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Re:Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Lik... by thewarrior on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:27AM (#21125649)
Visa policies create exclusion by their very existence. So its not entirely an unfair assumption.

For those who are unaware visa policies are extremely discriminatory to people from African countries. You will not even be granted a tourist visa or even be allowed to attend a tech conference. You are stuck where you are born.

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Re:Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Lik... by taliesinb on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:00AM (#21126021)
Case in point from today’s Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/01/oxford-pro...
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Re:Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Lik... by jolotriage on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:45PM (#21131047)
African natural resources on the other hand glide across western international borders effortlessly.
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Re:Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Lik... by xvedejas on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:42PM (#21128280)
This is why ICLR will be held in Ethiopia next year. It's a known problem in the ML research community.
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Re:Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Lik... by LunaSea on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:29PM (#21127337)
I'm guessing that is done to prevent people from overstaying their visa.
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Re:Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Lik... by mandelbrotwurst on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:19PM (#21130122)
You're saying that governments create visas to prevent people from overstaying their visas? Lol.
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Re:Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Lik... by LunaSea on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:35PM (#21130302)
No, I'm saying that people from certain countries have a tough time getting visas because their co-nationals have a habit of overstaying their visa as a form of immigration. Thus making the host country clamp down on issuing visas.
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Re:Africa Is Building an A.I. Industry That Doesn’t Look Lik... by yourbandsucks on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:41PM (#21131644)
Certain countries like Ireland? Hmmm... I wonder when that clampdown on Irish visa grants is coming..
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