GreeniFi

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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Most farms in the world are in the sub one hectare range. And their owners aren’t hobbyists.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Small scale farming often doesn’t work as a business. The economics of modern day commercial agriculture support only the big farmer. These technologies, unless they get super cheap, will drive more and more farm consolidation.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Your argument is, to paraphrase, “it’s less that people are priced out of London, it’s just that London is full”. This argument assumes that the property market is a free market, which it is not. It’s subsidised and manipulated by governmen
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Hacker News never fails to throw up a diverse array of essays and articles. Thank you to the poster of this.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Rosling’s arguments overlook the point that gains have been won with unsustainable use of the planets resources. Like the farmer who eats his seed corn, he lives well whilst it’s there, but has nothing to sow come planting time.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
We already have carbon removal technology. They’re called trees. [Edit] I’m not being facetious. 40% of emissions are as a result of poor land management. We’ll need all the technological help we can get, but if we can’t manage land as carb
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
My sister works in the advertising industry, where it seems few people spend more than 2-3 years [edit] in a firm before moving on. The big advertising firms tend to be in public ownership and and have apparently systemised the creation of
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I love that Heraclitus quote and it’s interesting to hear how training turns “targets” into “fighters”. However, I still wonder about the psychology of the mercenary asassin. Who are they, what stories do they tell themselves to justify the
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I found this and your follow-up comments to be very interesting. I wonder if I could ask you to comment on the psychology of men who do this. Do they feel fear? Do they experience guilt or contrition? If so, how do they manage these feeling
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I just checked google trends, and a very superficial look suggests an upwards trend line over the last 5 years. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
There seems to have been a general uptick in mainstream media warnings of a recession recently. For example the Economist cover last week: “how bad will the next recession be”. I’m not an expert I hasten to add, but before 2008 I also notic
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Thank you. Good explanation.
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I take your point re the ability of banks to innovate. But the Brex product is not technological. They are simply saying, we’ll lend against cash collateral. That’s the type of things banks might be better at.
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You can’t patent a credit product. As soon as other lenders see this business, their margins will be competed away. That 2BN valuation looks very artificial.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I’m not German but spend a lot of time with Germans who are more often than not fantastic fun. And quite “freigeistlich” I find. This is an excellent German stand-up comedian who plies his trade in London: https://m.youtube.com&#
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Your disagreement here, as far as I understand it, is the central point of disagreement in the debate around the impact of the FB/Google on behavior. On one side, you have people saying that internet use can be indicative of personalit
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I understand that this has been at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica political manipulation scandal. The basic methodology is take a large sample of people whose big 5 traits you know, and look at their browsing history. Through this you
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
If you google Mastercard, in the results it says: “Global leading company in payment solutions offering credit, debit, prepaid cards and more”. I guess either they’re misinformed or you are :-)
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Wow.
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My guess is that Google, like Facebook, have a good impression of your CANOE/Big 5 personality type: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extroversion. And in that they have an extremely good assessment of your like
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I think it’s probably possible to model credit-worthiness according to search history and site use patterns. Google’s partnership with Mastercard could be something to do with that. What would be particularly irritating is if Google start s
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
PG’s definition is only one, very VC-oriented definition. I think a layman’s definition would be a new for-profit organization started to solve problems, likely but not exclusively, using technology to do so.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Yes. We are extremely bad at managing distant threats.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Hi Mobermek, I run a business that invests in climate change related solutions, particularly in the agricultural space. I deal with these issues on a day-to-day basis and I’ve had to develop some psychological coping mechanisms - because th
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I find it distinctly odd that arguably the central organizing feature of the British economy and culture is a massive state-sanctioned pyramid scheme, which as the author points out, is wrecking Britain, as populist governments invesnt ever
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
The confusion of causation and correlation is often presented as a bug in the human operating system. It’s definitely a mistake here and you are right to point it out. But I sometimes wonder if the bug in the human cognitive process is (not
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Much of Africa’s soils have only 20 years of harvests left. This paper, by the British Warren Buffet, explains the problem and is well worth the read if you have the time. It’s well-written so not as daunting as it’s length otherwise makes
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Africa is the concern on the population front. I sort of feel we need Malthusian pessimists to warm us when we are heading for the cliff. The Green Revolution, and what it achieved in India and elsewhere, was achieved in substantial part th
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Very interesting article. However, it only talks about drinking water and the real problem is water for agriculture and the author doesn’t talk much about cost of desalinated water vs cost of acquirer water. My own professional experience s
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
This is an interesting question which you pose very clearly. Because we don’t know the future and what opportunities technology may bring, it is prudent to hedge the risk with an insurance policy. Right now we aren’t doing that and instead

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