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Why not just disallow free porn? Require everything available in the UK to be paid, for at least $1, via credit card. This will exclude children most simply.

Limiting any one country to 15% of the visa intake would be great for actual diversity. Requiring that a minimum of 51% of all H1B visas be given to women, from all countries, would truly help with gender diversity.

Indian hiring managers have a history of illegally discriminating against non-Indian job applicants. This change would help bring an end to that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-05/india-s-t...

And just like the US the jobs, education and culture are in the cities.

Housing in a second-tier Polish city is more expensive than Chicago!

https://www.otodom.pl/oferta/klimatyczny-apartament-balkon-w...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5345-S-Ellis-Ave-H2-Chica...

India is not our Civilization. I'm presuming you're either in America or Europe, or heavily influenced by their culture.

India's chief problem is overpopulation. There are simply too many people to provide water to. The country needs an urgent population program encouraging poorer families to have one or zero children. The same things are working in Bangladesh.

Excessive taxes and expensive housing. In much of Europe it is simply impossible to buy a house on a single income, if you obey 100% of tax laws. These taxes are used to pay for the elderly, their welfare (pensions) and healthcare.

If you are in the US you may not appreciate how heavy the tax burden is in Europe. It varies by country but its normally something like: 30% payroll tax paid by employer. 30% income tax paid by you. 20% sales tax paid by you. Then, very expensive housing due to the high population densities and limited room to expand.

Additionally in Europe, many parents want their children to be educated in English, however the language of instruction is usually the local language. This is partly why the migrant stream into the Anglosphere is so high. The alternative are private international schools, which are hideously expensive.

Not according to Charles de Gaulle:

"Have you seen the Muslims with their turbans and their djellabas (traditional, hooded, long wool coats)? You can see that they are not French. Try and integrate oil and vinegar. Shake the bottle. After a moment they separate again. The Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. Do you think that the French can absorb ten million Muslims who will tomorrow be twenty million and after tomorrow forty? If we carry out integration, if all the Berbers and Arabs of Algeria were regarded as French, how would one stop them coming to settle on the mainland where the standard of living is so much higher? My village would no longer be called Colombey-les-deux-Eglises [the two churches] but Colombey-the-two-mosques."

Other countries can adopt English as an additional official language, and allow children to be educated with English as the language of instruction.

This would be particularly advantageous in Europe, where the population of many smaller countries with their own language is falling. It would also attract inter-EU migrants.

The problem is that jobs are over, but we are still taxed the old fashioned way - mostly to pay for the healthcare and pensions of baby boomers who had steady careers and cheap housing.

Healthcare and pensions make up 66% of the US Federal Budget. Its a similiar case in most other Western countries. If we could somehow find a way to relieve ourselves of that burden, taxes on labour could be much lower and life significantly better.

I think this is partly why we've seen such a huge boom in freelancing. Its much easier to optimise your taxes that way, instead of working for a company.

If journalists are going to jail in Australia its because they have broken the law. At least you can vote for politicians with a different approach.

Channels (conservative ones) are banned and disappeared on Youtube for holding the wrong opinions, in violation of no laws, and there is no recourse.

Not for many of the channels which have been banned for wrongthink.

Teens watch Youtube more than TV. Youtube has been far more censorious and disregarding of Free Speech than anything the Australian Government has done.

Why not let the free market solve the problem?

Find fit, healthy, young people, with a clear medical history and that pass all tests, and let them make regular donations in return for payment?

It still strikes me as odd that we don't allow or encourage a free market for blood, semen, egg donation.

I think a DNA test would have been more useful than a brain scan.

I've lived in countries with extremely liberal alcohol laws: low taxes, liberal advertising, 24/7 availability, drinking allowed on the street.

I've lived in others where Alcohol advertising is banned, availability is limited to Government-run stores at certain times, and the taxes are very high.

Binge drinking and general abuse seemed to be much higher in the latter. Particularly people seemed to get drunk before leaving the house, or used drugs, since both were cheaper than buying alcohol at a venue.

If anything is going to be restricted in the form of tax or advertising, hard spirits should bear the brunt instead of beer and wine. It might also make sense to loosen up taxes at licensed venues, which are controlled environments with trained bartenders and security.

Isn't it the role of State Security/Defense Services to conduct these sort of scans, and notify companies of their vulnerability?

And yet in other threads here on HN, we're decrying the breakdown of the family, epidemics of loneliness, and low rates of relationships and marriage for young people.

Given that the workplace is now the only place to interact with the opposite sex (for many people), I think it would be healthier to acknowledge it as a relationship foundry, and figure out how to use it to forge healthy adult relationships, whilst avoiding adultery and abuse.

Ironic that so much caution is given to the harmless genetically modified plant, when the real danger is with the Roundup chemical itself.

Only specific sub groups are doing that:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/static/population-projecti...

Or to be specific, Africa and West Asia, due to a lack of access to contraception. That can be solved by redirecting 100% of aid towards education, contraception and abortion for women, and away from food aid.

You still have a big, complex, expensive fuel engine to maintain. For short hops I think electric planes are going to be the better choice. Maybe they can have ground power connections or droppable capacitors for the burst of energy needed at takeoff without the extra weight.

I think we would be certainly better off banning free dating websites and apps. Get people back into the real world where they can see and smell eachother. Heck, even speed dating is better.

The 70c that they would get out of that sale would still be much greater than the current ARPU from ad and microtransaction supported games, and would go some way to encouraging gameplay shifts.

Apple could just increase the minimum charge to $4.99 (or its regional equivalents) if it really wanted to increase quality. A decrease in its exorbitant 30% commission would be suitable as well.

Apple should just go all in:

Disable free to play games targeted at children completely. Require every children's game to have an upfront price (I suppose the $0.99 minimum app charge at least).

This would be great news for the market - game developers would focus on building more rewarding gaming experiences, instead of just endless skinner boxes. It would also help sell Apple devices, since developers would not need to target the lowest-common-denominator for mass advertising appeal.

I have seen Gattaca - the society was able to achieve interstellar colonisation, and the story focuses on one young fraud, who despite health defects, cheats his way into the program. Gattaca presents a Utopian future, not a Dystopian one.

"We" will be in control because embryos cannot be edited without a process that is essentially IVF. If governments are going to force this on women, we have bigger problems to deal with. It will be as straightforward as a couples using the technology to select for and against certain straightforward traits.

What is the problem with gene editing? It will allow us to remove hereditary diseases from the population, and enhance the capabilities of the next generation. Being in control of our own genome seems completely reasonable.

The average IQ in the DPRC is 78. The population has grown from 12 million in 1950 to 87 million today.

You cannot evaluate the actions taking place in that country and then apply them to the rest of the world.

If we want to transition to hybrid planes, or entirely electric planes, these sort of efficiency increases will be very useful. I would consider the '20% efficiency increase' in that context.