The national urban poverty rate plummeted from 52.9% to 38.1% in six months, while extreme poverty halved to 8.2%, marking the sharpest decline in decades.

President Javier Milei’s administration achieved this while slashing public spending by 5% of GDP and navigating a 1.7% economic contraction in 2024. Key drivers included targeted welfare programs and inflation control.

The government expanded the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) to cover teens up to age 17 and increased food card coverage, directly aiding vulnerable households.

So they cut spending overall, but expanded their Universal Child Allowance. I mean, that right there is probably what did most of the poverty reduction. The article doesn’t really say where the spending cuts came from. Could be they just cut a lot of waste, but it could be they’ve made cuts to important government services, and the effects haven’t necessarily been felt yet.

The IMF projects 5.5% GDP growth for 2025, fueled by rebounding consumption and investment. This turnaround challenges conventional wisdom that austerity inevitably harms vulnerable populations, showing market-oriented policies can coexist with poverty reduction when paired with precise safety nets.

Does it? Again, we don’t know what’s been cut and we don’t know what the long term effects of those cuts will be. All we know is that they made significant cuts overall, while also expanding two specific safety net programs. Admittedly, that has resulted in a significant reduction in the urban poverty and extreme poverty rates, for now, which is undoubtedly a good thing, but only time will tell if those will last.

This reads like neoliberal propaganda, but honestly Javier Milei is right of even most neoliberals. I seriously doubt the expansion of the Universal Child Allowance and the increased food card coverage will last. I’m certain Milei will want to cut those programs, at some point. He is anarchocapitalist adjacent, so I’m sure he wants to get as close as possible to no government spending at all, eventually.

No major kernel decisions were made,” jokes Russinovich in a post on LinkedIn.

Man, wouldn’t that be wild, though?

Our ancient ancestors, like most primates today, lived in groups dominated by violent and aggressive alpha males. Yet over the course of our biological and cultural evolution, unlike our primate cousins, we learned to work together to counter those bullyboys, organising to diminish their influence.

Yeah, that’s true, if you ignore essentially ALL of human history, in which violence and aggression were ever present, as was social hierarchy, that almost exclusively had a single male sovereign at the top.

We had a 22 percent increase in domestic investment.

That’s good, it really is, but that in and of itself doesn’t mean much. Industrial production left the US for a reason. What’s changed? The cost of living has only gone up, especially housing, which means the cost of domestic labor is still going to be much higher than many other countries, so how do these US producers plan to turn this new capital investment into a profitable enterprise? How are they going to profitably produce quality goods that Americans can actually afford? Are they only going to make luxury goods for the highest income Americans? If so, who’s going to serve the middle and the bottom income levels?

If a game requires that you install what basically amounts to a rootkit in order to play it, I don’t think I want to play that game.

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I have the original ultimate wireless controller, and it works flawlessly for me on Fedora 41.

Block the community. Block all Linux communities. Seriously. If it bothers you that much, save yourself the aggravation and just block anything Linux related. It’s pretty easy. I have several communities on my block list.

Nvidia doesn’t give a shit about gamers anymore…Their bread and butter now is AI, and large scale machine learning. Where businesses are buying thousands of cards at a time.

I’m just quoting this for emphasis.

I don’t miss an Adam Curtis documentary, and HyperNormalisation is one of his best.

Edit: here’s the full doc on YouTube

The world has reached peak agricultural land, so to feed an increasing number of people, will need to increase agricultural land efficiency (increased food production per hectare). This will likely mean less meat production, since meat production is not a maximally efficient use of land, in calories produced per hectare. That’s certainly not a bad thing, as a mostly plant based diet is better for human health and the environment.

But, we have committed to a market based distribution system, so it’s up to the invisible hand, which is not necessarily great at achieving maximum efficiency.

I don’t really see the point in comparing them. They’re different devices for different markets.

The Switch is for people who want to play first party Nintendo titles. That’s really the only reason for its existence. Without Nintendo’s first party lineup, the Switch would be just another Arm based handheld, and a fairly unremarkable one at that.

The Switch is all about exclusivity, the Steam Deck is the exact opposite. Not only is the Steam client, and the massive library of games that it gives gamers access to, available on scores of x86 devices and hardware configurations, the Steam Deck operating system will soon be available pre-installed on multiple, third party devices, and it will be available for anymore to download and install on any device they want.

They’re not just different devices, they’re vastly different company philosophies.

Their sustainability solution states that we don’t see any evidence of ETIs because rapid growth is not a sustainable development pattern. From this perspective, the Kardashev Scale is rendered futile. No civilization will ever use all available energy from its planet, star, or galaxy, because the growth required to reach that level of mastery is unsustainable.

I think that makes so much sense. I don’t think it makes sense to define “advanced” as a civilization that grows at a rapid and exponential rate, like a plague of locusts, depleting nonrenewable resources and causing irreparable damage to the only human habitable planet known to exist in the entire universe. Even if it can be considered advanced, it should also be considered extremely unwise.

That looks too good to be an official Sega product.

Google’s temporary retreat on RISC-V is a good example of the kind of basic stumbling block that a new architecture faces on the road towards mainstream - the lack of a mature and unified ecosystem.

I think RISC-V is positioned well to be the preferred architecture for an open ecosystem. But that’s not necessarily going to help it compete. If RISC-V is ever able to compete with Arm it will be because some company developed a chip based on a proprietary implementation of RISC-V, that is able to outperform Arm based offerings in some key way. Proprietary is just more profitable than open, so that’s where the money is going to go, and you need money to compete.

That being said, I’m glad an open standard ISA like RISC-V exists.

proactively develop governance frameworks, coordinate globally, and prepare our societies for unprecedented change

Get in line behind climate change.

Yes, but F35s are implements of war, they have essentially no other civilian purpose. Advanced semi conductors, on the other hand, do.