[arcameron]

I think you've massively devalued an entire people based on the actions of their government...

Let's not forget the great value and results of CS education in the US:

- spying for pretty much everybody, regardless of location

- drone guidance systems to kill people unlawfully

- missile systems for air strikes on countries purported to have WMDs

- millions of $ spent on silly apps that arguably do nothing to improve quality of life, whilst millions suffer and die of starvation

Do you really know enough about North Korea's tech community to say that "More likely, these students will go on to make software for less-than-ethical purposes"?

[psykovsky]

As an European I say we should stop the US from learning. They're getting dangerous, with their knowledge.

[happyscrappy]

>As an European I say we should stop the US from learning. They're getting dangerous, with their knowledge.

Getting dangerous? The game is over, Europe has outsourced their intelligence gathering and show no indication of even wanting to try to catch up.

[psykovsky]

I'm not sure catching up with such a level of human rights abuse is the right thing to do...

[fapjacks]

False.

[cmdkeen]

Given it spends around a third of its GDP on military activities, and is a thoroughly planned economy it seems a relatively straightforward inference to make.

[1stop]

Lets quote % of GDP when talking about a country with negligible GDP... honest!

If what you say is true: DPRK spends $3 billion (approx) on military.

It's neighbours spend the following:

China: $150 billion (approx) South Korea: $33 billion (approx) Japan: $50 billion (approx)

Lets not forget that South Korea and Japan are satellites for the US, and a conflict would involve them: $640 billion (approx).

So their spending is at least 10x less than their cheapest neighbour.

[cmdkeen]

Yes but the discussion was about whether you could assume a DPRK computer science grad would go into military (or associated work). Using military spending as a % of GDP as a rough yardstick does suggest that the number of DPRK citizens involved in military activity is very high.

Especially as each comp sci grad probably has greater potential to contribute to GDP than say your average farm labourer.

[1stop]

% of GDP spent to predict future jobs for comp sci graduates.

That makes the outright wrong assumption that the major cost of Military is personel...