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I'm not puzzled. Coinbase is great as long as you stay in crypto it's the fiat to crypto that causes concern. I'm about/in the process of cancelling/closing all my accounts.

Why?

In the TOS they (Coinbase) state your crypto will always be your crypto. You are free to withdraw at any time. That's BS. Not only was I told to FO by coinbase support but they said any further contact would result in the exact same answer (FO).

That said, I had a large ( like 2k usd) deposit (in ETH so no fiat) so I wasn't giving up. Was about to post on Reddit, or elsewhere but they finally unfroze my account after a month.

Most people in crypto don't use Coinbase except maybe the whales because there are incentives for whales. Smaller players get screwed.

Kris got fed up and decided to live off of the grid...here's his story. In my opinion this is both a Hacker Story and an inspirational story (below is quoted from his website):

"What does work mean to you?

Probably something like Monday morning commuter traffic, dreading getting out of bed, train delays, staying late doing unpaid work, stress, only getting told when you do something wrong rather than right, and a boss that got where they were by just saying yes sir no sir

I, like most other people in this world found myself in the very same position that you likely are. I grew up thinking the world was all about money - unfortunately for me the school system had failed to recognise my very real but non-academic talents. Therefore you won’t be surprised to know that I failed all of my GCSE’s and went to the bottom of the employment pile.

It was when I left school I started learning. I realised that education comes in many forms, that people’s abilities are so varied and unique that to try and push and grind them into little cogs whose only purpose is to serve the larger economic machine is so often a terrible waste of life.

“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will always fail”

-Amos E. Dolbear of Tufts""

Well while this is not indisputable proof there is a very relevant discussion on virological.org related to both Furin cleavage sites and orgins of SARS-COV-2. The damning part of the leaked research proposal is that they ALREADY had partner researchers located near caves in three different parts of Yunnan Province.

For a more detailed discussion of the origins of SARS-COV-2 while not directly addressing the leaked DARPA proposal please see: https://virological.org/t/tackling-rumors-of-a-suspicious-or...

They also discuss that the base virus was mostly likely linked to bats in Yunnan province. How it got from Yunnan to Wuhan is a matter of question.

However, if the research was being conducted in the US and accidentally leaked into the population it may have been in circulation for sometime (months) before causing serious illness or disease (mutations).

I've been surreptitiously rick-rolled by myself ... funny but kind of evil at the same time ;-)

You are evil!!! I've just rick-rolled myself :D

Please don't take this as being directed explicitly towards your comment. But why does anyone think there is such a thing as herd immunity for Covid-19?

I've been following the research since December/January on New England Journal of Medicine, Virological.org, Lancet etc. And I think there is not yet enough evidence to suggest that there is immunity conferred by contracting Covid-19.

Does anyone know of any studies claiming that "herd" immunity is even possible with Covid-19? The latest article I could find is: COVID-19 and Postinfection Immunity https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766097

If there is no immunity or limited immunity conferred from infection then Covid-19 will be with the USA and other countries that have given up on control measures for a long time.

For me, it is knowing (or more accurately recognizing) when I'm going down the wrong path. Sometimes this is, of course, part of learning and sometimes it is a waste of time.

One thing great about the Internet and places like S.O. or H.N. or search engines, as well as other subject specific sites is it is much easier to find subject matter experts when you get stuck.

This should probably be a separate submission but why is search so bad everywhere?

- Confluence: Native search is horrible IME

- Microsoft Help (Applications): .chm files Need I say more.

- Microsoft Task Bar: Native search okay and then horrible beyond a few key words and then ... BING :-(

- Microsoft File Search: Even with full disk indexing (I turned it on) it still takes 15-20 minutes to find all jpegs with an SSD. What's going on there?

- Adobe PDFs: Readers all versions. What? You mean you want to search for TWO words. Sacrilege. Don't do it.

Seriously though with all the interview code tests bubble sort, quick sort, bloom filters, etc. Why can't companies or even websites get this right?

And I agree with other commenters as far as Google, Bing, DDG, or other search sites it's been going down hill but the speed of uselessness is picking up.

