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Canceled Xfininty, got Sonic fiber Internet

Posted at age 30.

From https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/cancel-my-xfinity-services:

How to Cancel Your Xfinity Account

  • Chat with us online. Seven days a week (8:00 AM - 11:00 PM ET).
  • Visit your local Xfinity Store or Comcast Service Center.
  • Email your cancellation request by completing a simple form.

  • Mail your cancellation …

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The Black Swan

Posted at age 29.

I am so far enjoying “The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, 2007). In searching briefly for a summary both to inform the rest of my read and to send to Yizhen, I found a review and critique by David Aldous from January 2009. I have no strong opinion on Aldous’s main disagreement about the cumulative impact of non black swan events, but I appreciated more perspective. I should check out the other critiques mentioned and Taleb’s “shorter and more cohesive account”, “The fourth quadrant: a map of the limits of statistics“.

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Backup chronicles: Settling on Insync

Posted at age 29.

Following my issues using the official Google Drive client, I tried another Google Drive client called Insync. I wanted to write more, but time is flying and I wanted to post some screenshots before I forgot. Bottom line: I managed to get about 700GB of my documents uploaded to Google Drive using Insync, though I needed to employ a folder by folder approach else it would freeze. I am using some of Insync’s filtering features to keep my projected synchronized on my laptop and desktop, but the app itself is somewhat clunky and the UI blocks the folder name once I enter it in the filtering section. Here are some screenshots I intended to document earlier.

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Crowd funding frustrations

Posted at age 28.

This entry is simply documentation of a phenomenon that might be of interest to future or past historians.

You’d think after years of collective experience, companies relying on crowd funding would get better at their shipping claims. The KANOA earphones I ordered in May were promised around July, then pushed to August, then September, and now October or November. I hoped to have them before the San Francisco Marathon and then before the Burning Man 50K. Now Apple’s launching the AirPods and will probably ship them before I get the KANOA set. Also I ordered a laser projector on Indiegogo, but it was canceled altogether apparently due to issues shipping to the United States. At least I supposedly got a refund on that!

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Disabling Facebook, other notifications in Android 6

Posted at age 28.

Facebook app notifications in Android 6.0 are controlled in either of two places, at the system level or from within the app. Totally disabling the notifications can be done in either place, while disabling only some types of notifications must be done within the app.

I created this entry since I was sending my dad instructions anyway.

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Why am I using Coinbase?

Posted at age 28.

I received a request from Coinbase to provide more personal information. While I still hope bitcoin replaces much of our current payments system, I must admit I am at least not being interrogated by my bank regarding the use of my account.

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