andrenth

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601.
by andrenth 8y ago
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay have all recognized Guaidó as president.
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Upside-Down World of Modern Monetary Theory(mises.org)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Myth of Cuba's Glorious Health Care System(fee.org)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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To Honor Murder Victims, Stop Fixating on the Race of Their Killers(quillette.com)
17 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Networking While Introverted: It Can Be Done(fee.org)
4 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
Cuban statistics cannot be trusted. https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/33/6/755/5035051 Key quote: “(...) evidence that physicians likely reclassified early neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths
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by andrenth 8y ago
> but the fact that Cuba has one of the best medical systems in the entire world This is a lie.
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by andrenth 8y ago
Slavery predates capitalism, it’s definitely not a consequence of it. In fact, since slaves can’t be consumers, capitalism works as an incentive for freedom.
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by andrenth 8y ago
> No Harry Potter local as no magic, no god, no fiary after 1948. I read that as “after 1948, no references to magic, religion, fairies (in other words, the supernatural) is allowed”.
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by andrenth 8y ago
But collectivism is widely popular in the west, no?
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by andrenth 8y ago
I thought this was an interesting read, but the submission seems to have disappeared in minutes (I've looked until page 10). Does anyone know why that would happen?
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In Praise of Boredom, Again(quillette.com)
3 points by andrenth 8y ago|1 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
I’m genuinely curious why my sibling comment was flagged. It was just a statement of fact.
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Cultural Marxism in America: A Historic Overview of Its Origins(medium.com)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Is Religious Belief in Decline?(quillette.com)
16 points by andrenth 8y ago|1 comments
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Patreon Games(quillette.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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High-Performance Functional Programming Through Effect Rotation(degoes.net)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
Why is my comment ideological flamewar? I have linked to a page that cites an academic article about the fake statistics from Cuba. How is that doing worse? Worse than what? I also find it interesting that of all comments in this thread you
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Intellectuals and the Marketplace(mises.org)
3 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
Where do you live, if you don’t mind me asking?
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by andrenth 8y ago
Yes, like Cuba, that paradise where people jump into a sea with sharks in the hopes of escaping to the nightmarish US. https://mises.org/power-market/dont-trust-cuban-health-care-...
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by andrenth 8y ago
It does happen, believe it or not. I recommend "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling if you're interested.
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by andrenth 8y ago
How's the quality of this public healthcare? How long does it take for an appointment or surgery?
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by andrenth 8y ago
To everyone, certainly not. To a lot more people? Definitely. Quality of life is better than ever before, worldwide. We shouldn't discard a system because it's not perfect. The alternative could be much worse.
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by andrenth 8y ago
No, I'm saying: technology becomes cheaper and more available over time. As for you being ashamed: cry me a river.
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by andrenth 8y ago
Metal cutlery was only available to the wealthy in the middle ages. At some point they became widely available for everyone. Such is the way with most technological advances, where the high price initially payed by the rich is turned into m
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by andrenth 8y ago
It doesn’t strike me as anti-science, more like anti bad science? If you can’t reliably reproduce an experiment, you can’t make statistical inference from it. The reproducibility crisis in the humanities is very well known.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Faces Poverty’s Demise Worldwide(spectator.org)
4 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Avant-Garde’s Slide into Irrelevance(quillette.com)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Sweden Myth(mises.org)
3 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments

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