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I 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 u
by npx 10y ago
I 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 10y 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 10y agoIs suicide "animal"?
- doktrin 10y 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 10y agoYours seems to be the most sensible interpretation.
- illicium 10y agoSuicide rate or suicide attempt rate?
- icebraining 10y 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 10y 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.