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Philippe23

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  • Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress

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  • My armchair take: Don't tie the visa to the employer.

    You come in, you get a visa for N years, you can immediately quit and it doesn't affect the visa.

    If you had some amazing skill that we needed to import, someone else will want to employ you at the market rate. (If the skill is so amazing/rare, the original employer will be treating the employee like a princess anyway, so why would they leave?)

    If you really want, require the original employer to subsidize any unemployment benefits until new employment as a risk to carry and a way to discourage unnecessary use of the visa. ie, make it more expensive than local talent.

    Heck that last part might even be a separate solution: tax the crap out of having an H1-B employee to "nominally" cover the govt cost/risk so they cost more than local talent. Suddenly, the only reason to use the visa is for skills you actually can't find locally.

  • DOJ Redacted Names of ‘Politically Exposed Individuals’ in Epstein Files: Report

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  • Judges can deputize people to carry out their rulings if need be. So that's not strictly true.

  • US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast

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  • Til before he was a science fiction author, Gene Wolf helped invent the Pringle potato chip

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  • LP: Along those lines, is it true you invented the machine that makes Pringles potato chips?

    GW: I developed it. I did not invent it. That was done by a German gentlemen whose name I've forgotten for years. I developed the machine that cooks them.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadrunner.com/~lperson1/wolfe.html

    So the German came up with the rough idea of how to make them, but GW engineered the details of the machine that did the cooking. He also makes reference to other engineers that did other parts of the process: rolling, salting, getting off the cooker, etc.

  • [OC] Gather intel on your local fascists

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  • Cows are super curious by nature. Milked/Unmilked probably doesn't matter.

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    OBPA sounds alarm as trade wars pinch St. Lawrence County border traffic

    northcountrynow.com /stories/obpa-sounds-alarm-as-trade-wars-pinch-st-lawrence-county-border-traffic,294613

  • New mini-dishwasher, made in France!

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

  • Trump calls for an end to the Chips Act, redirecting funds to national debt

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  • 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. 🙄

  • Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years?

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  • 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/

  • Trump announces strategic crypto reserve including bitcoin, Solana, XRP and more

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  • 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.

  • Covid surges across US after holidays amid low booster uptake

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  • 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?

  • Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%

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

  • Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%

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  • Coal is sequestered carbon.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Tell me why I shouldn't use btrfs

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  • When did this happen?

  • Tell me why I shouldn't use btrfs

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  • When did this happen?

  • Sweeping Bill Introduced by Ron Wyden (D) Would Completely Overhaul Supreme Court as We Know It

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  • Keep 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.

  • [Kevin Comics] Every. Job. Site.

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  • A standard would reduce the barrier to entry, which would increase competition. Can't have that.

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    The Upper Hand

    danbydraws.com /comic/the-upper-hand/