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What skills does one typically acquire as a temp packing worker in a highly automated warehouse?

I wish more people understood that the models they were taught in Microecon 101 are not a particularly accurate representation of the actual inner workings of human society.

Leaving aside for a moment the huge number of people who have moved to North Dakota - so many that energy boom towns are experiencing severe housing shortages - working in the oilf…

Clearly you ought to parcel out the women on your team to the other teams until you've reached parity across the board. Change begins with you!

I would take this measure of comparison with a large grain of salt; the Chinese scores especially are almost meaningless: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/pos…

Or maybe he just lied? He doesn't seem like the most trustworthy kind of guy to begin with.

Beijing is generally worse more often, partly because they get hit by dust carried from the increasingly large Gobi Desert in addition to all the man-made pollution.

The Northeast Corridor metro areas (Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-DC; dense, 4mm+ pop centers all located within a few hours of one another) and a handful of other regional short-haul ro…

You're describing one method of coping with the inevitable decline, and I think your advice is excellent and I'm glad it works well for you. But the OP was complaining precisely ab…

You have aged. Your energy level and motivation will decline until you die. The rate of change varies from person to person, and you can probably reinvigorate yourself to a degree …

One suggestion: Adjust the game so that the player is only presented with countries that have populations within a certain distance of each other. Right now I'm getting a lot of "M…

Is there a difference between using Startpage through DDG, and just using Startpage?

There is a huge degree of difference between being denied entry to a foreign country and having punitive action taken against you by the government. Your second case is about a guy…

It's worth noting that in the United Kingdom, you can already be fined or jailed for tweeting. Neither of these would be criminally actionable offenses in the US, and the first one…

If the jackboot fits...

A lot of people are extremely touchy about their third-tier M.A.s, including probably a lot of the people who write these kinds of articles.

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but haven't most of these 'quit/don't go' essays come from academics in the humanities? Are there similar essays coming from science or engineering grad…

There's no reason to think that Al Jazeera will be a player in the 'adversarial journalism' game. It's a massive media conglomerate just like NBC, CNN, or FoxNews; at best, watchin…

You would then need to sift out all the international tourist visits that are Schengen-area residents visiting other Schengen area countries. I suspect this would have an enormous …

It is definitely enough to have CBP flag any packages crossing the border that are associated with that name, for which no warrant is required. After that, well, I'm no lawyer, but…

Brain technology. Eventually 'wireheading' is going to stop being science fiction and start being science fact. The people who commercialize that technology first are going to swim…

Well, the question we should be asking is, how can we replicate this experience for kids all over the place? How much of this happy story comes from the methodology and commitment …

It is beyond ludicrous to suggest that a C-suite executive at a media company is "the powerless".

While I can't say whether this is true on a larger scale, you may be interested to learn that Paul Kagame, the ruler of Rwanda, put together a team specifically for the purpose of …