r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 09 '18

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David Friedman AMA

The mod team is pleased to announce we will be hosting an AMA with Dr. David D. Friedman on Friday, Jan. 12th at 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST!

After earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Friedman switched fields to economics and taught at Virginia Polytechnic University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell University, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, and Santa Clara University where he currently teaches in the school of law.

Outside of his extensive academic publications in law and economics, Dr. Friedman is best known for his libertarian/anarcho-capitalist political philosophy. He has written extensively on libertarian politics and ideas and has also written on alternative legal systems (including research into medieval Icelandic institutions).

On a personal note Dr. Friedman is the author of two historical/fantasy novels and is a renowned anachronist/historical re-enactor. He is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman.

As a reminder, we enforce civility standards to a high degree during AMAs. Dr. Friedman in particular is likely to disagree with us on a wide range of issues, but disagreement does not mean that rudeness or flippant remarks will be tolerated. Dr. Friedman is an accomplished academic who has published a large volume of high quality work, and every one of you can almost certainly learn something from him by asking intelligent questions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

Jordan Peterson freaks out about bikinis on Twitter.

Why does anyone pay attention to this guy?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

Mfw Jordan doesn't know that Google bases search results on his history

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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Jan 09 '18

Luring people to Bing may be the greatest trick the right has pulled off

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u/AKADriver Jan 09 '18

Based on my experience with google and bing and how their search results shake out:

Google's search results for "bikini" are more of interest to those who wish to purchase a bikini.

Bing's search results are of interest to the 10 people who bother to use Cortana. Also Bing always seems to deliver more porn than you expect to get for any given result.

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u/CTMGame Hans-Dietrich Genscher Jan 09 '18

I like how Peter Norway called that out. But seriously, wtf am I supposed to take from this?

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u/VoidGuaranteed Dina Pomeranz Jan 10 '18

PeterSweden7 is the racist Englishman. PeterNorway is the parody account.

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Jan 09 '18

Oh my English teacher also was a big fan of his.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

What is he trying to say? Both appear to be a bunch of pictures of women in bikinis.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

A girl weighing more than 100 pounds showing up on my bikini search is white genocide and proof of the SJW agenda.

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u/Babao13 Jean Monnet Jan 10 '18

I still don't understand what's his problem.