Ferdinand Takacs

I believe that most taxation is theft and it should be eliminated. I also believe that if taxes are to exist (and they do in most places), they should be spent wisely to the benefit of the population. High taxes + bad public infrastructure & services is the worst of both worlds

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

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Nach reiflicher Überlegung würden wir ganz spontan sagen: VIOLENCE HAS NO PLACE IN OUR DEMOCRACY. Außer in Venezuela, Iran, Libanon - und natürlich an jedem anderen Ort, an dem "wir" sie anwenden... ZwinkerSmiley!

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So far, the data suggest ER-100 should be safe in humans, and the FDA has cleared us to move into clinical trials. Translation from primates to humans is never guaranteed If it doesn’t work as hoped, we’ll learn & improve, just like SpaceX did🚀

10 open-source AI tools that feel illegal to be free. Bookmark this before big tech buries it. 1. Fooocus A Midjourney alternative that runs on your laptop. Three clicks from download to first image. Repo → github.com/lllyasviel/Foo… 2. ComfyUI The image generator professional AI artists actually use. Studios use it for real production work. Repo → github.com/comfyanonymous… 3. Ollama A ChatGPT alternative that runs on your own machine. No internet. No API costs. One command to install. Repo → github.com/ollama/ollama 4. OpenVoice Clones any voice from 10 seconds of audio. Built by MIT and MyShell. MIT license means commercial use is allowed. Repo → github.com/myshell-ai/Ope… 5. Penpot A Figma alternative with real-time collaboration. Runs in your browser. Self-hostable. Repo → github.com/penpot/penpot 6. AppFlowy A Notion alternative where your data stays on your own machine. Local-first. Built in Rust. Repo → github.com/AppFlowy-IO/Ap… 7. n8n A Zapier alternative with 400+ integrations and native AI nodes. Unlimited workflows when you self-host. Repo → github.com/n8n-io/n8n 8. Cal. com A Calendly alternative with more features than the paid version. White-label it for clients. Repo → github.com/calcom/cal.com 9. Supabase A Firebase alternative you actually own. Postgres, auth, storage, realtime, edge functions. All in one. Repo → github.com/supabase/supab… 10. Cline A Cursor alternative that lives inside VS Code. Reads your files, edits your code, ships your features. Repo → github.com/cline/cline Here's the wildest part: Add up what these tools would cost as SaaS subscriptions and you are looking at $300 to $500 every single month. All of it. Free. Forever. The only people who lose when you install these are the companies charging you $20 a month for what an open-source community built for free. Save this post before you forget. 100% free. 100% open source.

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Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

Why is no one talking about this? @nvidia is offering around 80 AI models via hosted APIs absolutely for free. You get access to MiniMax M2.7, GLM 5.1, Kimi 2.5, DeepSeek 3.2, GPT-OSS-120B, Sarvam-M etc. This plugs straight into OpenClaude, OpenCode, Zed IDE, Hermes agent and even with Cursor IDE. Setup: – Grab API key: build.nvidia.com/models – base_url = "integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1" – api_key = "$NVIDIA_API_KEY" – select model (e.g. minimaxai/minimax-m2.7) If you’re building or experimenting, this is basically free inference. Lock in and start building today anon. Thank me later.

