I interviewed with GitLab and declined going further once I found out that I'd be getting 63.3% of a San Francisco (their baseline) employee simply because of where I live. My state was one that didn't have any special locales carved out for different COLAs. Sure, my state is vastly cheaper than CA, NY, etc. but companies like GitLab think they should be involved in some type of socioeconomic re-distribution of wealth by adjusting as much as they do for geographic reasons. The quality of my work is the same whether I'm in the middle of Kansas or in downtown San Francisco. GitLab knows if they look long enough a candidate in a remote low cost of living area will look at their salaries and see $$$ and gladly accept but I knew I could get higher because I had previously and did again by applying to other companies. I can understand having some regional differences but I think GitLab takes it too far.

Man, there's a lot of ignorance on here. There are literally 10 exchanges in the US you could use to legally withdraw cash. Why would regulators or LEOs be on you? I declared it on my taxes and paid my daughter's tuition. No problem. No regulators or LEOs involved at any point.

Distribution is literally world-wide to millions of people. How is it "comically concentrated"?

I just finished putting one daughter through school with no debt. Working on the second daughter soon. Will put her through without debt if it continues to go up. It's been a great investment for me.

Yep. It's gone up $1000 a month for the past 3 months. Clearly draining off.

What are you talking about? People constantly trade 10 or even 50 bitcoins in a single trade all day long. I've even seen 100 at a time on occasion. You can set a limit and wait or trade into the market immediately and you can see ahead of time exactly how far into the market that would take you price-wise. So you would have a pretty close rough idea how much you would make (of course that can change in the split-second before you hit the button like all trading platforms, but shouldn't change much).

GDAX is now called pro.coinbase.com, but yeah.

There was a guy on the BitcoinTalk forums in the early days that bought a Lambo for bitcoin.

Of course you can. If I had $1 million worth of bitcoin, I could go to pro.coinbase.com and trade it for cash right now in a single trade.

Coinbase Limits

Yes. You can trade for that much cash on CoinBase. It may take longer to get it out (daily limit on withdrawals), but I can't imagine many financial institutions that would wire you "several million" in one fell swoop without a ton of setup first.

He exposed Russians too. Putin hates Assange. But if you only listen to CNN or MSNBC, you would think they are co-conspirators in a plot to overthrow the USA.

I was with you until "Trump could lose". To whom? There isn't a Democratic candidate yet that the majority of normal people would vote for.

Are you kidding?!? I've had projects that get 26 million new records PER DAY and they work just fine in MS SQL. I have never seen a project that MS SQL couldn't handle.

A couple years ago, Microsoft made a big deal of laying off their QA team as they were to be replaced by automated testing. Now, I am a big fan of automated testing, but not as a replacement for qualified QA professionals. User acceptance testing and thinking outside the box are very difficult if not impossible to accomplish with only automated tests.

Windows 10 is not the only piece of software that Microsoft has been releasing of late with questionable quality. Microsoft Teams is a joke with massive UI design flaws that cause tremendous headaches for their users. Visual Studio 2017 has been riddled with bugs with their numerous releases, including one that made it impossible to view the result of your automated unit tests (the irony is thick here). They only just released the fix for that bug after introducing the problem two months ago, and with each patch, it seems new bugs are cropping up. Is anyone actually testing these releases? Yes. The customers are, which is a really poor way to ensure you have a quality product.

Microsoft needs to rethink their entire testing strategy, because their current approach simply is not working. What is even worse is that many people are lapping up the Microsoft dogma of software design while remaining ignorant of the actual results. I fear that a large sector of the software development scene is being polluted by their misguided ideas (much like the modern UI design elements, but I digress....)

That's exactly what it said. "If you bragged about a transaction amount or address on Twitter or on a Bitcoin forum, we can link you." Wow. However did you do that?