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I struggle with getting exertion headaches whenever my heart rate goes over 170 bpm for more than a minute or two. It's incredibly frustrating to have to hold back and moderate my physical activity, knowing that if I don't I'll have a rather debilitating headache for the rest of the day and potentially into the next day.

I do get a lot of exercise, but I keep it in the lower zones to avoid this complication and I still feel like I get such a great mood boost and improvements to my cognitive abilities wrt to work.

Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive on Thursday November 16, 2023 @12:09PM (#38292189)
I would pay a subscription fee if only to get back SMS capabilities.
Anchorage, Finoa, Copper, Gemini, Coinbase Custody, Fidelity...the list goes on.
The funny thing is that when the trustee pays out the remaining BTC from Mt. Gox back to creditors, you're going to have some massive gains.
Re:The ‘liveaboards’ sailing away to a new life on Monday August 29, 2022 @05:52PM (#32644028)
What's the internet situation like? I hears Starlink for boats is coming but costs an arm and a leg...
Re:Gitlab and remote work on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:52PM (#32185665)
Kraken's offers are not affected by geography in any way. The are engineering salary bands are completely agnostic of region.
Re:Gitlab and remote work on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:45PM (#32172074)
For engineering/product etc. that's the case. Doesn't matter if you move from San Francisco to Thailand or some other low cost of living area, your pay remains the same.
Re:Gitlab and remote work on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:35PM (#32171024)
Kraken has a few thousand employees, has been a remote first company for a decade, and pays the same no matter where you live.
Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:47AM (#31726350)
The only thing that comes to mind here is that there was a fee spike [1] and they've got too many unspents stuck in the mempool and can't initiate further withdrawals because their wallet is effectively "spent" until those pending transactions complete and they receive their change. I find this a bit hard to believe though...wallet management isn't simple when it comes to the scale that Binance handles, however I'd be shocked if they didn't have code written to trigger CPFP (Child Pays For Parent) [2].

[1] https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,30d,weight

[2] https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/cpfp/

Re:Coinbase from YC to DPO on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @06:08PM (#26813719)
Bitcoin alone is worth over 1T, so your statement that all of crypto is worth less than 1T is a bit silly. The goal posts keep moving for crypto...next year it'll be that crypto is worth less than 5T, etc.

I looked at the NYSE daily volumes...unless I'm reading them wrong, they did $800m USD worth of trades today. Coinbase did $5b USD worth of trades today. So if you compare a company that's almost 200 years olds volume against a 9 year old company, and find that the startup is doing more than 5 times the volume of the incumbent (with zero lock in, since clients are free to trade cryptos on any exchange), then I'd say your comparison is actually a ringing endorsement for Coinbase.

Re:How many Devices can you Connect to the I2C Bus? on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:58AM (#26793067)
I took my first stab at designing and having my own PCB manufactured for a mechanical clock I'm trying to build. At the moment I'm currently stuck trying to debug the 7 x MCP23017 devices on my I2C bus. I picked up an oscilliscope and added a level converted between the RPi and my PCB, but I feel pretty lost as I'm a complete novice and have no formal background in electronics. This article provides a lot of useful information for someone like me! Online all you usually get are single MCP23017 implementations, nothing too complex.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:01PM (#26662250)
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange | Backend Engineers/DevOps Engineers for Funding | Remote | https://www.kraken.com/en-us/careers

Kraken was founded in 2011, being a pioneer exchange in the crypto market. Kraken is in rapid expansion of its engineering teams. At Kraken we have a remote global workforce, allowing our employees to have more freedom in choosing how to organize their routine and balance work and personal life.

These jobs are all part of Kraken's funding engineering team, facilitating the free flow of crypto and money across the globe.

Backend Engineer - Crypto Payments - https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/39031c44-2060-467d-8991-79f23de...

Backend Engineer - Fiat Payments - https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/bd3d0185-eb56-441e-8ceb-5757711...

Backend Engineer - Staking & DeFi - https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/37dbb8c2-b60c-42bd-a98f-0a3fc86...

DevOps Engineer - Blockchain Infrastructure - https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/b2dd90bf-694b-4ad2-9c3a-81e506b...

