take a look at arizona real estate prices over the past couple years

people want to live where it’s sunny and warm

I'm not denying that there are people who want to live there. It's obvious there are (and that there are growth trends, particularly as snowbirds seem to be discarding Florida as their first choice).

The dispute is about scale: a couple of million retirees equal a lot of speculative housing value, but they don't justify a megaproject to deliver water to the middle of the desert. That would require population migration on a scale not seen in over a century in the US.

my car has these features and sometimes thinks the speed limit is 100mph in residential neighborhoods

I've seen 30 recognized as 80mph. Clearly the system didn't even have a plausibility check: in the UK 80mph isn't a legal limit!

It also gets confused when there are overpasses or tunnels crossing the road, and the nav-based speed limit flips from 70mph to 15mph to 70mph.

ah i have seen 80 before, that could explain it it was never clear to me if it was reading the signs or just basing it off of map data

In some neighbourhoods in the Netherlands people put fake '30km/h' signs on their roadside garbage bins. Those are not the official limits, but will be picked up by traffic sign recognition algorithms...

> in places that were never meant to host human habitation year round.

and which places on earth were meant for humans exactly?

this isn’t really the suburbs. it’s a more rural area with water wells and not hooked up to the main water service

new suburb developments in az are required to prove they have a 100 year water supply

Yeah that's covered in the article, but only applies to subdivisions of more than 5 houses. So the builders build larger anyway with ownership hidden in a shell game of LLCs to get around the regulation and build without that 100 year water supply.

what’s the point of scraping a scraper?

You want a machine-readable dataset rather than a website, and the aggregator has already done some of the work for you.

Scraping all of Zillow's sources instead would explode the complexity of the project.

maybe all the arpanet design docs are not public?

Well, a lot of the early RFCs have been lost.

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that.

Checking manually, I found many of the low-numbered RFCs are present, though there are some higher in range which turn up 404.

E.g., RFC 1 is online: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1

But here's a list of missing HTML pages from the first 1024 RFCs:

8, 9, 14, 26, 51, 92, 159, 201, 220, 244, 248, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 272, 275, 277, 279, 284, 337, 341, 358, 375, 380, 383, 397, 418, 424, 427, 428, 444, 465, 481, 484, 502, 507, 517, 530, 536, 540, 541, 554, 558, 564, 572, 575, 583, 598, 605, 639, 641, 646, 648, 649, 650, 664, 665, 668, 670, 673, 676, 682, 693, 709, 710, 711, 715, 723, and 853.

For anyone who wants to verify:

  wget --spider --force-html $(
    for i in {1..1024}; 
    do 
      echo "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc${i}"; 
    done ) 2>&1 |
    egrep '(https.*rfc|awaiting response)' |
    grep -B1 '404 Not Found' |
    grep -v '404 Not Found'

Above RFC-2000 or so, the pattern of omissions starts to look more deliberate, suggesting reserved values:

8, 9, 14, 26, 51, 92, 159, 201, 220, 244, 248, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 272, 275, 277, 279, 284, 337, 341, 358, 375, 380, 383, 397, 418, 424, 427, 428, 444, 465, 481, 484, 502, 507, 517, 530, 536, 540, 541, 554, 558, 564, 572, 575, 583, 598, 605, 639, 641, 646, 648, 649, 650, 664, 665, 668, 670, 673, 676, 682, 693, 709, 710, 711, 715, 723, 853, 1061, 1182, 1260, 1839, 1840, 3100, 3200, 3223, 3328, 3333, 3350, 3399, 3400, 3500, 3699, 3799, 3800, 3889, 3899, 3900, 3907, 3908, 3999, 4000, 4099, 4100, 4199, 4200, 4232, 4299, 4300, 4399, 4400, 4499, 4500, 4599, 4600, 4637, 4658, and 4699.

compared to all the other data collected about me with no benefit to myself that seems like an ok deal

only the police are competent and trustworthy enough for these weapons?

is there any example where getting acquired by private equity firm actually improved operations for the entity being acquired?

Mr Show covered this already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTy1Qyl03kI