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by Blahah 13y ago
This is going nowhere - you're being deliberately obtuse, clearly don't know what you're talking about, and I think the comments so far stand for themselves. Last post, because there are some points I have to answer. > Th
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by Blahah 13y ago
This absolutely. I work long hours coding on my PhD (because I love it), then I come home and work the rest of the hours on side projects. Over the course of a few months my productivity wanes a lot - I can feel the burnout creeping on. Ove
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by Blahah 13y ago
It's no use trying to be clever with words when you aren't being clever with facts. You are simply wrong, empirically and logically. > You previously stated that resistance is no way exacerbated by using GMOs. Now you're
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by Blahah 13y ago
That thing looks amazing, but probably before its time, $5k is a lot to throw down on a preorder for a machine. I would happily put down that if the thing was already available though... perhaps they should explore more traditional funding
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by Blahah 13y ago
> Roundup-Ready GM crops are designed to survive Roundup dosing (obviously). This leads to an overall increase in Roundup use and a corresponding increase in Roundup resistance. Right, but without roundup farmers have to use at least a
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by Blahah 13y ago
Well I agree with that :)
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by Blahah 13y ago
If you look through the comments here, you'll see several people specifically mentioning agent orange as what's wrong with Monsanto. A lot of the current activism against monsanto is due to pressure groups who have hated them for
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by Blahah 13y ago
That is not the difference. If a farmer doesn't knowingly violate, he will not be prosecuted. Having read a large number of court summaries from Monsanto cases, I haven't yet found one where they brought a case against someone who
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by Blahah 13y ago
> This is not about "societal benefit". Nobody but Monsanto benefits from Roundup Ready products That's just not true. Society benefits because we can avoid applying much more toxic and environmentally damaging herbicide
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks for linking - I've thought about all these things, but didn't know the terms. Accessing the literature is basically impossible without knowing to call them 'coordination game' or 'free rider problem'.
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by Blahah 13y ago
If the law creates artificial scarcity to enable certain types of enterprise (like technology and media), it is creating an incentive for companies in those industries to exploit the legal situation as much as possible. Not only that, but p
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by Blahah 13y ago
I doubt many farmers in the entire world are operating on margins that allow them to invest in anything that doesn't return very soon. Consider... Company A spends 5billion developing a new variety that yields high, and sells it at pri
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by Blahah 13y ago
I am in no way a Monsanto cheerleader, I would very much like them to disappear completely so I could get on with my career. As it is, they are so thoroughly hated that every plant biologist is tarnished if they so much as attend a conferen
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by Blahah 13y ago
This is just nonsense, it is extremely easy for farmers to buy non-GMO seed. Not only are there several other huge seed producers (Bayer, BASF, Dupont, Syngenta, Pioneer, etc.) that sell high-quality non-GMO seed, but there is a huge ecosys
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by Blahah 13y ago
Yup, and that's completely part of the legal framework of the USA. They take advantage just like every other IP-owning company, including basically every tech company in Silicon Valley.
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by Blahah 13y ago
We still have heirloom seeds - anyone who wants to can develop their own varieties and share them as freely as they like. Many thousands of people do this. However, those varieties are just extremely unlikely to be as consistently high-yiel
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by Blahah 13y ago
Terminator seeds have never been used except in research. It says that in your own link. Monsanto have also made commitments, including to the courts in the USA and Canada, not to ever use the technology.
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by Blahah 13y ago
It's especially bullshit because Monsanto don't produce seeds that don't reproduce. Terminator technology was developed by the United States government and shut down by Monsanto because they thought protesters would go apes
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by Blahah 13y ago
Just to be clear: if you don't like this situation, patent law is the target. Monsanto, like many other companies, are operating within the legal framework the USA provides them. Reduce patent terms and you'll diversify control of
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by Blahah 13y ago
Any idea why they got banned from adsense?
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by Blahah 13y ago
You have to include the original copyright notice. However, because of the Github templates, a lot of people don't fill in the copyright details. So in those cases derivatives are free to not attribute.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thank you for this comment. Let's not pretend we can blame a single person for any atrocity. Genocide requires the complicity of a lot of people. And people can be inspired to comply by speech. Free speech is a worthy principle, but it
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by Blahah 13y ago
That's a really neat idea - match up new projects with older projects to learn from their experience. Thanks :)
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by Blahah 13y ago
Whoops, didn't realise the organisation room was private. Thanks for the heads up. The repo room is public: https://gitter.im/solvers/solvers , I'll update the original link.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Definitely a bug! We use cookies only for GA and for login sessions. It shouldn't affect a pageview that isn't logged in. We'll sort it out :)
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks very much for the feedback - I agree. Neither of us founders are designers. However, we've now got a great designer working with us, and we'll have a new look in a few weeks. Others have mentioned wanting images for project
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by Blahah 13y ago
I think you're spot on that many people don't even know what problems they've got. Something we'd like to do in the long term is build a community of solvers that actively seeks out projects. That way people are taking t
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by Blahah 13y ago
Me and davedx have discussed this before and we came to this conclusion: it's a healthy thing to have multiple sites in the same space. In reality, a few people control the direction of each site. There can only be a single direction f
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks, and if you get a chance to reach out to that guy, please ask him to contact us: team@solvers.io. We'd love to help him.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I agree completely. It's on our to-do list to let people add tags to their profile so they get notified when new projects are posted with their skillset, without restricting them to only helping out with those.

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