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And Berlin is not known for hard soils.

Because they are profitable.

This is true.

It's also something that's easy to do if you start from the beginning treating your CI/CD system as something that just runs scripts out of your repo.

I'm not sure where you've gotten the idea that iPhone wallet passes can't be used with NFC readers. I regularly use an iPhone wallet pass with an NFC reader at my local coffee shop.

> Ok, please provide five+ example from local news that shows poorly tied solar panels flying away in a wind storm. The "obvious" thruth: You cannot.

Everything flat and thin catches the wind. That's physics.

The reason solar panels don't go blowing around is that we spend money and engineering effort to prevent this from happening. You know what else generally doesn't go blowing around? Sails from boats. Same reason: Because they're well attached to a strong structure.

Are you a bot? Because your post history looks an awful lot like you're a bot.

Cambridge Dictionary: Oligarch - One of a small group of powerful people who control a country or an industry.

And here's a frequently quoted study showing that the US is much closer to an oligopoly than pluralistic democracy: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/GilensPage2014.pdf

So, the definition and evidence say, yes.

The single biggest problem is that Prop-13 applies to commercial properties too.

I was alive at the time prop 13 passed. I was a little kid in Ohio. Even I remember the stories that were being circulated on the national news about old people being priced out of their homes in LA. It was a big campaign.

Putting solar panels on a field doesn't reduce evaporation from the canal.

These canals are the size of rivers. They are hundreds of miles long.

Building a solar roof is going to be orders of magnitude cheaper, and the pipes wouldn't generate electricity.

400+ miles of 20m tunnels. How much cheaper is that going to be?

That won't reduce evaporation from the canal.

Part of the point is reducing evaporation.

> I'm surprised by this comment. (Is this area known for strong winds?)

Areas of the central valley are legendary for strong winds. A large stretch of the aqueduct (200km?) runs along the valley's West edge. So does the interstate highway I5.

The I5 has frequent high wind advisories. In the area around Pacheco Pass there are frequently gusting cross winds between 55 and 70km per hour. I use the I5 as my reference here, because I have spent many hours of my life driving it in these conditions.

> If your comment is true, wouldn't all warehouses using the same type of standard "bents" also be very expensive?

What makes you think building a warehouse in earthquake country is cheap?

> For all of the things I have read about large commercial solar panel installations, never once did I read anything about the risk of wind tearing off PV panels. If this were really a serious threat, wouldn't we see regularly local news stories about large PV panels "flying" away in big wind storms? And, yet, I never saw one.

The statement about solar panels making very good sails obviously true. Everything thin and flat makes a good sail.

PV panels don't go flying away because people spend a lot of money attaching them to the ground. They're expensive systems, and any installer that didn't make sure they were bolted down effectively, would be sued out of business after the first windstorm.

Please name a specific time when there was more honor in the world.

Dark man. Dark.

There's an argument to be made that WWI started because Wilhelm II was an incompetent statesman who disassembled his country's relationship with friendly states, and turned them into enemies.

The word "confabulation" is much more precise and appropriate than "hallucination". We should use it instead.

From the point of view of the system, this is an error. It is incorrect information.

The term "hallucination" feels much more like anthropomorphizing. The word hallucination implies an aberrant condition. A much better term would be "confabulation".

You don't trust things or individuals that confabulate.

I love the number of people who are commenting about how the article is wrong, and then finding out that they are actually wrong.

I suspect it was just wanting to get the job done. The difference between this amazing story, and absolutely nothing happening was a fraction of an inch.

Oriental carpet stores are interesting businesses. I always wondered how they stayed open until I met someone whose family has been in the business for several generations.

Individual sales are in the thousands, so they operate more like high-end jewelry stores than a "normal" business. One sale a day is minimum 250K/year.

The store itself seems to be more of just a show room. There are other sales routes too. Selling into hotels would be an example. There are also maintenance services, so a high end rug in some sense can be seen as a recurring revenue source.

It's a interesting little corner.

> which allowed them to quickly pinpoint the farm that was the source of the Cyclospora outbreak.

Got any documentation for that? The most precise location I can find is "Mexico".

What I've heard is that the lettuce from many farms goes through the same industrial lettuce shredders. The shredders were contaminated by at least one farm's produce, and then the shredders spread the Cyclospora to lettuce from other farms.

There's a good podcast covering this event: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-natural-causes-340763248...

I've been in this industry for 34, and it's always been full of people who are at heart authoritarians, who believe that they would do a better job than anyone else, and are seriously lacking in self-awareness.

I can think of three other great dads who were hugely ambitious:

* Jimmy Carter * Bill Clinton * Barak Obama

Just as a geographic note: You can buy winter tires in California. The Sierra Nevada (snowy mountains) run down a sizable chunk of the state. California has even hosted the winter olympics.

> Consider as a demonstrative example, race car drivers. They have had options to have extremely detailed Heads Up Displays with all sorts of absurd data available at a glance for decades.

It's kind of a bad example, because there are other reasons that we don't have HUDsin cars.

A friend of mine designed car interiors. His explanation went like this:

With a HUD, you have to pick a focus point.

In an airplane, when you look forward, your eyes are always focused at infinity, so the HUD is focused there. It has the same focus point as your eyes.

In a car everything is slower and closer, so you have to constantly change your focus.

The HUD though has a single focus point though, and drivers' eyes tend to lock onto the HUD's focus. This focus lock interferes with normal scanning, and drivers stop seeing important things. They don't notice important things, so they get into accidents.

According to him, HUDs in cars lead to much higher accident rates.

His photo is on the web page. He looks not-German to the common German racist.

You can look at his photo. In Germany, he is a person of color. In fact, he is from a group that is one of the specific targets of racism.