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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:19PM (#50038882)
Well my wife is currently am expecting. So, I guess starting with board books for 0-1 y/o?
Pax Romana peace.
Re:The Housing Market Isn't for Single People on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:10PM (#46607150)
They are still around but less common. Some progressive cities like Austin calls them a "Boarding House"[0] I'm not sure if there is a unit cap where something like your historical tenement housing could happen like in Manhattan. It's the same idea just a different format.

[0] https://www.austintexas.gov/department/get-boarding-house-li...

I think they might have deeper issues still with their outage. I just got an email and retroactive charge for something I returned months ago and shows as returned on their own orders portal. The link in their transactional email also links to a totally different product.
Yeah, but that isn't really an apples to apples comparison. Texas for example had ~400 heat deaths in 2024 depending on where you look but in 2023 it was 334 or 563 depending on your criteria [1].

>But I want to put it into perspective. In 2024, ~62,800 people in Europe died to heat-related events.

Most of these deaths are not because of electrification but the fact that homes are built out of bricks and mortar and become ovens with heat waves that get hotter each year and ~10% to ~20% [2] of homes in Europe have air conditioning meanwhile ~95% [3] of homes have air conditioning. Your apples to oranges comparison mostly shows how Europe is generically unprepared for climate adaption (specifically heat resilience) and has nothing to do with electrification stability.

[1] https://www.texasenvironment.org/news-room/heat-related-deat... [2] It's all over the place some places like UK are around 5% adoption while southern Europe can be close to as much as 95% adoption. [3] https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/...

I’m not sure about this round but I know someone that resigned out of the DOGE wave in Homeland and she got 9 months severance. I would assume something relatively similar.
It's just a tool I know, I guess if I posted any link you'd say the same thing regardless of the tool.

Ask HN: What's your tips and tricks for the job seeker entering 2025?

I, like many people, are entering the job market again and preparing to do a job search. What are the courses, tools, blog posts, and etc. that were useful to you as you were looking for a job? What tools did you use for your CV/Resume? Are cover letters still a thing?I personally anticipate finding a job through my network but that won't be the case for many people. What advice do you have for...

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Where can you go to learn more about these entity / LP / LLP setups that finance orgs use?
Re:"PayPal took $80k from me and banned me" on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @10:43AM (#39358630)
What payment provider did you switch to?
Re:Uninstall the NightOwl macOS app now on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @10:46AM (#37134634)
It seems kinda weird to Dox the guy's home address.
Re:Tell HN: Hulu does not allow subscription cancellation on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:55AM (#36404955)
> The appeal of sending a letter isn't to avoid human contact, it's to avoid the time suck of aggravation and frustration that these dark pattern schmucks throw in the way.

It also very likely goes through a different pipeline to get solved and is immediately escalated internally.

Ask HN: You're planning a vacation to somewhere, what's your process?

I'm planning a trip in November. I'm curious if anyone has some novel way to find interesting places and places at their trip's destination. I personally am the type of planner that plans a few major things and leaves room for what my friends and I call "side quests". We're never too formal which sometimes bites us in the butt but overall gives us a lot of flexibility.I'm wondering if there...

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:21PM (#34265059)
I've cancelled everything but YouTube Premium and Apple TV and share for everything else I'm interested in.
Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:24PM (#30375885)
how do you manage all these replies? is it just bookmarked or do you keep a spreadsheet? I see you do this often.
> Because the next brownout is permanent - and that will be an even bigger PITA.

more like a blackout.

I think it’s more of a you than them problem. I didn’t take this as a production-grade.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021) on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:02PM (#26304944)
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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:31PM (#26139115)
Yeah normally 11 cents per kWh but right now am at $4.24 per kWh.
I been way more productive than I ever was in the office.
Re:Simple Bank Is Closing on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:39PM (#25681571)
not for all major banks, mine (usaa) forces 2fa which broke ynab and made it useable because i don't want to do data entry for every transaction.
strange, i can flag posts but can't vouch at 400+ karma
whats the karma level for that?
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:53PM (#24875656)
> What is odd though is that it's the RIAA filing suit here and not google. Google has a real complaint, RIAA certainly does not.

Probably not wanting to poke a hornets nest of the open source community.

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:43PM (#24875609)
We might as well ban screen shots because it can illegally reproduce photography stills. /s
Re:Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:54PM (#24620634)
CRNA is very specialized nurse that is near the top of the ladder of education and credentials. Then tack on a bay area salary and you have 225k.

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