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bycmseagle
2026 @10:44AM
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Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
Eliminate most other forms of welfare.
This is often given as a way to (at least partially) fund a UBI, but is it feasible?
Politically, good luck convincing Social Security recipients (who on average receive much more than $600/mo) to give it up after making a lifetime of contributions. I agree that it's not feasible to fund your healthcare out of UBI, so we need to keep around Medicare/Medicaid. And it's not morally acceptable (in my opinion) that if someone on UBI ends up homeless that they're allowed to starve on the street, so we need to keep around some sort of safety net program, too.
After accounting for all of that, what other welfare is there to eliminate? The big programs seem pretty well entrenched.
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bycmseagle
2026 @05:21AM
(#65951834)
Attached to: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
Exploiting such loopholes would still leave them open to claims of fraud. They've stated in no uncertain terms that "with end-to-end encryption, your messages are secured with a lock, and only the recipient and you have the special key needed to unlock and read them.".
It would be such a brazen lie that it makes me skeptical of the allegations of this lawsuit, even given my very low trust in Meta.
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bycmseagle
1, 2026 @06:52AM
(#65939240)
Attached to: Anthropic CEO Says Government Should Help Ensure AI's Economic Upside Is Shared
I can get behind more progressive taxation, but I don't think that taxing loans as income would lead to the utopia for the working man that you seem to think. If credit suddenly becomes more expensive it's not going to be the people who already have assets who struggle.
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bycmseagle
2026 @09:58AM
(#65937000)
Attached to: Sony Is Ceding Control of TV Hardware Business To China's TCL
Is there actually any evidence that Sony has produced a genuinely premium product in the last decade in any category?
I recall their A95K 4K OLED getting glowing reviews in 2022 (and at $3500 for the 65", it better have). I couldn't justify the cost of upgrading my perfectly functional Sony TV, but if I had needed a replacement the A95K would have been my pick.
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bycmseagle
2026 @08:31AM
(#65925966)
Attached to: Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public
I don't know what to call it, but the iteration of Digg before this one was nice: a simple, curated front page of interesting (sometimes clickbait-y) articles on a range of topics.
I was hoping it'd be something similar when re-launched. I don't see what value-adding differentiator a Reddit clone brings to the internet.
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bycmseagle
4, 2026 @05:14AM
(#65923236)
Attached to: Iran Shuts Down Musk's Starlink For First Time
How would a jammer work and what would the range be ?
From the article:
Starlink receivers use GPS to locate and enable connections to satellites. “Since its 12-day war with Israel last June," The Times says, “Iran has been disrupting GPS signals.” That means shutdowns are localized, and has resulted in a patchwork quilt of Starlink connectivity, including near blackouts in some high-profile areas.
Presumably they saturate the airwaves with bogus GPS data which makes the receiver think it's somewhere that it's not. The receiver then "looks" to the wrong place in the sky when it's trying to send/receive packets.
Seems like this would be easily defeated in software, by allowing the user to hard-code their GPS coordinates if they know their precise location by other means.
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bycmseagle
2026 @09:00AM
(#65920552)
Attached to: Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans
Even if they say, "sure we will WORK on it", doesnt mean it will happen in a timeframe to help consumers and citizens.
A piece of advice I received early in my career that has always stuck with me is that if the follow-up from a meeting, email, whatever is "X to work with Y on Z", the likelihood of "Z" actually happening is very low.
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bycmseagle
2026 @04:45AM
(#65920238)
Attached to: EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution
So we throw up our hands and give up because it's hard?
Barring evidence that these pollutants aren't actually harmful, which it doesn't seem like anyone is seriously arguing, surely a more reasonable approach would be to refine the models to account for the sorts of factors you mention. (Assuming they aren't already accounted for. Given that I probably could have thought them up with a few minutes of brainstorming, I figure the people who do this for a living are probably ahead of us on that.)
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bycmseagle
2026 @04:05AM
(#65920206)
Attached to: You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000
I was surprised by the low amount. It seems like even transporting a person to the moon would cost an order of magnitude more than 250k, and that's before you even start talking about funding the construction of a habitat. Lo and behold:
Your deposit will be applied toward the final price of your reservation once the hotel is ready to accept guests. Final pricing has not yet been determined will likely exceed $10 million.
So, yeah. Not only are you reserving a spot in a "hotel" that isn't expected to exist for at least another 5 years, but the final amount you're asked to cough up could well be ~10-100x more. I guess to some individuals a few hundred thousand dollars is the equivalent to what I lose in the couch cushions, and it is refundable (assuming the company remains solvent), but is the sense of FOMO so bad that the mega rich are willing to toss it at a project so far from realization just for the chance at being first?
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bycmseagle
2026 @03:58AM
(#65920204)
Attached to: Revolutionary Eye Injection Saved My Sight, Says First-Ever Patient
"Hypotony" == "low pressure in the eye". Pumping up the eye with some fluid to increase the pressure feels like an intuitive solution to the problem.
I'm sure an ophthalmologist could point out twenty ways in which making this solution work wasn't straightforward, but regardless it's cool to see when the "simple" approach works the way you'd hope.
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bycmseagle
2026 @11:51AM
(#65918172)
Attached to: US President Calls for 10% Credit Card Interest Cap, Banks Push Back
Call it price controls or whatever, but I think the government needs to step in when the market fails.
I don't disagree, but I'm not seeing evidence that this is actually a market failure (at least to the degree of slashing rates to 10% being a proportionate response). From what I've seen interest rates on credit cards are over 20% around the world.
I obviously can't prove that a global cabal of bankers isn't colluding to set that rate at an artificially high level internationally, but it seems more likely that it's simply the price of offering unsecured debt to the general public.
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bycmseagle
2026 @10:36AM
(#65917974)
Attached to: US President Calls for 10% Credit Card Interest Cap, Banks Push Back
I was wondering how long before politicians started reaching to price controls as the solution to cost of living challenges, but this is earlier than I expected. Maybe Maduro's presence in the US is inspiring the adoption of some of his economic policies!
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bycmseagle
2026 @08:28AM
(#65912231)
Attached to: Google Is Adding an 'AI Inbox' To Gmail That Summarizes Emails
For users who are concerned about their privacy, the information Google gleans by skimming through inboxes will not be used to improve the company's foundational AI models.
Was anyone concerned about their privacy using Gmail to begin with?
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bycmseagle
2026 @05:28AM
(#65912095)
Attached to: The Gap Between Premium and Budget TV Brands is Quickly Closing
I think the difference with the jump from 4k to 8k is that you're starting to hit the practical limits of the eye's ability to distinguish the difference.
On a 75" TV, you can in principle distinguish between 1080p and 4k content if you're sitting within ~8 feet of the screen. That's probably a bit close for comfortable viewing, but it's plausible. To distinguish between 4k and 8k you'd need to be within ~4 feet of that display. I'd bet that no one is regularly doing that in the real world.
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bycmseagle
2026 @02:43AM
(#65911973)
Attached to: Power Bank Feature Creep is Out of Control
I think you misunderstood. I have an Anker 737 and love it.
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