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This article, and especially its title, is extremely misleading. Kim Il Sung was a guerrilla fighter AGAINST the Japanese in northern China, winning accolades as a part of the Chinese communist army before taking over north Korea. Leaders
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thanks for your input.
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Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music(openculture.com)
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Ask HN: What is the optimal iteration?
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http://wagonhq.com , which is in beta, is phenomenal
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it's colder and more isolated in canada and fewer people want to live there. same for scandinavia. hence state-sponsored incentives in addition to market-driven ones. it is the economics of supply/demand that drive culture (stat
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South Korea, Japan Reach Landmark Deal on WWII Sex Slaves(nytimes.com)
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transfer rates for the top schools are extremely low
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new york tap is still amazing, compared to la
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that's just embarrassing. for your currency units to get up to 175 quadrillion (i don't even know how many zeros that is) means you've faced extended periods of hyperinflation. it's like when you have an Excel error in
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UK couple have dead dog cloned in South Korea(theguardian.com)
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Confucianism has very little to do with Zen
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#WisdomOfCrowds
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Mysterious Golden Object Stumps Experts, Gets Solved by Facebook(nbcnews.com)
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Congrats SpaceX on landing Falcon suborbital booster stage. Welcome to the club(twitter.com)
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how are you defining innovation? Japan, for example, became the 2nd biggest economy (with 10% of China's population) by improving cars, electronics and shipping (among other things). is that innovation? rather than inventing new pro
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how can you not understand the convenience factor? do you mean, why would you buy a home pregnancy test at Walgreen when you can just schedule an appointment at a doctor? are you kidding me? because it saves time and money, that's wh
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What Just Happened in Solar Is a Bigger Deal Than Oil Exports(bloomberg.com)
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before we shed a tear for these erstwhile celebrities let's indeed take a look at the economics. in statistical terms their curse (and I will argue, their blessing) is kurtosis. earnings by entertainers (such as in pro sport, film, TV,
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the pupils, or my perception of the pupils, don't seem to be focusing or moving naturally.
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i can only describe the biggest thing missing in very unscientific terms: there is no light, or life, in their eyes. whatever that means.
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Colombia says it has found 'holy grail' of shipwrecks(aljazeera.com)
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Leave it to a private institution like the NY times to have the gonads to do what Obama will not. Should we start a countdown, or an over/under pool, on when Obama will actually do something about this "gun epidemic"? Obviou
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> Moral of the story: make babies outside of your own ethnic group. That is absolutely the wrong conclusion to make from the source. The suggestion of the source is that if two people prone to systemized-thinking mate ( regardless of e
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Would it help you if it were "Free Hawai'i"? That timeline is comparable. Your last statement confuses me. What does Dalai Lama have to do with Buddhism? The Dalai Lama is not the head of Buddhism but the head of Tibet, whi
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Western meddling in Sino-Tibetan affairs by the US government is understandable and is just international politics. But meddling by so-called 'anti-establishment' celebrities is the height of irony. The equivalent of Russell Bran
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List of top title holders in Go (2013)(en.wikipedia.org)
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from an evolutionary psychology standpoint, we are all driven to constantly increase our social value (and indirectly that of our offspring). once you hit a certain level of wealth, it is rational for you to shift your attention from making
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> Marx said that the fundamental driver of human history was the conflict between classes. Darwin believed it was the evolutionary struggle for survival. Others have claimed that the most important force for change is the clash of civili
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Korean County Achieves Its Goal: Less Birth Control, More Babies(nytimes.com)
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