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Care to explain?
by cm3 11y ago
Care to explain?
- npx 11y agoI have this dystopian Foxconn style vision of sweat shops where they force people to unwind stacks in binaries compiled without frame pointers because they're using a register starved architecture and they think that using SP as a general purpose register will make their code run faster. Now that I think of it, I'm beginning to understand the suicide nets.
- oldmanjay 11y agoWhenever people mention the Foxconn suicide nets, I remember how nobody noted that the measured suicide rate of Foxconn workers is and was lower than the general population, and I laugh at humanity's prospect of ever rising above its animal nature.
- Ericson2314 11y agoIs suicide "animal"?
- doktrin 11y agoI think 'animal nature' was a jab at our tendency to make judgments clouded by bias Emphasis on 'I think', because the comment wasn't worded very clearly.
- Ericson2314 11y agoYours seems to be the most sensible interpretation.
- illicium 11y agoSuicide rate or suicide attempt rate?
- icebraining 11y agoEven the attempt rate in Foxconn during their worst year was less bad than the suicide rate in the general population. And the suicide rate was lower not only than the suicide rate in the China as a whole, as it was lower than in all 50 states of the United States.
- marshray 11y agoI ran the numbers based on the public data and it came out that the Foxconn factory had a suicide rate similar to a Caribbean island country such as the Bahamas.