'growing evidence that blockchain will soon..." is basically the line we've heard for the last 15 years.
I'm more open than most to crypto, I worked at Coinbase during IPO and Avalanche for a short contract after that. But yes, I alternate between it's a total scam and it's a technology waiting for a use case.
1968 was about 10 years after my grandparents migrated from Mexico to work at textile factories in the USA. They managed to buy a new house in a master planned community that was filled by other factory workers like themselves. He could never be mistaken for a white male, still he took english classes at night and started a side business as an umpire for baseball games and my grandmother started selling gold to the other factory workers during lunch time. They raised 3 kids, upgraded their house, bought a triplex, and a couple acre investment property.
I started doing pushups between claude code responses. I started with 10 but now I rip ~50 like nothing. I'm getting a pull up bar and trying to do the same. Pull ups until it completes then prompt and again, squats, pushups, ect. I'm getting stronger and better at code.
Most people I know have apple watches so researching mechanic movements and models is enough for hobby status to me. Like any other 'collecting' hobby.
But yes I've taken a few apart to try to fix and service them, even if it's only with my $20 amazon repair tool set.
I have seen your security engineer job ad consistently up since I was looking for my last job in 2021. Loking through my linkedin 'top job picks for you' I see this job role first come up June 15th, 2020.
How can you not have found a someone since then, or does everyone quit? I had seen this ad so often I was starting to suspect it was part of a information gathering scheme for information security professionals.
That is a complete middle class mindset. Jail is cool in the hood. I've done a few months for stupid stuff when I was young and it's not that bad.
People risk 10 years for robbing bands for a couple thousand. A guaranteed $10 million would have lines around the block for volunteers in the neighborhood I grew up in.
I would easily go to jail for 8 years for $50+ million. 25 years would not be worth it to me for any amount.
I am from El Paso, which is on the border with Mexico and grew up with many kids whose parents were smugglers and cartel affiliated.
I know several parents who went to jail for ~10 years while were were in elementary school, the kids never wanted for anything, and then when the parents got out and started capital intensive business.
One parent did 12 years and got out to start a a series of high end mexican restaurants, one started a steakhouse, one bought a small hotel, one started a commercial construction company.
It's all part of the game, just how startup founders grind for years for the money.
I'm more open than most to crypto, I worked at Coinbase during IPO and Avalanche for a short contract after that. But yes, I alternate between it's a total scam and it's a technology waiting for a use case.