The other nagging problem (at least for me) is that explicit searches which used to yield more relevant results now are front loaded with garbage. If I'm looking for datasheet on an STM (ST Microsystems) Chip and I start search with STM as of today STM is no longer relevant (it is, meaning it shows up after a few pages). But wow it seems like the SEOs are winning but companies that use this technique won't get my business.

Yes. It is much, much faster...until you get behind someone who: Never used it before; Has no idea what they want to eat; Wants to check the prices on all the sides; Is waiting for their friends to send them a weChat message with their order also so they don't have to wait; The machine can't print the ticket; The machine crashes after taking payment; The person in front of you has friends show up and they start going back through all of the options.

I love it if it isn't during "rush hour," but some people take a long time to make up their minds when given a plethora of options. And then I seek out a counter person as they will just help the next person if someone hasn't made up their mind yet.

I worked with Boeing during the 00's. It's when they started outsourcing everything including IT.

Holy shit this goes deeper than I thought and some people are heavily cleaning Wikipedia.

Didn't even know about this bit stealing rocket tech.: https://www.justice.gov/archive/criminal/cybercrime/press-re...

Also check out: Darleen Druyun https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-probe-intensifi...

Phil Condit was ousted over Darleen and that's why Harry was brought in... although the Wikipedia page doesn't mention any of this...fu wikipedia. He was not "retired" he was forced out and Boeing was banned from Space Contracts for 5 years.

Damn I wish I save all those news articles. Whoever said the Internet is forever is wrong! The Internet is fickle ...some things will be memes forever and others will be forgotten.

And here's what happened to Harry Stonecipher: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB111019724886272076

So much for "cleaning" up the company culture. F Boeing. The company not the engineers. I also know some very talented people there.

[Edit Note:1] The WSJ link should not be paywalled as it's an old article...at least it wasn't for me.

[Edit Note:2] The WSJ link is very detailed about what went down if it ends up blocked/paywalled I will...f'ck it I will edit wikipedia....grrrrr history is not fickle and Condit was and is an ass.

So is Microsoft, at least, on Linked-In. I tested it last year and deleted my profile. Had a friend check and everything was gone...Everything including public posts.

LinkedIn has a remorse period of something like 21 days. And I had plan to test recovery process also. Then got busy with a contract and was too late to recover. It's awesome!

I think any global IT company must deal with GDPR kind of like most automakers in U.S. follow California emission standards. It's easier to create a policy for all than create "one off" policies for a geopolitical region.

@al_chemist Thank you! Between software frameworks and embedded systems engineering...oh hell just being in tech. in general there are way too many acronyms. Thank you for actually listing the definition! :-)

Okay, this may what it has become but I've done both jobs at the same time.

To me DevOps: One must understand the build system, stack, and the minutiae related to maintaining that build stream. It's a lot of work and at least in the past was more of a developer responsibility and not a "System Admin" type responsibility.

System Administration: Security, User Accounts, Policy, Backups, Network Configuration, Automation, Reliability.

Sure there is some overlap but these used to be completely separate functions and with good reason there was a lot to understand about each workflow.

Modern workflows (K8s, AWS, Docker, VMs, Jenkins, CI, TDD) have mostly take the "System" out of system administration while improving reliability and speeding development while (I think) suffering security. But that's another post or maybe I will write an article about it.

I've been both insured and uninsured. I agree with you. I'd rather die than go to a hospital and leave with enough debt to cover Harvard, Standford, or [name your institution].

Also, know that the primary care givers (nurses mostly but also doctors) don't get paid as much as you think they might. The insurance companies are all for profit so the system is gamed this way.

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Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with this organization but I applaud them!

A TV set never turns off! It is well known in the industry. Standby usually just turns of the LCD, backlight and changes LED colour.

Try this: Switch TV to standby then turn on. Time how long this takes. Unplug TV for 30 seconds plug in and then turn on. It will take a while for the TV to boot from cold start.

Manufacturers have been doing this since CRTs.

Actually from the link you provided, airspeed is absolutely a quantitative indicator of a stall.

"The airspeed indicator provides quantitative information about angle of attack, when the airspeed is not too low. Correction factors must be applied to correct for nonstandard weight and/or load factors.3"