This will change in some years though. Conversion will cost less gas with L2. Things are progressing quickly on those problems. Dexs and liquidity pools will have near zero fees.
Personally, I think unless coinbase pivots, their current business model is not sustainable in the long term. But right now, coinbase is capturing value in a way that the early majority of crypto's adoption curve can digest.
When you’re doing dynamic structure in relational dbs (traditionally) options include storing a wide row with all the data types and you choose which column to use, or storing as lowest common denominator (string) and casting in and out at runtime. These days you can work around this stuff with json / schemaless models.
Airtable allow switching data types on a column (from memory). Maybe they store everything as string and then the column definition is for display and allowed operations.
Hubspot do this (poorly) so they’re forever giving you back things like dates as string of a number representing a date.
I'm a technical writer for a tech software start-up, but I started in sales. There's always some content that needs to be written. Blogposts, documentation, whitepapers, etc.
I started by... well writing. I wrote a some blogposts, and a few of them trended on HN. Eventually, when we hired our CMO, he saw what I had been putting out and asked me to help out more. At a certain point, it made sense for me to transition entirely to writing.
Since you're not a professional writer, don't expect to be given a lot of writing responsibility. You basically have to prove yourself. If you have an editor at your company, work with them. I didn't have any formal writing training, but I applied the feedback I got from our editor and slowly my quality improved. It took me about 4-5 months before I was fully trusted to write quality pieces without hand-holding.
Given that you're a software engineer, you have the domain knowledge to write some very useful content. It's just about finding your style.
Considering I'm flying tomorrow, this is a reassuring read.
But cabins aren't the whole story. There's arguably more human interaction in the airport and terminals before the flight itself (check in, security, buy a coffee)
This is why it's important for STEM and tech people to have some understanding of liberal arts. "Understanding" means having perspective, it's easy to get caught up in our world, thought patterns, echo chambers, and biases. I think that's why curiosity is such an important trait, it promotes understanding, not the accumulation of facts. Next time you're at a book store, pick something up on a topic that sounds interesting that's outside of your traditional scope.
So I'm totally on board with everyone knowing something about the liberal arts and trying to expand your world outside your traditional scope.
But I think "understanding" can mean just making connections within a single tech field, even without involving liberal arts. For example, a grade school math problem: "Assume the earth is a perfect sphere with radius 6378 km, and you have a piece of string just long enough to reach all the way around the earth's equator at the earth's surface. How much longer would your string have to be to make a perfect circle exactly one meter above the earth's equator at every point?"
The answer is 2(pi) meters. That's true for any spherical planet of any size -- that's what it means for the derivative of 2(pi)(r) with respect to r to be 2(pi). That is sometimes not the first thing people think of though, because of the grade-school context they associate with this problem....
Nailed it. I played fortnite consistently for 2 years. They milked everyone for in-game purchases. This is fun to watch play out, but at the end of the day they're both large companies with fat margins.
This story is still developing, but I think a forced buyout or outright ban is shortsighted.
The underlying fear is the impact that a foreign entity will have on our political and social fabric (because America has never done that before). It's a valid concern, especially after Cambridge Analytica. But TikTok falls into the same regulatory challenge forces that can impact change through social media platforms. Building a better framework is a long term solution that encodes into law American values, transparency, and constraints by the legislative branch, not precedent set by the executive branch.
At the same time, every time there is a major hearing against big tech, it's always disappointing.
Personally, I think unless coinbase pivots, their current business model is not sustainable in the long term. But right now, coinbase is capturing value in a way that the early majority of crypto's adoption curve can digest.