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by ue_ 9y ago
>but local people undertand the chemistry and culture of specific ingredients and why it was choosen for a dish So can foreigners who are familiar with Japanese food, or non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan. I understand your analogy
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>Is it xenophobic to suggest he might prefer to go back to the previous situation? This is totally a wrong interpretation of what I was saying. I was only commenting on that line in particular, not saying that what he was doing in genera
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by ue_ 9y ago
>I suspect they are? I mean, if they weren't showing up then the restaurant would be out of business, no? Sorry, I was under the impression that he's talking about the Michelin rating people showing up and telling them how good
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by ue_ 9y ago
>“Japanese food was created here, and only Japanese know it,” Mr. Kadowaki said in an interview. “How can a bunch of foreigners show up and tell us what is good or bad?” I feel like this has a xenophobic undertone to it; nobody's sh
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Furthermore, I'd suggest "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies here. We already know markets are good at organizing production, we should use them to do that. Although not broken (if we're talking in
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by ue_ 9y ago
In my view it is a sign more of the fact that Venezuela thought it could depend so much on oil that it failed to diversify rather than a failure of its mode of planning, though that's not without criticism, one would have hoped they le
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by ue_ 9y ago
> Theoretically I think it's true because there are far too many variables at play in economies of any decent size for a national government to efficiently organize it. This has been a common complaint, though it's not without
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Markets are necessary for successful diversification - avoiding shortages and economic collapses when key industries suffer downturns. Out of interest, why do you think this is true? (Edit: Why does this comment have a score of -2? What
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by ue_ 9y ago
That's true, I think that Socialists should abandon older and rigid methods of central planning; research has been active within the Socialist community for finding new methods of planning, such as the work of Paul W. Cockshott. That s
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by ue_ 9y ago
Although a Socialist (using this in the sense of lower-stage Communist, rather than as Marx used it as synonymous with Communism) market economy can be practicable, China does not have it - most notably because there is wage labour and priv
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This isn't driven by Communist ideology; if it were, we'd see a return back to Mao's vaguely Marxist policy, not a continuation of Deng; the Chinese are fine with capitalists.
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Quite a few classically trained economists then go on to become neo-Ricardians or Marxists, as the content of classical political economy is often ignored or dismissed out of hand - but the idea of the classically trained economist as someo
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by ue_ 9y ago
>I find it very dubious that the "Income Inequality" sits at the very first section Deciding on what to start a bigger work is always a problem with things like this, so I wouldn't be too harsh on it. I believe I read th
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by ue_ 9y ago
>a point of view to lead readers to be left wing economists. Oh come on, that's ridiculous. If you think Keynesianism is "left wing economics", you've got another thing coming: Marxian economics has been excluded from
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by ue_ 9y ago
>The only way to counter bad ideas is with good ones. Absolute rubbish; bad ideas spread through people, thus you need to be able to reach people when you counter bad ideas, but people generally aren't controlled by their rationalit
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by ue_ 9y ago
Open source social networks already exist, for example GNU Social and Mastodon which form part of the Fediverse.
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Libertarian ideals do not fit in communist societies. Regulation was always coming, as even liberal societies regulate. I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here; that regulation is a Communist idea? Either way
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by ue_ 9y ago
I wonder if this will be seen as when people say "Just stop using drugs" to drug addicts. Facebook for those who use it can have immense real or imaginary utility; it's not as simple as telling someone not to use it, unless t
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by ue_ 9y ago
> they are complete anathema to socialism and must be overcome for any sort of socialism to be implemented. False, Oscar Wilde writes about how Socialism is the very peak of individualism, core freedom for artists and scientists especial
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by ue_ 9y ago
>I'm more interested in the reality than the theory. Reality requires theory; you simply can't claim to make a comment on modern Socialism without reading about what theories modern Socialists have created as to how the economy
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>In Venezuela they are currently telling people to eat rabbits as Socialism is working out so well for them. I don't mean to sound like the stereotypical "leftist" by saying that Venezuela isn't a Socialist country, b
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Why do we accept this? Because not enough people are fed up with it, or at least not fed up with it directly, in order to organise and change the system; there are many easier things to blace one's blame on, things which seem easie
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by ue_ 9y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
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by ue_ 9y ago
I don't think it does make boring reading at all. In fact, it makes very important reading - the strange drive-by downvoting culture on HN deserves to be called out. And as I have noted elsewhere, those are merely guidelines; if they a
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by ue_ 9y ago
Some HNers have a tendency to want to downvote without leaving an explanation as to why or a rebuttal to the point; one would think to expect better behaviour from those who the HN moderators thought it fit to trust with the power to downvo
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by ue_ 9y ago
That said, there's a big argument to be made that the distinction between analytic and continental is false, useless and on a shaky foundation of approximations even with massive overlap.
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by ue_ 9y ago
Why the downvotes for my comment? And why is this comment downvoted? If you don't think my comment above was substantive or helpful, please tell me so that I can improve the quality of my posts.
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>Philosophy of Science, I think, is almost a completely bogus field. A coherent philosophy of science is required for science to be based on valid premises. I don't know what you mean by this, unless you're referring to somethi
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I wouldn't say that modern philosophers, or even old philosophers, have had much of an effect on current legislative decisions concerning things like euthanasia. As to what extent they have influenced real communities I also don't
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The article starts with a question which asks about the present very clearly, but then answers a different question of what philosophers did (i.e the past) without any reference to modern philosophers. Modern philosophers analyse older ph

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