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🇮🇹 Io di virus ne so poco o niente.
Ma di sistemi dinamici complessi, probabilità, gestione del rischio ed effetti non lineari magari ne capisco qualcosa in più.
Il 27 Gennaio ho inviato al #Parlamento una petizione per chiedere la quarantena di 21 giorni.
1/4
Alessandro Riolo retweeted
If someone is not curious enough to learn why interest rates are >0%, they aren’t curious enough to deserve access to a degree.
(And it’s not a cheap “gotcha”; understanding opportunity costs should be the prerequisite for any high-opportunity-costs decision such as a 4y degree.)
That’s a great visualisation.
I first saw a version used by @nntaleb and have used it many times.
I learnt from @DellAnnaLuca that @neuterthedebt may have authored the original variant; @grok later taught me @danieljmitchell popularised it.
It should be taught in nursery.
Alessandro Riolo retweeted
basically this
The White underclass is a miracle, and probably why the West has succeeded.
Thomas Frank wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to explore why poor Whites don’t vote for socialist policies that would (narrowly, in the short-term) benefit them. Of course he concluded it was about racism, as he was predetermined to do by his ideology.
But I actually think he highlighted an incredibly important fact: poor White Americans, uniquely among underclasses globally, don’t vote for socialism.
The typical dynamic is rich people trying to keep what they have and poor people trying to take it. But the American lower-class White does not behave this way, because he has a deontological aversion to government interference. The collection of attitudes and beliefs described as “rugged individualism” are often assessed in terms of how they impact the individual, but I think it’s much more important to consider how they impact a nation.
(White) America has the world’s least resentful or grasping underclass. This is a treasure. They should be preserved and rewarded. Many might be net-negative fiscally in a narrow sense, but they are hugely net-positive if you consider their votes. Trump famously said “I love the poorly educated.” He was right to say this. Every nation has an elite. No other nation has such a high quality of virtuous common people.
Alessandro Riolo retweeted
Stalin said the Polish and Russian soldiers are the most steadfast in the world, there is a reason for this. The Slavic world, the blood lands, have for a millenia regularly experienced the greatest horrors imaginable. Your imagination could never do it justice. These wild women are merely priming the pump, testing these men. It’s instinctual.
The only way to save Intel, Dell and many more is to build chip factories.
We need an infinite amount of memory.
Leaving aside the cardboard cup – I asked for it, this place offered ceramic by default – the loose sugar is a sign of a still-working civilization.
You cannot imagine how much I hated when Italian 🇮🇹 politicians and lobbyists used the EU 🇪🇺 as cover to impose the sachets. Most people in Italy still think Brussels forced them.
Sanity will return across Italy 🇮🇹 only well after loose sugar comes back to dominate the banks of coffee shops, tea shops and bars.
P.S.: I don't even use sugar in tea or coffee, made an exception – like first time in 20 years or more – to have an excuse for the photo for this post 🤭
1000 nuclear power plants, camon, do it.
Europe’s energy ministers are running out of ideas to protect citizens from surging energy prices as winter approaches.
vist.ly/5qjrz
Alessandro Riolo retweeted
1000 nuclear power plants. We can do it. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Europe’s energy ministers are running out of ideas to protect citizens from surging energy prices as winter approaches.
vist.ly/5qjrz
You know PopVax is promising because there is zero avenue for the general public to invest on them. All their investors are privately held.
Our politicians are so feckless.
I don't think people realise how big a deal this is.
If you have cancer, or somebody you know has cancer, there is a company in Hyderabad that wants to build a personalised cancer vaccine for you.
Try approaching any big pharma company and asking for a personal vaccine. If they even reply to your email, this is the response you'll get: we don't do that here.
PopVax, on the other hand, takes your tumour sequencing data (or a sequence you've designed), designs candidate neoantigen vaccine sequences with their AI pipeline, produces the mRNA, encapsulates it in their LNP formulation, fills vials, and runs QC, all in 8 to 10 weeks. They’re publicly committing to capacity for 100+ of these over the next 12 months and asking people to email them their cancer type/stage and sequencing details.
What a time to be alive.
Eliza: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Ben: "A republic, if you can keep it."
Philadelphia, Monday, September 17, 1787
To explain the events in Poland a bit further:
- this is a culmination of 20+ years rivalry between Tusk (PO/KO) and Kaczyński (PiS) that became personal for them
- in a way, it's also a proxy war between MAGA and Democrats/EU establishment: PiS is supported by Trump, PO/KO by the establishment
- the fight is on legitimacy of Constitutional Tribunal, packed with judges from both sides, currently a dysfunctional body that has questionable legitimacy at best given the outside of procedural changes being made over the years by both sides
- both sides exploit flaws found in the Polish constitution to sabotage each other's actions. Over the decades, flaws in our system were identified and started to be exploited. The government (executive power) for example is responsible for publishing the ruling of the highest courts, but if they don't publish them... nothing happens. The president is responsible for swearing in the judges, but it's up to him to schedule it, if he doesn't schedule the event at all... nothing happens. The government nominates the ambassadors, but the president needs to approve, if he doesn't... no ambassadors. The both sides are now fully exploiting the constitutional holes to fight each other.
- expect the radical, third party players exploiting the situation since most normies are just tired of Tusk, Kaczyński and now Nawrocki engaging in this disgrace.
Alessandro Riolo retweeted
To explain the events in Poland a bit further:
- this is a culmination of 20+ years rivalry between Tusk (PO/KO) and Kaczyński (PiS) that became personal for them
- in a way, it's also a proxy war between MAGA and Democrats/EU establishment: PiS is supported by Trump, PO/KO by the establishment
- the fight is on legitimacy of Constitutional Tribunal, packed with judges from both sides, currently a dysfunctional body that has questionable legitimacy at best given the outside of procedural changes being made over the years by both sides
- both sides exploit flaws found in the Polish constitution to sabotage each other's actions. Over the decades, flaws in our system were identified and started to be exploited. The government (executive power) for example is responsible for publishing the ruling of the highest courts, but if they don't publish them... nothing happens. The president is responsible for swearing in the judges, but it's up to him to schedule it, if he doesn't schedule the event at all... nothing happens. The government nominates the ambassadors, but the president needs to approve, if he doesn't... no ambassadors. The both sides are now fully exploiting the constitutional holes to fight each other.
- expect the radical, third party players exploiting the situation since most normies are just tired of Tusk, Kaczyński and now Nawrocki engaging in this disgrace.