Agreed. Massive investment in the downtown area (there will be something like 15 cranes near downtown in the next year), great activities nearby, a low cost of living, and a (small) but growing tech scene.
Also home to one of the best rated airports in the US.
I know several good people that have been locked out of Coinbase permanently - without any explanation of why - for over a year despite repeated unanswered requests to have accounts reinstated. I watched those people turn from advocates for coinbase into critics. Just a simple explanation would have helped prevent that scenario.
This company is a terrible example of how to do business. It's as if they watched how Google handled AdSense publishers in the early days and decided to copy that model for customer service.
To add to sister comments, I'm also one of these people.
My account became re-locked behind a 2 factor validation step, at some point, asking me for a token they claimed to have sent me. Asking to resend results in a server error. I went through 3 support ticket trains before I got "blacklisted." All 3 support agents stopped responding eventually, and after the third, I never got another response back to an initial bug (made with ~1 month increments). This was ~ a year ago.
I made similar posts in the past and will echo the sentiment now. Coinbase is a fantastic example of how we've gotten into this state of the world where businesses, including ones touching the most sensitive aspects of your life (financial, private communication, private data storage) have almost no accountability to their users if you fall under their "not enough to care" epsilon. Unfortunately, that epsilon was likely derived by looking at the impact of failed tickets, so I'm pessimistic there will _be_ an impact. If there was, they'd be incentivised to change their behavior.
The first two sentences of the Bitcoin whitepaper:
> A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required...
While I could still login to my account, I was unable to deposit/withdraw any usd/crypto. After repeatedly attempting to contact coinbase support for months, I never got any further than automated responses or if I was lucky "We'll look into it" (that was never followed up on).
Perhaps with the recent spike in interest in cryptocurrency, coinbase is more concerned with institutional customers who are depositing 5+ figure amounts frequently, and no longer have any interest in people such as myself who only occasionally deposit $100 or so.
I'll say this in every Coinbase thread: They did this to me, then I contacted the CFPB -- it's quick and painless via their website -- and within a couple of days Coinbase's support team became coincidentally responsive again. I got my money back quickly.
I was surprised because I'm 1) a cynic, and 2) not a US citizen. But it worked!
This is great - especially for small projects and learning. However, there are a few limitations to be aware of if you’re thinking about using it for real projects.
First, is memory. I’ve seen reports of practical limitations being around 500mb. Call me a spoiled millennial noob but the vast majority of my real-world ML projects use a lot more - especially when working with image data.
Second, is getting data into your notebook. Most ML is data heavy and you want a fast way of working with it. For example, the Google Landmark challenge on Kaggle has nearly half a terabyte of unaugmented images just for the test set. You could easily push several terabytes for that one-off challenge alone if you were not careful.
Note: it is possible to work with much less data in many cases by resizing and preprocessing the images as you pull them down but that has problems too. Also, you can use Google Drive but it’s not ideal for large datasets.
