Philippe23

Pic from their website in case anyone else was as confused about scale as I was:

Yeah, 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.

See also: http://www.ciphergoth.org/crypto/solitaire/

Last 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.

In 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.

I 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?

Then you're saying biomass is not really sequestering carbon, essentially.

Coal is sequestered carbon.

I 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...

No. 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.

No, 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.

A 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.