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Ask HN: What makes it to the RSS feed?
4 points by andrenth 8y ago|2 comments
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We Must Defend Free Thought(quillette.com)
27 points by andrenth 8y ago|11 comments
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School Choice: For All but the Poor(fee.org)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Deepfakes and the Threat to Privacy and Truth(quillette.com)
4 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Benefits of Brexit(mises.org)
16 points by andrenth 8y ago|4 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
It’s asciidoctor, and it’s indeed really nice. https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/
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A Dark Moment for the Yellow Vest Movement(spectator.org)
3 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
I’m ashamed to say I’ve never read her, although I’ve recently bought a book of short stories to try to fix that :)
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by andrenth 8y ago
My first exposure to Bolaño was the short story “Last evenings on earth”, which is about a father vacationing with his son. This story has a strange sense of urgency that puts you on the edge of your seat, and even if in the end not much ha
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by andrenth 8y ago
The Savage Detectives and 2666 remain among my favorite fiction books. I’m sorry that I’ve only heard of Bolaño after his death, and it’s sad that here in Brazil such a great South American author was only published after being hyped in the
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The Economics for Entrepreneurs Podcast(mises.org)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Poetic Injustice and Performative Outrage(quillette.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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A Boy Who Inflated the Concept of ‘Wolf’(quillette.com)
15 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals(quillette.com)
29 points by andrenth 8y ago|38 comments
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Freedom of Choice Is What Sets Capitalism Apart – Not Competition(mises.org)
3 points by andrenth 8y ago|2 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
> so why do you insist on the human factor, if the intentions don't matter Because, regardless of intention, results are a consequence of human action. > What do you think of emergent properties of a system, for which nobody is t
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by andrenth 8y ago
> Would you call this potentially totalitarian? Absolutely. And “good intentions” is irrelevant, what matters is the results. How do people in that hypothetical society live? Obviously we cannot tell, but we can study history and check h
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by andrenth 8y ago
But “the will of capital” is defined by market demand; in other words, consumers. This is what makes it different from totalitarian imposition.
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by andrenth 8y ago
You say people can always choose and on the next phrase argue for limiting that choice... I don’t know to which front page you’re referring but honestly the comments from the CBC head quoted in the article sound like those of a bureaucrat w
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by andrenth 8y ago
Can you point specifically to a racial issue related to the presidential election? I think the news you read are only repeating the slogans of his opponents.
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by andrenth 8y ago
Can't people still choose though? In that sense there’s no “must”. Those who want to watch Canadian cultural content can freely do so, and the same is valid for those who prefer Netflix. Why shouldn’t everyone in the world have the cho
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Herbert Marcuse: The Philosopher Behind the Ideology of the Anti-Fascists(fee.org)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
> Even if this was true, and there is a mountain of empirical data suggesting it isn't, [...] On the contrary, it's pretty clear that living conditions have been historically getting better worldwide. See, for example, Hans Ros
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by andrenth 8y ago
> Inequality is increasing every year. This is a non sequitur. Inequality doesn’t need to go down for workers to get better living conditions. > they would probably be riding a bike to deliver food [...] or being micromanaged by compu
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by andrenth 8y ago
> give the less privileged opportunities to improve their situation. Isn’t that exactly what the gig economy does? What would Uber drivers be doing if uber ceased to exist? Why aren’t they doing that now?
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Tech Giants, Regulators, and 5G(spectator.org)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
It’s extreme because it reverses a basic economic principle (money is more valuable now than later). You lend me $100 today and I pay you $90 in one year. The idea is to force people to let go of their long term saving goals and spend now,
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American stooges for Venezuela’s dictator(nypost.com)
4 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
But how specifically do you think we can do better? Can it be done without a different kind of human being that does not pursuit his own self-interest?
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by andrenth 8y ago
Why do you remain anti-capitalist if you understand that?

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