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Re:Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100B Blitz on Sand Hill... by adventured on Sunday September 30, 2018 @09:01AM (#18105996)
Further to that point, Saudi Arabia's population is expanding very rapidly, putting immense strain on those limited resources (which have to be used to continually pacify the population).

From 10m people in 1980, to 33m today.

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Re:Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100B Blitz on Sand Hill... by rockinghigh on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:37PM (#18107598)
That's only 3% growth per year.
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Re:Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100B Blitz on Sand Hill... by sytelus on Monday October 01, 2018 @03:36AM (#18110672)
Population growth in India/China when govt didn’t do any restrictions was ~2.5%. These days it has reduced to around 1.5%. USA is at 0.7%.

In other words 3% is very likely among the highest rate human population can grow with real-world constraints.

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