I noticed that Bing is a little more like Google used to be.

Many searches yield similar results, but here's one where they really yield different answers.

To preface this, I do have a job, I'm just searching out of curiosity.

The search is as follows: "cycle of unemployment in those who never had jobs"

The google results are all sites that are more popular, yet useless. They provide definitions, or theories that are not really relevant to the question.
The bing results are actually a lot more useful.

I believe google was more like Bing is now (although not at all the same).

Try it, I wonder if you'll come to the same conclusions.


I'll list the results from each site for that same exact search.


Google: cycle of unemployment in those who never had jobs

1. Khan Academy Lesson: Irrelevant
           https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/ap-macroeconomics/economic-iondicators-and-the-business-cycle/unemployment/a/lesson-summary-unemployment
2. Khan Academy Lesson: Irrelevant
           https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/macro-economic-indicators-and-the-business-cycle/macro-unemployment/a/lesson-summary-unemployment?modal=1
3. Investopedia: Barely relevant
          https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/050715/what-difference-between-structural-unemployment-and-cyclical-unemployment.asp
4.Investopedia: Barely relevant
          https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/050715/what-difference-between-structural-unemployment-and-cyclical-unemployment.asp
5. The Balance: Barely relevant
          https://www.thebalance.com/types-of-unemployment-3305522


Bing: cycle of unemployment in those who never had jobs (same search)

1. smh.com: Highly Relevant
        https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/breaking-the-cycle-of-intergenerational-unemployment-20171211-p4yxlf.html
2. CNBC: Irrelevant
         https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/23/can-i-get-unemployment-after-quitting-or-refusing-my-job-heres-what-to-know.html
3. Stand Together Foundation: Highly Relevant (Result leads to different page, unless the cached page is accessed, I will use the cached page as the url of the search result in any such cases)
           https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=cycle+of+unemployment+in+those+who+never+had+jobs&d=4533312323323726&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=7WyVH72kzmINg0wYGs7XaToj500NDPA3
4. Khan Academy Lesson: Irrelevant
          https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/ap-macroeconomics/economic-iondicators-and-the-business-cycle/unemployment/a/lesson-summary-unemployment
5. thestreet.com: Barely Relevant
 https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/over-26-million-unemployment-claims-filed-in-just-5-weeks


I don't want to rate more than the first few results because I'm pressed for time

However Bing did manage to dig up something useful in the first 5 results even if the page was the cached version:

Here's an excerpt:


In the Google of the past I wouldn't expect all that garbage clogging up result space. Bing is about the same as google but to me it looks like the results are more similar to what Google was in the past.


I can't prove it but it feels like search engines nowadays are pushing results rather then serving them up. Kind of like here is what is promoted and cleared for these terms rather than here is what is showing up in the database.

          

Price is jumping around like a fish out of water.

What the hell? This isn't 2013 is it?

We do the same thing we've always done. Excitedly hodl our coins and build our stacks to the best of our ability.

It's not at all clear what would happen but I believe that bitcoin can function despite the government and not with its permission. Even if bitcoin crashed the biggest blow would be to the centralized exchanges which would be replaced by decentralized ones.

If I were you I'd call them and ask. Just start calling different banks and don't forget about Credit Unions either.
I'm sure someone will let you open an account if all you're missing is a current address. As long as you have all the other KYC stuff.

I'm waiting for the black friday sale on bitcoin.

I don't think you can open a US bank account without an address. I've probably only opened 3 accounts in my life but I needed to give out a lot of information including ID and SSN.

The catch is obvious there, shilling for a project, they're probably getting paid (same as advertisement).


I did end up doing it, they gave me $10 of free eth (which I probably should have kept and not followed their tutorial) and $3 of some stablecoin, so that I would follow a tutorial to stake some BS coin. So I ended up with $4 of free ETH (leftover from transaction) and some staked free stable coins. ($3 staked CUSDC coins)


Something else, at the dip earlier today (16.3k), coinbase pro was down so I missed buying one of the dips. I already bought the previous dip but I still wanted a little more.


That's the thread I was looking for!


My biggest grievance with coinbase so far is them going down at the worst possible times. I never keep any BTC on the exchange. So if they go down I'd be mostly unaffected.

I like some of their features though. I'd feel really frustrated if I was running coinbase and all I got was hate from the people within my own industry. They do so many things right.

For the average Joe to buy bitcoin (if they use coinbase pro for less fees) I'd recommend them.

There are some excellent games that take very little space.

Take FTL, it's set in space but takes very little space on your hard drive.

Takes forever to get good at but nothing feels like your first win in FTL. (FTL: Faster Than Light)

Takes less than 300MB on your hard drive. PC is really the only way to go with that game.

That chart is pure bull fuel. We'll see if it holds in the future.

Charts like this can be self-fulfilling prophecies.

I don't think 20k is moon, it just sounds like chump change for what Bitcoin could get up to, but despite its large marketcap the technology and usability is not there just yet. As always if you're not ready to kiss all that money good-bye, don't invest it in bitcoin.

I was about to install their wallet on my phone for a coinbase earn reward. But I didn't. Their mobile wallet doesn't appear to be open source. So I didn't do it just yet.

I tried to search the forum for an answer but I couldn't find any good threads on it, even though I remember reading one a few months back. My experience with them so far has only been positive.

My gut feeling is not to trust this company. I don't have any reasons why, or actual logic and this is why I'm posting here.

