Safe to assume those are your kids?

I already imagined a guy in cargo shorts.

Was curious if a maple reserve existed. looks like Canada is leading the charge on that one: https://ppaq.ca/en/sale-purchase-maple-syrup/worlds-only-res...

Strategic reserves for actual physical commodities makes some sense. Then can reduce the volatility in markets due to sudden unexpected market shocks. In the case of maple syrup that might mean a stretch of really bad harvests.

But digital currency is made up. It isn't 'needed' for anything. So there is no sense to have a strategic reserve.

> there is no sense to have a strategic reserve

FX reserves. (Doesn’t apply here. But stockpiling social constructs can still make sense.)

I think the closet example here would be if the Federal Government had started a "beanie babies" strategic reserve back in the 90s.

All currency is made up, and even physical reserves (gold) have very little intrinsic value. Bitcoin is just another one.

Yes, this is true. The federal government already has the US dollar. It does not need "another one". Why would it?

It's not about "needing" another one. The "other one" is already here, whether you think you need it or not. Will America play the leading role in how the world reacts to its existence, or will someone else beat them to being first? The answer was already decided. Welcome to the future.

Beating them to being first at what? The first to sink taxpayer resources into buying the latest meme coin? The first to provide a taxpayer funded bailout for crypto-bros? This is precisely the sort of 'waste and corruption' that the new administration should be getting away from, not diving into.

Famously subject of the biggest heist in Canadian history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Hei...

Same, except I wear this: https://www.amazon.com/Timex-T49950-Expedition-Shock-Vibrati...

It's a "dumb" Timex watch, but also vibrates. So you get that same nice gentle vibrating without any "smart" alerts.

I have the smaller older variant of the Timex Explorer and is still my most worn out of my whole collection despite its ugliness since it's by far the most useful due to the vibration alarms, great UX and features. Shame they don't make it anymore and has only been replaces with this gigantor edition.

that statement really bothered me. they can of course say that they don't see any evidence of exploitation, but this kind of personal data is valuable to bad actors because they can take it from au10tix and then use it to exploit other services or the individuals directly. au10tix would never know about that exploitation.

Anytime I find myself being clever, I'm reminded of this deadpan exchange.

Tyler Durden: How’s that working out for you? Narrator: What? Tyler Durden: Being clever. Narrator: … Great. Tyler Durden: Keep it up, then.

I was curious about the aggregators. the ones I found referenced in the findings: https://zumigo.com/ https://www.locationsmart.com/ and https://www.microbilt.com/

Anyone using these vendors noticed any weaker data signals/availability that could be related to this? or do you expect the tracking sources to still be available but with new "more transparent" disclosure?

This is reassuring. I never thought I'd be able to think or solve problems, but this gives me hope!

Where do you find/engage with similar high-effort content now (if anywhere)?

I haven't really had any luck yet. I was a Farker back in the day, but went to Reddit while a lot of other people were going to Digg. Back then I loved Reddit as a social news site, but now I really dislike it because it's mostly a meme and image aggregator. (IMO it was the memes, image macros (Advice Animals) and meta references that killed that site.)

That said, I like PinkBike.com for MTB stuff and Hacker News for tech stuff. Those are really the only two forums where I actually leave comments these days.

>>more is better, right?

yes. always.

"matter of a few months" / "on par offerings"... My (very very) limited impression is both of those statements aren't fair. Google/intel/etc have been working on lots of AI-related projects, even LLM efforts over years. It's not like any of these companies are bootstrapping LLMs or just posted their first AI engineer job a few months ago.

I also don't think I'd call what they're offering "on par" with GPT-4. They're competitive, or impressive substitutes, but my personal tests of Bard at least aren't getting me as useful results as GPT-4.

Source: too lazy to look up any. this is just my lame impression. feel free to downvote.