Soviet Entropy

The reason for the VAT (in the USSR it was called a Turnover Tax. They’re the same thing but a VAT does not tax means of production) was how incredibly simple it was to administer. Tax fraud could be kept relatively low for any given level of administration if a VAT was used instead of an income tax, for example. Many modern governments do this today for the same reason.

The USSR was constantly in a struggle to build an effective administration (a good book on this is Origins of the Great Purges ) while fighting what we today would call Bullshit Jobs and local strongmen.

Post-Deng China basically took a hands off approach to local strongmen and corruption skyrocketed but economic growth was heightened. The USSR was trying to mitigate markets (most of which were black markets) to prevent shortages and mismanagement in its planned economy. So the Deng approach was not something it could do. The USSR was much more developed at the time and the intricate web of an economy was more complicated than in China.

Just a reminder that the USSR had a VAT as its main tax revenue for almost its entire existence.

it does use user input “a diffusion model is trained to produce the next frame, conditioned on the sequence of past frames and actions.”

god forbid i play a game where i do something that doesn’t happen in real life lol
this whole article reads like one of those evangelical forum posts warning about the dangers your kid could have playing dungeons and dragons.

Telegram does not encrypt by default. It’s always been no better than text.

posting about stock prices is falling for the money illusion comrade. the market trading of stocks does not accurately reflect the productive forces.