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He was going to testify in a case involving openAIs illegal usage of copy right data and text. There’s a lot to be gained with his death.

I also know quite a few people who work in that industry in developing countries and I don’t think you know what your talking about.

The irony of your statement is that many of the core tech, protocol and software systems underpinning these big tech companies were developed in the EU.

When you have the time, checkout rates of the cancer and autoimmune within populations that live next to petro chemical facilities. The health impacts are generational, even for people who no longer live in those areas.

You can also checkout the track record of Shell in Nigeria to answer your question.

I might be wrong, but wasn’t it established that “Havan” syndrome was just severe burn out?

What a lot of people dont realise is that the total carbon manufacturing footprint of an electric car tends to be more then that of a hybrid. In other words you need to drive an electric car for way longer before you’re carbon neutral vs driving a hybrid.

You make an interesting case, but are you controlling for education level or profession of the parents before they immigrated to the US?

It wasn’t uncommon in the 80s-90s to meet an Eastern European, Asian or Jewish immigrant who came from a STEM background but for a variety of reasons couldn’t work in their field once they moved to the US so they worked as store clerks or taxi drivers.

Perhaps the differences your talking about isn’t cultural but rather dependent on what economic and education class the immigrant parents came from.

To add to this; See this article & paper > https://news.ku.edu/2020/06/18/study-shows-african-immigrant...

> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19376812.2020.17...

> The paper contrasts Nigerian newcomers with those from Somalia, whose work ethic is similarly strong, but whose lack of education hurts their employment prospects here.

> The authors wrote: “Overall, African-born immigrants aged 16 and over have a higher rate of employment (69.2%) relative to the foreign-born population (63.1%) and the general US population (59.9%).”

The study also notes significant differences between Nigerian immigrants, who mostly come from that country’s south, and Somalis. For one thing, with its history of British colonization, many more Nigerians speak English upon arrival in the U.S. than do Somalis. That makes the Nigerians’ transition easier in almost every respect.

“For the Nigerian-born immigrants, the proportion that possesses at least a bachelor's degree is 60.5%,” Chikanda said. “But when we look at the Somali-born population ... that's about 15%.”

This school of thought in the medical field is quite popular in the Netherlands and is picking up popularity within the UK; however from personal experience and that of others I’m noticing that it’s being used by doctors to dismiss people’s symptoms - particularly that of women (N<5)

In one case I know someone who had chronic health issues who had to change doctors after one year because her former GP (who was quite young) kept insisting her health issues were phycological. Her new GP (quite experienced) was able to identify several of the physical root causes to her complaints within months of her first visit and provide appropriate treatment afterwards. I see this pattern repeated with May of my other friends who have chronic health conditions and have had to deal with both health care systems.

I have two theories why this school of thought is gaining popularity in the west;

* Allows over worked or inexperienced doctors to easily dismiss patients because in their view they’re triaging patients complaints.

* Overloaded healthcare system is able to reduce the care patients need by effectively gas lighting them by saying “you need to need your lentils health”, “deal with your trauma” instead of seeing specialists and doing tests.

Psychology is closer to Pseudoscience than clinical psychology and medical science.

Women don’t belong to some secret organisation that go around testing men for their viable “genetic strength”.

I’ve had the same experience. I’ve been looking into how to hang a tv on my dry wall and the quality on tiktok has been way better then what google or YouTube have been able to produce.

Dash looks like a great project but the community doc contributions are a security concern. Docs are uploaded to git as Tars, nothing is stopping someone from adding malicious code to these tar uploads which developers will download unknowingly when they add a community doc.

See: https://github.com/Kapeli/Dash-User-Contributions

Checkout Adyen. They’re practically the same.

The age of a man when conception occurred is a known (and not new) factor in determining the health of a child. Sperm from old men (after 30) starts to introduce all sorts of risks such as Aspergers and autoimmune diseases.

In fact the age of the father is one of the only variables that have been shown to correlate with the prevalence of Asperger in children.

I wish more people would wake up to the impact that monopolies have on their economic and wellbeing security.

I tried to use Apple Maps for 2 years right after Covid hit when I decided to de-google my life.

