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It's fairly well accepted that working out with heavy weights temporarily increases free testosterone. I wonder if that's the mechanism or it's something else entirely.

I didn't post about it...I commented on another relevant post around the time it happened. I don't think previous comments really require disclosure. It really seems like you are phishing for something here.

I was trying to escalate via internal contacts and waiting to hear back is all. Once I heard back that even someone internal was unable to help I figured I'd just post a reminder for everyone here.

Correct. They provided no way to appeal, but I had escalated internally via a friend of a friend who worked there. I was waiting for their response, and just heard back that even someone working there was unable to get in touch with the team that could handle this (Or maybe there is no internal way to mitigate bad algorithm decisions).

Thanks for this. I won't be using PayPal ever again but hopefully it can help someone in need.

Sounds like par for the course.

Well it seems like I don't even have that option anymore. Thankfully I don't need them anyway it's just a minor inconvenience. But I wanted to warn others who may be put in a bad situation.

I'm sure it's possible, but they probably count on having more money for lawyers than most of their customers.

The email I got said my funds would be held for 180 days after which they may be released at PayPals discretion. I am guessing their discretion almost never releases the funds. Thankfully I had no funds in PayPal since I had always heard the warnings.

It's just algorithms out of control all the way down. They are probably ok with some number of false positives, but they don't account for how much these situations erode customer trust across the board.

I don't have a website yet, but have a working prototype of a backup tool which allows you to easily and simply backup AWS RDS Instances, Google CloudSQL Instances and (coming soon) Digital Ocean and K8s hosted Databases.

One of the main pain points I see in the DevOps space around managing backups is making sure they are actually valid, working and can be recovered. Now that I have the backup part working on AWS and Google Cloud I am working on validation rules so that backups can also be validated on a schedule so you know they are up to date and can be recovered quickly and automatically.

If this sounds like something your org could use, reach out (Email in Bio) as I am looking for a few organizations to work with for free as I develop the open source core of the product. Once that's more mature I will probably add a paid front-end and SOC compliance reporting feature for orgs that need it.

It asks for an email without explaining how it even works. I gave it a burner and then it immediately starts asking for all the contact info of everyone I want to stay in touch with. Pretty sure this is a data farming scam. It has no data policy listed as far as I can see.

Wow what a great original idea. Let's just turn the whole city into an unlivable hellscape like the Tenderloin!

No, the city is a notoriously high tax, hostile and bureaucratic hellscape when it comes to running any kind of business. Just because they are corrupt and hand out a few token tax breaks to their richest cronies doesn't make them business friendly.

Ok NIMBY.

The city seems to be at it's most lively since covid, but the offices are still empty. Before covid SF actively did it's best to antagonize the companies who's tax revenue it relied on. Now that they've taken their ball to play elsewhere, I don't see what the city is going to do for revenue.

I work in the financial district and the number of empty spaces that used to house cafes and restaurants is shocking. Unless they manage to pivot that office space to housing (Very difficult for multiple structural reasons), the downtown of SF is going to continue to look like Zombieland.

How is this guy not in jail yet? Much less out there receiving more grants?

I was recently banned from Paypal for life, with no reason given. I have literally used PayPal for over a decade, usually once or twice a year to pay family or friends back from something small. I have heard all the horror stories so I intentionally didn't use for anything unless the recipient had no other easy way to receive funds. I never used to pay for anything shady, or even buy anything really. It was almost always to pay someone back for dinner or something small like that.

And then one day last month I got an email saying my account had been banned. They would not give me a reason, and told me if I tried to open a new account it would be banned as well. Good riddance, I don't need them anyway, but talk about burning any vestige of good will they ever had.

It seems Stripe has gone the same way now. Time to move on to the next hot payments processing startup until they get big enough that they decide to start fucking their customers too.

Dagster already offers Dagster Cloud which came out a month or so ago[1]. It's a fully hosted solution for teams that don't want to run their own.

[1] https://dagster.io/cloud

DevOps has lost all meaning as the first paragraph in the article says. Anything it says after that is just semantics. Everyone is doing it on some level, but what that means to each company differs widely.

My current company has been having a lot of success with Dagster. It seems to give a lot more flexibility thanAirflow in terms of defining the pipeline and where to run it. It's also a bit friendlier when things fail and need to be backfilled or retried IMO. Airflow feels like it's somewhat legacy at this point in time. It served a need well but the needs have changed now.

Temporarily freezing the funds is understandable, just long enough to ask for clarification or documentation from the merchant. Instead they decided to go the Google route of ignoring your customer because "algorithm said no".

Stripe is going the way of PayPal it seems. Many people learned this lesson the hard way with PayPal now they will learn it with Stripe I guess. You have no real recourse when these companies decide to steal your money and their incentives are very much to do so as they get to hang onto it for extended periods.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this happened as we go into economic downturn and layoffs. Too bad they're not a public company, if they were I would be shorting their stock right now.

I was recently on a tiny island in Puerto Rico and noticed they had changed all their streetlights to red. It turns out they were confusing turtle hatchlings. The hatchlings would normally follow the moonlight out to sea but were being confused by the streetlights and would end up dying after going the wrong direction away from the water. Apparently the red light is not as visible to them so they don't get confused.

I don't know if red light would help with light pollution, but I do sometimes wonder if streetlights could be hooked to motion sensors and only turn on when there are people or vehicles approaching. There are so many towns where most of the time the streetlights are completely useless. I have seen this work in offices with motion sensors for each room or zone that turn the lights off automatically when nobody is around. I would think the sensors would pay for themselves in electricity savings over several years.

Totally insane that you can be prosecuted now for letting your kids play in a park. If this is truly the whole story, I hope she gets a nice fat settlement and the agency that did this gets gutted.

Unfortunately that's almost never how it works out in real life. The beaurocratic idiots that decided to ruin her life to boost their stats will get promoted and replaced by more idiots.

Just wasted 20 minutes trying to figure out how to order. It kept saying no shipping rates found for my address. Turns out they aren't allowing US orders at the moment but they don't actually say that on the website you just get a cryptic shipping rates message. Not the greatest experience.

Oh you sweet child. This is already a thing and has been for a decade at least. Anyone with enough money can hire a firm based out of a dodgy country that will abuse the DMCA, Content Reporting mechanisms and insider contacts to get whatever you want taken down from pretty much anywhere. I know because I've seen a couple rich fucks do it with things they didn't want online about them or a family member of theirs.

In many areas they actually torture and abuse the dogs while butchering them also because they think the adrenaline makes the meat less tough. If I knew back then what I know now I would probably have declined when it was offered.

Dog tastes nothing like chicken it's a much darker meat. I had it in China and it wasn't exactly unpleasant but definitely what we in the USA would describe as gamey. Basically pungent and heavy on flavor. The preparation I had was in Sichuan so they added tons of red chilies as well so it was very spicy. I wouldn't eat it again, once was enough.

You're not exactly wrong but your comment isn't really reflective of anything meaningful. Correlation does not always equal causation. And I know a LOT of people with the same experiences. The commonality of these experiences leads me to believe it's a cab thing and not just a me thing.

In all other aspects of my life I tend to be pretty easy to get along with and generally have reasonable expectations. I don't have any reason to think my expectations of the cab industry are out of line with my expectations for everything else.