Max Boonen
@maxboonen
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ex tech guy turned internet troll. Bragging rights: @uniofoxford @goldmansachs @b2c2group + a collection of Old Masters paintings
Joined October 2009
I love how when you want to increase your limits or whatnot on @Bybit_Official the URL for the form they give you is like bybit-dot-com/appeal/form?appeal_id=1234 lmao, it shows you how they view their pesky little clients.
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IA is bringing down the cost of legal advice massively. But we will still need litigators. Long litigation, short advice.
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Funny the left is trying to wiggle wiggle out of this one. She says: ". diciendo unas palabras en español porque yo soy guatemalteca con mucho orgullo, primero que ser americana". Google Translate is there for you if the meaning is not immediately obviously 🙄.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. She’s answering a question. She clearly says “No, porque yo soy Guatemalteca con mucho orgullo, PRIMERO yo soy Americano” which means “No, because while I am proud to be a Guatemalan woman, FIRST I am an American”. It’s not really ambiguous!.
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Reality:.1) UK GDP per capita flat or down vs. 2019.2) as we will slowly come to accept, population numbers in Europe are underestimated due to illegal migration. Result is that GDP per capita is overestimated, since the denominator is artificially small. That second point will.
It is worth noting that the UK economy has improved, by essentially every single metric, in the past 12 months. The services sector is growing. The manufacturing sector is growing. Wages are increasing. Productivity is up. GDP is showing quarter on quarter growth.
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The fact that Reddit posts are used for training LLMs should terrify all of us sane people.
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Real estate taxes going up in Europe, starting with France. Been telling you for almost two years now. Not good for house prices.
🚨🇫🇷📈 ALERTE INFO - La taxe foncière va AUGMENTER de 5% cette année. (BFM Business)
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"those places systematically group and accelerate the right tail according to cognitive ability". the west is cooked, man.
@tracewoodgrains Some of these Eastern European names are plausibly Ashkenazi, but I think there's likely a sorting/tracking story driving it too. Places like Russia systematically group and accelerate the right tail. I encountered some of these people in grad school.
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training an LLM from scratch has given me a lot more respect for AI researchers.
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the training of LLMs will become a cultural battlefield because more and more people will just resort to asking an LLM to try to settle debates.
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To anyone who saw its evolution in the past 10 years, London is now not even a shithole but a cloaca, for the reasons everyone knows and this is not a particularly controversial take.
Getting sick of these posts slagging off London. My impressions from recent visits are: vibrant & buzzing; great public transport; very little litter; safe; free museums & galleries; lots of green spaces; great pubs; etc. Compares well to my memories from the 70s & 80s.
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To anyone who saw its evolution in the past 10 years, London is now not even a shithole but a cloaca, for the reasons everyone knows and this is not even a controversial take.
Getting sick of these posts slagging off London. My impressions from recent visits are: vibrant & buzzing; great public transport; very little litter; safe; free museums & galleries; lots of green spaces; great pubs; etc. Compares well to my memories from the 70s & 80s.
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Huh no. That, sir, is a rotatory decapitation machine.
Beautiful Things from the time gone by 🧵. 1. This is a Westinghouse gyro ceiling fan copper oxide finish from 1920.
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RT @MichaelAArouet: Great chart, French government expenditure as % of GDP has gone structurally up, while revenue down. Increasing taxes w….
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the left knows that taxing the rich more is not sufficient to shore up public finances. there simply aren't enough rich people. they know. the reason they want to tax the rich is moral: they think it's immoral to be rich. (there may also be a bit of unspoken envy).
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It took me a few minutes to find the full name of the RNLI on their website : "the Royal National Lifeboat Institution". Everywhere it's just "RNLI". I didn't want to look it up on Wikipedia, I wanted to find it on their website. That it was so difficult tells me something.
The facts behind our work in the Channel. In 2024, our crews launched 114 times to Channel crossings – that's just 1.2% of our total launches. Our core purpose is to save lives at sea. Anyone can drown, but no one should.
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#2 seemed to make sense at least *economically* at the time, but it turns out that non-EU migrants in Europe have a negative fiscal contribution on average, so it doesn't work. the whole thing hinged on that. Europe's fucked.
Unfortunately, fertility rates are now very low, and soon there will be too many old people relative to young workers to pay for pensions . You have three options .(1) drop the pensions .(2) important hundreds of millions of migrants (may or may not even work).(3) raise taxes.
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crypto 😂.
Is there even a male equivalent to starting an OnlyFans account with the premise of quick, easy money that only leaves you broke and ashamed?.
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RT @luke_leisher_: You are terminally retarded if you think people who can read books are even close to the intelligence of people who can….
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the answer is that the offers come with significant strings attached. it's like startup valuations. $1bn but with a 2x liquidation preference and the worst terms ever, just so you can say you founded a unicorn.
the bigger story is not that Zuck is giving out 400M offers, it’s that people are turning them down. what might that mean?.
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