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  1. Silencio rolled out v2 of their app yesterday. This morning I used it quite a bit on my morning walk. They totally revamped the UI for the app and as someone used to the old app, it took a bit of experimenting to figure out how to navigate the new system. I've compiled a few thoughts about the new app: The Good The live map display while recording works great and is very helpful for capturing hexes that I missed in previous sessions. This is the best enhancement in the new app IMO.The display of the timer is now presented in high contrast black letters with a larger font and its much easier for me to read without a pair of reading glasses. This might not matter to you younger folks whose near/reading vision is still sharp, but in my case, this is a huge quality of life issue.They expanded the number of "quests" (now called achievements) that you can earn. It's a small thing, but it's nice to be rewarded for achieving occasional milestones.They got rid of that sometimes frustrating "pick one of three multiplier rewards" system when finishing/claiming a recording session. They now have a "Vegas one armed bandit slot machine style scrolling wheel". I see that the wheel includes a 100x multiplier in it (which I missed by one tick once). The Bad On my phone, the display of the overlay with the decibel levels clips into the "your current position" marker on the map so I can't see hexes behind me at all or to the sides (partially clipped). They need to allow us to minimize that overlay to make the live map easier to use when you are going for unclaimed hexes in an area you've previously traversed.If you want to apply a bonus multiplier to your earned coins from a recording session now, you have to watch an ad first. I suppose this could be a good thing in the long run for the health of the Silencio project, but it is annoying for someone that is trying to maximize their recording time and phone battery life. I chose to watch ads several times and so far have seen a couple very short (~5s) ads for Kraken and a few longer ads (~15s) for "CTsomethingorother". The Ugly I don't know if it's the app or my phone, but I'm unable to record a venue check-in presently. When I select that option and then select the nearby venue, the app shows a screen with recording info (decibels, record time) and then freezes. It doesn't record anything. If I click to abort the session, I get a confirmation pop-up that has two options to cancel the abort, but no option to confirm the abort. I have to close the app completely and restart to reset to the main screen.I thought this app was running more stable than the previous app. I successfully recorded several sessions >20min each. But on my way home, I had a recording that was running on 17min. When I checked it again a minute or so later, the app had crashed and I lost the recording. I had to restart the app several times as it would not start a new recording session - just gave me "something went wrong" error messages over and over - until it finally started working again.
  2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx
  3. I used to enjoy an occassional trip to Chuy's before they quit doing just about everything that made the place interesting. No more "Texas Toothpicks" during Hatch Chili season. Then Covid hit and they downsized the menu and stopped their daily specials. I liked the stuffed avocado and green chili pork stew. It's a very bland experience these days.
  4. Token on the left appears to be a Chuck E Cheese token:
  5. Been finding a lot of shiny treasures on the pavement over the last week or so. I try not to stop and pick up any coin that isn't worth at least one whole cent, but sometimes I get fooled. My eyes are eagle eyed on finding the glint of metal in the moonlight, but without my reading glasses on, it's hard to discern exactly what I've found until I get home. Here's a pic with two treasures found over the last couple of days: It's really hard to tell because it's so beat up, but the coin on the right is actually a quarter that's been smushed, bent and scratched to hell. I have no idea what the token/coin on the left actually is. The obverse has an image of a guitar, but the reverse is so scratched/damaged that I can't make out what the design was supposed to be.
  6. First time I saw one of the current Firehouse Subs ads with patron in the fancy restaurant wanting a hot sauce bar, I wasn't sure that I saw what I thought I saw. The ending to the commercial was bizarre (and stupid). Something about the one that ends with the patron pouting like a 5 years old kid cracks me up every time now.
  7. The spot ETFs are not "increasing supply". Folks that want BTC - even indirectly via spot ETF - have a limited supply from which they can acquire it. This is and has always been true. This is why the halving event is consequential. BTC price action over the last few months (since spot ETF approval) been subject to a few inverse supply shocks with BTC from Grayscale Trust, FTX bankruptcy, Mt. Gox bankruptcy, etc. adding significant supply to the market. I don't know what may happen with other derivative products or how they might be structured, but any investor funds they attract won't magically create more BTC supply.
  8. https://www.ishares.com/us/products/333011/ishares-bitcoin-trust $22,547,229,493 net assets / 649,640,000 shares = $34.70/share IBIT owns 369,822.19680 BTC worth $22,562,349,270 Before the ETFs were approved, I asked Eric Balchunas on X/Twitter about how the ETF was supposed to work (ie. when they were supposed to buy or sell BTC from the market). He said they are 1:1 dollar for dollar. IOW, if the ETF sees $100 million in inflows, they will buy $100 million worth of BTC.
  9. Watch out world! I have achieved "Devil" rank...
  10. What do you mean when you say ETFs "increased the supply"?
  11. Happy Halloween there neighbor! Would you like to experience our home made haunted house? It totally won't collapse on you if a strong gust of wind happens to blow...
  12. Sometimes the rock 'n roll *is* too loud.
  13. haha... typo... I "framed", not "farmed" the tree in the pic.
  14. The weather is turning quite nice for a before sunrise walk. I got another early start this morning and actually walked a long street clear across my city into the next city this morning. My legs feel a bit like jello today and I'm having to do some stretching exercises several times a day now that I'm walking so much. I managed to make a detour this morning and snap a pic of that ugly cube house I mentioned previously: I farmed that tree in the foreground with purpose to block the view of the house's street number and the two football shaped signs in the landscaping bed with their kids' names.
  15. They sure went out of their way to make the Dark Wizard look and act like Saruman. If that's supposed to be him, it's a weird character arc that they are going for as he was supposed to be good before Sauron corrupted him with a Palantir in the 3rd age, wasn't he?
  16. Watched the sentencing live while eating lunch. Very satisfying. 30 years before he's eligible for parole. He'll be 91 if he lives that long.
  17. "Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws"
  18. Yesterday while walking I spotted a coin on the pavement. I stopped to pick it up. I used a proper squatting form with a straight back to reach it and it seemed like every fiber of muscle in my thighs (quads, hammys, etc.) screamed in complaint at the same time (I definitely need to do more stretching). Still, I managed to claim my prize - a beaten up 1992 Washington quarter dollar worth ... $0.25. Huzzah! Today while walking I spotted another quarter on the ground. I thought that was pretty lucky until some minutes later when I happened upon another shiny metal object on the side of the road. I couldn't tell if this was a coin or a battery (the kind you find in garage door openers/clickers). I picked it up and it was so rough from being run over on the pavement that it was like sandpaper with tiny glass shards embedded - every surface felt like it was going to cut my fingers. It turned out to be a nickel though you can barely see any of the features that identify it as such. So, if this keeps up, and I invest these treasures with a 3% APY compounding monthly, I should be massively wealthy in about 4 billion years. So I got that going for me, which is nice. Also, I posted a couple of pics from my walks in the CR as a joke. Enjoy: https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/38242-happy-halloween-neighbors-yard-decorations/
  19. I found these while on my morning walks. Some people really like to put on a show for their neighbors!
  20. Goines can't handle the karma.
  21. He sounds fun. I wonder what committee assignments he covets...
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