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The global virus pandemic that is responsible for a total lockdown and a multitude of deaths and spread immediately via global transportation system wasn't enough for you?

They initiate a cash transfer via ACH, which takes a few days (absurd). In the meantime they honor the amount you decided to withdraw. It's a bookie floating a new gambler.

I opened an account two days ago to buy one share of GME for fun, then they blocked my ability to, but I still can't take my money out -- despite my bank notifying me that it's been withdrawn. This is because they probably process all the ACH records in a nightly job on weekdays. It'll be Monday before the money can begin its 3 day trip back to my bank.

So much of this process is unnecessary but what are you going to do? They (the entrenched financial system) have you by the throat.

> Imagine paying $1-3 per month for FB or Twitter.

Imagine paying $1-3 per month for FB or Twitter.

I lived in NYC for 11 years and the only things I miss are my friends and Fresh Direct.

There is no whataboutism coming from me. You are welcome to point out where I've advocated for such a thing.

For the last four years there has been a constant refrain that we need "adults in the room". Right now more than ever, we do. For some people the chickens are coming home to roost and I'm just saying -- we -- and by "we" I mean reasonable people -- should avoid our worst tendencies in this moment, even privately.

I agree with you. I think there is something wrong with the way we are reacting to these people and it's ratcheting up every day. I personally think they are deplorable and retrograde and, above all, willfully ignorant. But there is something wrong with this entire system and the path forward feels as untenable as the path we've been on.

There has to be a detente, but I would never suggest that amongst my orbit of people. The language of the moment is so loaded, I'd probably be called a bootlicker. At the same time I had friends calling for the gunning down of these people as they overran the Capitol.

It's very hard to reconcile all of this turmoil.

I'm saying that the phrase "people literally overthrowing the democratically elected government of the US." is hysterics. That is not what happened.

Also there was bloodshed.

I don't care about what this president does because he's a repulsive child.

Is there reason for alarm? Sure. The Capitol Police were negligent in planning and performing their duties. There was not a sufficient lockdown and security protocol for the physical items. Probably all sorts of other things. These people committed felonies and should be punished.

But this was not a revolution. Our government was not overthrown.

From Wikipedia (I know...):

> Many scholars consider a coup d'état successful when the usurpers seize and hold power for at least seven days.

They didn't seize and hold power for any time whatsoever. They had no plan. They had no organization. They did not execute a plot in any way. They were rioters. There was nothing close to what could be constituted as overthrowing of the government.

> people literally overthrowing the democratically elected government of the US.

The hysterics in this thread are pretty rich.

This is a grouchy reply. The OP obviously isn't trying to get Tekken running on a Peloton.

You can imagine "games" in this sense being competitions played out via the bike, so time trials, race tournaments, etc. Compete with your friends (or others) to get through a race comparable to Tour de France stages -- something like that. Aside from survival, there is no greater motivator for pushing oneself physically than competition. Games facilitate that.

In any case, it looks like you got what you wanted.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/pentagon-has-not-approved-re...

No it's not acceptable. But let the police get the situation under control. Why bring in the military?

Sure, with a clear mission planned and dictated by the state you were in. They didn't just send in the troops right away in reaction to an ongoing situation that also happens to be the certification of the election of the president.

By all accounts the people in power were committed to certifying the election. We've got no reason to think they have changed their minds on this. The police were underprepared and overwhelmed by protesters (terrorist, coupists, whatever), they also chose not to fire on these protesters, so this happened. Let the police get it under control, let the election get certified (whenever and where that happens), and then we can begin to sort this mess out. That process may yet involve the National Guard, but their role and objective should be crystal clear.

The history of any military interceding in election issues is not a good one. There are police for this and this is incident is developing. Give it time before you call in the guns. I'm not gaslighting anyone -- I'm saying this needs to be handled delicately.

Ferguson did not involve the transfer of power of the executive branch of the USA.

No. They are taking this very slowly because it is a very serious issue. The military doesn't just start rushing into something like this.

I feel like I'm going crazy listening to people make calls for the MILITARY to get involved.

Do you want this to escalate? This would be a bad time to start making martyrs out of these people.

Just want to say that this is a wild idea and I really like it. I don't know how viable it is but it's definitely interesting.

Callimachi was an absolute rockstar at the paper. She had been nominated for multiple Pulitzer Prizes and this, amongst other things, would lead to another nom. I suspect there was a deference to a veteran reporter at the top of her game, a feeling of sunk cost and risk analysis that said "this is so good that we have to publish it".

I think it was a case of the NYT quite openly deluding themselves.

I also took it daily and heavily in high school during basketball season for shin splints. Probably a couple of years of pulling that mess. I often think back now to how I had a complete system that timed for efficacy, taking a few 30 min before practice then more while suiting up, then even more if I could during and then after practice. I'd alter this timing on game days since practices were walk-thrus, etc.

In some ways it's a relief to hear from someone else with that experience (this was 20 years ago for me).

Heh I saw this the other day and just assumed that easter egg had always been there.

It's not just the values they place on the end user and simplicity, it's their huge amount of cash they can use to test and deploy technologies (think spatial audio partners) and their tight grip on supply chains (try sourcing some of the same materials an iPhone is made of).

I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the best chance at making a wave as a consumer product concern is to make waves on some sub-component of the larger product being produced by the majors. You aren't going to compete with Apple, Sony or Bose directly, but you can improve on new technologies or extant processes and hope to get subsumed. That's the truly sad part.

No what? What are you talking about?

I suspect the best path for success that individuals or small companies can take right now is to focus on one piece of the larger product and aim for acquisition or licensing, sort of like the pharmaceutical space.

I don't know how you read a negative or judgmental tone into that comment... GP is basically saying that consumer technology has advanced to the point where you need large teams doing complicated or deeply technical (and somewhat incremental) improvements on existing technologies.

It's not a judgment on the product. It's just a lament that the days of individuals or small companies innovating in the consumer electronics space are (long?) over.

Many Americans don't even make the effort to wear masks. What do you suppose the institutions ought to do with them in an incisive lockdown situation?

What I would do is find a way to decouple your test running system from the lifecycle tooling. Develop a custom solution that run CI pipelines in k8s and collates results and passes them upstream to the lifecycle tooling whether it's GitHub Actions or Jenkins or whatever. By doing this you free your pipelines from lock-in and can utilize cheap compute (DigitalOcean, GKE pre-emptibles, etc).

Take a look at Tekton CI/CD for a good primitive that you can build on.

Do people do this in the winter as well?

Thanks for the response. [edit, removed question]