Maintenance is always a good idea.

SNZ #69 is on the way to you!

Nice!

I agree. I'm glad the company had to pay, but if it was really a fair trade for the risk on my part, I feel like it would have to be a payment several orders of magnitude higher. What if I had to change my SSN for repeated identity theft attempts as a result? In the case of ledger, what if I even had to move because I no longer felt safe at that published address? The cost of remediation could vary quite a lot, but at > 1BTC, it might actually represent the risk and impact of having that data public.

You definitely can't put the genie back in the bottle! Who knows how much damage it will do when the right people get ahold of it. Then again, these breaches happen so often lately, and so many third parties sell my data that I'm not even sure how private I should consider this info anymore.

I bought a pixel 10 pro last year and it was probably the first time I've spent more than $300 on a phone. I dropped it in the lake while replacing rigging on my sailboat and rather than write it off, I went and got my scuba gear and went in after it. It's been sitting in a container of desiccant since Saturday. It sat overnight at 28' deep, so I'm a little concerned it will have too much moisture when I try to turn it back on, but for how much I spent, I'm going to give every effort to salvage it.

I like the camera and all, but it's a little crazy to have so much money tied up in a phone. To be honest, I can't say I've missed having a phone this week.

Do you have heavy duties on imports? This youtuber has a whole series of videos on how to install your own solar and there are some pretty good deals out there. I like the idea of finding vetted components that won't break the bank. Panels seem to be the cheapest part these days too - but maybe not after they're mounted and wired. My neighbor has been finding lightly used 400W solar panels for ~$100 each, which makes for a pretty hefty system without spending too much. I hear the solid state inverters are getting a lot more reliable these days too. The heavy transformer based ones have historically lasted longer, but you pay quite a premium for them.

Whatever you decide, please keep us posted with the result - this will be a cool project!

The length of her career in such a competitive sport is really impressive. She's legitimately old enough to be Alcaraz's mother! I wish I could defy aging like that. This will be cool to see!

So glad I over invested on RAM to play around with llm models early. It's all crazy expensive now. I use Ubuntu mostly, and occasionally Debian.

So that's what happened to my channel with Predyx! I did notice it was suddenly very short on liquidity.

"Miss Campbell, you must work on your Jedi mind tricks! Do it like this:..."

Oh my God, I'm dying.

According to SIFMA:

YTD 2026 statistics include:

• Trading (through July) $1,209.1 billion ADV, +12.1% Y/Y
• Outstanding (as of July) $31.5 trillion, +8.6% Y/Y

So $4B is about 2% of the monthly volume. I think Bessent's gonna need deeper pockets.

Isn't the size of the 30Y treasury market roughly $30T? I'm having trouble seeing how a $4B buyback operation will be all that impactful. Is it just to signal that the treasury is willing to intervene or is there something I'm missing?

It's impressive that we've finally gotten off zero, but I wouldn't call 2.4% a "real" return. Personally, I use ~6% for my inflation estimates. I find this is more in line with broad money supply growth, from which everything else gets priced. Sure, some products/services/commodities increase at much less than this rate, but elsewhere - where there's real scarcity - that deficit is often made up (desirable real estate, education, healthcare, etc.)

I find it wild that there are people and institutions out there willing to lock into a 30 year term for only 4.7%.

The whole thing was fantastic and very educational. Thanks for sharing!

I wrote a short speech for my parents' 50th anniversary party yesterday. I didn't think much of it at the time, but it moved a few people to tears and I got several compliments afterward. I could tell my parents were really touched. I'm so glad I took the time to prepare something - a bit of my brainpower well spent.

Yes, it's named for his min-cost-flow research! Rene generally knows best.

The end of an era! I'm going to miss TAB Conf - you all really set the bar for what a technical bitcoin conference can be. I've met so many great people and friends there over the years. Thanks for all your dedication and making them them happen.

That's rough. It sounds like this particular college in Ohio never adapted to the changing conditions after covid and the administration buried their heads in the sand until it was too late.

It also makes me wonder what the end result of an endowment really is. My own alma mater has an endowment of only ~$30K per student, which is pretty tiny. And yet tuition is still reasonable, the class sizes are small and research opportunities for students and faculty are abundant. Does a large endowment just mean more money spent on sports and administration overhead? (My college had no sports scholarships - we barely had any sports.)

Much like regulating your emotions with meditation practice, being quick to anger doesn't make you a good or bad person imo, just more impulsive seeming in this case. I would feel bad projecting my totally unregulated emotion on people I care about, but I also view my thoughtful regulation as part of what makes me who I am. Incidentally, I'd generally rather stay quiet than put out unneeded negative energy.

I've found I quite often have thoughts that spring to mind unbidden - I think that's just how our brains work. Sometimes they make me laugh inside and others are things that I would hate to broadcast. Being able to soundly reject the worst of my base impulses before subjecting them to the rest of the world is kind of important. I wouldn't want to give that up, but at the same time just being a hot head doesn't make one a bad person.

I don't curse much - mostly because I don't find it as expressive as other options most of the time. I think a well placed curse word from time to time is impactful though, and I wouldn't necessarily refrain from using one in front of my kid. Now that he's a teenager, I actually wish he would curse more. His generation has a bizarre fetish for puritanism.