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> “The stacking of jobs has always existed, but it’s usually been done by workers who’ve needed to as a means of economic survival,” explains Meredith Meyer Grelli, assistant teach…

Korea hardly had any nationalist armed resistance by the 1930s. The nationalists camp had either turned to peaceful resistance a la Ghandi (Cho Man-sik), exile (Syngam Rhee) or col…

this is untrue, the Korean peninsula had a strong socialist (including non-Marxist forms of socialism) and later communist (as in affiliated with the COMINTERN) movement from the e…

The reference biography of Kim Il Sung is "Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader" by Dae Sook Suh. A relatively fair treatment of the man given that the author is notable for his an…

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09442

French universities absolutely do have legacy admissions. It's called admissions paralleles (or sur dossier), you can pay your way in with minimal effort and get the same diploma u…

> I thought the overall "shadowy Wall Street elite cabal" in this article was bizarre and a bit nauseating. Especially since most of it is circumstantial, guilt by association or o…

Is it just me or does TFA's whole argument rests upon the assumption that you don't add labels to your pie charts ? If I add percentages or values to the chart, there are no issues…

I do not disagree with your take, but I think you may only be speaking for a subset of engineers that are already fairly well compensated. The article likewise seems to discard the…

> Ms. Sánchez Blanco said the company has given the test only three times in the last 20 years. She, Mr. Vega and Rocío Ortega Velázquez, 46, the deputy technical director who is M…

That is my point, it's a complex question with multiple possible answers. But the test the study is based on reduces it to a binary problem.

> a new study by Yale psychologists found a surprising group of people are particularly good at accurately assessing truths about humans’ “social nature” I am not a social psycholo…

> "The hope a lot of people had/have for crypto is that it replaces people, instititions and rules with explicit code" My experience in crypto over the past two years has been exac…

I don't think the problem is with the "lie" that the innocent need not fear surveillance. Most people will agree that mass-surveillance will negatively affect some people that are …