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_-david-_ commented on South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons for us all   npr.org/2023/03/19/116334... · Posted by u/oldschoolib
trompetenaccoun · 3 years ago
No way of knowing. Remarkable that it's below 2 either way for such a poor country. If they faked it they surely wouldn't have made it lower, so it's possible the real rate is even below that.
_-david-_ · 3 years ago
Poor countries are usually religious which plays an impact on the fertility rate. The last numbers I saw were 70% of North Koreans are not religious.
_-david-_ commented on South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, with lessons for us all   npr.org/2023/03/19/116334... · Posted by u/oldschoolib
belter · 3 years ago
North Korea Fertility Rate: 1.82 births per woman (2020)

South Korea Fertility Rate: 0.84 births per woman (2020)

_-david-_ · 3 years ago
How accurate are NK statistics?
_-david-_ commented on Yes, of course we should ban TikTok   noahpinion.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jseliger
freemanon · 3 years ago
US companies have been doing the same thing all over the world. Outside the west, everyone can see the hypocrisy. Ban it by all means, but you will become just like China: a state that censors information and speech from its citizens because the government is scared of it.
_-david-_ · 3 years ago
>US companies have been doing the same thing all over the world. Outside the west, everyone can see the hypocrisy

It is not necessarily hypocrisy. I haven't paid too much attention, but does the US say China banning Facebook or Google is anti free speech?

If not, then the US is not being hypocritical. Perhaps, double standards or something like that is more of what you were looking for?

>Ban it by all means, but you will become just like China

China builds roads. If the US builds roads it will become just like China.

>a state that censors information and speech from its citizens because the government is scared of it.

You think Europe is doing this when they banned RT, right?

_-david-_ commented on Leaving China   persuasion.community/p/le... · Posted by u/jseliger
_-david-_ · 3 years ago
I hope you were paid more than 50 cents for all the bootlicking you have been engaging in through this thread. If the West is as bad as you say, please just move to China and leave the rest of us alone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

_-david-_ commented on Leaving China   persuasion.community/p/le... · Posted by u/jseliger
onos · 3 years ago
I don’t believe the average western person would care at all if they could afford fewer cheap products. Corporate profits would certainly go down.
_-david-_ · 3 years ago
>I don’t believe the average western person would care at all if they could afford fewer cheap products

I don't think this is the case. The average person wants a lot of things for cheap. Also, more expensive items like computers and phones would increase in price. People like having the newest phones, but might be priced out of it if it increased.

_-david-_ commented on Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st   twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/hammock
alligatorplum · 3 years ago
Different way to tweet the tweet > After firing half of Twitters employees, the few that do remain do not fully understand the overly complex recommendation algorithm. I am hoping that we can crowdfund development work by making it open source.

As an aside, it'll be interesting to see what license he open sources it under.

_-david-_ · 3 years ago
I don't think he is doing it strictly because the remaining team can't handle the development. He talked about open sourcing the recommendation algorithm before he even bought Twitter. Back in November 2022 he said:

>One of the things that I believe Twitter should do is open-source the algorithm.

>Any changes to people's tweets -- if they're emphasized or de-emphasized -- that action should be made apparent ... so there's there's no sort of behind-the-scenes manipulation, either algorithmically or manually.

_-david-_ commented on Oxide pays all employees $191,227 (Bay Area startup)   oxide.computer/blog/compe... · Posted by u/lsj0627
RobotToaster · 3 years ago
I'm guessing they don't have offices that require employees like cleaners, or those are conveniently contracted out so don't technically factor into this?
_-david-_ · 3 years ago
They somewhat address that point by just saying they will figure it out later.

>Some will say that this narrows the kind of roles that we can hire for. In particular, different roles can have very different comp models (sales often has a significant commission component in exchange for a lower base, for example). There is truth to this too – but for the moment we’re going to put this in the "but-this-can’t-scale" bucket.

_-david-_ commented on Losing Signal   ploum.net/2023-03-09-losi... · Posted by u/simongray
izacus · 3 years ago
For challenge #1 Whatsapp has already achieved that - what does Signal offer to users over that product?
_-david-_ · 3 years ago
We don't really know that Whatsapp has achieved challenge #1.

Regardless, here are two big reasons why Signal is superior.

1. Not owned by Facebook

2. Open Source

_-david-_ commented on Dutch police collecting demonstrators' personal data on a large scale   nltimes.nl/2023/03/10/pol... · Posted by u/belter
barbazoo · 3 years ago
> despite the protests being mostly peaceful

https://pressprogress.ca/it-was-violent-peoples-commission-r...

_-david-_ · 3 years ago
Looks like it was as peaceful as other protests described as mostly peaceful that have happened over the last few years.
_-david-_ commented on KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview – Idealogical Subversion   youtube.com/watch?v=pOmXi... · Posted by u/iKlsR
_-david-_ · 3 years ago
Which Russian media has been banned in the US?

u/_-david-_

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