u/Acceptable-War4836

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This shit is complete madness. We'd already be at China's level in mass control. If we add the digital euro to that, we'd have the perfect recipe for the Soviet European Union.

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This shit is complete madness. We'd already be at China's level in mass control. If we add the digital euro to that, we'd have the perfect recipe for the Soviet European Union.

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This shit is complete madness. We'd already be at China's level in mass control. If we add the digital euro to that, we'd have the perfect recipe for the Soviet European Union.

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Now instead of buying a Chinese product, I will have to pay three times the price of the same Chinese product bought from a European retailer (by the way, returns are available on AliExpress and Temu if you don't like the product).

The part that bothers me the most is when they tell you they're doing it "for your own good." As if the consumer were mentally challenged.

"Unfair disadvantage"? Does this refer to European companies that have lobbied to undermine Chinese competition with this regulation?

"30 million Europeans work in retail". This reminds me of the Milton Friedman anecdote:

>"I saw hundreds of workers digging a canal with shovels. I asked why they weren't using excavators. They replied, 'It's a jobs program.' Then I said, 'Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If what you want is to create jobs, take away their shovels and give them spoons."

FUCK THE UE!

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Many of you probably already know about this measure, which was announced some time ago, but here's a brief summary. The European Union has imposed a tariff of €3 per product category on all products from outside the EU from 1 July.

Although it may seem like a trivial measure, this measure is an absolute brutality for middle and lower class Europeans ("Europoors") like me, who, even though they crucify us with taxes, at least had a small way to save a little by ordering from China.

Although they want to sell us the story that China copies and has very low quality products, the reality is that China innovates and categorically offers higher quality than any other European product in the same price range. For example:

• You can see how BYD cars are selling in Europe, even with a tariff of more than 15%.
• You can also see tariffs in the Solar Panels and Photovoltaic Products category of between 30-50%. Wasn't the EU supposed to be eco-friendly and concerned about the environment?
• We could continue with lithium batteries, bicycles, etc.

It's funny how last year all the media outlets criticized Trump's tariffs, saying they would hurt the American consumer. It seemed like they'd all suddenly become libertarians. However, when the European Union does it, I don't see a single news report about the massive amount of tariffs they impose on other countries, and if anything does come up, they'll tell you it's to protect European companies from heavily subsidized Chinese products.

The reality is that if we were Europoors before, now we'll be even poorer. EU companies can't compete with China, so they lobby the government for protection. In the end, the middle and lower classes will end up paying higher prices for lower-quality products.

I have a problem and I've been trying to solve it for days without success. I hope someone in this community can help me.

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I have a website where I create English exams. The problem is that until now I've generated them manually, but when I use AI (GPT 5.5) to generate exams, it produces a perfect format, identical to the exam, but the level is completely different or random. For example, if I ask it for a C2 level exam, it gives me a mix of C2 and B2 level exercises, but it's not consistent.

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So far this has been my workflow:

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1. I generate and classify a corpus with real exams using AI in an .md document.

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2. I ask the AI ​​to extract patterns based on the corpus, considering format, length, distractors, etc...

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3. In multiple-choice exercises (4 options), I ask you to first generate 50 correct answers. Then, add 3 distractors, and finally, generate the complete exam (this avoids more confusion than if you generated complete exams).

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4. Finally, I request an audit of everything generated based on the rules extracted from the corpus and that you correct any errors.

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What am I doing wrong? I'm desperate. I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall. I know AI is a probabilistic model that doesn't understand what "C2 level" is, but I'm sure it can be calibrated somehow.

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This is the kind of exercises that I generate btw.

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Yesterday I was listening to an interview with Michael Huemer about anarcho-capitalism when I realized that for most of the questions he used a repetitive pattern to answer the criticisms against anarcho-capitalism and it seemed ridiculously simplistic to me.

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As we all know, everyone criticizes anarcho-capitalism without really knowing what it is. People think that AC is like we are now but without the state. But the reality is that the arguments against Anarcho-capitalism are precisely criticisms of the state itself and are self-defeating.

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Just to give a few examples, I'm going to bring up some of the arguments most commonly used by statists:

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1. "In an AC system, security and justice would be biased by money". Response: They are already biased by money (Otherwise, why do some people pay more for a lawyer if justice is equal for everyone?), and the state cannot fix it -> Argument against statism and self-defeating.

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2. "Without state regulations, there would be no clear mechanism to curb large-scale pollution or manage common resources". Answer: There is already pollution and the state does nothing to fix it; in fact, the most socialist countries are the most polluted. -> Self-defeating argument against the state.

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3. "Private agencies would abuse their clients or become mini-states/cartels". The State already systematically abuses its power: confiscatory taxes, mass surveillance, corruption, laws that favor pressure groups, and selective repression. -> Self-defeating argument against the state.

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4."The rich would dominate everything and the poor would be left defenseless/exploited". In today's states, the rich already have disproportionate power precisely through the state: lobbying, campaign financing, regulatory capture, and policies that protect monopolies and transfer wealth upwards (inflation, subsidies to large companies, zoning that makes housing more expensive, occupational licenses that close markets). Argument against statism and self-defeating.

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5."Without a state, there would be constant warfare between private defense agencies". The State is already a sole monopoly on violence and has been responsible for the deadliest wars, genocides, and democides in history. Argument against statism and self-defeating.

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I could go on like this all day, but I think you get the idea.

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Have a great weekend everyone! 🐍

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I just wanted to share my experiences with Grok Build here. I'm a SuperGrok subscriber, having paid for the 3-month promotion for $30.

Overall, I'm very satisfied with the usage limits and the speed. To start, I would say that it is faster than most frontier models being at the level of Gemini Flash 3.5 (new model). The usage limits are also very good. Right now I use it approximately 1 hour a day and I have barely consumed 20% of my monthly quota.

What I'm not so satisfied with right now is the output it generates. Maybe it is the same or even slightly worse than gemini flash 3.1. For starters it's pretty lazy. When you ask him for any task he always asks you to reconfirm the entire plan and always divides it into small parts, which is quite models, I don't know if maybe I could correct this with some skill.md. It is also quite poor for large tasks that require a lot of context, perhaps because it has a 250k context window, which is quite low compared to other frontier models. Many times I find that he has rewritten code that I have not asked him to modify, so I see this model as very good for small tasks but still very far from reaching gpt 5.4 or claude 4.7, which are much better for long-term code planning.

In general I see it as a very good model for everyday use and for making small code modifications. If it were up to me, I would continue paying a subscription of 30 dollars every 3 months, but I wouldn't even pay 30 dollars a month for this model. Instead, I would stick with a subscription for Chinese models like Deepseek, complementing it with some frontier model like Claude or GPT 5.

I just wanted to ask what experience you guys had and how you are seeing the performance in code?

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