The summary says they will ban vehicles. You are saying they are banning cars. Perhaps the paywalled article clarifies this. I must say though trucks and bicycles sounds like a bad mix. I’m not sure how it’s a huge improvement.

I’m not a Republican. It is a legitimate question. If they block off the roads to automobiles but allow trucks that seems like it would still make the roads dangerous for bicycles and it would still need to be kept for vehicles. I can’t RTFA because it’s paywalled and I can’t find any other article that explains how they will handle it. A city center with no restaurants or shops sounds awful.

How will goods be brought into the city without the use of vehicles? Will they use pack mules? It sounds like a good idea, but all the businesses which provide jobs will have no way to bring in food, and retail merchandise.

I think go is the closest to your requested feature list.

How is Postgres not an option? I’ve used it in some super heavy installations and it’s always been amazing. In fact if we are only discussing the database itself, Oracle has less features in many areas.

I was a subscriber for many years. One day they told me my print subscription had been converted to an esubscription and I wouldn’t get a refund. I never even looked at the esubscription and never renewed it. I would probably still be a subscriber if they hadn’t done that.

The second amendment specifically states the right to bear arms is for use in a militia. I have no issues with guns for that purpose. You can have them on duty. Here's the text "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.". It was judicial overreach to declare the rights to mean outside of use for a militia.

CO2 is just the refrigerant. It is not consumed by the heating cycle. CO2 has been used for cooling in many places, this is the first I've heart of using it in a heat pump for heating though.

According to Wikipedia, the only countries that are more productive per person than the US are Luxembourg and Norway.

Maybe your provider sucks? I have used broadvoice for 12 years or so, and my home phone has the best quality voice compared to any cell phone. I rarely use it, but quality is not an issue.

The model S is rear wheel drive as well and handles well in snow. The reason it does well is a combination of excellent traction control, combined with the weight distribution. In a combustion engine vehicle the engine is in the front l, typically. So rear wheel drive has poor traction since the weight is located in the wrong area. Also front wheel drive is prone to fish tailing when braking, rear wheel drive experiences much less of that (though traction control does a good job minimizing that for both FWD and RWD.

They still use a compressor, but instead of running normal outside air across dry coils, they run the air across wet coils. The evaporation makes the coils cool faster and more efficiently, at the cost of losing water. The non evaporated water is reused and pumped back to the top. Because the water is reused it can get kind of nasty and needs frequent cleaning. (Note I'm a licensed technician, but I don't work on cooling towers).

Why would you be willing to pay that much to watch a bunch of sweaty men running around hitting a rubber sphere with their feet? How can that be so entertaining you'd pay $100/month? I understand how sports can be fun for the players, I just don't get people paying money to watch others play them.

Ironically, Europe has been switching from HFC refrigerants (which are safe and non-flammable, as well as energy efficient) to hydrocarbon (fossil fuel) based refrigerants (which are flammable, and use more energy to transfer heat). HFC refrigerants are major greenhouse gas contributors, hence the shift.

I use both, but I feel media player classic has the inferior UI. VLC in full screen hides the UI elements intelligently, like Netflix does. I couldn't figure out a way to do this in media player classic.