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[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000229182038/http://www.usps.g...
The article mentions the availability of short-term postdoctoral fellowships from three European institutions to the “global south”. But they’re in Europe. Of course they’re biased toward Europe because that’s who they’re serving.
The actual issue seems that for whatever reason incumbent US and European institutions look down on peer institutions in other counties (the part about the gatekeepers). Everything else is a hack around that.
[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/corporate-accountability/ama...
Wasn't that because they lost a contract to broadcast cricket? [1]
[1] https://deadline.com/2023/08/disney-ipl-free-cricket-india-s...
We just had a whole conversation on what happens when a non-engineering mentality dominates organizations (Boeing). Now we have a case of a leader sacrificing academic reputation for political purposes.
And Ars had always split pages. Especially with the Siracusa Mac OS X reviews.
Would it have made a difference if the visa application allowed a student to stay in Canada indefinitely, and not go “back to China”?
Also, there's a 17 hour time difference between Korea and Los Angeles.
Rent seeking? Media companies that actually create content are rent seeking? Versus the garbage hallucinations AI creates?
Or was it because carriers couldn’t get their shit together? [1]
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/verizon-att-and-t-mo...