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BD89

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  • 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation

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  • You're forgetting those eye watering return charts they will be promising. The government will probably give them kickbacks or something similar to get it established at first. They have definitely done this in the past to help businesses (Texas Instruments, Foxxcon, Amazon, Volkswagen and many others they spend about $200 billion a year doing that)

    Also when someone dies they don't get buried Egypt style with their robot, that unit would be the property of the company/insurance/facility and go to the next person. Although I will admit mortality rates among elderly is something I didn't consider but disabled and injured or otherwise handicapped people will be the customer base as well.

    And I don't know if I said it in this comment or the other one but getting them into facilities/hospitals will absolutely be the end goal of all this but they have to go slow and test it all out first which is why I think getting them into homes will be the first goal.

    Also to add more to this, the 15¢ savings was just me being cynical the actual savings will be a lot more significant but the subscription model they will undoubtedly attach to something like this will be the real money maker I'm guessing they'll charge it annually and I bet it'll be quit expensive.

  • Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know

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  • "Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a "review clause.""

    Taking it down brick by brick one step at a time.

  • IBM Unveils Digital Asset Platform as Demand for Tokenization, Stablecoins Grows

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  • But that's just the problem isn't it? You highlighted yourself how untrustworthy the US government is.

    So what if you live there dude? Can't easily get Euros and shit although gold and silver is an option for now until they pass a law banning gold again like they absolutely did before.

    So what then? Put it all into their dollar? Fuck man idk. I definitely hate memecoins and shit but crypto as a whole doesn't really seem like that bad of an idea to me. You can hide it a lot easier than gold and silver and they can't bring a sniffer dog that will find bitcoin in the backyard.

    Sure they have electronics smelling dogs but if you memorize a seed phrase and don't write it down its yours forever so far they can't read your mind and extract it from you short of torture but even then they have to know prior that you had it before and that you didn't forget the seed phrase.

    I agree crypto has a lot of scammers and ignorant shit attached to it, but I also agree that blindly putting ALL of your eggs into the fiat basket isn't the best idea either. I think diversifying between certain (definitely not all) cryptocurrency and gold and silver is the best bet. I know I know people will hate me for saying that but damn I don't understand why people know to hate the government but LOVE their money and don't ever question that at all.

    Edited to add: I'm gonna be real if I lived in a nice stable country with a government I respected and felt like respected me and their allies around the world I probably wouldn't fuck with crypto. But I don't. Along with millions of other people.

    When they use some bullshit app to scan my face and say I'm not a citizen while throwing away my papers and licenses proving I am and ship me to some even worse shithole country and freeze my bank accounts and take all my gold I could still have that seed phrase memorized that they never knew about.

    And wow, turns out the impoverished country I'd go to would accept the crypto for payments because they know even better not to put all their eggs in the government issued bank note basket.

    Why do people hate that truth so much? Because there are bad people that exploit it? Shit dawg, how do you think the US Dollar got dominance?

  • 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation

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  • Once they figure out they can get these in every home and force people to pay the subscription fees that will climb up in price forever and ever until the heat death of the universe they will make sure every single elderly person that wants one has them in their home.

    This will be easy to subsidize because they will exploit overseas labor forces by paying them pennies on the dollar of what they have to pay anyone in America or UK or Canada and the charts for long term growth through the subscription model will be eye watering.

    Mix this in with exploiting the industrial labor force of places like China and Vietnam and Taiwan and this thing probably costs them $5K or less to make per robot.

    Remember it costs the CONSUMER $20K, not the dickheads in suits doing all the number punching and the businesses they work for.

    Keep in mind that by doing this they essentially will be able to end home care work for most people except very qualified specialists that not every one will have to use. And even then they will still have this thing doing laundry and dishes for them while the specialist only does certain specialized actions maybe like testing or something similar the robot won't be able to do.

    But think of the future potential, they will remind you at the business meetings! "Eventually this will be able to take those jobs over too and even eventually after that will be able to do open heart surgery and we can charge the HOSPITALS the exorbitant subscription fees indefinitely. We just need to be the first ones to dominate the market"

    Doesn't matter if it's overhyped or even a bit untrue, see how AI companies operate.

  • 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation

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  • Ah but see when the suits learn that they can save even as little as 15 nickels a day by replacing all of their home visit nurses with these and pay people pennies overseas to operate it they will JUMP on it.

    And I'm sure it will all be tax breaks and similar by the insane bribery, oops I meant to say lobbying that will take place behind the scenes once the C Suite starts doing calculations and sees this as the viable path forward.

    You underestimate how much greed will play a part in this process. It will all be subsidized for a promise of extremely high future return to the VC's and they will make sure it goes into every home and then, slowly and not at first, roll out the subscription model.

  • Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft

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  • Soon they will all be lobbying for digital ID and mandatory identity verification every single time you connect to the internet because they don't want to be held liable for what you choose to do on it.

    Just another erosion of rights for the American people. No surprise there.

  • FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

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  • Well don't you know?

    All they value is money.

  • Mullvad Leta shutting down

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  • Man I use Mullvad's VPN and their DNS servers and I had no idea they even made this!

    Seems like they didn't advertise it very well I knew about their browser but never heard of this.

  • After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence

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  • Problem is a theft charge would have ruined her and by the time its taken to court it shows up on a background check for you.

    So in this case talking to police chief and stuff did help her.

  • X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch

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  • Shouldn't trust it yet.

    Or ever.

  • Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far

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  • Well like most CEO's he gets paid no matter what so he doesn't have to think. That's the problem.

    Imagine getting millions of dollars to ruin a company. The concept is insane to me.

  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • Its back up now but that's because Signal uses AWS.

    I like signal and use it daily, but it is very strange that an app built for privacy and security doesn't let you self host. I wonder about the reasoning behind that sometimes.

  • DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

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  • Sadly you might be right

  • Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

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  • Is it illegal to do this? I mean they aren't being used anymore so no harm no foul right?

  • DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

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  • I surprised you think they will "never do this". They will have some study done by an entity closely connected to an AI firm that affirms that "this makes products X amount more likely to sell!"

    Whether it is true or not will be irrelevant. They will do it.

  • DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

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  • If it means they will finally stop fucking voting then good deal all around!

  • EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you

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  • There will be another one within 5 months.

  • DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source

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  • As another user said Linux compatibility has been huge the past couple of years.

    And PSVR2 has had some amazing games out that have completely changed the way I experience VR. And they also opened up their headset to PC via steam with an external dongle.

    Mainly the accessibility has been at an all time high. But the games that have come out lately too are amazing. I can even do cross play multiplayer with many different headsets now which is also super cool.

  • DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source

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  • This is so damn cool I want to throw one together just to tinker with it.

    This has been the best year for VR as a whole.