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by JamisonM 6y ago
I guess I glossed over the claim that the author offered completely unsupported, yes. This is the fundamental problem here, you need to be completely absorbed into this information universe to just accept statements like "all coronavir
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by JamisonM 6y ago
That article is really something, the first thing that jumps out: "Second, covid is not some magical entity, it’s a coronavirus, and it behaves like other coronaviruses, and other respiratory viruses more generally. It would be strange
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Ok, how is that relevant? Coronaviruses collectively have been known for a long time, this was also true when the SARS outbreak occurred, is true during MERS. Likewise influenza was well known before the 1917 pandemic, or H1N1.. and?
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by JamisonM 6y ago
This is a confusing series of statements, what do you mean?
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There was not widespread serology testing but subsequent analysis has the WHO pegging the fatality rate at about 3% (as opposed to the 10% from the time of the outbreak itself). We didn't really shut SARS down so much as it seemed to h
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For me personally the unknowns of such a new virus mean that the existence of the case studies would be enough to be concerned. And the strongest case is made by the fact that this virus' closest relative known to infect humans has cau
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I am personally quite terrified of the possible unknown long term side effects of COVID-19 and largely confident that the vaccines are going to be safe. If you offered me a vaccine tomorrow vs a 100% certain mild case of COVID-19 that would
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by JamisonM 6y ago
There seems to be a lot of quibbling about the simple sentence here but I find it clarifying. Discussing coin tosses is a thought experiment with a very practical physical analog so spelling out clearly what the thought experiment's
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Some thoughts on the composition: * "I wrote the case arguing that frequentist interpretations don't work, but algorithmic information theory does": if that's what you are up to here then I think it would be for readers
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There are lots of large agricultural equipment companies engaged in real competition and John Deere doesn't have unlimited resources to buy up competition. You look at a company like SeedMaster that is in direct competition with JD in
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This stuff is expensive because it is expensive to make. Versatile can deliver the same HP for around 25-30% off the the sticker price of a CNH or Deere, but that's really the bottom of the barrel in terms of margins and using commodit
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Haha, love this: > lots of rain and 100m from the sea, 12 or so km from the open ocean If you are that close to salt water and don't have a problem it sure does seem to make the rust thing a red herring! Agreed, it is of the utmost
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We have heavy, heavy soil here. We do wash equipment to make sure that wet soils are not left in the nooks an crannies of our equipment, but the idea that we'd have a frame rot away from rust.. that seems like a 100 year timeline issue
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You'll not find more waterlogged soil than where I work, the red river valley, hence my skepticism regarding the rust thing.
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For sure they are buying something that they are familiar with and dropping it in that works with the standard transmission. Once you have have done the first the next one is easy. (That's our experience with rotor swaps on the 1480&#x
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In the 4WD tractor business they already exist: Versatile. But it is a funny business, a lot of farmers are not that price sensitive!
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It is true that lots of my neighbours have trouble finding help, I never do though. We have a crew of retirees that help us at harvest. We retain our staff with working air conditioning and a low-stress environment. Low stress because we ha
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by JamisonM 6y ago
> 1. New tractors get much better fuel mileage Some do, some don't but this is mostly true (which is why the farmer in question is re-powering the old tractors). > 2. New tractors have technology that can go a long way to making
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by JamisonM 6y ago
What about the rust is making your Massey 1100 unusable? I live in the Red River Valley, we have poor draining soils, a clay bottom, and almost no sand.
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You need monster HP when you are trying to do a lot in a single pass, when I talk about the idea of autonomous+electric I am envisioning trading less work per pass for less HP and trading that off for more units and less labour. Back in the
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I believe that this is the area where hydrogen technology is supposed to step in. I am sceptical of that as well though. As you note the light loads will do well with electric systems, there is a lot of low hanging fruit to take care of on
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Having never stroked a paintbrush on any of my late-70's and early 80's equipment I can assure you that this is not a practical factor.
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If I had to posit a theory it would be that increasing farm sizes came to North America first, and so a full generation+ of American "farm boys" are long gone to the city. In South Africa I believe the trend came later so now ther
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by JamisonM 6y ago
"The Steigers will be repainted over the winter..." What's up with American farmers and repainting things? Drives me nuts.. I can not understand it. I would love to know.
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"I still believe you need some newer machinery in the mix, and my harvest equipment is where you’ll find it." I find this very interesting because on our farm the main source of savings has been running 7 (3-4 in the field at a ti
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Sheer madness. But you are entitled to your opinion!
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If lockdown decisions should be based on hospital capacity then surely you agree that Iowa should be locked down, right?
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I appreciate the detailed response, my reaction to this is: you are much like a climate-change denier that has moved from the position "climate change isn't real" to "ok, it is real but we can't do anything about it
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Had a quick look at your comment history on this topic, at this point if you are still in denial about the basic nature of COVID-19 and how wrong you have been then I guess I have a pretty good idea how worried to be about accusations of be
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I didn't say I knew exactly how they suppressed the virus, but I did say that we /do/ know that they have suppressed the virus. People want to raise doubts about the effectiveness of their suppression by implying that they ha

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