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New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

EGG_CREAM — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:04:59 +0000

Having it, physically. It’s harder for companies to play silly games like put the media into a vault, take it off their streaming platforms for tax reasons, etc… I started collected physical blu rays when HBO randomly took a million things off its platform so that it could do accounting tricks.

I want to support artists who make content I like, but I also want control over my media library. Physical media is the best way to do this.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

EGG_CREAM — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:16:29 +0000

Agreed about the 2-3% target. Seems like a crazy low target for a country that has been, historically, a strong exporter. Or at least seems to want to be an exporter. I wonder if one of the reasons behind this low target rate is that inflation will ultimately decide how expensive government debt is, since under normal circumstances people will want their bonds to at least pay out enough to cover inflation.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

EGG_CREAM — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:25:11 +0000

3. Is an interesting perspective, because it’s not at all how I see it. There really isn’t anything for Apple there right now except that they stumbled into making hardware that is perfect for the technology right now. They could a.) burn all their cash and go into massive debt chasing a big foggy question mark that may be entirely overvalued or b.) focus on the hardware right now, wait for the technology to mature and apply it judiciously as applications for it come to light, rather than racing to hamfist it in unnecessary, expensive, and ultimately broken ways.

Siri is useless, so is Alexa and Hey Google or whatever they are calling that. LLMs will change that but cost has to come down to make that feasible. On-device AI would be the gold standard there, I hope that’s not a pipe dream. Apple seems to be positioned niceley for that outcome, if it comes to pass.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

EGG_CREAM — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:04:56 +0000

UBI is the opposite of centralized planning. Instead of the state deciding what resources people need, and who “deserves” help, it leaves it up to individuals to decide how best to divvy up resources, and everybody gets it.

As for tools that make citizens obey, the government already has the best one: a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Everything else is child’s play compared to that.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

EGG_CREAM — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:14:02 +0000

I kind of lost the UBI plot, to be fair. I don’t really understand what UBI actually had to do with this exercise fundamentally, the exact same thing happens with or without it, it’s just that the floor of what “affordable housing” is gets risen. Unless you think that an unfettered, UBI-less economy doesn’t produce expensive housing? Which, I think we have many real world case studies in almost every major city in rich countries to disprove that assertion.

I do see what you mean, I think, now that I’m rereading and contemplating. A monthly stipend probably does more to raise prices than anything useful, unless you also pair it with regulation to stop the wealthy and powerful from taking it all for themselves. And at that point you could have just done those regulations without UBI. Hmm.

Do you think a few lump sum payments over a citizens lifetime would have the same effect? Maybe some large sum paid when you reach age of majority and then again at retirement?

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

EGG_CREAM — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:59:01 +0000

I am a progressive government. The free market has failed to provide a necessary service. So now I pass a law that creates a not for profit contractor that builds houses. It’s not that complicated. We do it with fire departments, police, and many other services already. Free market might have been more efficient theoretically, but when it fails in practice we find another solution.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "The Post-American Internet"

EGG_CREAM — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:06:17 +0000

That’s because our mass protests are focused on the overseas concentration camps, illegal detainment and arrests, and the other authoritarian moves our president has made. It’s true that Americans in general care little about foreign policy. It’s not an anti-Europe thing, it’s just that people care about stuff that more immediately affects them. European countries are smaller and more integrated, so foreign policy has a more immediate affect on them. Foreign policy has a dramatic affect on Americans lives, but it’s usually indirect and therefore not top of mind for the average citizen. That doesn’t mean we like our government’s foreign policy. And all that’s without mentioning that many believe the Greenland talk is not serious, and simply a distraction, and therefore mass protests would actually be playing into the admins hands.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster"

EGG_CREAM — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:02:07 +0000

Just because it goes away doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults"

EGG_CREAM — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:50:24 +0000

I don’t have any citations, but I don’t think that “work” was at all similar to what we do now. Early hominid work would have involved many different tasks throughout the day, such as tracking, hunting, cleaning, gathering, building, repairing, traveling, etc, right? Compare that to “do this one task 8-16 hours in a row,” and it does seem like a mode of work we would be particularly ill suited for. Orrrr maybe I’m wrong, I’m using general knowledge and inductive reasoning, so I would not be suprised to learn I’m off base here.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies"

