Given the context of what caused those power issues:
- lack of maintenance (not non-existence of maintenance) for almost 2 decades
- the electrification of more homes without bringing on additional capacity
- poor/subpar management of the sole power producer
A year or so is fine because those issues have been resolved by:
- a slower economy (I'm putting this here because we shot ourselves on the foot)
- more generational power coming in
- the rise of independent power-producers.
So there should be stability from a power generation perspective.
It's "long gone" because depending on which part of society you come from, you might have gone a few years without experiencing load-based power issues.
In general the power issues still exist once you step out of the suburbs or metros, but then again the DCs will likely be hosted there, or MS will enter into a power agreement that gives them preference over the rest of the average consumer.
I'm just glad that we'll have Azure DCs as a start, and hope Google and Amazon follow suit if MS succeeds.
I consider it long gone because a permanent solution was put in place. Any problem disappearing for over a year is considered long gone in any country. Not about setting a low bar. In fact, I have heard politicians claiming to have fixed problems less than 100 days after they were put into power.
Parent slightly misspoke. They asked about heterosexual partners, and not asked heterosexuals about their partners. So homosexual partners would not me included in any counts.
Contrary to popular belief sexual orientation is not a matter of "choice", or temporary mood changes, so it's not like phrasing of the question asked in the survey matters at all. 99% of people have either only heterosexual partners or homosexual partners, not both.
Even if homosexuals were included in that survey, and asked about "how many heterosexual partners you had", them answering "0" wouldn't matter at all (provided that there were roughly the same number of gays and lesbians surveyed)
> 99% of people have either only heterosexual partners or homosexual partners, not both.
Source? Or is this just guesswork? Because the stats I've seen in the past, while varying in numbers, have pretty consistently been that, in the population, from most to least common is:
Opposite sex partners only > Both same and opposite sex partners > Same sex partners only. (Don't have any sources handy, but I'll try to find and post some later.)
The issues are rather small. The support is what's bad. They expect you to contact them endlessly, through multiple mediums, to resolve the most mundane of issues.
Can you elaborate on Square's gold-plated credentials? Most of the news / comments I've read about square post their IPO disclosure have been negative (or at least skeptical) - largely to do with the increasing loss rate and the state of the payments market.
Square has prominent co-founders and raised over half a billion dollars from prominent investors.
One way to look at Square is as a company that essentially bought its way into the payments space. The question is whether its premium valuation is warranted.
Some analysts point out reasons to be skeptical[1].
Famous founder with previous start up success, lots of VC capital, lots of press, lots of growth, lots of hype. Maybe they even have an open office with foosball and Aeron chars (or are standing desks the new status symbol?) As a start up, they're crushing it. As an actual company, you know, the kind where revenue > expenses, they utterly fail it.
For paywalled articles on WSJ and elsewhere, I always just triple-click the Headline. Then right-click and use Chrome's "Search Google for" feature. It's always the first link and always lets you view it. Works every time.
There was a decent article (I think it was on HN) a while ago that argued against this type of generic error message. The basic idea is that you can very easily discover whether the email is valid or not by attempting to create an account with that email (in most cases). It's trivially easy to either verify that the email you are trying to use is valid, or even build a database of valid email addresses to crack by attempting to create accounts. So why bother with generic error messages at all. It is not really buying you anything on the security end and it seems like it is sacrificing some usability.
At times. From cracking plastic to less-than-stellar thermal performance with aluminium, MacBooks are just about as hit-and-miss as are any other laptops.
