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by baursak 9y ago
> They liked their genocides like they liked their mines and factories -- huge. Wut? How many huge genocides exactly did the Soviets commit? As in killing off entire ethnic groups? I can't really name any, although I can definitel
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by baursak 9y ago
The "money" is always there. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/stephanie-kelton-how-...
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How long will you walk from Stanley Park to the border of Burnaby? By that logic, you can get anywhere in Canada simply by walking as well.
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by baursak 9y ago
> Watching the sun get eaten by a black void activates something deep inside the animal brain. I was planning to have my 5 year old son see it. But now I wonder whether it will have any traumatic effect on him.
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by baursak 9y ago
You seem to be mixing up several things here. Central planning, totalitarianism, and communism/socialism are not the same thing, and can't be used interchangeably, just because the USSR happened to have all three going on. Each on
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by baursak 9y ago
Then by that same definition, free market is so fragile that it's an impossible pipe dream. Any actor that gains enough power to influence the market destroys the free market by its mere existence. To take it to its extreme -- you cann
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by baursak 9y ago
I meant something that at least acknowledges the existence of arguments outside of Austrian school, let alone capitalist economics, and then analyzes merits of both/all.
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The point is that companies like Walmart operate internally just like Soviet Union. The USSR was also constrained by a global capitalist market system and traded extensively with other countries, including the U.S. Further, Walmart has an e
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by baursak 9y ago
I don't see how winning a Nobel prize makes someone less ideological, especially if they're already widely known as particularly ideological. For example, Soviet economist Kantorovich won the same prize the year following Hayek fo
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by baursak 9y ago
That's why I asked about something non-ideological, and neither Mises nor Hayek are that. Found this though, which brings up good counter-points to libertarian criticism of central planning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by baursak 9y ago
> google "the Socialist Calculation Debate" I can't seem to find the document you're referring to and its conclusions, Wikipedia page? Is there a balanced discussion on the subject somewhere that is not from Mises Ins
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by baursak 9y ago
> Central Planning, as reasonable as it sounds, can only play a very limited role in a free society. USA, for example, has a lot of central planning, in the private sector alone, not even considering the public sector. Any large mega-c
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by baursak 9y ago
Are there similar studies of kids' heights comparing vegetarian/vegan and meat diets?
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The part that comes from risk in this case is the biggest chunk of the interest though. If we assume that AAA-rated have "no risk".
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Thanks, this was useful.
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There's a lot of space between "wouldn't possibly do that this way" and "is it plausible that they've done it that way?"
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by baursak 9y ago
NASA cannot get stuff into space anymore without Soviet rockets. That's today, now.
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> That is not really a critical look. It is "but Russians wouldn't possibly do that this way" rehashed several times over. You posted this comment 7 minutes after I posted the link. 6 minutes prior to that, you posted anot
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by baursak 9y ago
No, no concrete evidence was ever presented. The entire premise of this huge ongoing media sensation has still not been proven and begs for quality, in-depth investigative journalism, but only fringe ultra-right or ultra-left media outlets
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There's also MMT. E.g. https://www.thenation.com/article/the-rock-star-appeal-of-mo... or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d57M6ATPZIE for overview.
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by baursak 9y ago
That's why I said there was an argument, instead of anything definitive. There's a link to a Wikipedia revision discussing this in length on this StackExchange page: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions&#x2F
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by baursak 9y ago
Nayirah, for example, was also indeed a child. But she was also a propaganda operation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)
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by baursak 9y ago
There's an argument that "real" in "real estate" doesn't mean "tangible", but comes from "royal" or "real" in Spanish, meaning the King ultimately owns all the land.
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Forgot one more item: CEO has the same desk as everybody else. But we also know to never book a certain conference room where he hangs out all day.
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You don't need to point to social responsibility programs to show that it's falsifiable. Simply point to CEOs outrageous self-serving compensation and other perks, and numerous conflicts between active investors and management. h
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by baursak 9y ago
Are you referring to a Thousand Plateaus?
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This seems like a classical case of right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing at a huge institution, multiplied by the author's desire to get a 6-paragraph story out, where the headline is half the size of the story&#x27
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by baursak 9y ago
I'm curious to find out more about looking for and getting a tech job in Japan, as well as the overall working environment. Did you look at specific jobsites? Do you speak Japanese? Are tech companies in Japan similar in culture to you
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by baursak 9y ago
If you define success solely by the amount of money, sure.
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Israel is a very special case in American political life, compared to any other country. Even UK and Canada are not anywhere near close to the level of influence Israel has over US politics. There was an insightful article drawing parallels

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