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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • If someone owns a billion dollar company (based on the price of their shares of stock) we call them a billionaire but they might not have very much money in cash (say a few million).

    And yet…

    The moment shares are used as a source of value to leverage, they should be taxed on that assessed value. Because this is also how so many of the wealthy can get away with “$0 income” - they are “paid” in shares, then turn around and use those shares to get loans from the bank to pay their living expenses. They essentially leverage shares for tax-free income.

    If any and all leverage on shares are taxed on that assessed leverage, the Parasite Class would no longer have any way to shield their obscene wealth from taxation.





  • rekabis@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePoorly socialized rule
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    18 days ago

    they are allowed to express their femininity and I’m not.

    A man expressing masculinity? “That’s violently toxic!”

    A man expressing femininity? “That’s disgustingly pathetic!”

    Now that I’ve matured I hate the system that keeps me oppressed

    Except… who reinforces those oppressive rules?

    It ain’t men, that’s for sure. We just passively submit and nod our heads yes to whatever women say, least we are painted with the same brush by association, and be labelled misogynistic or “not a man” for disagreeing.



  • The fact that the deceased man had his hands and feet tied at the time of his death has led many in the public, including investigators, to treat the death as murder.

    So, not immediately being dismissed as a suicide?

    Amazing.

    Belgian investigators might actually be rubbing more than two functional neurons together, and are realizing how stupid they would look if they actually punted the suicide angle.

    Officials, however, continue their illustrious tradition of running entirely functional-neuron-free.


  • rekabis@lemmy.catoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world"The Newspaper of Record"
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    23 days ago

    NO.

    The aspects of a day are assigned to the quarters of the day in the same way as the seasons of the year are broken up between the solstices and the equinoxes.

    Ergo, as it is for a year:

    • winter: winter solstice to spring equinox
    • spring: spring equinox to summer solstice
    • summer: summer solstice to fall equinox
    • fall: fall equinox to winter solstice

    So is it for a day:

    • night: midnight to 6am
    • morning: 6am to noon
    • afternoon: noon to 6pm
    • evening: 6pm to midnight



  • 16 characters was the minimum length a password should be due to how easy it was to crack… something like a decade ago.

    Now it’s something like 20 to 24 characters.

    Seriously, if your company is defining maximum password length and demanding specific content, it is failing at the security game. Have the storage location accept a hashed UTF-8 string of at least 4096 bytes - or nvarchar(max) if it’s a database field - and do a bitwise complexity calculation on the raw password as your only “minimum value” requirement.

    Look at how KeePass calculates password complexity, and replicate that for whatever interface you are using. Ensure that it is reasonable, such as 150-200bit complexity, and let users choose whatever they want to achieve that complexity.



  • rekabis@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlProjects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
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    30 days ago

    We don’t have anyone actively working on Windows support, and there are considerable changes required to make it work well outside a Unix-like environment.

    We would like to do Windows eventually, but it’s not a priority at the moment.

    This is how you make “critical mass” adoption that much more difficult.

    As much as I love Linux, if you are creating a program to be used by everyone and anyone, you achieve adoption inertia and public consciousness penetration by focusing on the largest platform first. And at 72% market share, that would be Windows.

    I hope this initiative works. I really do. But intentionally ignoring three-quarters of the market is tantamount to breaking at least one leg before the starting gate even opens. This browser is likely to be relegated to being a highly niche and special-interest-only browser with minuscule adoption numbers, which means it will be virtually ignored by web developers and web policy makers.


  • Any brands protected by American law must be independently-owned, with full transfer of all branding, patents, trade secrets, intellectual assets and physical assets.

    So, for example, for even a single bottle of Perrier to be sold in America, it needs to have been made by a company registered with the brand name of Perrier, with exclusive use of that name within the country, independently owned and under zero control by Nestle, being manufactured using the exact same process with the exact same ingredients, and having control of the exact same patents and American-side infrastructure.

    America is such a large marketplace that it would be impossible to split a company like this. Patents alone would prevent this, forcing Nestle to divest themselves of each individual subsidiary.



  • rekabis@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldCarebear countdown
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    where they help young adults and millennials deal with feelings of depression, disillusionment, and cynicism?

    You mean by eradicating the Parasite Class, dismantling vampire/vulture Capitalism, crashing the housing market by 75+%, and closing the wealth gap, thereby giving them a future that is not only affordable but also worth living and striving for?

    That sounds absolutely wonderful.