I found it to be “ok” and sometimes terrible.

* no bike lanes (even though my country is famous for them)

* public transit sometimes recommends longer routes

* terrible UI for public transit. Specifically in how times are communicated for multi-mode routes.

* worse POI discoverability then google maps

* missing places and businesses

Have you watched the movie? At its core it’s a story about how vulnerable children are and how society sexualizes children.

Have you considered moving to a country that values education? You wife will probably see a pay raise, strong union rights and better work life balance.

Some countries that come to mind would be the Netherlands, Germany, the nordics.

An added bonus to this is that your family will be able to benefit from the strong family support programs that these countries offer - tax breaks, grants, friendly city planning which gives children more independence.

This website looks dodgy. Does anyone know it’s reliability?

At the beginning of 2021 I completely move my life away from facebooks ecosystem. As a hobbies photographer I moved from Instagram to Flickr, I wish I had done it earlier!

Flickr as a tool is very focused on creators. Once you start using it you realize that the company isn't optimizing for clicks and content consumption. This results in a product and community who’s standard of quality is leagues ahead of anything else one the internet. The idea of “an influence” just doesn’t exist within Flickr. It actually reminds me a lot of the internet before the FAANG monopolies.

They’ve identified a niche in the market and they are now striving to serve that niche the best they can. IMO Flicker is a radical tech company operating complete counter to the omnipresent hyper growth “conquered the world” mindset that pervades tech. I think they would make a good case study of how to build an online community that doesn’t try to optimize for engagement.

> The lack of fertile farmland, lack of navigable rivers, lack of deep water ports, lack of self sustainable regional security, and general difficulty getting goods to markets is going to leave Africa seriously capital poor.

Do you have spruces to back up these claims?

I don’t agree with the policies around land without compensation but the economic prosperity that the people of the USSR and PRC experienced after instating those policies can not be denied.

Do you have sources to backup this often repeated rhetoric?

I don’t think you can downplay the role of foreign capital and multi-nationals In South Africa’s economic problems for the past two decades - for example the role that The Guptas, McKinsey and KPMG all played in looting the state.

Are you saying that wealth extraction from Africa to its former colonial masters does not happen anymore?

I agree with your assessment. A common miss conception I’ve seen visiting foreigners have about Dutch bikes are because they used bad rental bikes while visiting. Most of the rental bikes are quite bad; lack of gears, awkward dimensions and incredibly heavy.

Web archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210911162523/https://www.wired...

You are correct, violence and sexual violence are a big issue in South Africa. By no means was I trying to say that it isn’t but there’s a big difference between being a “rape capital” and having high rates of sexual violence.

The term “rape/murder capital of the world” is often perpetrated and encouraged by neo-nazi pundits to stoke “white fear” with miss representations of the facts. This is why it’s important to understand the nuances and context of these statistics inorder to avoid falling into the dogmatic conversations.

Apologies I didn’t mean to paint you as such. I went ahead and edited my original post to be less aggressive.

I just wanted to point out that this is a frequent talking point peddled by American neo-nazies that is frustratingly repeated on the internet with little honest interrogation.

You can also try finding more through the Collections site on the university website.

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/Collection

You are somewhat correct. Official statistics on murders broken down by race and land ownership are difficult to find so it makes having a conversation on the topic difficult. The statistics that are available on white farm murders indicate that their murder rate is within the average for for rural/farm areas. Infact the murder rate of black men in rural areas is even higher then white farmers.

Here are additional sources if you or anyone else would like to know more on the topic;

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/factsheets/factsheet-sta...

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-sa-whites-re...

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/claims-about-...

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/blog/analysis-why-calcul...

This statment is factually incorrect and is a common alt-right talking point that is repeated on the internet with little factual basis in reality.

There are a few reasons for this;

* Different definitions of rape across countries and time

* Rape offences are counted differently

* An echo-chamber effect - lazy journalism

* Under-reporting rates are unknown and are often extrapolated by Statistics South Africa

You can find out more at this report created by AfricaCheck - a non-partisan media and statistics watchdo;

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/why-its-wrong-ca...