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andrewducker) wrote2017-08-31 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-08-31 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 31-08-2017
- Man born and raised in UK told he is not a British citizen
- (tags: UK OhForFucksSake citizenship )
- Finland will keep sterilizing trans people
- (tags: Finland lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake )
- UK plan to bypass European Commission in Brexit talks doomed to fail
- (tags: uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- Are Some Psychiatric Disorders a pH Problem?
- (tags: mentalhealth brain )
- Why don’t you make your own Half-Life 3 if you’re so smart?
- (tags: games half-life )
- New t-shirt sewing robot can make as many shirts per hour as 17 factory workers
- (tags: automation clothing )
- How the GDPR will disrupt Google and Facebook
- (tags: privacy data regulation Europe Google Facebook advertising )
- Currency rates hit new low at airport bureaux de change
- (tags: currency UK europe )
- Large Companies Considered Harmful
- (tags: companies size economics )
- Patient plays saxophone while surgeons remove brain tumor
- (tags: music brain surgery )
- Moving from saturated to unsaturated fat doesn't help you lose weight, does lower cholesterol
- (tags: fat health weight )
- Marvel star slates racist Hollywood over name change
- (tags: china usa racism tv movies names )
- Beauty pageant winner hands back crown after being told she was too fat by organisers
- (tags: society weight beauty OhForFucksSake )
- NHS Wales: badly run by Labour or underfunded by Westminster?
- (tags: wales nhs money )
Man born and raised in UK told he is not a British citizen
Now, apparently, the home office said "oh, oopsie, yes, that counts we just didn't think of that". Isn't that their job??
Re: Man born and raised in UK told he is not a British citizen
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I've often wondered if automation would start removing cheap-labour manufacturing jobs before developing nation in South East Asia and Africa had been able to use the labour-rate arbitrage to boost their economies in to middle-income status. I've always thought that dealing with the politics of practically generalised robotics and machine intelligence would be easier if were we were all approximately as rich as each other.
Textile manufacturing seemed to be the most obvious route for poor countries to export labour and generate a surplus to be invested in infrastructure and education and to grow their economies.
I'm a bit anxious about a situation where it is as cheap to have a robot make a t-shirt in the USA as it is for a Bangladeshi to stitch it when the only people with the wealth and the wherewithall to make stitching robots are the West. I think that reduces the opportunities for Bangladeshi and co to join in with the 21st century on equal terms.
Pulling up the ladder
Re: Pulling up the ladder
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Potentially different for guys of course.
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