Rch_East

Do you trust the statistics coming out of the Chinese Communist Party?

Start with why Nintendo games are non-exploitative: no microtransactions, and a single retail purchase.

Regulate children's games such that they must have a minimum price (eg. $4.99) and contain no microtransactions.

The same could be done with pornography: require $4.99/month as the minimum charge, paid via credit card, to access, and DNS ban all sites which do not acquiesce.

Epic are doing a great job improving fairness in the gaming industry, and the economic conditions for developers. I'm looking forward to their Epic Store opening up to more (high quality) Indie games.

It doesn't make sense for America to educate its rivals. We should also be wary of Universities turning into backdoor immigration schemes - this has already happened in Australia and lead to a massive reduction in education quality.

The focus should be on training Americans to fill American jobs - and any immigration scheme should be arranged with military, economic, and cultural Allies only (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea).

I see run-of-the-mill Product Manager jobs getting 100+ applications on LinkedIn. Is this mostly garbage (autoapplies from India etc.) or is competition really that fierce?

How do we slow our personal telomere shortening rate?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32887570197.html $90

PM2.5/ HCHO/TVOC CO2

I have this exact model and it works very well. I keep my apartment window openly constantly whenever I'm home now (though my place is pretty small).

I live in a 60m2 cheap apartment and if I keep the place closed, CO2 levels will exceed 800ppm in about two hours just from one person breathing.

Global access to education, contraception, and abortion for women, for starters. Redirect foreign aid away from food aid and towards this purpose. If you feel that your family cannot support a child, it should be within your power to control that. Many women simply do not have that choice.

This is a good thing: we are already significantly over the carrying capacity of the planet. A managed decline of population down to a couple of billion engineers, and robots for everything else, would mean a much better quality of life for the average human, and much better outcomes for the environment. Then, when we expand beyond Earth, we can grow the population again.

Technological developments have always driven the human species forward - all of this is nothing new. The difference now is the extremely high populations (enabled by technologies invented elsewhere in the world) in some countries with excessive unemployment levels.

Genetic engineering and molecular biology will also enable us to identify the genes which contribute the most to useful traits, and to expand access to those genes to a greater portion of humanity

After living and working in multiple countries around the world: in the USA its easy to make money. In much of Asia there is a huge amount of corruption, and in the EU a huge amount of needless tax and regulation, and in neither areas (apart from a few Anglo countries) is English spoken as the official language.

In the EU companies spend a lot more time optimising their tax situations (for the founder and employees) and cannot easily hire or sell products across borders due to language barriers. The EU needs to adopt English officially and individual EU countries need to adopt English as an additional official language and allow children to be instructed in it

It depends on your ARPU/month. 5,000 customers at $49.99 is 1c/customer/month just for email capability.

There are some industries like Game Development where only one or two emails are sent to the entire distribution list per year.

If you're collecting emails on game announcement at month 0, and releasing at month 24, for an average Indie game at $14.99, deducting 30% platform commission, Mailchimp costs alone represent 2.1% of your net revenue per customer - pretty extreme.