I feel lucky that I haven’t been crammed into a small apartment with roommates or whatever. It’s so much easier to have a routine without having to bump into a bunch of other people. I don’t know if I could have survived without my outdoor spaces though... there’s nothing like being able to sit outside and work on my laptop for long hours. Really sorry for everyone else who has been locked indoors. Two months would have been rough, but this is beyond intolerable. At least we will always have the upper hand whenever our grandchildren complain about being bored or cooped up: “Let me tell you something about being stuck inside!”
I have usually had at least fifteen stupid little problems by lunch time every day, so just try to be cognizant of the irritating things that you regularly come across. The chances are pretty good that someone is already selling some cool widget that attempts to solve your exact problem. I am not saying that you will encounter huge problems to solve, but you can at least easily entertain yourself.
Or you could watch MacGyver for some inspiration... I have been inspired to build a time machine to go back in time so that I can inform Richard Dean Anderson that the mullet is actually not a cool haircut.
Even though I have begged the cable company to address the underlying issue, I have gone through several dozen modem/DVR boxes due to lightning strikes. I can only assume that the equipment is super inexpensive, otherwise they would have sorted the problem ages ago. They have been making a fortune on renting out marked up junk for years, but I am sure they are already thinking of some clever ways to claw that revenue stream back.
I have always been advised that it is prudent not to use any browser-based wallet generators, especially while you are online. There are quite a few app-based wallets that will allow you to generate an address before wiping it from your phone. That is a well spotted security issue though.
Browser-based paperwallet generators are not necessarily a bad thing. App-based is not necessarily a good thing (apps can leak data too).
Best approach would be: disconnect LAN -> boot you computer from a live-CD -> don't connect the computer to the internet -> get the browser or app based generator via usb-stick -> generate the paper wallet and print it -> shut down the computer, don't save anything.
Here you go, not even this is safe if the app generate predictable addresses (this already happend by accident).
Maybe put 0,0001btc on the wallet and wait a few weeks and look if they vanish?
I think at some point you have to read and inform yourself. Maybe you find someone you can trust.
A 15 second internet search and a quick printout of a paperwallet is not the best way to deal with your money.
It seems like it would be much easier to check for shenanigans in a browser based walled generator than on a mobile app. In the browser I can just got F12 to determine what's up.
I listened to a lecture not too long ago about the perception of coincidence in the context of large, seemingly random environments, for example repeatedly seeing the same person in a busy city shopping district or encountering unexpected traffic patterns. This sort of goes to why humans are so bad at seeing patterns in the ”random” numbers generated by computers. Simply put, coincidence is generally our inability to make sense of the more complex underlying mathematical relationships, and so our dumb monkey brains attempt to fit together information that may not really have any logical commonality.
I suppose the transparency and the basic uniformity is what really separates chess from other mental activities. That is to say, there is no hidden information or any advantage that isn’t equally available to everyone. there are not too many activities that operate on that same sort of classless, egalitarian level, and so I can understand why the author is so passionate about it as a tool for learning the skills of concentration. With that in mind, I am terrible at it, and go makes me look like a drooling idiot... I can’t even understand when a game is over even though I try to practice every day.
It is a shame that these types of tech companies are always churning up such bad publicity... they literally cannot afford to be making these sorts of unforced errors. It just makes it that much more difficult for all the innovative and honest startups who are trying to bring about positive disruption. cutting corners and misleading your customers is not innovation.
It isn't just finance startups. With one exception, every startup I've worked for has done something I considered at least sketchy. The difference is most of them didn't have a federal agency with teeth paying attention.
It is, honestly, something I struggle with a bit. I don't like it, but it seems like the state of play is that "a little bit" of cheating is expected, and those who don't are at least operating at a handicap. Exactly how wide that gray area is depends on who is advising you, and sometimes results in shops like early-Uber.
Bryan Cantrill has a talk on YT on ethics in software [1]. And as I remember it the take away is that the way we think about problems isn't very conducive to obeying the law, or being good to people in general. And I've got to say the amount of people I see thinking of regulations, social norms or morals as « cruft » is pretty alarming.
After reading about companies like Robinhood and Uber I basically take "disruption" to mean "breaking the law in order to attempt to gain a competitive advantage and hoping to get away with it".
Yeah, that’s not really the point. People are going to avoid using these types of services, whether it’s Robinhood or some other startup, if they think they are going to get scammed. It is bad form, and the thing is that they knew that people have been skeptical about their sources of revenue for some time now.
Every other discount broker sells order flow too, and they’ll approve you for options trading if you say you have enough experience. I’m not sure why you think Robinhood is any different than TD or Schwab.
When I was in the UK I lived in a terraced house from the 1880’s with thick exterior walls. It wasn’t all that bad, but I wouldn’t say that it was very well insulated either. It was OK if you just wanted to heat one room, though I did have a decent collection of fleece sweaters and whatever. Actually, The warm summers were rough because there was no cooling, and most of my clothes were designed for cold, damp weather.
I am trying to learn more about analytics in order to inform decisions about developments in my own project. Do you have any advice about a good place to start? I think most of the information will be small strings of text coming from databases, but I’m trying to think of the best way to make sense of it all. I am not really vain enough to want to follow my activities here on HN, but perhaps you could explain how you approached this project.
