RodericDay

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by RodericDay 9y ago
Morally, advertisers know what they're doing, too.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
In my experience, FPS enthusiasts do tend to manifest some pretty bad traits that are less common among other types of gamers. Interesting. Especially stuff related to "race realism" and various forms of sexism.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
"Delusions of Gender" is a good book that explains how brain science, still in its infancy and unable to create good baseline controls to separate cultural from biological factors, is misreported to create garbage headlines like &
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I grew up in Peru and knew lots of kids who didn't know anything about their own country outside of their little get-rich-quick schemes, and hated anyone who rocked the boat, even as fierce critics sounded warning bells of challenges a
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Iain Banks is the kind of writer who wouldn't take military funding. If you don't care, and encourage initiatives like these, you will never get it.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Someone clueless speaking confidently is always a joy to read.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Obama is also not a leftist. Sanders, Nina Turner or Keith Ellison are the bare minimum that one could consider a leftist.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
There's no real way of describing the Clintons as "left" that would satisfy any self-described leftist. They just have no connection whatsoever to any historical leftist movement.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
The facts are absolutely not clear, it's a hotly debated historical topic, and the fact that you claim it's clear is just a testament to how the American education system chooses to portray its own history to its children.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
One thing I find very interesting is how entertainment media, probably as a result of needing to pander to whatever the mainstream sensibility of the moment is, really works as a barometer for how people in America see themselves. Back when
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by RodericDay 9y ago
It's gonna be great busting out this comment next time dang or another mod is crying that I'm being too mean and hostile to some duped liberal or conservative.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Here's an explanation. Doctors and lawyers make for great television and movies, because of the drama involved and the ease of portraying it. Pretty girls are also a requirement for entertainment, for <reasons>. So many doctor an
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Absurd. It's a fantastic venue for substantive debate, technical political and mediatic. You're speaking confidently about something you're ignorant about.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Twitter is an excellent venue for discussion. It's one thing to complain that you don't like it, and another to pretend it's widely agreed upon as an invalid source.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
So what? Imagine if America got bombed and then people used the behavior of poorly understood minority sectors of the country as justification. Man, as an outsider looking in, it seems like the propaganda program surrounding the atomic bomb
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I definitely don't think terrorism is more justified if it saves your own peers' lives. The narrative that it saved Japanese lives is based on wrong premises (they'd never surrender, etc.), but tries to build a persuasive arg
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by RodericDay 9y ago
The idea that the USA bombed Japan to spare Japanese civilians from a worse fate is just absurd. The underlying logic is extremely controversial, and relies a lot in "othering" the Japanese, and talking about them in terms like &q
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by RodericDay 9y ago
idk, I don't study the topic in-depth. However, I live here, and it's incredible. Every time some economist (or, worse, economics enthusiast) makes a ludicrous claim like "rent control is objectively and universally agreed up
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I despise Breitbart but I agree that there's a really sad irony when readers of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist point at others and never look at themselves. The PropOrNot scandal was a disaster, but its vict
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I'm very left wing, with my favourite publication being Current Affairs, and American Conservative often has decent stuff. Best takes on the Hamilton musical, curiously enough.
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American Conservative: Don't Whitewash the Hiroshima Bombing(theamericanconservative.com)
24 points by RodericDay 9y ago|31 comments
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Montreal is amazing, actually. Thanks, universally-slandered rent-control! Living in this city makes me realize how cargo-culty a lot of HN economics is.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
You should read "Marx's Inferno" then.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
> James Bessen of Boston University has provided suggestive evidence that rent-seeking behavior has been increasing. In a 2016 paper Bessen demonstrates that, since 2000, “political factors” account for a substantial part of the increas
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I'd say it's exactly the opposite. The guy blatantly broke the law, but you seem to he very attached to him because you see him as some kind of noble do-gooder.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Sort of. While I studied engineering, it was common to get in spats with lefty liberal-arts types, who always brought everything around to talk of class, rich vs. poor, and so on. I mainly read The Economist, the New York Times, the New Yor
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by RodericDay 9y ago
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/02/all-of-your-attempts-... > For some reason, recently a number of writers seem to have taken it upon themselves to salvage Martin Shkreli’s reputation. Previously, there ha
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I don't really understand why it's so hard for some "internet skeptics" to understand Monsanto is an awful corporation. Every single time there's someone "reluctantly" doing overtime in their defense.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
> I know people who would lose their home if it were not using Airbnb to rent out their guest room(s). I know people who are feeling increased pressure to participate in the Airbnb game, so as to not get priced-out by people who are doin
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by RodericDay 9y ago
"Delusions of Gender" has a cool anecdote along these lines. Parents claim they've learned nature trumps nurture. They gave girl firetrucks, found her tucking the firetruck to bed. Parents conclude it's the nurturing fem

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