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Have not seen any restarts this weekend, and we have several hundred instances on GCE.

We have created GCE instances in several US regions without any issue today. Last one was 10 minutes ago in west2.

We invested early in being multi-region on GCP as well as multi-cloud with AWS as a fully redundant option if it ever became necessary to fail over to them.

Nothing is on Facebook by pure chance. This feature is there because it was designed to be.

You're looking at it the wrong way. Instead of looking for a house to buy to live in, look at how you and others can get in on an apartment complex purchase.

We've implemented this for companies in the past - bumping callers to the front of the line based on the caller ID (or input of some other data by customer) and matching customer profile or CRM record tracking customer spend, MRC, etc. It's pretty standard practice.

I thought this story was going in a different direction, where you had replaced Powerset's logo with one having bright colors, and then it started winning.

I disagree with my comments being grounds for a ban, at least according to your existing Guidelines.

I merely raise the point that fasting should be considered where relevant to the discussion. In each and every health related discussion I joined there is significant evidence that fasting is indeed a viable treatment option.

The flamewars you are speaking of are not started by myself, rather by a select few who have opposing beliefs and are using the site features (flagging, downvoting) to express such views.

As you mentioned, I've been speaking up about fasting for a long time on HN. I have since received several emails from members here who have taken my comments into consideration and have been successful at resolving various health issues in large part by undertaking a prolonged fast.

Banning me plays into the hands of those who would rather this treatment option be silenced and I believe the Flagging feature is being abused by those who are using it anonymously to prevent others from being exposed to it.

By banning me you are effectively hindering people's access to a wide variety of health options, and I believe you will be in the wrong by doing so. Therefore I would like to have my comments and activity reviewed by other moderators as well, since currently as things stand I think banning me will be a personal decision on your part that is not in line with the Guidelines that you have published and asked your users to adhere by. Who can I contact to further discuss this?

I believe I am acting well within the official guidelines you have posted for this site (the capitalized words for emphasis i used today are probably the only offense).

I am not introducing off-topic flamewars. Fasting as a healing mechanism has been around for centuries and is well documented in medical literature and I only raise it when it is relevant to a submission or ongoing discussion. I do not attack anyone personally and I believe I am being very civil with my comments. I do not find the basis for which you are asking me to cease bringing up a very valid option for one to explore when dealing with a health crisis.

Yet those who dismiss it continue to dismiss the fact that their lifestyle, including and primarily dietary choices [1], is the leading contributor to their various health ailments and the reason they require life-long drugs that do nothing but suppress various symptoms to create a sense of sustained "good health". And those who do undertake fasting, both to rid themselves of "auto-immune diseases" and other such sciency sounding names, and as a preventative maintenance regimen, are the healthy ones.

the unwritten law of HN is quite the opposite - to immediately dismiss and blindly downvote any non-mainstream answers.

[1] By "dietary choices" above I refer to any diet that is not 100% organic fruits and vegetables and as little water as possible (you are meant to be getting the vast majority of your water intake from fruits, not stand-alone glasses of water).

Because your body is more capable than what mainstream modern medicine is telling you? Keeping you in the dark about the healing benefits of fasting is their No. 1 agenda along with pushing life-long "treatments".

I do two 8-day-long dry fasts every year, and have completed several 12-day ones as well.

I also water fast for 30 days twice a year.

You have no idea what you are missing out on, health wise, if you are suffering from any sort of disease modern medicine is telling you is incurable.

You are spreading false information. This is absolutely not correct.

Not if you google "falcon http"

We are looking at the health care problem from the wrong angle. Nobody should be needing most of these drugs to begin with. But we have a food culture and system that feed civilization disease causing foods and that's where the cycle starts.

Why would you assume this previously known tidbit to be true for the rest of Youtube's life?

This seems to be GCP related. I know the status page is all green currently... but we have a lot of services using GCP products and some are failing and showing increased latency. Pubsub failures as well.

My bet is rm -f instead of cp -R.

17" macbook pro matte.

Next is Dialpad.com.

Most people on Keto stop doing Keto at the onset of kidney stones and other health hazards. Keto is the most dangerous dietary trend right now.

Yep... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095071

I am well aware of this. I don't let it stop me from spreading truth.

Fasting, in particular prolonged fasting (up to 40 days of water fasting or 8 days of dry fasting) is the best gift you can give to your body.

You are thinking about it from the wrong angle. Even less than 2 minutes.

Taking over the SMS functionality of any phone number in the US is trivial and can be done in 2 minutes. The phone will continue to operate as normal and the victim will likely take a while to notice anything is wrong. Never ever use SMS to secure anything.

Same reason you still get junk mail. Money.

> Do you think having access to "cheaper" talent (I don't mean they're worse in skill, but I guess there are less opportunities for capable engineers in Belarus) is a huge competitive advantage?

Why wouldn't it be?

> The company is in the beginning stages of its investigation.

This is code for "this is much worse than we are telling you now, we just can't reveal it all at once".

I dislike Facebook as much as the next person.. but I have to say, Facebook Ads are a goldmine if you know what you're doing. It's not going to be that way forever.

Is there actually anyone on HN that is surprised by this?

When you say "most tech companies" are you referring to employers in the tech space, or specifically VoIP providers? Dialpad.com is pretty much still alone in the mobile-first, anti-Deskphone, WebRTC-preferred approach. The rest are still primarily geared towards desk phones, even RingCentral that has a very slick mobile experience.

Dialpad is definitely playing the long game here and will be the clear winners 10 years from now. I predict Amazon will acquire them in the next year or two.

More and more businesses are switching from on-premise telephony to cloud based hosted PBX. The addressable market is very large, latest estimates put it at 55+ million seats. That's before you consider the contact center market... just focus on getting to 500, then 2000, and so on. It's not difficult. 2000 seats bring you $50K MRC, and again if you know how to this right, especially coupled with intuitive self service UI to the end users, overhead is very very low. And the actual Telco costs are too tiny to even worry about. About 75 cents per user.

I thought about starting a "how to start a VOIP business" webinar or somethint.. its amazing how many are trying to create SaaS products in obscure fringe markets where the VOIP market is pure gold.