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Explaining Monogamy to Vox(quillette.com)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?(quillette.com)
12 points by andrenth 8y ago|2 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
The situation here is not the same as what you describe, though, is it? Schools don't have preferences, they just have a number of available spots. I don't see how this cycle could happen in this case.
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by andrenth 8y ago
First, sorry for the "pout" in my previous response. It was supposed to be "point" but the spelling corrector disagreed. I get the "relative well-being" argument, but honestly it doesn't change my mind. It
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by andrenth 8y ago
I wrote about this elsewhere in the thread. You can make this pout about strategizing in future lotteries, but this doesn’t seem to be what happened at all in this specific instance. A more reasonable decision then would have been to allow
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by andrenth 8y ago
Well honestly this example isn’t very convincing. If some bureaucrat thinks children should go to this or that school, we should do it because...? Would you prevent Alice and Bob from experiencing schools that are perfect matches for their
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How to Become a Third World Country(manhattancontrarian.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
Again, please be specific. You trade places with someone else. Now you're on your preferred school and so is the person you traded with. I wasn't able to trade, therefore I'm in the school I was assigned by the lottery. My si
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by andrenth 8y ago
> Your assertion that trade always implies that both parties are better off is just wrong I have never made such an assertion, I've only said that in this specific instance free trade would have made both parties come out better off
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“Skin in the Game”: A Political Treatise for Liberty(fee.org)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
It seems unlikely that this was the case in this instance. You could argue about future lotteries, but it would make more sense to have a system design to avoid these situations. If you and I have each other’s first selection, then we shoul
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by andrenth 8y ago
Please be specific. What are these effects?
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by andrenth 8y ago
Please explain why not doing so in this specific example would not be beneficial.
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by andrenth 8y ago
First consider that students switching schools also can’t be sure their choice is better (what if there’s a bully who will make their life horrible in their preferred school?). So even your premise that “trade is not valid if both parts kno
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by andrenth 8y ago
No one is worse off by others’ exchange, they’re the same as before.
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by andrenth 8y ago
So when you buy a discounted item is it a charade? How can two people being prevented to perform an exchange make things better globally? I don’t think that obvious at all. In fact allowing the exchange will make things better globally, by
737.
by andrenth 8y ago
Two people engaging in consensual trade would be better off by the definition of trade. The judges are keeping them unhappy in the name of “fairness”, but is it fair that this exchange among willing individuals is forbidden? This can be red
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A Few Comments on the Latest Revelations of FBI Corruption(manhattancontrarian.com)
3 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Racism Treadmill(quillette.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Student’s Dilemma: Conformity or Education(quillette.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Legacy of the Soixante-Huitards(quillette.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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The Elites and Inequality: The Rise and Fall of the Managerial Class(quillette.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Celebrating 200 Years of Communism(spectator.org)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Cultural Workers, Unite Today’s Marxist Revolution(spectator.org)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Trying to Control the Climate by Reducing CO2 Emissions Is a Joke(manhattancontrarian.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Complete Polarization in the World of Politics: Climate Change Edition(manhattancontrarian.com)
1 points by andrenth 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 9y ago
This should be the top comment.
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by andrenth 9y ago
Why does the western new left intelligentsia always back authoritarian governments? Castro, Chavez, Maduro, to cite a few, not to mention those who studied under these “highly anti-authoritarian” “intellectuals” like Pol Pot.
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by andrenth 9y ago
> In direct contradiction to the expressive power and beauty of the language itself. Well Go doesn’t particularly excel in the expressiveness department, so in that sense I guess this new logo is fitting?
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All You Need to Know About the Pulitzer Prizes(manhattancontrarian.com)
2 points by andrenth 9y ago|0 comments

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