We're growing by leaps and bounds, looking for all levels of experience in crypto, bank integrations, staking, defi, blockchain infrastructure automation, and more!

Dozens of other roles also available at on our careers page at https://www.kraken.com/en-us/careers.

Re:Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:34PM (#24547491)
Binance has fiat on-ramps and off-ramps, not sure where you get the idea that it's a "crypto only" exchange.
Re:“Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:02PM (#22498205)
What service would the HN folks recommend for someone who needs to run a few dozen different docker services that require persistent storage? It would be nice to just have a pool of compute resources tied to persistent storage and be able to spin up docker instances at will. K8's has been suggested as the correct solution but it sounds like a lot of overhead for services that require no scaling at all.
Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:45PM (#22122879)
Attempted? It already happened.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019) on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:47PM (#21420863)
Kraken | Crypto/Fiat Payments | Backend Developer | Full-time | Remote Only (anywhere) | https://jobs.lever.co/kraken

Hiring for a backend developer role working directly with blockchains and banks. Compensation is geography agnostic; live and work wherever you want with no changes in pay. Pay is also offered in Bitcoin.

More details here, or message me with questions:

https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/39031c44-2060-467d-8991-79f23de... https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/4c18a043-3f9f-4005-a715-7455aaa...

I'm not sure I follow this logic. Wouldn't both databases require the same amount of care and feeding? Are you suggesting that you need less DBA's per MSSQL database than for a PostgreSQL or Maria database?
Re:Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide on Friday October 04, 2019 @08:21PM (#21163005)
You're ignoring the reality that most enterprise software is a tire fire (from a security standpoint) and that it's not feasible to secure hundreds (or even dozens!) of enterprise apps.

VPN's are the enabler that ensures status quo remains.

How did you generate your seed? Not trying to insult you, but the number of people generating seeds online or using very poor seeds is mind boggling.
Re:Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:08PM (#19506041)
According to wikipedia, the global FX market alone accounts for $5.09 trillion dollars per day in transactions [0] in 2016. Global GDP clocked in at $75.4 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016 [1]. The FX market alone accounts for two orders of magnitude more transfers of value than global GDP...I'm sure if we started including stocks, futures, options, etc. the number would be even higher.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268750/global-gross-dome...

Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:19PM (#19486396)
The Capital One card I have is 2% back on everything in the form of travel rewards. Any purchase that is categorized as travel (taxis/ride share, flights, hotels, touristy purchases) can be instantly redeemed at the 2% rate even if you don't have enough points to erase the entire purchase. Purchases can be erased up 90 days after they happen.

If you want straight cash it's 1.5%.

The wages in Toronto are laughable. In the praries it's possible to make maybe 10 to 20k less than Toronto salaries but the houses are half the price.
It's unfortunate (and likely economically sensible) that most cloud providers dont offer Power hardware. Running Oracle on Power systems is probably the only reason anyone still runs AIX these days, nd many orgs haven't gone to the cloud because of huge Power/AIX footprints. Even without a ULA in play, licensing on Power systems is significantly more attractive than running on Intel when it comes to Oracle.
Re:Farewell, Google Maps on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:24PM (#17570873)
How does Mapbox stack up against what you've built? Does Mapbox provide any advantages or is are the two not very comparable? How difficult would it be to spin up a Mapbox competitor?
$150 per hour is on the low end for good SAP consultants. We were paying $300 per hour for some InfoSys SAP HANA people, and even independents were around $200+.

If they're doing anything beyond vanilla consulting work with SAP then I doubt they're using cheaper offshore talent. Or maybe they are and that's why this project has failed so spectacularly. (Note: I'm not saying all offshore talent is hot garbage, I'm saying the cheap talent is hot garbage, especially SAP consultants).

Re:Say Hello to Full Employment on Friday July 06, 2018 @04:25PM (#17474832)
Thanks for this counterpoint, it provides solid context for the data!
Re:Say Hello to Full Employment on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:56PM (#17473607)
We'll likely have an inverted yield curve before the end of 2018 for sure. Go back in history to see the correlation to past recessions:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

Obviously it's not as simple as that but it certain implies that something uncommon is happening in the financial markets.

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