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I was in San Francisco for a while, and I feel so sad for the city. It is a beautiful city, but now a days, all I see is homeless, piss on the roads, drugs, needles. There are some good areas, but most of the downtown and touristy areas are like that. I pass by civic center bart station every day (5+ years now), and there are people standing there selling drugs (often youth 18+ or early 20s), and there are never police there, ZERO times I saw police catch someone. I think the whole city is pretty much corrupt, law enforcement and justice department included. It need a huge political reform with law enforcement and justice department that have great integrity, and I think thats the only way to save the city.

It does not get any revenue from Ads. That is the reason why iOS 14 is making it very hard for Apps to make any money outside of the going through the App store (30% cut). This is brilliant from Apple because, it hits 2 birds with 1 stone - Win for consumer from privacy standpoint, Win as a business since it forces a lot of apps to be converted to paid apps, which will flow more $$ to Apple.

I'm south indian, and I routinely cook with at least 8 - 10 spices. Most common are the whole garam masala (bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, black pepper, cumin, coriander seeds, mustard and turmeric)

While balloons are great for experiments, I would personally advise against hot air ballooning for recreation. I (and a few other friends) all had bad experiences riding on one. We were basically transported to the emergency after "hard landing" which is actually very common in ballooning (I read a lot about it after the fact). Some serious red flags about ballooning:

- There is no set landing zone, which means they can land anywhere and it can get dangerous if you couldn't find a suitable spot (we landed in someone's backyard)

- Wind can take you anywhere, also it changes pretty fast when in an altitude and you can't control the direction, only the altitude of the balloon.

- There is no emergency equipment required on the balloon and the only thing you have is a harness to hold on to

- You need a license but the bar is pretty low

- FAA doesn't investigate the accidents, but NTSB does

I only speak of what I know (which may not be correct)

* What does it mean for Lakadh to not have a legislature? Does it mean that this province cannot have elect local leaders?

I think this means that they will not have legislative power in the government (aka similar to USVI or Puerto Rico in the US)

* Why are the prominent politicians under house arrest? What is their offence?

I believe this is mostly to silence them to not agitate people. Also, these articles are widely misused and politicians amassed a lot of land since no outsiders can hold land in the area.

* Why were these two articles repealed?

This is partly for political as well as some economical. Since no one can own a property or land in Jammy & Kashmir other than its residents, economy growth is much smaller in Kasmir than the rest of India and it helps boost Kasmir's economy. The political reason might be that the BJP government wants more power in the area.

Does anyone here tried Druid? I hear at Druid performance is much better in terms of response time, especially for arbitratry queries over large set of dimensions. Did anyone do an in-depth comparison between Bq vs Druid?

I work with a Django app on Postgres, and I'm not sure how I would migrate that to GraphQL. How things play out in terms of django specific tables? What about relationships between tables? We mostly use the Django app to expose REST APIs, which deal with making complex queries using QuerySets to Postgres. Moving this to GraphQL mean that all the business logic that sits on the REST APIs need to be moved to the frontend?