Assumimg you pick them one by one. If you found a popular smoke spot I bet you could sweep up hundreds within minutes.

If the goal is purely to save costs, then yes. The main reason is actually stated in the title of the article. I recommend clicking the link to see it.

The articles like 2-3 paragraphs?

It’s not only costs. It’s the productivity and output of your labor force compared to something that in the grand scheme of things is not really expensive.

Are you asking why we wouldn’t use 'last_updated' to store when the record was deleted?

One reason is that you might want to know when it was last updated before it was deleted.

No, more like why you'd use a more expensive filter to hide soft deleted data, instead of just a flag.

Checking whether `deleted_at is null` should be extremely cheap, and it avoids the duplication and desynchronisation of having both “deleted” and “deleted_at”.

Yes, if your database has null. I know this is about postgres, but a lot of stuff is nosql now.

Even in MongoDB, you can can index `null` values, so I don't understand in what database system this would be a problem.

Yes, thats the point!

You are the 0.01%

Seems like I am in the 0.01%, too, then! Yay.

I am also the .01%

yes?

"I'll go to India for my vacation! Sure, the beaches aren't anything like the Caribbeans, but you gotta realize: it's got WAY more people."

The beaches in the Andamans (near Thailand) and Lakshadweep (geologically part of the Maldives) can hold their own against any Caribbean beach.

https://www.eternalandamans.com/havelock-island/radhanagar-b...

https://www.gokitetours.com/top-beaches-in-lakshadweep-you-m...

India is a great place for a vacation, if you want to visit the historical sites and not just vegetate on a beach.

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