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·5 माह पहले·discuss
The ability to focus is not decreasing.

When studies are published talking about “attention span” decreasing they mean the amount of time people spend paying attention to one thing. They don’t mean people’s capacity for attention is decreasing.

I’m a bit surprised to see this myth is still around, but looking at the source maybe I shouldn’t be
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This has always been known by domain experts.

The problem has never been availability of minerals.

It is the environmental damage from the polluting extraction process and lack of operational know how and trade secrets to do it efficiently.

An often overlooked competitive advantage China has is lack of environmental regulations
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What is your definition of exploitation?

>Agents, the most junior data labelers who made up the majority of the three teams, were paid a basic salary of 21,000 Kenyan shillings ($170) per month

Based on my quick and dirty googling, it looks like this is an above average salary for Nairobi.

>Are all the sweatshop and slave labor[1] jobs created by Zara good for those children and slaves? You get cheap clothes out of it after all. But is it really helping anyone other than Zara, and their CEO who is worth ..checks notes... 50+ billion dollars?

You haven't established a connection between OpenAI and slave labour. So this is irrelevant and detracts from your point by costing you credibility.

> If this signals to other businesses that Kenya is a great place for cheap labor and little regulation, it could very easily be turn bad for many Kenyans.

That's for Kenyans to decide.
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·3 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Both these things can be true at the same time

OpenAI hired Kenyans because of limited labour law, no unions, no red tape, and the cheapest they can find.

Getting these jobs is good for Kenya
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·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
How difficult is it to bootstrap the ability to manufacture mechanical watch parts?

It was only in 2017 that China joined the elite club of countries capable of making ballpoint pens. Is it that hard?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18...
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·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
These are the authors stated motives:

>I saw many opportunities, especially abroad, that were out of reach because I didn’t have the required papers. I felt ready for graduate school but couldn’t get admitted. I had to work harder to prove myself to employers.
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·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Why doesn't a roll-your-own degree from Study.com indicate the caliber of the individual in the way a credential from an institution used to?
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·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
A credential demonstrates that you have some knowledge or skill. If they already have the knowledge or skill, what would they learn from the degree regardless of what you assume his intention is.
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·5 वर्ष पहले·discuss
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#73 Gentrification

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