frandroid

*magazines

It's California... A friend of mine who is quite attractive and _maybe_ had an extra 10 pounds moved to Southern California for grad school, and immediately felt like she was fat and started going to the gym, whereas I had never her mention her weight before. The social environment is just that different.

There's a spare generator at the Manic 5 dam for super-high demand events like Christmas, Easter, and also cold fronts, and maybe a spare gas plant somewhere. Otherwise the purpose of holding back water at night is to prevent reservoir depletion in low-precipitation years, rather than building extra capacity for high-demand peaks.

> So this is counting AirBnBs and other short-term rental spaces as vacant.

Exactly. Particularly during a housing crisis, people shouldn't transform apartments into illegal hotels.

> Any city will have some % of empty rentals, if it didn’t, no one would ever move around.

You do understand that people advertise apartments available for rent before the previous tenant has moved out...

In Québec, the majority of leases end on July 1st and you have a number of people moving on that day which is quite greater than the vacancy rate. You can sign a lease for a new apartment months ahead of time.

Wet clothes just blur light!

It should be up to the falsely-accused to allow their siphoned data to be release to create an alibi.

The province of Québec stops or reduces the flow of many of its hydroelectric dams at night due to the much market lower prices spot prices for electricity, especially since nuke plants flood the markets with unused capacity.

> The price of domains should trend down.

Their value doesn't, so why should renewals go down?* It's not like registration is related to anything like cost of operation...

*: I'm not in favour of this, but living in a capitalist market, I'm surprised things haven't gotten much worse, e.g. a sliding scale cost for domains, so Amazon would have to pay $50,000,000/year for its domain, for example.

> borrow an already existing identity

Undone by biometrics. It's not just about biometrics in other countries, it's also about biometrics leaks.

> People with potential for dual nationality have gone up in importance

...and are also highly suspicious.

> legally allowed also to change their name.

That's public record. Not helping.

At some point, for people optimizing things at large scale, it's possible they will want to look at these round reductions, and the type of education needed to make this kind of judgement call goes way beyond "nobody got fired for choosing IBM"...

These days you usually carry your computer with you, but if not, you can also easily carry a new 88 or 96 key keyboard as they come with a lithium battery and bluetoof support.

The response, much further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916700

An amusing tidbit about optimization, toward the end:

> Because we were seeking to improve performance, we became interested in benchmarking upgrades to major dependencies. While your mileage may vary, upgrading from Node 4 to Node 6 decreased our response times by about 20%. Upgrading from Node 6 to Node 8 brought a 30% improvement. Finally, upgrading from React 15 to 16 yielded a 25% improvement. The cumulative effect of these upgrades is to more than double our performance, and therefore our service capacity.

Free optimization, ripe for the taking!

Because people should have freedom of conscience? If you don't believe in God, or if you're a follower of a different avatar of Abrahamic religion, for example, why should a Muslim or Jewish homeless person have to follow a mandatory Christian program to receive "donated" shelter? Suddenly it's not charity, it's a transaction for one's soul.

I wouldn't downvote you for this, but probably because the topic of this thread isn't Cloudflare.

Touché! But cult-like stocks have a stronger relation than usual to their founder(s)' actions.

Thank you for your service

But that sends a wickedly powerful statement to the market that you as a remaining board member would not hold the shares of the company you oversee... That's the discussion here.

Now if only cellphones included an AM receiver. And if only modern radios didn't often strip the AM band out of their devices anyway...

Canadian parental leave policy is now granting an amount of parental leave for the mother who carried the pregnancy, an amount of parental leave to be shared between the two parents, and an amount of parental leave for the second parent. So basically the second parent is strongly encouraged to take time off to spend time with the child, so that they too, not just the carrying mother, partake in early parenting...

Yes, we live in the 21st century, the second century of American global dominance?

I guess if you "can't tell" the offending internal app not to collect the data, it "hasn't been told not to", and thus the title is incorrect. But wow, that is quite a literalist view of the issue.

They said it removed a blindfold, they didn't say it solved the problem.

> the dollar store has agreed on a level of quality

The problem is that "agree on a level" and "lowest cost" are fundamentally opposite goals which require constant outside monitoring.

> lack of experience and expertise. Canada is a relatively young country with very few major infra projects under its belt.

Nonsense. Canada is a major engineering power, building large projects the world over. One of the world's top 5 engineering firms, SNC-Lavalin, is located there.

Sure, it's a net benefit for tax purposes, and she "gets things". But what I'm saying is that it's not a real fungible, useful income.

She should be charging a fixed fee for the review itself. She has a whole bunch of things she clearly doesn't need and isn't even paid for her labour...

The thing with floating to the top is that it doesn't have to be an either/or proposal. Bring a copy of the channel to the top but also leave it in the list.

Exactly... You don't have to expire the old front-end, you can build a new front-end on top of the old API, maybe introduce a few new functions in the API to support both old and new.