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Philippe23to politics @lemmy.world•Trump calls for an end to the Chips Act, redirecting funds to national debtEnglish3·2 months agoYeah, people love being offered a carrot and then having it yanked to be beaten with a stick. Those people definitely won’t hold a grudge and go elsewhere. 🙄
From the Wikipedia article:
Solitaire leaks information at a rate of about 0.0005 bits per character. While its security may perhaps be adequate for very short messages, in general Solitaire is considered insecure.
Philippe23to News@lemmy.world•Trump announces strategic crypto reserve including bitcoin, Solana, XRP and moreEnglish2·2 months agoLast I heard was that instead of selling the crypto they seize from illegal activities/arrests, they’re going to hold it in this reserve. So it’s not new spending, but it will be a reduction in income for the government.
The article mentions and notes “reserve” vs “stockpile”, but my gut take is that he has no idea of the difference and just thought “reserve” sounded better in the moment.
Philippe23to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Population of the UK split into 4 equal quartersEnglish3·3 months agoIn that description, the two lines wouldn’t necessarily be perpendicular.
Edit: I mean that if you’re trying to apply the same mechanism to the second line, you wouldn’t necessarily end up with the lines intersecting at 90°. But maybe I’m misunderstanding.
Philippe23to News@lemmy.world•Covid surges across US after holidays amid low booster uptakeEnglish34·4 months agoI don’t see any stats in the article about the “serge”, and the source linked by the article only offers a weeks snapshot and last week’s #.
ER diagnosis are at 2.1%, up from 1.9% the week before. Not sure that counts as a serge, especially since for all I know that’s within the margin of error.
Anybody have better stats?
Philippe23to Technology@lemmy.world•Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%English21·4 months agoThen you’re saying biomass is not really sequestering carbon, essentially.
Philippe23to Technology@lemmy.world•Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%English4·4 months agoCoal is sequestered carbon.
Philippe23to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Any Lemmings (game) app suggestion for iOS preferably something indie or FOSS rather than Sony ?English2·5 months agoI mean, There’s always Lemmings: https://archive.org/details/sg_lemmings_1992
That’s the Sega Genesis version. Not sure if there’d be a better platform for playing on a tablet though…
Philippe23to You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: In economics, a negative income tax (NIT) is a system which reverses the direction in which tax is paid for incomes below a certain level.English10·5 months agoNo. If you reported $0 in income on your taxes, you get nothing. There’s a minimum income to get anything back. So if you don’t work, you get nothing, so you are incentivized to find a job of some kind.
But that minimum should be quite low and attainable.
Philippe23to You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: In economics, a negative income tax (NIT) is a system which reverses the direction in which tax is paid for incomes below a certain level.English182·5 months agoNo, negative income tax usually requires that you make some money and file taxes. UBI doesn’t.
One has the intention of encouraging workforce participation. The other tries to help everyone.
Philippe23to You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: In economics, a negative income tax (NIT) is a system which reverses the direction in which tax is paid for incomes below a certain level.English16·5 months agoA negative income that is better than that. It says, if you’re working, but only making $12k, the state will give you money so you now have $20k. (Not real numbers.)
The idea is that it incentivizes participation in the work force, with hopes that the extra money helps you get stable and move up the payscale where you may stop needing the external support.
When did this happen?
When did this happen?
Philippe23to Open Source@lemmy.ml•Send: Share Files Safely with This Open-Source Successor Of Firefox Send(Firefox Send Fork)English1·6 months agoActually, I believe Firefox Send encoded the encryption key in a # URL anchor, as that’s never sent to the server, but accessible to the client.
example.com/files/file_id#encryption_id
Otherwise, the server would know the key after the file was retrieved.
Philippe23to Art@lemmy.world•David Gilmour says 'absolutely not' for Pink Floyd reunion amid Roger Waters feudEnglish8·7 months agoPoor Nick Mason. Only member to always be in the band and zero mention of him.
The grandkids can buy the house at that bank auction. (Although they could be outbid, naturally.)
The estate would still owe the difference, and may be insolvent due to that, but the grandkids would not owe that difference / have to assume the mortgage.
Assuming the estate is in debt and loses money on the house, the bank may be more involved in other aspects of the estate. For example they may want items of value (eg: jewelery) to also be sold at auction rather than gifted to heirs.
Just saying that you may wish to pick your battles.
Philippe23to politics @lemmy.world•Sweeping Bill Introduced by Ron Wyden (D) Would Completely Overhaul Supreme Court as We Know ItEnglish24·7 months agoKeep in mind that Judicial Review (deciding if laws are constitutional or not) isn’t even a constitutional power. It’s one the court gave itself in Marbury v. Madison.
A standard would reduce the barrier to entry, which would increase competition. Can’t have that.
Pic from their website in case anyone else was as confused about scale as I was: