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If I can look up Wikipedia, why can't Julian E. Barnes, Mark Mazzetti and Maggie Haberman? Does the NYT really need three highly-paid stenographers?
en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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And the lesson transfers to RL pretty easily.
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Fortunately only need the second and third on Bluesky and Mastodon, as the structure is mostly troll-proof
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That's denial. Even in the unlikely event of Trump leaving at the end of his current term, the US as it was imagined is gone forever. But it's not surprising that the head of NATO would want to deny this. Unless it continues without the US, he'll be out of a job soon.
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LOL
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It's a free link www.foreignaffairs.c...
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It's like extricating yourself from an abusive relationship - needs to be done gradually, while keeping the partner sweet as much as possible. In this case, keeping NATO alive as long as possible until the US pulls out or EU defence agreements reach the point that NATO is no longer needed.
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Snap !
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I found it unclear also. "This" could refer to just about anything, from relations between Jews and Muslims to cheap public transport.
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Why, for example, are generous land tax exemptions NS payroll tax breaks for SMEs more important than properly funded schools and health services?
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Not just the special "seven idiots from the backblocks either". Every article on any kind of problem has to be illustrated with an anecdote about some random person's experience. I guess once the news and opinion parts of the paper are shut down, we'll be grateful for these crumbs.
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Lots are fiddly, including text to RIS. Endnote will do it, but I don't own it and it requires you to specify the reference format you are converting. Of course, there is nothing here that involves Artificial Intelligence in any meaningful sense
www.101convert.com/convert/txt-...
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I suspect travel is problematic even for ethnic Chinese who are not PRC citizens. And of course it would be high-risk for anyone to attend a conference in Russia. All cases different, but not fundamentally so.
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Here are some more examples
meetings.skift.com/2...
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My mother wrote her Masters thesis on the demographic panic of 1900 "No Rising Generation"
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That entails addressing barriers that may raise cost of public provision www.ahuri.edu.au/sit...
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I always like these. I was born in 1956, when Blue Suede Shoes was a hit, halfway between the British-Australian music hall song "Botany Bay" and "Pink Pony Club".
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I don't think teenagers went for Pat Boone even in 1957. He just about invented easy listening.
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Same here, so we will have to wait and see
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Because the history of winning wars through saturation bombing is so encouraging? 7 milllion tons on North Vietnam.
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Worth remembering that the US didn't achieve this with the Houthis, who are just a militia.
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And that would achieve?
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Loss of a carrier to a third rate power would end US status as a global hegemon
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Main counterarguments in this article: ships too far away and US would retaliate. Neither of these are relevant now.
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In the absence of really stupid policies (Trump again) there is no danger of running out of PhDs, even with a declining population.
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Based on the observed growth rate of 3% in the US (pre-Trump), I estimate the average Reproduction Rate is about 3, many times the Net Reproduction Rate for the population. The big constraints have been the limited job opportunities for PhD graduates, not the supply of smart candidates.
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So, just as with population in general we can look at the Reproduction Rate for PhDs - how many new PhDs does the average PhD holder train?
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One of the main ways new ideas are generated is through research, most commonly undertaken by people with PhD degrees, who themselves were trained by other PhD holders.
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Long ago, I worked on the economics of casinos. No clocks or natural light, designed to keep pumping money out of pockets.
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I only knew her briefly from her beautiful writing on Substack. A sad loss.
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Maintaining that (including going to the library to photocopy articles) was just about a full-time job for an RA. But reference databases, JSTOR etc eliminated most of that work over the course of several decades. ChatGPT is doing the last little bit.
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