Progressive Social Democrat; Moderate, Sensible Far-Left
I am against I say—against!
Joined February 2021
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Wzywam Wojsko Polskie do ukrócenia tego totalniactwa i zaprowadzenia porządku w Polsce.
"I think Spain overbuilt physical infrastructure relative to its economy and human capital. It has way too much HSR for its population and GDP, and it built its HSR more cheaply than anyone else"
Spanish high speed trains are apparently as dangerous as skydiving, and only 3x safer than helicopters.
I think Spain overbuilt physical infrastructure relative to its economy and human capital. It has way too much HSR for its population and GDP, and it built its HSR more cheaply than anyone else; knowing Spain, this was probably more cutting corners than efficiency. An accusation often levied against China, actually true for Spain.
Spain should have focused more on deregulation and enforcing basic property rights. It only really needs HSR between Madrid and Barcelona.
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It really is *mad* that the global financial crisis (and the Cameron / Osborne response to the aftermath) is just utterly absent from any discussions about why we are where we are. We've never recovered
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The dumbest people in the world defending this as muh Evropan Values when you could achieve the same thing at lower cost by making the state pay for this with taxes instead of putting the liability on the employer for no fault of their own.
European hiring rules are genuinely insane.
For example - if you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees gets sick, you are required to pay at least 70% of their wages for up to 2 years.
If they can't go back to work after 2 years and you haven't done enough for their reintegration, you pay their wages for 1 more year. And you can't fire them until after that extra year!
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Coincedentally, this is also what the US Department of Education would be posting had Hillary Clinton been elected president
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I think freedom of speech is definitely greater in the West, in the sense that you are far less likely to go to prison for what you say (which to be clear I think is very important and not something to be dismissed), but this kind of self-congratulatory comment is kind of delusional and shows a lack of self-awareness more than anything.
In France, we have hate speech laws on the books and we actually enforce them (there is a guy who has done several stints in prison for publishing totally irrelevant Holocaust denial pamphlets read by maybe a few dozen people), but even in the US where speech has strong legal protection your life can definitely become very unpleasant if you violate social taboos.
"The bourgeoisie finds itself involved in a constant battle. At first with the aristocracy; later on, with those portions of the bourgeoisie itself, whose interests have become antagonistic to the progress of industry; at all times, with the bourgeoisie of foreign countries"
Rothbard impressed!
Cuba’s economy is collapsing in large part because the US government is engaged in illegal and immoral economic warfare against it. | Birsen Filip
mises.org/mises-wire/america…
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Peak British NIMBYism.
Montenegro cannot have an embassy in Pimlico because the daughter of an American diplomat thinks an embassy beside her place is a breach of the human rights and equality act because of her anxiety disorder and long Covid. 🥀🥀🥀
Hahahhahahahahahah fucken hell
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Americans are immune to propoganda, they just on average think 21% of Americans are trans and 27% are Muslim for no real reason
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In October 2002, some 65 percent of Americans believed Saddam Husayn was extremely close to having nuclear weapons, and another 14 percent thought he already had them.
In March 2003, 9 out of 10 Americans thought the US was likely to find evidence of an WMD program in Iraq.
I'll be filling a plagiarism claim soon™
Academic neophytes gotta have their shooters too.
Today on the blog, learn about our new instance of a “sleep” phase in continual learning, which enables LLMs to continuously integrate new facts and enhance reasoning while mitigating catastrophic forgetting or static knowledge cutoffs.
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ALT Overview of our sleep framework: Input streams from the active phase are stored in short-term memory before entering the sleep cycle, which bifurcates into Consolidation (transferring fragile short-term tokens into expanded long-term parametric memory using low-rank structures and MoE) and Dreaming (autonomous self-improvement via synthetic routing with random experts and RL refinement).