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jimlongton commented on How South Korea’s birth rate dropped below Japan’s   nippon.com/en/in-depth/d0... · Posted by u/neom
grej · 3 years ago
South Korea was among the poorest countries in the world - poorer than many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa as recently as the 1960s. Withing a single lifetime they transformed themselves into one of the most advanced developed economies on the planet with a madman (mad men) on their doorstep.

It’s natural that that kind of change will have some massive societal implications, many of which they are still sorting out.

Their birth rate is something that will require immense attention and work to begin to correct, but it’s worth noting what they’ve accomplished in getting to a place where they can afford to worry about that as one of their primary concerns.

jimlongton · 3 years ago
> it’s worth noting what they’ve accomplished in getting to a place where they can afford to worry about that as one of their primary concerns

It's probably also worth noting the long history of military dictatorships, murderous suppression of worker rights, massive ongoing corruption (including a literal cult controlling the government until 2016) and the highest suicide rate in the world. Reducing the story to just economies is truly narrow minded.

jimlongton commented on How South Korea’s birth rate dropped below Japan’s   nippon.com/en/in-depth/d0... · Posted by u/neom
mathverse · 3 years ago
Should I have children in a country where I can get fired for no reason, apts cost $1M+ and you have to work slave hours?

LOL

jimlongton · 3 years ago
It's okay. You can complain to your union (which is run by your company) or work for a competitor (which is also owned by the same conglomerate as your company).

At least your leader is no longer brainwashed by a shaman who channels her dead father while taking bribes from those conglomerates [1]. That father who was also your former military dictator who followed the great tradition of torturing and murdering socialists and worker leaders with the CIAs help.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Korean_political_sc...

jimlongton commented on How South Korea’s birth rate dropped below Japan’s   nippon.com/en/in-depth/d0... · Posted by u/neom
CapitalistCartr · 3 years ago
Smuggle people out of North Korea on a massive scale. I'm imagining scenes like a Mission Impossible movie.
jimlongton · 3 years ago
I would imagine integrating North Koreans into the South would be far more difficult than the reunification of Germany. The technological and health gap alone is huge and even their language has started to drift apart.

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jimlongton commented on X plans to collect biometric data, job and school history   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ushakov
xNeil · 3 years ago
But WeChat does have competition in China.
jimlongton · 3 years ago
Are there major micro/restaurant payment apps in China other than WeChat? I imagine it's difficult to compete with an app that's preinstalled on every phone, integrated with every bank and used by every restaurant and street vendor. And that's ignoring the social network effect of the 900+ million daily users.
jimlongton commented on Sam Bankman-Fried once wanted to buy the island nation of Nauru   qz.com/sam-bankman-fried-... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
bragr · 3 years ago
If you are looking for a place to wait out the end of the world, why pick a place so affected by climate change (22 square km and highest point is 71m)? Not to mention living off the land is not going to support that many people. This is the entire place: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_Nauru...

The other billionaire end of the world bunkers tend to be in more practical areas.

jimlongton · 3 years ago
The history of the island is pretty much a condemnation of the modern the world - massive environment devastation, money laundering hub and finally a concentration camp for refugees.
jimlongton commented on Exxon bets carbon will be the new oil   semafor.com/article/07/21... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
throwaway33381 · 3 years ago
It sounds more like an excuse to continue to output oil while doing absolutely nothing to stop the further degradation of out environment.
jimlongton · 3 years ago
Related: Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-clima...

jimlongton commented on AI System Helped Cops ID a Drug Trafficker by Analyzing His Driving Patterns   gizmodo.com/rekor-ai-syst... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist
soupfordummies · 3 years ago
15 years ago these types of systems were very concerning even though they were to "stop terrorism." If they're just being used for drug dealers now... give me a break.
jimlongton · 3 years ago
It feels like we are finally at a tipping point of mass surveillance. The explosion in the prevalence of high quality street/traffic cameras, door bell cameras (that Amazon gives the police access to) and the growth of self driving cars (surveillance machines on wheels) are the final nails in the coffin of privacy which has been slowly dying since the start of the century.

It's drug dealers now. It's not difficult to see states using this to target women who travel for abortions, people traveling to political events etc.

jimlongton commented on AI System Helped Cops ID a Drug Trafficker by Analyzing His Driving Patterns   gizmodo.com/rekor-ai-syst... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist
shortrounddev2 · 3 years ago
That's awesome

> this case, Rekor helped police to assess the route that Zayas’ car was taking on a multi-year basis. The algorithm—which found that the driver was routinely making trips back and forth between Massachusetts and certain areas of upstate New York—determined that Zayas’ routes were “known to be used by narcotics pushers and [involved]...conspicuously short stays,” Forbes writes. As a result, the program deemed Zayas’s activity consistent with that of a drug trafficker.

Years ago, when my girlfriend went to a different college than me, I drove 100 miles every weekend from my town to my state's capital city. I would show up, stay a couple hours, and then she would come home with me. At the end of the weekend, I drove her back. I did this every weekend. I wonder if the algorithm would think I was a drug trafficker

jimlongton · 3 years ago
No mention in the article of false positives. I wonder how many people they stopped and searched to get a result. I also wonder if the areas the suspect was visiting also overlap with poor or minority neighborhoods and what that means for those targetted.
jimlongton commented on xAI   x.ai/... · Posted by u/georgehill
systemvoltage · 3 years ago
That’s why we start companies to build a moat.
jimlongton · 3 years ago
Smart businesses use the government to build a moat for them. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65616866

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