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Britain: A Cautionary Tale for America(noahpinion.blog)
13 points by barry-cotter 3mo ago|41 comments
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Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract(buildwithtract.com)
27 points by barry-cotter 3mo ago|78 comments
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If You Build It, They Will Come(benlandautaylor.com)
474 points by barry-cotter 3mo ago|211 comments
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Stanford's new freshman curriculum illustrates what's wrong with college(hottakes.space)
2 points by barry-cotter 3mo ago|0 comments
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[STORY] Samsara(slatestarcodex.com)
5 points by barry-cotter 3mo ago|0 comments
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Mea Maxima Culpa(ozybrennan.substack.com)
4 points by barry-cotter 4mo ago|0 comments
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The (Fake) Long Decline of Fertility(lymanstone.substack.com)
3 points by barry-cotter 4mo ago|0 comments
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Britain's Brain Drain, Measured in Mathematical Olympians(substack.com)
3 points by barry-cotter 4mo ago|0 comments
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Politics in the Age of NGOs as Arms of State Censorship(twitter.com)
5 points by barry-cotter 5mo ago|0 comments
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All Non-drone Militaries are Obsolete(noahpinion.blog)
5 points by barry-cotter 5mo ago|1 comments
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Yes, Europeans Are Poorer Than Americans(noahpinion.blog)
3 points by barry-cotter 5mo ago|5 comments
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by barry-cotter 5mo ago
You have not made any attempt as an argument. That’s a pure assertion without even an attempt at a causal chain. Being resilient to non-problems is a cost with no benefit.
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by barry-cotter 5mo ago
> The war in Ethiopia is often cited as the immediate cause, but people have always managed to farm through wars, usually at least enough to avoid the Ethiopian situation. This isn’t true. See the Thirty Years War. There have been many w
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Academics Need to Wake Up on AI(popularbydesign.org)
27 points by barry-cotter 5mo ago|26 comments
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by barry-cotter 5mo ago
> And it doesn't work there, so why would it work for impaired driving? It does actually. See how thieves resident in Florida travel to New York to work because of the different enforcement regimes for one of the clearest possible e
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by barry-cotter 5mo ago
Sorry, what I should’ve said was that it was illegal for them to try and do it since they’re supposed to be non-partisan as a condition of their tax status. Same way as the Brookings Institution maintains the tissue thing pretence that it’s
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by barry-cotter 5mo ago
People who think their opponents are Evil with a capital E generally think that way, yes. See the prevalence of “Punch a Nazi. Lots of Republicans don’t see Democrats as legitimate political opponents and the opposite is very very much tr
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by barry-cotter 5mo ago
This is completely irrelevant to the article. The SPLC committed wire fraud to subsidise the supply of and activities of the kinds of people they told their supporters they were against. Separately, they worked hard over a period of years t
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by barry-cotter 5mo ago
What are the likely long-term consequences of this? Destruction of the SPLC and imprisonment of several officers for wire fraud? Slap on the wrist? End of the widespread use of their censorship product? What would the maximally charitable b
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by barry-cotter 5mo ago
> In Washington, D.C.’s history, there were three superlative predominantly black public schools. Two of them were destroyed, one by negligence, one by malice. The third was almost stillborn, strangled in its infancy and neglected in its
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Hobson vs. Hansen and the Decline of D.C. Schools(educationprogress.org)
5 points by barry-cotter 5mo ago|1 comments
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Healthcare Price Transparency(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 6mo ago|0 comments
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What I Did In The Hedonium Shockwave, by Emma, aged 6 and a half(ozybrennan.substack.com)
3 points by barry-cotter 6mo ago|0 comments
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by barry-cotter 6mo ago
Depends on what they’re studying and where. If you’re a PhD student English Literature at Directional State University most of your compensation is consumption value, not the promise of a career[1] or pecuniary compensation. [1] For the hug
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Social Credit(nicholasdecker.substack.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 6mo ago|1 comments
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Learn SQL Through Games(substack.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 6mo ago|0 comments
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An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the Largest Amish Community(thepsmiths.com)
1 points by barry-cotter 6mo ago|0 comments
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by barry-cotter 6mo ago
> Across the Western world, appointed administrators have gained power at the expense of elected legislators. More and more of the most consequential political decisions are made by bureaucrats and judges, while fewer are made by congres
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The Bureaucrats Won't Be Toppled: Revolts No Longer Work(unherd.com)
8 points by barry-cotter 6mo ago|2 comments
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Education research is weak and sloppy. Why?(theargumentmag.com)
7 points by barry-cotter 6mo ago|0 comments

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