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by baursak 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076 "Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something. Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a
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by baursak 7y ago
The rich also kept buying mortgage backed securities all the way until they suddenly wanted to sell them all.
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by baursak 7y ago
Rural areas have a much larger ecological footprint than urban areas, per capita . There's no way around that.
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by baursak 7y ago
Yet another Western hypocritical "oh no, Chinese want to consume almost as much as we do, think of the consequences!".
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by baursak 7y ago
I don't think they own most of their locations. They're just leasing long-term and subleasing short-term.
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by baursak 7y ago
MMT is both a description of the current system , a system that is already in place, and a set of policy proposals. So "believing" in MMT may simply mean understanding clearly the process already happening.
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by baursak 8y ago
> It follows that most of the articles that appear opposed to powerful interests are a) inconsequential, or b) used as a distraction, helping to create the impression that the paper is anything but a powerful conservative force. It could
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by baursak 8y ago
How many times in your job did you have to implement reversing a string without calling a library?
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by baursak 8y ago
Capitalism developed within the past 400 years or so. Markets existed for millenia. I don't want to sound rude, but these are just basic facts.
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by baursak 8y ago
Markets existed long before capitalism. So saying "capitalism is just a market" is just plainly incorrect.
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by baursak 8y ago
There was a period after the collapse of the USSR when there were a lot of private TV channels being set up, which would just show latest Hollywood bootlegs. Some movies which were still in theaters in the US would be shown on TV. That, and
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by baursak 8y ago
Here is a pretty interesting philosophical take on the hated leaf blower: http://julesboykoff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Boykoff_L...
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by baursak 8y ago
> Israel is one of the least religious countries on earth Not according to this Gallup poll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_coun...
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by baursak 8y ago
I'd consider 51% to be a significant chunk of the population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_coun...
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by baursak 8y ago
Did he account for a religious population which thinks that suicide is a major sin?
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by baursak 8y ago
> Suburbs are structurally lonely I think it's a factor, but not a major one. Look at Tokyo, for example, which is probably very close to an ideal urban living arrangement in terms of density/comfort. Yet Japan also has a huge
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by baursak 8y ago
His son Aaron Mate is pretty good as well.
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by baursak 8y ago
That is nowhere near Iran's posture or policy.
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by baursak 8y ago
> Since they are not doing so What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...
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by baursak 8y ago
That sounds kinda strange, given the in the last 15 years there was plenty of reform going on, like the whole Perestroika thing.
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by baursak 8y ago
I’m aware that there were money and shopping in the USSR, thanks. I’m also aware that there was no real estate market in the USSR, daycare and education of all levels was free, vacations weren’t paid for, etc. I’m assuming none of those are
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by baursak 8y ago
> Innovation works best in competitive capitalistic environments Well, a huge chunk of innovation in capitalist countries happen on university campuses or within government funded organizations like DARPA or NASA, or within communist-lik
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by baursak 8y ago
> I investigated case with planning in USSR and found that all planing was done by single woman. That's interesting. Are you saying that the functionality of entire Gosplan organization from the 1920s all the way to the end was done
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by baursak 8y ago
I think there were several different periods where things were not bad, and when things were not that great, like the 60s, 70s, or 80s, and different people who lived in the USSR refer to different periods, so you get people claiming very d
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by baursak 8y ago
> A huge jump? Versus the tsar regime, probably - it was a catastrophe in itself. But compared to the Western world, GDP growth was miserable and clearly behind all "modern" countries in comparison. I'm curious, how useful
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by baursak 8y ago
For those more interested in this, there's a follow-up to comments, which results in this (still on-going?) exchange: - The original article (linked by OP): http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-u
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by baursak 8y ago
It's not just about signed laws. It's about pressure from many angles. I doubt Bezos liked Bernie's bill that was literally called Stop BEZOS. I doubt Bezos enjoys continuous media coverage saying Amazon workers need food sta
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by baursak 8y ago
There's a much older and a much more substantive article about this as well: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/magazine/a-patel-motel-ca...
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by baursak 8y ago
Atomization and social alienation has long been a charge against capitalism as a system. It's interesting that this trend is similar in both the US and Japan, so can't really be explained by something like American car-centric inf
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by baursak 8y ago
The BLS statistic isn't filtering by enterprise size. Does it include self-employed guys who registered a company and named themselves CEO?

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