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Speed is definitely a marketable quality. All these things are a trade-off and solely measuring against SOTA I don't feel is always helpful.

> Think of it like an ID check at the airport

That's an interesting way of selling this.

I'm not sure what microfilm has got to do with this. Plenty of national libraries have extensive digital collections of various artifacts - books and even websites. Check out the National Library of Australia as an example: https://www.library.gov.au/discover/what-we-collect/archived...

Fair question but haven't we been doing this for decades? Very few people know how to write assembly and yet software has proliferated. This is just another abstraction.

Nothing in the article talks about noise pollution. Their concern is about resource usage - water and electricity.

> Californians are staring down the barrel of a huge car buying crunch in ~7yrs

Yay the free market, hey?

What makes you think the raw audio stream needs to be sent anywhere. Modern phones are capable of doing keyword extraction on-device.

> The participation rate has always been low in rich western countries.

Australia has entered the chat.

This very much depends on your definition of major.

> To me, this absolutely feels like a NOBUS vulnerability, if the SIM manufacturers and/or core network equipment vendors are in cahoots with the NSA and let the NSA take those keys, they can potentially listen in on all mobile phone traffic in the world.

This feels like the obligatory XKCD comic[1] when in reality there isn't any secretive key extraction or cracking...things are just sent unencrypted from deeper into the network to the three-letter-agencies. Telco's are well known to have interconnect rooms with agencies.

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/

Hubspot does most of this already?

> I've always considered insurance false-economy and avoided it wherever possible, especially for events with losses <$20k.

Everything is relative, right? Self insurance is fine if you can afford it. Most people can't wear a $20k hit without potentially ending up homeless or in significant financial distress.

> Compulsory voting removes an important signal where participation indicates the legitimacy.

Why on earth would you prefer a signal of legitimacy over 70/80/90% vote participation? Get people engaged.

It's not a money thing. It is a process thing. They have regulations that they must follow to off-board you.

17.3? That doesn't exist (yet).

> Postgres 17.0 has been out for a bit

From the same blog:

> Sep 26, 2024 - Postgres 17 is Now Available

3 weeks....for a new major release...and we are asking ourselves why people haven't updated?

We/Australia has a massive focus on early detection of skin cancer due to our overly sunny weather. It's possibly that we detect more cancer and treat it earlier thus the better outcomes?

> Ozempic has entered the chat.

How can I financially support you?

Not sure many VC's are actually spending money to get those credits versus being given them for free as a promotional tool.

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So many words and FUD...with the bottom line being...

> Here's my take: The Account ID is useless and not a direct weakness.

You are trolling. Australian Government revenue was AU$755.8 billion in 2023, net assets of AU$790 billion and a budget surplus of AU$18 billion in 2023/24.

Don't let perfection get in the way of done.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Classic Microsoft-esq play from Apple.

> With this in mind insurance is a service worth paying for as long as the fee is lower than utility you gain from it.

Insurance is invariably a "for profit" enterprise so the utility or return across all participants has to be lower than the value invested/paid. Clearly you are protecting an unlikely situation so the utility value of peace of mind would need to be quantified.

Gambling has utility too...entertainment. How someone measures that is up to them I guess. Excessive gambling, just like excessive insurance, is wasteful as well.

IMHO, I don't think your argument stacks up.

You are absolutely right. I'm certainly not pro-Garmin here. Just anti-12 hour battery life for kids watches. It's just not compatible with the way young kids work.

> Fitbit Ace LTE has been tested with hundreds of families and is designed to get 16+ hours of use from a full battery.

Fail. Adults struggle to recharge their devices every day and my kids certainly won't remember to. Garmin Kids watches, while drastically different in functionality and connectivity, last 12 months before a battery replacement is needed and are wildly more suitable for young kids.

> This isn’t really a data breach,

This is totally a data breach. Show another customers data to a random person = data breach. People had access to valid boarding passes for flights they had no right to board.

> it’s a bug in the app.

Generally, bugs are responsible for most data breaches.

> And it didn’t “allow people to access strangers details” it showed each person the wrong details after they logged in.

You are downplaying the incident here. "Strangers" definitely did "access" other peoples' information. Just because it wasn't malicious doesn't mean data hasn't been breached.

> The amount stolen was $44B.

Quite funny that you forgot to denominate the currency here. As a non-US reader (we actually exist on the Internet!), it wasn't $44B in my currency.

I assume it is US$ ?