🚀 Want FREE models you can plug into OpenClaw or Hermes? Here are 9 resources you can use for free access to model APIs No local setup, no credit card, just pure cloud APIs with OpenAI-compatible endpoints You can’t get free Opus quality (yet) but all of these have genuine free tiers right now (rate limits may apply) and are good enough to get started if you don’t want to spend $ to get started with agents 1️⃣ OpenRouter Free Models (Gemma 4 31B/26B, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B MoE, MiniMax M2.5, Qwen3 variants, Llama 4/3.3, gpt-oss-120B, Arcee Trinity, etc.)
• ~29 completely free $0/M token models
• Insane variety + top-tier open model evals (especially coding & agents)
• Best for rotating models automatically 👉 Sign up: openrouter.ai/keys 2️⃣ Google Gemini API (Gemini 2.5 Pro / Flash series)
• Strongest overall free frontier model
• Excellent multimodal, 1M+ context, native tool calling & agentic performance
• Very generous free limits (often 5–15 RPM)
👉 Sign up: aistudio.google.com/app/apikey 3️⃣ NVIDIA (Nemotron variants, Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 235B, Mistral Large, etc.)
• Optimized high-performance open models
• Free prototyping tier (~40 RPM)
👉 Sign up: build.nvidia.com/explore/discov… 4️⃣ Grok Cloud (Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 32B, gpt-oss models, etc.)
• Blazing-fast inference (hundreds of tokens/sec)
• Perfect for real-time agents
• Strong open-model performance with solid free tier
👉 Sign up: console.groq.com/keys 5️⃣ Cerebras Cloud (Qwen3 235B, Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek variants, etc.)
• Massive models with excellent reasoning/coding evals
• Very generous daily free limits (~30 RPM, up to 1M+ tokens/day on some)
👉 Sign up: cloud.cerebras.ai 6️⃣ Mistral La Plateforme (Mistral Large 3, Small 3.1, Ministral 8B, etc.)
• Strong in coding, multilingual & agentic tasks
• Solid free tier (~1 req/s, ~1B tokens/month)
👉 Sign up: console.mistral.ai/api-keys 7️⃣ Cohere (Command A, Command R+, Aya Expanse 32B, etc.)
• Free tier: 20 RPM, 1K requests/month
👉 Sign up: dashboard.cohere.com/api-keys 8️⃣ GitHub Models (Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek R1, some GPT-4o previews, etc.)
• Decent mid-tier evals with easy GitHub integration
• Free tier limits (10–15 RPM)
👉 Sign up: github.com/marketplace/mo… 9️⃣ Cloudflare Workers AI (Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen QwQ 32B, etc.)
• Lightweight but solid for simple agents
• Free tier: 10K neurons/day
👉 Sign up: dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-to… Pro tips for agent builders: • Most work instantly with OpenAI SDK (just change base URL + your key) • Start with OpenRouter for quality/variety (they often feature new free models) • Add Groq as speed fallback • Rotate providers when you hit caps Free intelligence for your agent is just a signup away!

Today, we’re open-sourcing the draft specification for DESIGN.md, so it can be used across any tool or platform. We’re also adding new capabilities. DESIGN.md lets you easily export and import your design rules from project to project. Instead of guessing intent, agents know exactly what a color is for and can even validate their choices against WCAG accessibility rules. Watch David East break down this shared visual language in action👇. New capabilities and links in 🧵

@paraschopra So you mean: why need somebody Linux when there's a solution in Windows for it?You are getting totally dependent on one AI company in your case and with Open Claw you have the right to choose!🖖

I don’t get the OpenClaw hype Connecting Claude with Telegram / WhatsApp is trivially easy, you can literally ask it to help you do this and it’ll guide you. Same story with recurring jobs. I just did this - now Claude send me local bangalore news summary at 12pm IST daily on Telegram. Took me 15 mins to build. If the argument is that Claw lets nontech users do this, imagine the security implications when users let an LLM take over their system while having no idea what’s happening under the hood. Making custom scripts and workflows with Claude lets you at least know what you’re configuring on your system.

Wir sollten uns immer wieder klarmachen: Die Menschen, die das hier als angemessene Reaktion auf ein simples Atemwegsvirus empfanden - die haben heute noch in Politik, Medien und Wissenschaft das Sagen.

This 2-hour Andrej Karpathy lecture will teach you how to build a Neural Network from scratch better than most engineers at top AI companies will ever bother to learn No frameworks. No libraries. Just pure code and math The same guy who built Tesla's Autopilot AI and co-founded OpenAI recorded this for FREE on YouTube Bookmark & give 2 hours, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this week

I sequenced my genome at home, on my kitchen table. I wrote up exactly how I did it - the equipment, protocol, theory, and cost: iwantosequencemygenomeathome.com

Grok Build is xAI’s new agent workspace for turning natural language into real software fast (vibe coding). Key features rolling out: - Parallel Agents: spin up to 8 AI coders at once - Arena Mode: agents battle in tournaments to pick the best solution - Local desktop apps (Mac/Windows) with screen control via Grok Computer - Web UI + CLI - Seamless project planning, building, testing & shipping Private beta already live for SuperGrok Heavy; broader SuperGrok rollout next week. What do you want to build first? 🚀

You can access 𝕏 APi via @OpenClaw. We’re trying to make it affordable without giving away the shop. Hopefully, this can be useful & fun 💫

“The lobster is loose, and it’s not going back into the tank,” says @openclaw founder @steipete. In this brand new talk from #TED2026 he shares why AI agents — built by you — are the future: t.ted.com/DPASxmF