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I can't imagine an interview situation where the interviewee asks 'What are your strengths?' without being immediately dismissed.

As an aside, Jon Ronson's podcast 'The Butterfly Effect' presents the same issue with porn videos; before streaming sites and SEO producers were free to name their videos as they wished but now they need to name them so they appeal to multiple sub-genres and fetishes and that's why we get 'Step Daughter Cheerleader Orgy Volume 4' rather than some play on Edward Scissor Hands.

>> six-bedroom unit in downtown Montreal

Maybe it's selective bias but I think of all north American metropolises Montreal would be particularly difficult to implement hotels in residential areas. Renters here have very strong rights, albeit backed by an understaffed authority. Tourism provides a substantial bulk to the local economy but it's not nearly enough that the local population will accept having fly-by-night partiers in otherwise quiet neighbourhoods. The article says downtown but I strongly suspect they mean neighbourhoods adjacent to downtown which have long been home to local workers and students, key to providing vibrancy and life which attracts the tourists to begin with (and the festivals).

Rummage through some bins at goodwill for some FMV PC games from the early 90s and you'll be set!

Your argument is absurd, the first sentence gives it away 'empty properties'. Vancouver has no empty properties.

So people who simply want to live in a city near to where they work and their children go to school have to be subject to market corrections where a single massively financed pseudo-hotel can massively distort a major cost of living assignment? Ridiculous. This is where common-sense regulation is needed.

We disagree on the definition of dweller, cities require more than just vacation seekers to function. And the longer term renters aren't taking up those dwelling since it's more profitable for owners to rent out short term, but the reason that anyone wants to rent short term is because it's an interesting place to be, which it won't be if it's all people on vacation.

I'll call this the Ibiza Quandary.

>>Short term rentals do not diminish housing stock

If houses that would otherwise be rented or occupied are being used for short term rentals how can this be true?

>>The most important is that Vancity can deny the ability for commercial operators pretending to be residential operators and punish those that persist.

Watch now for a big increase in business licenses as those operators begin to do business under strawmen.

Great question, I'm also Canadian but have European citizenship, maybe I'll be able to use this to get information from my municipal government that I can't get as a Canadian.

Yes I totally agree with you, I'd love it if the metro was far more expansive than it currently is in Montreal. For me the solution is to expand the metro system to the west island, south shore, etc but forget about burying it and just put it above ground in a tube. Initially it sounds silly but the current rolling stock and tracks aren't up to the task of dealing with Montreal weather, but maintaining one system is (I think) more feasible than our current system (metro, trains, upcoming light rail, etc)

Every now and again I look at the 1960s photos of the implementation of the metro system and the main idea that I take away from it is that something of that scale is pretty much impossible today.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesmontreal/sets/72157664...

That's true. Montreal just upgraded their rolling stock: (The MR-73 didn't owe them anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MR-73) but the new cars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPM-10) have the doors in the same place as the MR-73 cars.

Admittedly I hadn't thought of that, but I don't think there's that much variety in rolling stock for a given location, and when speccing out replacements I don't think it's too much to ask that the doors are in the same place (cars are purchased in dozens...), maybe I'm wrong. Montreal is a much smaller network than New York.

I've had to deal with this at work (anticipatory only so far), but what I can't seem to figure out is what the inquiring European needs to provide to us to prove that the data we have is actually theirs. We don't capture pii data in most instances, so if someone requests their info under GDPR and provide us an IP and a time do we take them at their word?

The trains should only run on tracks that are completely enclosed (More control on the environment will realize better reliability, and as an aside nicer living space. Raised tracks are ugly.), Also they should run on rubber wheels like the Montreal metro has since 1966.

Both metros should have barrier between platforms and tracks since they know where the doors will open. It's sad but a non-negligible cause of delays are due to people jumping on the tracks.

I can see this being a real marketing thing for smoked salmon, makes me want to try it out in my smoker.

I think that's over thinking it a bit, youtube algos are easy to manipulate and a single thread on 4chan can create a fair bit of weird media, for the explicit intent of creating weird media.

Hmm, my nephew already saw pepa pig having her teeth extracted on YouTube kids so I'm gonna say this is too little too late.

That was interesting, thanks. The story about the red cross food delivery of wheat made me think of whenmy first symptoms were, and it was when I was working at Domino's as a young man and practically lived on pizza... Unfortunately that was 12 years prior to diagnosis! Life has been much much better since .

I have celiac disease and haven't heard that sensitivity increases w/ lack of exposure to gluten, can you link to anything?

A skin condition associated with Celiac Disease: https://celiac.org/celiac-disease/understanding-celiac-disea...

It's been a while since I worked with anything air travel related but why do all the flight search engine UIs operate very similarly? Is it just because it's the best way to do it or are these booking engines still tied to the GDS systems (Sabre, Amadeus, etc)?

Same for Montreal

No, it didn't. But you took the chance the individual at that location was supremely interested in certain types of photos, whereas now if a '10x' developer was given access to a large amount of data they could zone in on what they want.

Upon writing my concerns out I am struck by how narcissistic and unlikely it sounds, but I still think I'd be a bit queasy when I click upload.

Hi, even if a data breach hadn't happened, did you have any concerns about people within the company having access to those photos? I also use myfitnesspal and strava but I have a strong aversion to sharing that kind of info with anyone, period.

I'm 36, is this a generational thing?

Exactly. I'd love to use one of these in the kitchen to set timers and ask ingredient amounts -- so long as it was local only.

Isn't untreated Celiac disease also associated with foggy cognition and poor memory?

Admittedly I haven't tried those bikes but I imagine 90USD buys you a 90USD bike and the quality that goes with it. Boris/Citi/Bixi bikes cost considerably more but are incredibly robust.

This is cool and in the same vein I've found that a lot of Canadian gov't dept/figures have very literal translations of their tweets making them a nice, bite-sized snippet to translate, then check with the other tweet.

I'm not sure why you linked to this, but it like most to-do apps is far too simple. If I have a to-do to load my laundry, why can't it trigger a timer to remind me in 30 minutes to switch to the dryer, and then once that's marked as done another timer to take it out of the dryer?

So many to-do apps, I don't think one has solid conditional tasks or robust scheduling (repeat on 1st Monday after 60 days has passed, etc).

A brief perusal, and that seems incredibly broad.