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Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?
- masonkay 7y agoIs there an alternate article link without paywall?
- wolfgke 7y agoUse Incognito Mode.
- vuln 7y agoBittercynic meantioned in another comment on a different post the following method. “Fwiw adding 0.0.0.0 samizdat-graph to your /etc/hosts fixes this for me”
- gruez 7y ago> samizdat-graph what? that's not even a valid domain.
- bittercynic 7y agoshould be 0.0.0.0 samizdat-graphql.nytimes.com in /etc/hosts
- vuln 7y agoThanks! I really appreciate your tip!
- alde 7y agoHmm, interesting GQL endpoint name choice by NYT devs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoThis should help: "If you're using Chrome 74+, you can set a flag that prevents sites from detecting that you're using Incognito mode. Go to chrome://flags and enable "Filesystem API in Incognito". That's it! Sites won't know you're in Incognito anymore (until they find a new sneaky way)." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20375023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20375023
- masonkay 7y agoThanks for the trick HeWhoLurksLate, it worked!
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoYou're welcome! I wish I was clever enough to come up with it, the GP has where I found it.
- squeezingswirls 7y agoFor Firefox you can try https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
- dvduval 7y agoFor mobile, download Chrome beta, and then open in incognito mode. You'll get the 10 articles left message.
- jazzyjackson 7y agoWorks great with javascript disabled
- dogma1138 7y agoBecause the Saudis have a ton of money to spend; more than they can spend locally.
- tw1010 7y agoWhat a weird theory.
- bobthepanda 7y agoHow is it strange? Spending all that money locally (and they try very hard to with welfare schemes and building new cities like Kingdom City and whatnot) will just spike inflation, since the economy can only use money so quickly. It's what happened to the Spanish when they destroyed their economy by mining all that colonial gold and silver. https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/Prices-and-inflation https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/Prices-an...
- jraines 7y ago“The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!” Arthur Jensen, NETWORK (1976)
- catacombs 7y agoGreat movie. Great play.
- ed312 7y agoI don't understand the protests. I would expect educating Saudi youth in exceptionally liberal institutions like universities in the Northeast to have a net liberalizing effect on the Saudi government and culture long term. Is this not a better use of Saudi funds then e.g. buying more weapons?
- seieste 7y agoKim Jong Un was educated in Switzerland, which has a very strong democratic environment, yet it didn’t change about how he ran North Korea.
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- BeetleB 7y agoWould you argue that his education in Switzerland made North Korea any worse?
- throw20102010 7y agoNot GP, but his education in Switzerland clarifies the fact that the leadership does not believe the propaganda they give to their populace. Kim is very aware that the promise of better living conditions is not a "lie manufactured by the West." He knows how bad his people have it compared to the rest of the world and still chooses to run his country the way he does. Food shortages are not a thing in Switzerland and also not a problem in his palace, but they are in other parts of DPRK. So maybe his Swiss education doesn't make his citizens worse off, but we do know it's not some misled idealist at the helm, but rather a dictator that knows full well what he's doing.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoIt certainly didn’t improve things either. He is a murderer like the rest of the family.
- melling 7y ago
- saudijulia 7y agoThe Julia lab is seemingly one of those beneficiaries [1]. [1] https://karpinski.org/images/2017,bezanson,julia%20-%20a%20fresh%20approach%20to%20technical%20computing.pdf https://karpinski.org/images/2017,bezanson,julia%20-%20a%20f...
- jccalhoun 7y agoI did my phd at an R1 university with a large international student population mostly from China and South Korea. When I graduated I got a adjunct job at a nearby liberal arts college of about 1/3 the size and was surprised that most of their international students were Saudis.
- GoodJokes 7y agoWhy do programmers get paid so much?
- amai 7y ago“Pecunia non olet” (Money does not stink) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
- keepsmiling 7y agoThe Saudis are forming opinions, so they're giving you money.