cabyn
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
My whole point is that it's really hard to ever classify exploitation as "good". I guess you can spin taking advantage of those in worse situations as good, but profiting (handsomely) off of people with good options doesn't seem morally great. Certainly good for business. But good for humans? This also isn't lifting Kenya out of poverty, this was a short term contract for a few dozen workers. 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.
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?
Companies could help a lot more by increasing labor standards, helping those in need, paying above a living day to day wage, etc. The would still have a few billion left in the bank I believe...
[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2011/08/17/zara...
Comment · 3 years ago
Sad to see the viewpoints of so many people framing this as "helping Kenya" or "They took the job, so it's worth it to them". I can assure you OpenAI did not have a charity meeting and say, "what poor, impoverished country can we lift up today?" It was "What country has limited labor laws, no unions, no red tape, and the cheapest labor we can find?" 99.99% of corporations put profit above people. That's why we still "benefit" from child labor and sweatshops, because we prefer cheap crap and money over the betterment of humanity. The same arguments given here were also given by coal miners in 1840's Europe[1],[2] when employing women and children, along the lines of "oh the children love it, they even get to see horses!" (and indeed, the children did show up to work every day, so why make a fuss?)
[1]https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/wtw/search/controlservlet?Page...
[2]https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jun/...
Comment · 4 years ago
Makes sense, thanks!
Comment · 4 years ago
Is there a reason Ford isn't supported yet? Not enough sensors? Are they coming soon?
Comment · 4 years ago
Oh, had that happen in Canada! Drive was supposed to take 10 minutes, 12 minutes in it doesn't look like we're close, "where are we going?", "Oh, didn't you say you wanted the scenic route?" Of course I never said that, ride ended up almost triple what it should have been :/
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, I never had a problem with them for years, until I did... I've never seen phone support, and still don't see a number anywhere on there website. If you have to be logged in to see it... Also, the chat is how you create a ticket. I chatted multiple times and they kept saying it was an escalated issue and only a "higher up" team could handle it and I'd just have to wait for a response. Glad you've never had any issues, good luck with that!
Comment · 4 years ago
I've actually used name heap for years and really liked them. But last year they locked my account for "security" and it took three months to unlock it! It was scary stuff, and their excuse was that because I kept replying to support, it put my ticket at the bottom of their queue... So I jumped on putting some of my domains in Cloudflare, but that looks like a mistake now too. Anyone got any other decent suggestions they like?
Comment · 4 years ago
I was very excited about CF Images, but after doing some basic napkin math the pricing was way more than expected. That, coupled with some of the other limitations you mentioned, had me abandon CF images pretty quick!
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi Tamar, my ticket number is KLA-811-83465, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Comment · 6 years ago
Are you posting anything on GitHub publicly? I'd be interested in seeing some sample code!
Comment · 6 years ago
That would be awesome, going to tinker with this tomorrow!
Comment · 6 years ago
Haha nice, maybe you can sue and get some of that Quibi money ;)
Comment · 6 years ago
Solid point. Uber has raised 26 billion, still don't make a profit and probably aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Just kind of drives me crazy the amount of money dumped into ideas that could start with very little money and become profitable on their own, or they'd just die out because it's not working.
Same arguments were used for slave labor. How are they going to take care of themselves? Might as well just keep them as slaves. What are we going to do, pay them?
Child labor has been used by just about every major fashion brand in the world, not just to "make bricks for their village"... If that's the extent of what you think child labor is, might want to check out some books or do some googling. Here's just one to get you started: [2].
[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2011/08/17/zara... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_sweatshops