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ok, but besides the fact 90k is absolutely fine for CH as well, and incredibly good for italy, france or austria.

> You dont even live in the Alps with 90K lmao.

this comment is insane...

some people would rather live in paris than los angels or san francisco (and rightly so, if you ask me)...

so, yet another post encouraging the use of AI tools lol... great. that's the literal meaning of the post.

english is my second, third language, and i understood the second immediately, but not the first. go figure.

Rewriting history? Google used the most scummy techniques to get Chrome installed, mostly bundled with completely unrelated things.

wow. your comment is also lunacy, tbh. autistici runs at a small deficit and is a passion project. so they are “yacht people” because they have some computers, a godforsaken server somewhere, and maybe an iphone? and where the hell is this russian money supposed to be?

your fantasy-world ideas do not help anyone grasp the gravity of the situation. they only show that you have zero facts and are filling the gap with random cartoon nonsense.

but sure, censorship of extremely small groups is becoming the norm, and you are here celebrating because the targets are communists, not your kind. where do you think this will lead?

"consumer culture constructs identities"

to be honest, there's no interest in studying capitalism unless you study its mechanisms critically. and i fear yours was foucault-slop, pseudo-radical drivel that didn't even aspire to change anything. no change = no direction = no meaning.

there's some philosophical interest in the question, altho i cannot say exactly where. but if you start from a statement like that and your thesis is mostly a display of what you read, it's barely social science. it is social theory at best, and not particularly good social theory either.

the interesting questions - especially in social sciences - are the hows and not the whys. the mechanisms. that would have been more empirical and more interesting.

push it further and you'll find you're doing marketing research, which is applied sociology anyway: who buys what, and how, and maybe why, at the end.

but twenty years of foucault-slop isn't bad at all. at least you chilled.

he didn't murder an innocent man.

fully agree with this. class is a huge component, and i feel class in germany can be brutal. it starts with the education tracking system that, in practice, decides very early in life what your place in society will be. this creates a system where "social mobility in germany is lower than in most other developed economies" https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/new-evidence-social-mobility-... or https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-social-mobility-among-poorest...

the article is just sharing his positive personal experience... it’s not a sociological treatise. but i agree with you, he’s clearly talking from within a bubble.

not sure he was american, but i am happy he is gone, wherever he is from.

yes i was wondering the same... what's wrong with COBOL? especially in an era of LLM... also, i find COBOL to be way more readable and intuitive than Java.

i had to re-read your comment twice. i thought i might have misunderstood. it’s rare these days to read such a pure, unfiltered ethno-nationalist argument, that level of ethnic and racial essentialism is a rare sight. you are the realest of the real, a true heartfelt nazi. i’m impressed.

lol, i would do it even for free if it helps to train better open models

this little blog post is absolutely shameful and tone-deaf. why is distillation bad if you have literally stolen - and let me underline this word: stolen - all the human knowledge to train your models? isn't that a contradiction? and also... i hope the last few years have made abundantly clear to absolutely everybody that the American government is as dangerous, if not more so, than other authoritarian governments all over the world. if the same logic is applied, i don't see why it should work for china but not for the US.

i want to see a dark sky at night

please, compared to thiel & co., the ccp are basically choir boys. and they worked well for china. they cleaned their cities of unbreathable air and reduced poverty in a very short time span. we cannot say the same for the americans robber barons and their political wing, like trump&co. how can you deny the most basic reality and evidence?

Italian university graduates are going to shine in this world. They face oral and written exams held in person, where it is very easy and perfectly normal to fail. This culture is completely alien to Anglo academia, which needs to find other solutions. And given the comments below/above, they are really not ready yet.

in the paper it says "The recovered text is a philosophical treatise on ethics, and the evidence points to a Stoic work: it turns on human nature, impulse, and the moral progress of human beings, and its final preserved column names Aristocreon — nephew and disciple of the great Stoic Chrysippus — which, together with the language and themes of the text, places it in a Stoic context and dates it to the 2nd century BC."

what the hell are you saying?

people with perfect pitch can recognize when pitch has been shifted, but it's not like they perceive it (necessarily) as wrong or annoying - it's a matter of taste. most of them can still enjoy microtones, detuned tracks, and beatmatched dj mixes just like everybody else.

IPOing just before an evident .com tech bubble is about to explode is courageous. Good luck to everyone.

That said, their business model seems fairly solid, and despite the naysayers, they improve things a bit on most of their acquisitions. So there might be some real value in what they do. Yet, the expected market valuation is way off. But worry not: market will fix that.

i fully fully agree with you.

"All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing."

that's what fiance is about after all, capturing the saving of working people :) "It's not finance, it's your pensions" https://theloop.ecpr.eu/its-not-finance-its-your-pensions/

again, i’ve been posting this a lot recently, but i still think it’s worth sharing: it’s a summary of an academic paper i wrote, “it’s not finance, it’s your pensions” https://theloop.ecpr.eu/its-not-finance-its-your-pensions/

the piece explains how modern finance is de facto built on the shoulders of the privatization of the welfare state. i find it particularly relevant here: the finance class - in this case musk - wants pensioners money via mutual funds, even modifying the rules of indexing...

it’s not a great sight tbh.

I wrote about this not long ago: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/its-not-finance-its-your-pensions/ "It's not finance, it's your pensions"

(it's a blog summary of a much longer, and rather esoteric, academic article)

well, it's gambling.

ahahah!

so true. those names are silly. also, French and Spanish can already send money for free via IBAN / SEPA

Italians stay winning as usual... :-)

But for real, Italian public administration digitalization isn’t as bad as people think when compared to other big countries. SPID (an electronic identity system, now deprecated) was years ahead of many other European countries (and easily, the US), and PEC (a certified email standard for official communications established in 2005, that can be used with standard email clients) is still more advanced than the often more complicated and closed systems used in many other places. The Italian standard also deeply influenced the EU standard: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3560107.3560256

"US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

and all of this to support apartheid in israel.