March dies in the…
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Comment #25312389
The other factor little talked about in Europe is aged carers - usually from Eastern Europe and the FSU - rushing to return home to their families in the midst of border closures, …
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Comment #25307009
Meanwhile in Sweden - 2020 deaths are tracking to be lower than 2018, 2017, and 2012: https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-... The spike in deaths seen earli…
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Comment #25306974
This is not realistic in any kind of inclement weather or at night. I guess these central areas of Paris will become completely unsuitable to families, who will be forced out to su…
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Comment #25303149
How do people receive deliveries at these locations, or transport children?
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Comment #25291867
Because Tim Sweeney is just not as charismatic, unfortunately. Great guy though.
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Comment #25287527
Failing the implantation of zygotes, we could just allow a free market for sperm. Why shouldn't women or couples be able to pay $10,000 for the DNA of men like Elon Musk?
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Comment #25287404
We should begin to harvest the eggs and sperm (or zygotes) of the most intelligent and productive people on the planet, and then pay people to bring those children to term and rais…