EGG_CREAM — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:40:11 +0000

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail"

EGG_CREAM — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:41:01 +0000

I don’t know why I keep hearing that conciousness “could be an illusion.” It’s literally the one thing that can’t be an illusion. Whatever is causing it, the fact there is something it is like to be me is, from my subjective perspective, irrefutable. Saying that it could be an illusion seems nonsensical.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development"

EGG_CREAM — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:12:59 +0000

It’s very intellectually lazy of you not to be curious about why the creator and decades long, knowledgeable guardian of Linux has the opposite opinion as you, all because you read the Wikipedia about logical fallacies one time.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Imgur's community was in revolt"

EGG_CREAM — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:03:40 +0000

No. I think plenty of us recognize that the law has to have rigidly defined lines that don’t always line up neatly with morality. A great example is the “jailbait” subreddit that was talked about above. It makes sense that it’s technically legal, but I’d rather not be associated with the site that hosts it or the people who frequent it.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "The Dollar Is Dead"

EGG_CREAM — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:03:50 +0000

Something to point out also is that more equality is actually better even for the 1%. They are just too short-term-focused and greedy to see that. There is nothing they can get today that they wouldn’t be able to get tomorrow if we taxed them appropriately. In return, they would live in a more stable and safe society, a less brittle economy, and wouldn’t be as reviled socially. But they are just too focused on their net worth to see that.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]"

EGG_CREAM — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:34:26 +0000

No it’s not. It’s just a picture of a naked pregnant woman showering. She’s not in a suggestive pose, having sex, or anything else that would suggest sexual content. There’s nothing inherently sexual about nudity by itself.

If you say “everyone’s idea of what is sexual can be different,” I would agree, which I think is part of the point of posts like this: why does the most restrictive definition of sexual content always seem to be the point of view our lawmakers are protecting?

Edit: she’s not showering, I think. I went back and looked at it, when I read the post from my phone I thought she was showering.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution"

EGG_CREAM — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:15:21 +0000

I think so, because the users seem to like having different options. For commercial software, it makes sense to count how many devices use a particular distribution as the measure of “success”, but for projects like most Linux distributions , I don’t know that number of users makes sense. Why should we care how many users a particular distribution has, when almost all of them aren’t paying or contributing? Having more users doesn’t make the software any better inherently, and nobody is making money from those users. Instead, I would argue that user enthusiasm and dev interest are better measures of success for open source projects like this, and arch, Debian, Linux mint, etc are all doing fine in those regards.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500"

EGG_CREAM — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:54:50 +0000

Where is “racist” even factoring into it? I see this argument all the time, mostly about North Korea or china. There is nothing racist about suspecting someone from a specific country because you don’t trust that country’s government. That is not racist and what’s more I think you know that. It think these arguments are extremely bad faith. Here’s the test: is it about race? If not, then it’s not racist. For example, if I don’t trust Chinese nationals to work at my company because I think they will steal secrets, but I absolutely don’t have that same fear about people who are ethnically Chinese but born in my country, that’s not racist. If you want to call it xenophobic, sure, I’ll buy that. But racist? You are conflating nation and race on purpose.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging"

EGG_CREAM — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:19:30 +0000

Heard from where? How would they do that? Tutanota doesn’t have the key, the end user does. I keep hearing weird things about Turanota that sound like the types of rumors intelligences agencies who really don’t want people to use the service would start.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was minus 280° F / 173° C"

EGG_CREAM — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:04:11 +0000

In their defense, using Athena again here would have definitely sounded strange and not natural. But, they could have used the word “it” without introducing ambiguity, which they do 2 times already.

New comment by EGG_CREAM in "DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers"

EGG_CREAM — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:39:53 +0000

The point is to make working for the federal government a traumatic experience.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/10/inside-key-maga-l...