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.

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

Very sorry.

They simply do not reply to any customer support tickets.

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".

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.

We are not average computer users.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

These are a bunch of half baked concepts being promoted through websites that cannot scale. And I am talking about websites like kraken and coinbase that have huge numbers of developers working on them.

Finally, if large numbers of people tried to log into their online bank account (e.g. chase or ally) and got system issues for weeks without being able to access any of their money, the economy would literally come screeching to a halt. That these cryptocurrency sites can simply fail to be able to handle the traffic is reason enough to say that this system of transacting cannot be used by large numbers of people globally for essential financial transactions. They can simply turn off everyone's access and take everyone's money whenever they want and we have no legal recourse. This is not banking.

These sites are cashing in on a ponzi scheme that really should be illegal.

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