Are there any red flags around Coinbase?


I want to pre-empt this with the obvious I'm not holding my bitcoin with them, nor do I have it on my phone.

I'll try and fix the title right now.

Edit: couldn't think of a good way to put this in the title, I think that's why I left it out originally, but I did state it clearly in the OP, I guess you're reading a topic, not topic titles, and I hope you at least skim the OP before replying!


It's the businesses that pay low wages that are the terrible ones. In an ideal society there wouldn't be a minimum wage and if a free person wants to waste their time getting paid 10 cents they should be able to do it, but in the context of our society, a minimum wage protects workers from their corporate overlords.

Well, if the minimum wage rose with productivity it'd be something like $18 per hour.

And honestly all those stupid jobs is what is wrong with our society. It's an endless hamster wheel of stupidity. 150 years ago almost everyone had to produce food so that people wouldn't starve.

Now that it takes only 3% of people to produce the food, we should all be working 16 hour work weeks and live comfortably, instead we've created this shit-show of a society.

We pay rent-seeking assholes left and right, and all the work is pointless busy work. All those retail jobs are unnecessary, the wages, if set by free people would be much higher, and all the nonsense work that doesn't deserve to be done wouldn't be done. That's an ideal society right there.

Show me how it's going to cost a lot of jobs. In the smallest tightest businesses/franchises people have family working, essentially working below minimum wage. For them, they'll get an increase in business from other working class people, so they'll do better.

Same for the franchises, the increase in wages cost is probably going to be nullified by increased sales. Also I really believe that people who do better financially can be more productive. If everyone received good wages we'd probably do a lot better as a society. This is a small step for the better. If it were up to me It'd be going up to $18 per hour before getting tied to inflation, and in a shorter time scale as well.

As for policy makers making the decisions instead of the voters, there's countries that work like that, China being a notable example. I think that western laws and society is actually self-evidently much better.

Amendment 2 in Florida passed, It needed 60% of the vote and got 60.8

This means that hourly minimum wage in Florida will go to $15 in 2026.

September 30, 2021 it will go from 8.56 to 10, and then it will go up by $1 every year until it reaches $15 at which point it will be tied to inflation.


It won't affect me at all, (except maybe by raising the floor my job class might get a higher wage scale). But I'm happy for everyone who's wage cucking it at minimum wage at the moment.

Also I'm going to pay respects to all those in states without a minimum wage.

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No Pennsylvania is 90%+ going to Biden. They just have to count the absentee ballots. 2.6 Million of them. We won't know until Friday.

I'm calling Florida for Trump

10% of votes remaining, he has a 3% lead.

(I'm assuming the early votes and mail in ballots were counted first)

Biden is ahead by 3% with over 50% reported in FL.

You can smell gases. Gases can go through masks and everything

Particles, and particles that the virus is present on may be blocked by masks and other things.

It's been mentioned before in this thread but also the little bit of spit that comes of people will also be mostly stopped by the barrier. Than it will either dry on the plexiglass surface and the virus will die or it will be cleaned and the virus will die.

These measures have and will continue to save lives.


The biggest thing was lowering the spread in the beginning when everyone was vulnerable and this has been very successful. If more people had been infected all at once the medical establishment would have been completely overwhelmed.

It's good that Corona didn't come at a worse time, it's almost like a vaccine itself, preparing us for worse pandemics in the future.


In some supermarkets it's kind of a gimmick, but places like Costco did it the right way. When you're buying things there the cashier is protected like 99% of the time. Other grocery stores just put a little panel of plexiglass that the customer is behind for like 1 second out of potentially a 1 minute long interaction. These ones are just virtue signaling.



One final point gases will of course pass through masks and around barriers. Otherwise what the hell are you breathing? The smells in perfumes are gases not necessarily particulates.

I haven't mined in years and I have never mined at scale. But if I had millions of dollars to start a mining farm, I'd submerge all the equipment in dry water, then I'd use heat exchangers by running it through a walk in freezer (dry water doesn't freeze until about -100c. The hardware itself and its heatsinks would be submerged in the dry water. Since it won't short out any of the circuits and it won't dissolve them it should function the same as air. Since the liquid would be very cold perhaps around -10c I could run the hardware really hard so I could get a lot more value out of them. The system would have to be closed so that none of the liquid or vapors escape.

I wonder if anyone is doing this in practice. Here's a video explaining dry water and it's properties. In the link I'll timestamp a place where a computer is submerged in it. The setup is only a demonstration and there is not even a heatsink in it and the liquid isn't being cooled so of course it heats up and doesn't work well.

https://youtu.be/cR4Mutf1kQg?t=757

Something interesting is that since dry water is heavier than water, you could cool the dry water by dropping ice cubes on the top layer or even running cold water over it and then out the top. The actual water would never touch the electronics. In theory you could have your mining equipment at the bottom of a cold lake. Or maybe at the bottom of a pool. The large water mass would never heat and in a cold climate the pool would always reject any heat given to it to the elements. I think something like colorado could be an ideal location. You build a deep pond or pool. You put the equipment under it. The pool will never completely freeze because the ice will insulate the top layer when it gets cold and the ground will remain hot enough to keep the rest from freezing. During the summer you cover part of the pool so that it doesn't heat up during the day, during the night the temperature will be low enough to cool everything.

I know it's kind of a water is wet thing but it's still crazy to think about.