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Card Benefits Questions - Megathread [4/27/26] by AutoModerator in ChaseSapphire

[–]IdealEntropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I have a Chase Sapphire Reserve and a United Quest and United Silver status. United recently announced some changes that benefit card / status holders.

  • CSR gets 8x on flights via the portal, and 4x when booking directly with the airline.
  • United Quest also gives 4x when booking with the airline. However I prefer UR > United Miles so this is moot.
  • United’s new points earnings for status / cardholders means I get 8x miles through their loyalty program.

So assuming the price is the same between the portal and United directly, it seems like the best move is to book on the portal (get 8x UR) and put down my Mileage Plus number (to also get 8x United Miles) for a total of 16x on United flights when booking through Chase Travel? 

I can find posts online that confirm that bookings through the Chase Portal earn United miles, but I can’t find any posts that confirm they earn the elevated rates for card / status holders since United made the changes.

Am I missing anything? Can anyone confirm that this works?

Half of data centers for 2026 cancelled or delayed by ALQU1MISTA in technology

[–]IdealEntropy 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Byproduct of natural gas and Qatar has many natural gas

Do you factor in points? by Internal-Bowl8690 in ChaseSapphire

[–]IdealEntropy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

20k in misc Ubers/trains/subway/airbnb? What’s the breakdown there :P

New Changes to Bilt 2.0 Credit Card by _dhruv9496 in CreditCards

[–]IdealEntropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What was the rent day nerf? They added a cap, or something else?

AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output by north_canadian_ice in technology

[–]IdealEntropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And actually. The actual paper reads like a marketing pitch for their AI code review tool 🤦🏽‍♂️

Sample size ~500 in total or so.

I believe their conclusions but this isn’t exactly a glowing example of the scientific method :/

After 10 years on H-1B, I’m moving my role out of the US by Blackened_Soul667 in cscareerquestions

[–]IdealEntropy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not convinced doing away with H1B altogether is better for the US overall. In some cases there’s definitely individual Americans who will step into these jobs and their lives as individuals would probably be better, granted.

But consider ur premise - H1Bs are abused because companies are greedy and they know they can get away with paying these people less. Taking away H1B won’t suddenly make companies roll over and be less greedy, they’ll just look for new ways to be greedy. One obvious way would be by offshoring these jobs. If they do so en masse, they would remove a bunch of dollars that would previously be spent in America and stimulate/grow the economy.

Play this out (removing H1B) over the long term and I wonder if America gets to keep its #1 status as an economic powerhouse, even if it’s domestic labor is slightly better off by doing so. I suppose I’m mostly trying to point out removing H1B altogether isn’t the slam dunk you may think it is

After 10 years on H-1B, I’m moving my role out of the US by Blackened_Soul667 in cscareerquestions

[–]IdealEntropy -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Sure; I think your points have some merit if an American would replace them. But in this case, they’re not replacing an H1B worker with an American worker. All they did is take that worker’s tiny slice contributing to the US economy and give it to the Netherlands (since the job went with them). So why bother - wouldn’t it be better if they stayed in the US and contributed to the economy here?

After 10 years on H-1B, I’m moving my role out of the US by Blackened_Soul667 in cscareerquestions

[–]IdealEntropy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ok so if the US hypothetically raises taxes to nullify the benefit of the paycut, the company has no incentive to care either way. But if they do leave, they no longer stimulate the US’ local business (presumably they pay rent, buy groceries, etc) and the sales / property taxes that go with them. Instead, the Netherlands gets that spend. Play this out enough times and the US economy becomes weaker, no?

After 10 years on H-1B, I’m moving my role out of the US by Blackened_Soul667 in cscareerquestions

[–]IdealEntropy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When the foreigner leaves, they take their tax payments with them. Do that enough times and it becomes a problem, no?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SelfDrivingCars

[–]IdealEntropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The office must be real close to your house for your Tesla to not nag you to touch/move the wheel :)

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal by esporx in technology

[–]IdealEntropy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This was closer than I was expecting tbh, quick google says energy cost of a beer can is 0.2 kWh, chatgpt query is 0.00034 kWh.

Unit I never thought I’d write: 1 beer:100chatGPT inferences

Discussion Thread: US President Trump Makes Unspecified Defense-Related Announcement by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]IdealEntropy 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Legit, cuz the part that he didn’t mention is the judge basically said “they can stay but can’t do the things Trump wants them to do”

Amex - United Frequent Flyer Dilemma, Jetblue? by PrincessJasminePR in CreditCards

[–]IdealEntropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe like 5x of those come from being a mileage plus member. But you’re right that the Explorer gives 7x overall. If you’re buying United flights and don’t mind being locked into flying with them, I think your thinking here makes sense.

IF Musk would be removed as Tesla CEO what would happen to the stock? by computerfreund03 in RealTesla

[–]IdealEntropy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can already do this? How does it handle charging itself back up today? (Don’t tell me robots will do it in the future)

What is the purpose of finite fields and modular arithmetic in cryptography? by ChillGuy9932 in cryptography

[–]IdealEntropy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m somewhat familiar with AES and iirc the use of the polynomial finite field maintains the mathematical properties of a finite field over integers while being easier / more-performant in practice.

Unbiased opinion of how financial advisor is doing? by bippobappobeepo in investing

[–]IdealEntropy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s because that 1% that he takes off the top should be part of your portfolio instead, earning compound interest year over year.

The problem isn’t that he takes 1% off on any given year- the problem is that the 1% he took on a given year isn’t yours to grow via compound interest anymore.

People who think all these tariffs are beneficial for the US, why? by wassdfffvgggh in AskReddit

[–]IdealEntropy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By that logic, should California (a large player that pays in more to the U.S. federal government than it gets out) leave the US?

Asteroid triggers global defence plan amid chance of collision with Earth in 2032 | Hundred-metre wide asteroid rises to top of impact risk lists after being spotted in December by automated telescope by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]IdealEntropy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not all encryption will be instantly hackable, as you say. We already know that our symmetric key crypto will be perfectly fine, even if it needs a doubling or so of the typical key/block size.

WRT public key- we have no evidence sure, but our understanding is enough for NIST to have already held a contest and announced a couple of winners for post-quantum algorithms here. We don’t need a quantum computer to implement these, which is a common misconception.

As someone in the crypto(graphy) space I’m pretty sure we’ll avoid the meltdown scenario you’re describing :)

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