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At what point does China just develop its own mobile OS?

There seems value in just taking the reigns, and making whatever you create open-source, so that ZTE and all the other Chinese manufacturers can use it as well.

Its certainly a major blow to the value of Huawei phones.

If you want to build your own SFF PC, using more powerful and widely available components, there is a good guide here from the SFFPC subreddit:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bzVdvmb4jCohQz0xPN1_...

Why? Take the weight and heat out of the device, and put the PSU on the ground out of sight.

I wish I could use an external PSU for my desktop!

What possible concern could you have unless you are a serial killer?

Immortal as in reproductively, intellectually and physically functional, or sitting in a nursing home at huge social expense for 50 years immortal?

I think people are more interested in having working joints, no wrinkles, youthful energy and libido, and a full head of hair for an additional 20 years than immortality.

Outside you get to enjoy low-CO2 air of 415ppm.

Inside, in an 'insulated' and sealed apartment, CO2 levels will exceed 1000ppm in a few hours, which has negative consequences for human cognition and sleep quality.

I'd recommend buying a CO2 monitor for your home and keep a window slightly ajar permanently, and at least airing out your house/apartment for a few hours each day.

This is another major problem with fossil fuels - with higher atmospheric CO2 levels, it becomes harder to ventilate buildings. We need to bring more external air in to achieve the same effect, which also means higher heating/cooling costs.

Because solutions in the form of alternate materials developed to meet Western regulations can then be implemented across the entire world.

Its still "a lot cheaper than the projected bus costs, and more equitable" for towns:

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/innisfil-tran...

Its time to buck up and make some sacrifices for the sake of our health and our planet. All of these problems can be overcome with a little bit of effort. Are we that collectively lazy?

The technology is ready - EVs - but the ramp up is taking too long. States and cities need to ban the sale of new non-hybrid ICE vehicles starting now - there are already options at all price points.

More that the hyper-efficient food supply chains of modern supermarkets demand rigourous reliability, which industrialised growing and slaughtering of cows, pigs and chickens can provide, but hunting kangaroos cannot.

I also suspect that when considering transportation costs, chicken farming is probably more energy efficient than industrialised kangaroo farming. If Australia had a more developed hunting community, it would provide a good protein source for rural/regional communities though - like deer and boar do in the USA.

Why not introduce Kangaroos into the wild in the USA or other landmasses, if they are ecologically efficient?

Out of equilibrium since humans arrived. Fire-burning techniques by Australia Aboriginals destroyed huge areas of forest and ejected a large amount of CO2 into the atmosphere:

https://theconversation.com/how-aboriginal-burning-changed-a...

They also hunted to extinction multiple species of Megafauna:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna

Gigabit is basically the default capability of fiber to the home. If you're going to basically relay and reinstall your communications infrastructure, it would be dumb to do it with copper.

And Gigabit is certainly not overkill when viewed on a 50-year timeframe, which is realistically how long this infrastructure is(/was) meant to last.

If those companies are based in the US, EU, or China, sure.

The whole GDPR, Content Filtering thing seems like a massive opportunity for a savvy, unregulated South American, African or Asian company to take advantage of.

To silence people you disagree with, and to suppress inconvenient facts and debate.

I've bought a few games on Epic, and had no problems. The lack of junkware like on Steam is great – I can honestly browse the store knowing that every game is high quality (even if not necessarily in the genre I enjoy).

Achieveemnts not popping up helps focus on the actual game.

Cloud save, family sharing etc. are of marginal use for me and I imagine 99% of consumers outside the vocal minority.

What do you mean 'will cause' - it has already happened.

Almost all children learn English in Government primary school in Europe, and quite a lot study at private schools with the entire curriculum in that language. The legacy local language is basically treated as a secondary language, something to use for gossip and low-level transactions with local businesses (bars, supermarkets, plumbers).

Many Governments offer services in both languages: paying taxes, driver licensing, etc.

What is the point of becoming highly fluent in a legacy local language, even for someone born in that country - to write books and articles that no one (in a global context) will ever read? Fluency in English delivers so much more, has many more learning resources available, and is a much better investment of school time.

