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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…

The rich also kept buying mortgage backed securities all the way until they suddenly wanted to sell them all.

Rural areas have a much larger ecological footprint than urban areas, per capita . There's no way around that.

Yet another Western hypocritical "oh no, Chinese want to consume almost as much as we do, think of the consequences!".

I don't think they own most of their locations. They're just leasing long-term and subleasing short-term.

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 …

> 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 pape…

How many times in your job did you have to implement reversing a string without calling a library?

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Markets existed long before capitalism. So saying "capitalism is just a market" is just plainly incorrect.

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…

Here is a pretty interesting philosophical take on the hated leaf blower: http://julesboykoff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Boykoff_L...

> 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...

I'd consider 51% to be a significant chunk of the population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_coun...

Did he account for a religious population which thinks that suicide is a major sin?

> 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…

His son Aaron Mate is pretty good as well.

That is nowhere near Iran's posture or policy.

> Since they are not doing so What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...

That sounds kinda strange, given the in the last 15 years there was plenty of reform going on, like the whole Perestroika thing.

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, vac…

> Innovation works best in competitive capitalistic environments Well, a huge chunk of innovation in capitalist countries happen on university campuses or within government funded …

> 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 organiz…