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New comment by dagenleg in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

dagenleg — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:28:44 +0000

How is USSR, a direct continuation of the Russian Empire, not an empire?

New comment by dagenleg in "The Future, Made in China"

dagenleg — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:46:26 +0000

I think the parent is referring to heavy financialisation of the economy in the West. As we've recently seen, such economy can grow quite unconstrained by the material concerns such as factories, energy or workers.

New comment by dagenleg in "The Future, Made in China"

dagenleg — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:36:44 +0000

Taiwan is liberal democratic china. It's doing quite okay.

New comment by dagenleg in "The Future, Made in China"

dagenleg — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:34:34 +0000

It's not just large corporations, it's arguably most jobs, and it's getting worse. Wageslaves don't get to keep those proceeds either, not enough bargaining power.

New comment by dagenleg in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

dagenleg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:41:37 +0000

The UX is horrendous, density of information is a fraction of what it was and the infinite scroll sucks

New comment by dagenleg in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

dagenleg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:56:34 +0000

> not including geeks

Sir, this is Hackernews

edit: Sorry, I could not resist. Just does not feel like arguments to the tune of "my consumption habits do not require X, so who even needs X" really work well at the discussion forum for, ostensibly, geeks and hackers

New comment by dagenleg in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"

dagenleg — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:06:04 +0000

Not the best success story, granted, but socialist revolutions in China and Russian Empire had definitely hurt the rich as a class. Definitively even.

New comment by dagenleg in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

dagenleg — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:18:09 +0000

Why is everyone on social media talking about Midea? I never see any other brand mentioned. Is this a coordinated marketing campaign?

New comment by dagenleg in "The Post-American Internet"

dagenleg — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:05:09 +0000

Why Cantonese?

New comment by dagenleg in "The F-35 is losing the trade war"

dagenleg — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:49:01 +0000

Are you familiar with the "proofster" concept? It's funny how poignantly on the nose some memes can be.

New comment by dagenleg in "Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer"

dagenleg — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:22:56 +0000

Why? Because killing serial killers is good, and having war is bad?

I think the person you were responding to had a more utilitarian view. When war happens, the death of conscripted young people is unavoidable. It's kill or be killed. We prefer wars not to happen, and people not to die, but it's not a choice.

Killing a serial killer who has already been apprehended is a choice. And it's here that we can actually start weighting options and see what is better for the society, bringing up possibilities of wrongful convictions, Blackstone's ratios and second order effects of the death penalty.

New comment by dagenleg in "Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer"

dagenleg — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:29:29 +0000

I can't help but notice that your definition of "utopia" includes people never disagreeing with you.

And no, you can't justify death penalty because some people "get out on a technicality". Innocent people end up in jail on technicality too.

New comment by dagenleg in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dagenleg — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:09:50 +0000

No, where are you getting this from? His value proposal was that he was a) an outsider in politics, b) russian speaking ukranian. He was elected on on the platform of reducing corruption and negotiating the end to the Donbas conflict.

New comment by dagenleg in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dagenleg — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:36:24 +0000

30% of the population protesting - that would be absolutely enormous! Revolutions are made by single digit numbers

New comment by dagenleg in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dagenleg — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:08:08 +0000

Second time? More like fourth time. First there was Crimea, then Donbas, then the current invasion.

New comment by dagenleg in "OpenEuroLLM"

dagenleg — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:16:07 +0000

I suspect a large part of that 110K would be the government's cut. Again, coming back to the french system, an employee getting 40K after taxes costs ~80K to the institution there. I didn't think of the salary taxes as overheads, we count them as direct costs.

New comment by dagenleg in "OpenEuroLLM"

dagenleg — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:01:55 +0000

Well, no. That money is the total grant sum, to be spent over multiple years, and PhDs are usually funded in full - in Germany a PhD takes around 5 years. Moreover, the money a PhD student gets after tax, is not the same as the money spent overall from the grant, see my other comment below.

In Europe a PhD student is a multiyear commitment, with a bunch of externalities, they are much simpler to manage as discrete units, and thus are funded as such.

New comment by dagenleg in "OpenEuroLLM"

dagenleg — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:42:25 +0000

This sounds like quite an outlandish figure, could you please elaborate? For example, an ERC grant would allow for a maximum of 25% of the so called "indirect costs", that is, one fourths of all the the direct costs (gross salaries, materiel, travel, etc) gets paid as a lump sum, and this usually goes to the institution. How do you end up with over 100% overheads?

New comment by dagenleg in "OpenEuroLLM"

dagenleg — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:33:45 +0000

These are gross overall costs for the full PhD, not yearly salary.

New comment by dagenleg in "OpenEuroLLM"

dagenleg — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:04:35 +0000

At least in France, where they have PhDs which last only 3 years, a years of PhD would cost ~45K EUR in gross salary (granted the student gets around half of that after tax), then let's say ~10K travel and consumables costs, then add up the inevitable 20% overhead costs and now you're looking at around 200K for the shortest possible frugal 3 year PhD.