barry-cotter

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by barry-cotter 4d ago
I cycle everywhere in Shanghai and I would not even buy a bike if I lived in the US. Motorcycles are for wannabe organ donors. Maybe I’d change my mind if robocars took over from human driven ones but I’d be hesitant about commuting by bike
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How to buy a good car for $1000(abio.substack.com)
145 points by barry-cotter 5d ago|233 comments
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The Shortage of Marriageable Women(rbaumeisterexistentialcontrarian.substack.com)
3 points by barry-cotter 5d ago|0 comments
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The Rise and Fall of Crime(nicholasdecker.substack.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 6d ago|1 comments
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The Cordon Sanitaire/Brandmauer Was a Mistake(twitter.com)
5 points by barry-cotter 9d ago|0 comments
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by barry-cotter 10d ago
Decline is used in the article only to refer to test scores and budgetary shortfalls are laid at the feet of a school board caving in to union demands. At no point is there any suggestion that money is a limiting factor in raising student a
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"The Heroic Ideal – A Personal Odyssey" by Diana Wynne Jones(petson.livejournal.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 10d ago|0 comments
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Men Are Slaves to the Women Here(ggd.world)
2 points by barry-cotter 12d ago|0 comments
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by barry-cotter 12d ago
Seattle public school spending per student has ~tripled in the last twenty years. There has been no meaningful decline.
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The Silicon Man(arenamag.com)
1 points by barry-cotter 12d ago|0 comments
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The Decade of Decline in Seattle Public Schools(educationprogress.org)
8 points by barry-cotter 12d ago|6 comments
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Scott Galloway: The Impossibility of Turning Men into the Progressiv9(conorfitzgerald.com)
1 points by barry-cotter 13d ago|0 comments
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Just Bury Your Trash(worksinprogress.co)
4 points by barry-cotter 15d ago|1 comments
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European Stagnation Is Real(siliconcontinent.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 18d ago|1 comments
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Other People – Neil Gaiman(xpressenglish.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 21d ago|0 comments
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Don't Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown(onehundredpages.wordpress.com)
4 points by barry-cotter 22d ago|1 comments
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Verifiable Domains Will Eat the World(twitter.com)
3 points by barry-cotter 24d ago|0 comments
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The Cognitive Barrier to Teaching(educationrealist.substack.com)
1 points by barry-cotter 26d ago|0 comments
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[BOOK REVIEW] The Escape Artist(astralcodexten.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 26d ago|0 comments
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Jason Arday Did a Lot of Harm(etanaedelman.substack.com)
16 points by barry-cotter 26d ago|1 comments
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Elite Deformation(thecritic.co.uk)
2 points by barry-cotter 29d ago|0 comments
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Give Up on Your Creative Dreams(russellwalter.substack.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 1mo ago|0 comments
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An Editor's Guide to Spotting AI Writing(capx.co)
1 points by barry-cotter 1mo ago|0 comments
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Y Combinator is doing things(twitter.com)
3 points by barry-cotter 1mo ago|0 comments
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[STORY] A Realistic Scenario(twitter.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 1mo ago|0 comments
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How do you make a 250x better vaccine at 1/10 the cost? Develop it in India(owlposting.com)
4 points by barry-cotter 1mo ago|0 comments
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by barry-cotter 1mo ago
> Fertility rates in higher and middle-income countries have reached record lows. Today, over 2 billion people – more than a quarter of the global population – live in countries with a total fertility rate below 1.3. This level would lea
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The global fertility freefall: trends, drivers and uncertainties(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by barry-cotter 1mo ago|2 comments
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The Liberal Turn Against Free Speech(twitter.com)
1 points by barry-cotter 1mo ago|2 comments
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by barry-cotter 1mo ago
Degrowth is about reversing growth, not slowing it. A de crease is a reduction, not a slowing. It’s about reversing the sign, not changing the first derivative.

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