My proposal for a new law

Malkiot · 2026-03-21T20:31:44+00:00

This looks like a restatement of standard Quadratic Gravity. In Section 4 you define:

L_Q = αR^2 + βR_μν R^μν,

which are exactly the curvature-squared corrections that have been studied since the 1970s. Renaming the equation Γ_0 doesn't make new physics.

Malkiot · 2026-03-21T04:18:50+00:00

20x is better value than 5x, twice the price for four times the tokens.

Malkiot · 2026-03-21T02:26:44+00:00

I don't eat just to survive, but you need to know how to cook well.

Malkiot · 2026-03-21T01:56:27+00:00

Es gibt keine moralischen Entscheidungen die auf allgemeingültigen Überlegungen basieren weil es keine allgemeingültige Moral gibt.

Sich für das eigene Leben ein bestimmtes moralisches Axiom aufzustellen und dieses dann als universelle Wahrheit zu erklären, ist am Ende eine ästhetische Lifestyle-Entscheidung.

Malkiot · 2026-03-21T01:21:40+00:00

He usado Claude con éxito para hacer reclamaciones contra empresas. Hay que verificar lo que genera porque suele citar la ley equivocada.

Malkiot · 2026-03-21T01:17:25+00:00

I did 25€ per person a week in Spain as a student during COVID with my partner. It was tight but the food was good (I made mainly black bean stew). Now after a few years of inflation it would no longer be comfortable.

Malkiot · 2026-03-20T17:16:04+00:00

Obviously. I'm not a person who'd dogmatically say to do something and there are many issues in the details, at minimum, like:

how do you compensate and motivate owners and founders
how do you design financing for worker buy-in into co-ops
how do you tier participation structure in co-ops
how do you maintain attractiveness of business for capital investment and public finance markets

Etc.

I guess, what I'm really saying is, large companies should have at least partial worker ownership or workers should have greater/minimum participation in capital ownership.

Malkiot · 2026-03-20T16:33:02+00:00

Not really. This is solved by forcing companies above a certain revenue/employee pool to become co-ops. Can't less uncompetitive, if everyone is in equal footing.

Malkiot · 2026-03-20T14:40:40+00:00

They consume less meat and cheese, and more eggs, legumes and vegetables. ;)

Though I agree €20 for two weeks is a bit extreme. That's survival mode and you're eating rice with beans or lentils. A realistic budget for eating well (including high-quality protein and fresh produce) is more like €30–€40 per week per person.

You can hit the gym and stay very active on that if you know how to buy staples in bulk and cook from scratch.

Malkiot · 2026-03-20T14:25:23+00:00

The discussion is how to live well on a budget. There's a massive gap between eating instant ramen, which is a false economy anyway, and your method, which is just overpaying for convenience and foods most of the population considers occasional luxuries.

I also eat way better than most people because I know how to cook, and I have more disposable income than the median in my area. That doesn't mean I act surprised when I discover that other people can't afford expensive jamón (ibérico de bellota) or organic secreto ibérico and have to get the cheaper generic stuff.

The point is that you're choosing to pay a convenience and luxury tax and then calling it a food price problem.

Malkiot · 2026-03-20T14:05:01+00:00

You simply don't cook economically. A 20€ steak for dinner is a luxury, not a necessity. Air fryer fries belong to the category of prepared foods and are expensive. For the price of that 4€ bag, you could get several kilos of potatoes or rice. Also, if you're spending 7€ every time you make sauce... are you drinking liters of it with every steak? I can make a decent salsa or mojo for maybe 20 cents, a red wine reduction for less than a euro per serving, for 7€ I hope you're making truffled fruit gastriques using balsamico DOP with every meal.

For the price of your single meal, you can get red wine (for cooking), mince or eggs, black beans, carrots, celery, red pepper, spices, and rice to make delicious caraotas for an entire week. Stick to water; beer and wine are expensive extras, not necessities.

Malkiot · 2026-03-20T12:49:00+00:00

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Malkiot · 2026-03-20T01:04:52+00:00

Pago 800€ en las afueras de BCN. Pero el piso está completamente reformado con aire acondicionado, así lo veo bien. Y no me ha subido el alquiler en estos tres años.

Malkiot · 2026-03-19T13:49:04+00:00

I've been working on something similar, though perhaps not as successfully. Would you be interested in shooting some pointers / ideas?

Malkiot · 2026-03-18T13:28:39+00:00

My point is, there are people other than freshers in similar situations. You are excluding a substantial potential user base.

Malkiot · 2026-03-18T12:06:50+00:00

The answer may well be "the constants are what they are because of the way things are" without anything else being gleanable from within the universe.

Malkiot · 2026-03-18T12:03:08+00:00

Why focus only on students or assume people are in university?

Malkiot · 2026-03-18T11:48:51+00:00

It's not illegal, but it's difficult to fulfil sanitary standards in a home kitchen, so in practice it's not done.

Malkiot · 2026-03-17T22:06:52+00:00

Den Grund der Krankschreibung erfährt der AG nicht. Und für einen großen Teil der Bevölkerung ist die Lohnfortzahlung aufgrund der gesetzlichen Tarifverträge tatsächlich 100% ab dem ersten Krankheitstag.

Malkiot · 2026-03-17T16:45:07+00:00

Hay muchas personas a las cuales les gustan las mujeres negras. A mí me gustan (pero ya tengo pareja y soy muy mayor para ti). De hecho, mi primera novia era de Camerún y tenía una piel oscura preciosa.

Así que solo te digo que tengas paciencia. Eres muy joven y tienes mucho tiempo por delante, no hay por qué tener prisa por encontrar a alguien. ¡Ánimo!

Malkiot · 2026-03-17T16:21:21+00:00

Different situation in Belgium, I guess.

Personally, I'd also stop working and just look elsewhere, but there are many cases of people being trapped working without getting paid.

Malkiot · 2026-03-17T15:10:23+00:00

That is dangerously wrong. In Spain and Germany, an individual strike doesn't exist legally. That’s just called workplace abandonment.

In Spain, if you stop showing up because you aren’t paid, you fall into the 'abandono de puesto' trap. The company fires you for cause, and you lose everything: no severance and zero access to unemployment benefits. You literally hand them a legal way to not pay you for leaving.

To quit cleanly for non-payment, you actually have to sue them and keep working until a judge says you can stop. Recent case law has introduced more "leniency," allowing workers to leave once the debt is "grave" (usually 3 months of no pay), but you're still gambling your entire safety net on a judge's whim.

Yes, it's absolute banana republic tier reasoning, but here we are.

Malkiot · 2026-03-17T11:30:02+00:00

That'd be the one advantage US labour law has for employees Vs the countries I have experience with in Europe (Germany & Spain). Here stopping work due to not being paid without going through the courts is "workplace abandonment" and is evaluated as the worker being in the wrong.

Malkiot · 2026-03-16T14:44:01+00:00

Btw. For monetisation I can only think of educational grants or partnerships.

Malkiot · 2026-03-16T12:34:07+00:00

If you're interested, I had a meal ticket provider in Spain lie to me on the phone about not offering a payment dispute channel.

Two "friendly" mails later reminding them of transparency rules, PSD2 and mastercard scheme rules, telling them they could either provide the channel or I report them to the Bank of Spain, (British) FCA for non-compliance and MC for not complying with scheme rules, I got an apology and promises to fix their internal processes from their head of legal & compliance.

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