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Re:Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production... by bialpio on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:17PM (#24253446)
Planes sometimes fall on people's roofs. Let's not optimize for edge cases here?
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Re:Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production... by jeffbee on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:26PM (#24253535)
This has to be the most ignorant comment ever posted on HN. In a typical year how many aircraft crash into structures? Zero. There are more than fifteen thousand car crashes in the USA every day.
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Re:Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production... by kube-system on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:23AM (#24257728)
The entire reason medians exist is because they are a crash safety device. Consideration for crashes is not an edge case, it’s the entire point of a median.
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