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".
This particular section of the transcript annoyed me the most.
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He’s fired. And becomes like basically a celebrity for certain parts of like the right. And they were kind of like… Like this is not what he was necessarily saying about himself, but for them, it’s like… He’s like this perfect symbol of like the qualified, brilliant, genius coder who’s the best person for the job, whatever his race or gender happen to be, who said one reasonable thing and like got fired because of political correctness.
You're entitled to your tastes; just because no other fans of the show chimed in, doesn't mean you need to feel sorry for posting it (though some explanation of relevance to the topic would be appreciated).
So don't worry; in a day nobody will remember this subthread anyway :).
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.
I would bet that your support ticket will be resolved within 24 hours of filing suit, regardless of what the TOS says. The value of your account is probably far smaller than the legal cost of even filing a motion to dismiss.
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".
I have been tracking my productivity with rescuetime on my work machine over the past year and paying particular attention to the value of exercising. I genuinely enjoy exercising, but in many stages of life, productivity is far more important than things I just enjoy doing. Also, I don’t care about losing weight. My productivity is critical these days so I wanted to know if exercising was contributing to that or taking from it.
Alternating 3 months on and 3 months off of jogging in the summer an elliptical in the winter, 4 days a week, with a steady program that took 45-55 minutes tops including changing clothes and a shower. My records do not support exercising for productivity gain; they support the opposite.
It was clear that exercising simply depleted my energy. It doesn’t take very long to do and it feels good, but it sucked my energy and my productive hours (mostly coding) were shortened by an average of 3-4 hours per day. Although I felt energetic, I didn’t “have more energy” as they say.
I will continue exercising when I can afford that, because keeping my body healthy is important long-term.
I am now curious about the wider justification of this common advice. I doubt it’s just a virtue signal. It’s hard to beat catching a morning run that moment before the sun comes over the horizon. Great way to start the day. But, my goal here was to be honest with myself. It does not make me feel better throughout the day. I wish it did, because I love feeling better, but it doesn’t do that. Not for me.
It seems those that benefit most from exercise from a productivity standpoint are those like myself. Exercise has been very helpful fighting depression, and thus, my productivity. I could imagine that those without depression would not get the mental benefit that easily overrides the effort of exercise.
I can actually sympathize with this. It was the reason I originally began exercising, and I know it helped with that. I don't know how much. I got more committed to meditating over the years and found the returns on meditating to be undeniable. I figure there are many sources and types of depression, and I think lower productivity undermined some of my efforts to fight it.
I reached the same conclusion for myself - that a ~40 minute cardio workout actually results in less productivity rather than more.
However, I switched to a 10 minute cycling workout with high intensity intervals (4-5 intervals 30 seconds in length). I have only done this for a few weeks, but I find that it boosts daily energy rather than depleting it.
I work in the morning from 0700/0800 to 1600/1700, I find that a mid-afternoon session perks up so I can crank out a few more hours. I could stay longer than that at work of course, but it would be of little benefit to anyone as I'd be effectively useless.
did you find that the timings of the work hours and workouts make no difference?
I.e. working out at 7am with workhours from 9-5 are suboptimal but workhours from 4am to 8am with an hour of workout between 8 and 9 gives you a boost for the rest of the day
I love that the first response to this starts "I've been tracking my productivity..."
Not getting immediately sucked into moralizing your attempts at self-care is almost alien to the American ethos. John Calvin, haunting America for 450 years...
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.
The "average" computer user may not notice the difference, but servers running Intel processors are used by businesses, hospitals, government, the military, cloud providers, and on and on. Often these organisations are thrashing this infrastructure to within an inch of its life.
Until fairly recently I was consulting and, no exaggeration, one of my former clients: if their SQL Server host takes a 15%, never mind a 30%, performance hit, they're screwed.
I personally have just been the prime mover in the procurement of a server costing £25k with a 3 year support contract, pretty carefully specced according to performance. And you're telling me I should be OK with that machine taking a 30% performance hit below what we specced? No way.
EDIT: Sorry, original version of last sentence was a bit out of order - the tone of that release got under my skin a bit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't know where you are from, but it worth remembering that the use of the term "sexy" is much more commonplace for inanimate objects and has different connotations in the English speaking world outside the United States. And the CEO of the company in question was raised outside the US.
"Sexy" has long been used to describe something visually attractive, not remotely related to sex. Here's Jonathan Ive talking about sexy computers: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/sexy-design/. Do you think they're actually sexually attracted to these machines? Or implying other people will be? I think you need to revise your word connotations.
What you just said is far more creepy than "S3XY".
>informal
exciting; appealing.
"I've climbed most of the really sexy west coast mountains"
synonyms: exciting, stimulating, interesting, appealing, intriguing, slick, red-hot
"a sexy sales promotion"
Did they? This is the first I've heard of it, and when I click models on their site, I see "S, X, 3, Roadster" (on mobile site), so I guess I never made any connection there.
He's the last technology patriarch. Practically a dinosaur from the age where women were not allowed to study STEM.
AND HE MARRIES ONLY SUPERMODELS, how's that for a smoking gun of oppression?
The President (i.e. the highest position other than Elon himself) of SpaceX is Gwynne Shotwell; please tell me how Elon is all about oppression of women.
Please don't undermine the (very real) fight against sexual harassment by conflating it with such nonsense issues.
It only gives ammunition to the chauvinists claiming that sex will be outlawed, or the idiots calling for politicians to resign for having sex out of wedlock.
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.
Agreed - it would be really great to have automatic recording of reps like we have for steps, but as you pointed out, you would need "smart equipment" and "smart free weights," which are either very far off from happening, or won't happen, which is why I built Riker. Being able to record reps from the Apple Watch is the most friction-less for me so far.
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.