Culture is not language, it is the people. Why do people defend language, which can be recorded, yet are silent on the significantly below-replacement fertility rates of some European populations, and the high levels of immigration that will eventually replace the native 'cultures'?

Its really time for Steam to respond. Eventually the Epic store will match the features of Steam, and open more broadly to upper-tier Indie games. What will be left on Steam? There has already been a notable lack of launches this year.

Steam needs to halve its 30% commission to 15% for all games, and increase the Steam Direct fee to $2,000 to increase average quality. Developers aren't just leaving because of the high commission, they are leaving because of the deluge of junk launching on the store daily.

And most of those other sites charged high commissions, lacked region locking, and also meant you would get less visibility on Steam due to lower sales on that platform.

For Academia, yes. All of the scientific articles are written in that language.

The youngest generations are hugely influenced by Youtube and the internet, and many speak English more fluently than their own legacy local language.

This is a great thing for humanity. A common language will ease the flow of ideas and simplify commerce.

How many of these studies are conducted in English vs. the legacy local language?

Looks like this new platform is getting flooded, and Nintendo's quality control is not keeping up. A game like this should have never been allowed a release - just from the poor visual quality alone.

If you want handouts from the State, maybe.

But if you wish to create something of commercial value, its an incredibly expensive, cold and dark country to live in.

Why not write your book in Spain, Italy or Croatia instead?

Oslo 66% more expensive than Barcelona: https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/barcelo...?

79% more than Naples: https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/naples/...?

108% more than Zagreb: https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/zagreb-...?

> streamline healthcare to provide cheap, basic services to every citizen

Already covered that.

We can pay for healthcare for all citizens, but it will mean excluding very expensive things like heart surgery, cancer treatment, joint replacements. We will probably need to be much more forward on euthanasia for the old, to save resources.

We can provide free higher education, but its going to mean no student housing, no athletics programs and restricting college to the top 20% of the cohort academically.

Why should we have to tax the current worker population in order to pay for old people to do nothing? The current retirement system is a flawed ponzi scheme. People have continued to work until death or impairment in the past - why should retirement be considered a human right now?

Cut payroll taxes and income taxes, and the elderly can happily work 1-2 days per week, and businesses will be happy to have them. Store clerks, fast food workers, cleaners, child carers. These jobs can be done well by the elderly, and work keeps the brain active and healthy.

What if I want to work part-time throughout my life, and never retire? Shouldn't I have the ability as an individual to decide how and if I want to retire?

We aren't failing people: unemployment hasn't been this low in 20 years.

We have spent 28 trillion dollars on welfare, yet the poverty rate is unchanged over decades. The only thing that supports people is work, and we need to eliminate as many impediments to it as possible: over-regulation, payroll taxes, income taxes. Make huge cuts to welfare with the savings and streamline healthcare to provide cheap, basic services to every citizen (in line with disallowing citizenship by birth).

Then, regulate the supply of labour by barring immigration from poor countries (establish a liberal visa regime with countries in the HDI top 30 though, to allow legitimate talent to come to America). You have the recipe for a reasonable, modern life for any American willing to work. It could be a blueprint for the whole Western world.

As humanity we need a greater purpose. We need to constantly expand and move into more difficult frontiers. It is what defines us as a species and the challenge keeps us collectively sane.

We need to push as a species into Space. To mine asteroids and setup bases. We need to get our home planet off fossil fuels and maintain it as a haven of life, with a smaller and more productive human workforce.

Just work for a small game company that doesn't ship products or advertise physically and hence has much less crunch requirement (much easier to delay a digital product). Plus, typically the Owner is working himself as a designer or programmer, so any crunch for the team means crunch for him.

With the launch of the Epic Games Store and the coming explosion of platforms, plus mature middleware like Unity and Unreal, times are great for well-organised Indie teams.

I've tried hiring artists for video games, and the quotes from Upwork/Freelancer.com were about double the going rates (I understand that the platform fee of 20% contributes to part of that). I've had much better success with free, community-run forums instead:

https://polycount.com/categories/artist-looking-for-work

https://www.gamejobforum.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameDevClassifieds/

How difficult and expensive is it to test a deer in the field after hunting it?