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What have been working for me is some Social Sciences or Humanities courses on Coursera.

"Many of the victims are well-educated, sometimes coming from professional jobs or with graduate or even post-graduate degrees, computer-literate and multi-lingual." (from the repo…

Note that there was about 9 centuries between the Umayyad conquest of Iberia (8th century) and the explulsion of Moriscos (17th century). So the analogy with North American natives…

Why is it ironic? Maybe you think too highly of the British empire?

this is mentioned in the linked article

Yeah.. another thing is there is a lot of published games in Scratch (from other users), many are very tempting to play/try out and often the Scratch session just turns into playin…

can you explain more about social skills? And how old is your child?

After scratch, we tried this: - https://www.codemonkey.com/ (mix of block programming and python) . Step by step guidance. A lot of kid-oriented UI/fun stuff. - https://codecombat.…

Maybe your question is a joke but I assume "impacted" means laid off in this context. Kind of like when people say someone "passed away" to mean they died

How does this "special assessment on banks" work? Does the FDIC charge all US banks to cover the missing amount? How are the charges distributed? And what law is this? Also if this…

but that doesn't increase with more deposits, right?

I understand the sentiment, but in this current system, that counts as contributing because eventually it can be exchanged into something that you consume (e.g. food, housing, heal…

The problem is this is very prone to confirmation bias, where you would see and likely find 'evidences' to prove your prior guess of what the authors actually wanted to say.

> Although the Colombian court filing indicates that ... its responses were fact-checked The problem is that the fact-checkers themselves can make mistakes and chatGPT is very good…