For email, I forwarded all emails to my new email. The rest was easy, except for Youtube... I need to find a way to subscribe to channels without a Google account (it would be nice if they had RSS and an external link).
My tax return was more then 80 pages long and I barely had to enter any information... It would have been the same way if the Government did it for me except for a small amendment ...
Intuit was begging to be sued though. Literally the only word in the ads is "free", and they say it like 100 times to emphasize just how free it is. And of course it's not free at all. It can't get any easier than this.
> I do use Firefox, but Mozilla really goes out of their way to betray their core audience more and more with addons like Pocket being integrated into the browser along with advertisements in the new tab window.
They also removed many useful features and hide useful settings... (one example being the RSS feed finding feature .... luckily there's an addon that you can install that does a pretty good job, it is called Awesome RSS)
The FDIC insurance of $250,000 is by the government in case the bank becomes insolvent. The FDIC can easily cover $650 MM in a single bank that has 3,000+ customers. Or really even fewer than that with multiple account types.
But even then, if you store $650 MM in a Bank of America account, that money is protected against being stolen by BOA's anti-fraud software, laws, the trillions of dollars of assets BOA has.
Interesting thought. Bitcoin circulates, and you have to wonder how much of it has passed through a fraudulent transaction -- at any time in the past. Someday when it becomes straightforward to walk the entire life of bitcoin backwards, there may be people who want their bitcoin back...because it's stolen property.
If A has a TV, B steals the TV and sells it to C, who sells it to D...then the TV is still returned to A, and D is out of luck.
This isn't a single user, FDIC insurance is for $250k per user per bank. The point is that for regulated banks that number is clear and if you exceed it you will be aware of it, and if you haven't exceeded it you have a federal guarantee to recover your money. What assurance does anyone have in this case?
It protects again bank failure. If the one's assets are drained from the bank, as long as the bank has not failed, it will have to make the account holder whole.
That's why a company would be stupid to hold $200M at Podunk Bank of Littletown, KS but is perfectly fine to hold it in a DDA account at Bank of America, Citi or Chase
