…are said at Davos. This is an AI translated version of Milei’s speech, in which he uses words like “parasites”.
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/things-you-can-not-say-at-davos/
Javier Milei gave a speech: Javier Milei just gave a speech announcing massive deregulation of the economy in Argentina. I liked how he opened the speech: condemning the philosophy that led A...
There is undoubtedly a revolution going on in computing capability. I remember the first time I opened up ChatGPT and asked it to write me a poem, and then realised: this is something I am not us...
Vlad Vexler noticed that nearly everyone online was certain that Putin sent a body double to Mariupol rather than visiting himself. Then he ran a poll, which revealed that most people weren’t q...
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/03/you-are-wrong-about-the-number-of-people-who-agree-with-you/
I have updated the Brian Micklethwait Archive with a recording of an interview kindly given to me by Mal McDermott. On 25th January 2020 Mal interviewed Brian on the subject of the history of t...
We have about the highest level of taxation we have had in the UK since the 1970s. In the 2021-2022 tax year tax receipts were 30.3% of GDP. In 2009-2010 they were 25% of GDP which was the lowest...
One big problem of Brexit is that it’s created a big category error in everyone’s thinking. Problems are categorised as being caused by Brexit instead of by trade regulation. Nobody notices...
Perun is a gaming YouTuber who started making PowerPoint presentations on the war in Ukraine and they are so good that his channel has since become extremely successful. The two most recent pre...
https://www.samizdata.net/2022/04/perun-on-the-war-in-ukraine/
With the Digital Markets Act, the EU wants to make competition between tech giants more fair. What could possibly go wrong? In his weekly podcast, Linus Sebastian gushes about all the wonderful...
UK online safety laws to be strengthened: The new communications offences will strengthen protections from harmful online behaviours such as … deliberately sharing dangerous disinformation ab...
https://www.samizdata.net/2022/02/this-is-not-going-to-work/
A new article by Max Roser, founder of Our World in Data, spells out exactly how to end poverty. I calculated that at a minimum the world economy needs to increase five-fold for global poverty ...
Insulin is expensive in the USA. “The average list price of one unit of insulin in the US is $98.70, compared to $12 in Canada and $7.52 in the UK.” Then why do not people simply buy it fro...