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It builds up over time with a slow drip drip drip. Just the constant soul destroying pointlessness of socializing on the internet though comment boards.

Anyways, I googled it and no it is not possible to delete a hacker news account. I successfully disabled reddit, facebook, twitter and linkedin though. So, this is the last outpost of an abysmal time on the web.

Thanks everyone. I am out.

The comments that followed my comment are the reason I wish it was possible to simply delete a ycombinator/hacker news profile.

It's an entertaining episode from a show I enjoy. Apparently, there are no other fans of the show here.

Very sorry.

Hopefully the federal government will jail pretty much everyone involved with Coinbase.com at the executive level. That would be my personal wish for something "very big".

For those that don't get the joke: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/106-is-that-you-kd/

But how do we actually get access to the money we put in? I think "sue coinbase" is basically a non-starter given their TOS.

They simply do not reply to any customer support tickets.

I agree with the comment at the top of this thread. In my own experience I can say that this helped me more than anything to get on the right track https://www.thefoundationsofwellbeing.com/

I know, the website looks a little cheesy but everything they talk about in the videos is legit. Meditate. Eat food that is actually nutritious, exercise, learn to be grateful and resilient. If you don't find Rick Hanson's way of talking about those topics to be helpful, just google the overall ideas of self-care and well being. Pretty much everyone says the same sort of things Rick Hanson says, but different people put slightly different spins on particular parts of the message. Find the message that speaks to you about this: how to take care of yourself.

Not just "how to happy" or "how to be productive".

The idea that Coinbase would do anything at all to increase the number of people trying to use their system to buy or sell anything is laughable. I have been locked out of my coinbase account pending id verification, which I have submitted numerous times incidentally, since December 12 without even a peep of support follow up from Coinbase.

So, for me, seeing stories like this are basically just rage inducing. Coinbase should not offer anything new until they can invest in support infrastructure to close out all of the tickets that have been submitted by a great many people who have been essentially ripped off.

I have given up on the idea that I will ever hear back from Coinbase support at this point. I put money into the system in good faith expecting that, because they were US based, there would be some customer support. I see now it is a swindle. You can play this same trick with just about any valued product: take thousands of orders, collect everyone's money, and then just tell everyone that you are so swamped that technically it will be a very very long time before anyone can get refunds or deliveries.

Oldest trick in the book.

And stories like this where the mainstream Silicon Valley hype machine continues to play along with this ludicrous narrative are absurd and upsetting.

The fact is: Coinbase cannot support transactions or customer issues in a timely way and is making no effort to resolve any of the issues in a timely way after having taken everyone's money.

Because let's be honest: when I bought my XEON and i5 processors, performance wasn't the issue that made me pick Intel over AMD. PUH-LEASE. This is the worst kind of customer service malarky I have read in a while.

We are not average computer users.

I think it's a mistake to think of "countries" in this way. America has never helped most of the people in it get good educations. I don't personally want to be "dominant" in this nationalistic way. So it doesn't bother me at all. If you are interested in math, study math.

But all you are ever getting with vps offerings is a description of the number of cpus and amount of ram and suchlike. I haven't seen vps offerings that say "x" chips yield "y" performance. Granted it is sort of implied that the hardware meets certain expectations but there isn't any guarantee. I was just now reading the TOS for AWS just to check and so far as I can tell they aren't guaranteeing any kind of specific performance.

Having graduated from high school in 1989 I can assure you that people have been saying this since as long as I have been a teenager. It used to be that people were obsessed with how Japan was going to suddenly dominate the American economy with their extraordinary technological prowess.

It seems like what people really want is to encourage American kids to study science and math and they are using the boogey man stories of foreign domination and excellence to somehow play into that narrative.

Yes, if you overtly sexualize something for which there is no real reason to take the conversation in that direction then you are very likely a creep. They could have been cool cars but I just don't like that.

Incidentally I was responding the comment that mentioned there is a lot of hate for Tesla. What I mostly don't like about Tesla, aside from that stupid naming convention, is that they missed all of their manufacturing targets and are about to hit a brick wall with investors, regardless of how "sexy" one thinks the car design is.

One thing that put me off about tesla, if you overlook all of the manufacturing issues that pretty much every analyst says will doom the company, is that for some bizarre reason the models were intentionally named in order to spell out S3XY. After Harvey Weinstein I think we all need to take a good hard look at the men who are in charge of things and ask, "why?" People don't get a free pass on being creeps just because they are blowing a lot of money anymore.

Well here you go: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/04/24/google-fit-v1-64-for...

Given the battery issues of apple devices and the extremely limited nature of apple health, I have to say I am ever more interested in switching to the android ecosystem. Having a watch that makes fitness tracking effortless across a variety of activities without having to constantly tend to button pushing would be fantastic. Especially if said device didn't require an online course in battery management to last more than a year.

