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• bertil 13y ago
  Me too. My question was more about clarifying editorial guidelines. Commenting guidelines are already weird (I got pummeled for that one, even though I was the only one trying to explain the relevance for HN on the entire thread, and ask the community non-obvious questions) but I though starting by clarifying posting ones: is it neglected technical aspects, social issues, things that a world-changing company can make profit from? In this case, the only solution that I see is automated construction using 3D-printing, most likely augmented by drones to scale. That would put most of those workers out of a job -- a situation probably worst off, and more deadly than the one they are in at the moment. It follows the disenfranching trend that Brynjolfsson gives to technology, and against yesterday’s parallel example (locally made menstruating pads in rural India). I assumed talking about that was better that the tacitly racist ‘You know, Qatari have no respect for human lives…’ that fill this thread otherwise. It might sound true (family members living there tend to agree, vocally, but they aren’t exactly not-racists) but it seems far less productive than highlighting the works of some Qatari trying to change that.