This is a good idea that I think touches on a pain point that everyone who goes to the gym experiences. I use the app Endomondo, which is fantastic for tracking walking or running outside but limited in terms of what gets recorded for any other type of exercise. Honestly I wish there was some kind of magnetized transmitter thingy that I could just stick on the barbell or kettle bell that would automatically sync reps to my phone with some kind of motion sensor gyrometer. Or smart dumbbells that my apple watch syncs with so it automatically records reps and weight.

In terms of "internet of things" solving a problem like that, viz. linking up all the stuff in the gym to my apple watch so that I can get fine grained stats about my workouts, would be flippin golden.

Overall, the post has too many ungrammatical sentences like this:

"Unlike Squarespace, Shopify has the capability buy products from physical locations using Shopify."

You would probably make your point more effectively if you could A) recognize that you aren't helping your case by being offensive toward allies who are not actually the people you are condemning and B) make use of specific details about actual events rather than just making it seem like everyone is guilty. If everyone is guilty then no one is, in reality, guilty. It's like saying all men are rapists or everyone who masturbates is offending the sacred trust of god. This way of replacing argument with attempts to trigger people is getting no one closer to goal that every one actually wants, which is justice.

When you say "the US" and then make an offensive comment as if none of us have ever fought for justice for anyone, most people just tune you out as obviously wrong.

Saying "the US" as a way of lumping in everyone together as if we are all sitting here scheming ways to utilize black people unfairly is pretty disingenuous. It's a lot like saying "The Jews" crucified Jesus. There is no factual content being put forward. It's purely intended to be offensive.

It is unacceptable to take money from the crowd without making the appropriate effort to deal with demand.

The ponzi scheme aspect of it is this: the cryptocurrencies become more valuable as more people buy them. Very few people can access their accounts to sell them though, and that technical glitch will continue until the value collapses, at which point anyone who bought in will have lost the incentive or desire to sell and be left holding assets at a loss. This is designed into the system as a feature not a bug.

The coinbase status page is practically the definition of a ponzi scheme: https://status.coinbase.com/

In particular they write that while there is no friction whatsoever to putting money INTO the scheme, it is not currently possible to take money out reliably:

"Update - Due to outgoing wire delays, we recommend withdrawing via ACH (bank transfer) instead of wires for faster processing. This applies to withdrawals only. Deposits via wire transfer are not currently delayed."

If this were a real estate scam every red flag imaginable would be raised: you can buy but you cannot sell.

That this is passed off as a technical issue beyond anyone's control is the very nature of ponzi scheming.

In this sentence the word "unilaterally" is used incorrectly in a way that raises a red flag for me:

"I would say the people who are the most confident about self-identifying as data scientists are almost unilaterally frauds."

If no one else has coined the phrase "innovation fatigue", I would like to call dibs on that.

I have an iPhone 7. So long as Apple doesn't slow it down to dog slow speeds, I can't see ever getting a new phone until this one literally becomes completely inoperable by an act of god. This constant push to upgrade because of "features" just gets tiresome eventually. Am I alone in this?

My list:

Sam Harris Waking Up, Code Switch, Reply All, 538 Politics, On One with Angela Rye, Joe Rogan, Jocko Willink

Note: these suggestions do not mean that I agree with everything everyone says on these podcasts.

This comment/repo should be it's own HN post as it is vastly more interesting than the post you are commenting on. Thanks for the links.

Because you will be afraid that if you don't comply they will treat you badly and maybe even take you to jail. You can see in the interview of RW that the FBI agents make it seem like they are just there to find out what happened and they say several times that they think she just made a mistake. They are doing that in order to get her to see them as allies in the search for the truth and to minimize the gravity of the situation. So, in a case like this she would probably be sitting there thinking "yeah it was a mistake I didn't want to do that at all I can't believe I made a mistake like that" which makes it all but impossible for her to halt the interview and request an attorney. In order to have asked for legal representation she would have had to see the gravity of the situation, which the FBI agents downplayed over and over as a trick.

The best thing about the home lab is that I can buy whatever I want and I don't have to sit there arguing with a sysadmin at work about whether this is going to be a problem on the network.

Short answer: Imperialism.

That's a great list worthy of study in any context.

Social inclusion is an essential part of life and it's completely closed off from people who are "old" in programming. I don't think I am the only person to note that.

Not going to have the downvotes driving my profile into oblivion. I think retirement sounds fantastic and it would be great to live to old age enjoying personal programming projects. THX.

That is a good idea for a lot of reasons. It would be a platform that could be built out to incorporate drug sales too since a lot of times someone might want to buy weed in a city they are visiting but not want to root around the streets or the internet trying to find a source. So, there is a lot of potential. I think you should do all of the transactions in bitcoin though, giving the fact that transaction processing is going to be a huge hassle. I can't believe Uber is able to process transactions at all given the illegal nature of what they are doing in most cities.